Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-18

Boston Post: Quilp, upon being asked
if the report was true that he had lost
his wallet, said there was nothing in it.
a correspondent sadly exclaims, How
can a coquette die happyT She. can't
If there's a man around and her back
hair isn't fixed to suit her.
A Pottsville man discharged his cook
because, when he missed the celery from
the table, she admitted hat she didn't
know how to cook it."
A colored hunter in Middle Tennessee
has a black sheep that joins in the chase
with the hounds, and puts the dogs on
the right scent when they have lost it.
Henry Wagner, a soldier Of the first
empire, now aged one hundred years
and FIVE months, and his wife, aged
eighty.seven years, both enjoy good
health in Paris.
Father said q juvenile to his pater-
nal guardian, who had the bad habit of
alternating from piety to profanity, II
do think you ought to stop praying or
swearing-I don't care which"
New York Commercial. The Spanish
people are reported as hurrying to
Madrid TO congratulate King Alfonso.
The real secret of their haste is the fear
that some one else may be King before
they get there.
Fanny Ellsler, the danseuse, is re-
ported to have become very devout,
Thanks to the exercise which she en-
joyed in her palmy days-to the hilarity
of her limbs, so to speak-she can bend
the supple hinges of her knees and
hardly feel it.
Sarah Yates, of Abingdon, has always
been a strong-minded girl and opposed
to matrimony. Recently, however, she
received an excellent offer of marriage,
and compromised with her principles in
this style: MI. Bates, | have reflected
upon your proposition. and have con-
cluded to submit to the humiliting sacri-
fceyou demand"
A lamb escaped the other day from a
slaughter-house at Lafayette, Ind, and
took refuge in a millinery store. AS
the door happened not to be open the
animal plunged headlong through the
show window, scattering bonnets, plumes
and ribbons in every direction, and hid
under the counter, whence it required
considerable strength and cunning 10
bring it forth.
Illinois "Alphonso Barrett,
Of 0tterville, married a second wife, a
handsome lady about twenty.eight years
Of age, a year since, and died last July,
leaving, among other assets, a son aged
twenty-five years. This young scion Of
the house of Barrett celebrated New
Years day by marrying his fathers
widow, and the happy couple are now
living at the old homestead"
While Sarah Clark and Julia Thomp'
son, Of Omaha, were engaged at kicking
at a mark in a barn the other day, their
feet at the same instant caught under q
board that sprang away from the beam
to which it was tailed. and they were
/. obliged to stand until their cries brought
> help. The board that held them was Eve
feet and seven inches from the floor, anG
!, old Omaha sports say that not a man il
the State could kick higher.
1t is related of a Frencbman, Count
4. %Jaubert, who died recently, that he once
attacked Marshal Soult with a number
. Of epigrams. The Marshal, meeting hin
t at a reception Of the Court Of LouiI
= Philippe, turned his back on him jus
! as the Count was coming forward t.
, speak TO him, and this in the presenceo
thirty people. Monsieur lie Marechal,
I said Jaubert, quietly, II have been tolt
that you considered me one Of you
enemies. / see with pleasure that it i
moi. so" why not, sir2' said Soult
Because said Jaubert, you are no
in the habit of turning your back to thu
enemy" The Marshal held ont hi
hand and the Counts success was com
q. plete.
4 The learned counsel who are doing
the Great Scandal before Chief Justice
Nelson are marked men, intellectual.
and physically. Each has his own pc
, culiar btyle, aud a good deal Of it. Evart
y suggests the shadowy Georgian, Alex II
Stephens, and would make a good mode
?, for q Ratchet. Tracy looks like a hard
shell Presbyterian, close cropped for
fsticuf encounter with the Evil One
Pryor, tall, 5warthy aud stralght-hairec
D is a man whose great grandfather Nigh
Z; have been nursed by Pocahontas; Shear
\; man, sharp and wiry, is just the perso
whom a party of hunters would set I
watch a raccoon hole; Fullerton has
4 bundled.up look, and his cheeks are to
close to his %clavicle to display a shin
ID collar to advantage; while Morris, tn
n genus loci of the group, is what he is
=. and more too. They are all wiser il
= their generation than the children 0
=, = light, but you wouldn't select any Of ther
to boss a picnic excursion. -BroOklyt
Argus,