Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-03

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the custom of employing female clerks
in large firms is gradually gaining way.
Carlyle recommendation was: Make
yourself an honest man, and then you
may be sure that there is one rascal less
in the world"
AT Montague, Texas, the other night,
a young lady got up in her sleep, vent to
the barn and fed six head Of cattle and
watered the calves.
A Stafford, Conn, man has a sword
for which he has refused 81, 900, claim
ing that it came down from William the
Conqueror.
On the north side of some of the
Maine mountains the snow banks ap-
pear in curious contrast with the trees
all around them in their bright green TO-
liage.
Prussia must be a-paradise in one re.
spect. IT has only one lawyer to each
$4,000 Inhabitants. In this unfortunate
country we have one lawyer to every s79
inhabitants.
Among those who turned out OF the
burning of q vessel in Honolulu were
King Kalakaua and the Prince Royal,
both of whom assisted the fremen until
the vessel was scuttled.
A young lady Of Boston has been en-
rolled as honorary member Of the Fifth
Maryland Regiment, and is consequently
more particular than ever about the
right dress.
The Sultan of Turkey has 800 wives,
and to their and to his own support he
devotes $40, OOO. 900 out of the S35, 0OO,-
600, which constitutes the revenue of the
Turkish Empire.
The newest bathing costumes for
ladies are made OF Turkish towelling,
the skirt being embroidered in rather
gaudy colors. They are belted in and
are quite effective,
Charles j. Monsell, a young clerk in a
dry goods store in New Haven, recently
shot himself through the heart after be-
ing detected putting into his W pocket
money received by him as salesman.
Reading (Pa.) boasts OF a society Of
about a dozen ladies, married and single
who assemble twice a week at one Of the
slaughter-houses in that city and quaf
the blood Of steers that are killed there.
A little girl reading the History o.
England with her mother, and coming tC
the statement that Henry | never
laughed after the death of his son, looked
up and said: What did he do when hi
was tickled2' :
When a Duluth woman wants to know
why in blazes her husband didn't order
the wood, he looks at her in q chilling
dignifed way and replies: 81 do no
wish to go to the Black Hills, but do moi
press me--do not arouse the tigerl"
No two sides of any human face are
precisely alike. 1t is the same will
every limb; no pair Of limbs are fash
Toned alike. 0ne hand is always larger
than the other; so with the foot, the Les
and the arm. But the greatest Of all
marvels is this; never we're two human
faces alike.
A certain publisher in New York hire
his wife to read manuscripts Of juvenile
books offered him to his little daughter
and if the child enjoys the story he &C
cepts it. he argues that she has abou
the average child intelligence, and if tn
book failed to please her it would nc
please other children.
The late Emperor Ferdinand had KEEP
after his abdication the family estate an,
the large private fortune left him b.
Emperor Francis, and this fortune b
considerably increased owing to his re
tired mode of life. The bulk of the for
tune goes to the Emperor Joseph, ant
the family estate to the Archduke Kran.
Karl, the Emperor's father.
A foreign correspondent says: 9TH
Queen of Madagascar has been MAXIM
a royal progress through her domains
And Father Gelbose describes her aI
pearance at a reception, with satin dres
and golden crown, with a huge scarle
umbrella in one hand and an ivory seer
ter in the other. Now you may al
dance she says, after the formalities
They will begin to hop about in an indie
pendent and comical manner, as thong
the floor was a hot gridiron, the old folk
with the rest, and the Queen seems to en-
JOY it greatly"
While stopping over night at a farm
house in Missouri, a traveller was as
tonished to see his hostess walk up t
her husband about every 10 minutes an
box his ears or give his hair a pull. l
the morning the guest, seeing the woma
alone. askAd an exclamation Of he