Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-23
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Instead of saying look up" the
Texan exclaims; "See hyar. old fellowl"
The Millerites now keep the day on
which they are going up a profound
secret.
The sun has been throwing amorous
glances at Boston, but the old thing
wouldn't thaw q bit.
Fifteen thousand Straw hats we're
made in Nantucket during the intensely
cold weather of February.
The furniture recently sold at the
Aston House in New York, was rich with
historical "reminiscences and insects.
A Rhode Island woman says that she'd
rather have the nightmare seven straight
nights than tell her husband that the
-four barrel is'empty.
The Partisan caprice for silk stock
ings is manifested here, and our teachers
Of fashion sometimes have the appear
ance Of ballet girls in disguise.
When the postmaster of Vicksburg
was on his dying bed the other day,
twenty-eight men hurried past the house,
with petitions praying that they might
be postmaster.
The postage on an ordinary Russian
letter is to be reduced to FIVE kopecks.
This will be a great relief to the letter.
writing maniacs Of that country, but the
arduous duties Of the bearded postofice
clerks will be doubled.
There are young men who cannot hold
a skein of yarn for their mothers without
wincing, but will hold l25 pounds Of a
n~eighboring family for the best part of
the night with a patience and docility
that are certainly phenomenal.
60 away Leave me with my dead
Let me fling myself on his coffin and die
thereI" That was in Nebraska six
months ago, and now the widow has won
another trusting soul, and number ones
portrait is in the attic, face to the wall.
Machinery has reached a great state
Of perfection. An exchange remarks:
We recently saw some burnt peas put
into the hopper of a coffee-mill, and in
less than two minutes they were occupy
ing a place in a grocery window labeled,
Fine Old Mocha"
The crowd was so great in Chicago the
other night when Susan Anthony got up
to express her opinion that it was time
for pure women to refuse to enter into
marriage relations with impure men,
that hundreds Of disappointed people
were turned away"
A New England writer is trying to
prove that a man ought to live one hun
dred years. That sounds very well, but
how would we like to have our fore
fathers sitting around and forever ding
ing into our ears the superiority of the
times in which they had control ofthiDgs?
DR.. Barnes, when n%inety-fve years Of
age, slept during a sermon, and on being
joked about it by a friend, insisted he
had been awake all the time. well,
then said his friend. " can you tell me
what the sermon was aboutP" YES, l
can" he answered, at was about half
an hour too long"
A Swiss boatman recently pulled q
would-be suicide out of Lake Geneva.
An hour or two after the boatman dis
covered the mar hanging by the neck to
a tree, but did not interfere this time.
The magistrate summoned him to an
swer why he did not prevent the suicide,
aud he replied that he supposed the gem
tleman had only hung himself up to dry.
A lover of good coffee, who had been
several times swindled, entered a Wood
ward e grocery recently, and hold
ing up a handful of ground coffee from
the big can, he inquired Are there
any beans in this coffee?" mo, sir"
promptly replied the grocer. How do
you know2" asked the man. Because
| was out of beans and had to put peas
inl" was the nswer Detroit Free
Press.
They have been trying a part Of the
American prison discipline in one of
the prisons Of Norway, and the result
has been sent to the Secretary Of the
Howard Mission, London, England.
There was a convict in the Norwe-
gian prison of Fort Bergenhuus, who
had already been punished several times
for infringements OF the discipline, but
still continued stubborn. He was there
fore subjected to the cold dOuche, and it
acted admirably. 1t was applied con-
tinuously for iorty-two minutes, and the
convict was quite cured of his stubborn
ness. He died on the spot.
A delegation of twenty-five Tribune
printers waited upon 10 Medill yester-
day to secure the philosophers advice
as to whether they should go to the
Black Hills. Joseph urged them to hold
on awhile until it has been a%scertained
hat gold exists in the hills, and ex
planned to them the disastrous results
that usually occur TO a man going into q