Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-16

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airy isn't as large.
The third volume of the Count de
Paris History of Civil War in Amer
lea is printed in Paris, and the author
has nearly completed the fourth volume,
The cheapest rhinoceroses are $4,000
apiece. Small capitalists will do well
to invest at once, as the price is likely
to 90 up as soon as the circus season
opens.
The Governor of Iowa has appointed
Miss E. C. Stebbins, of New Hampton,
C~hickasaw county, a notary public. She
is the only woman holding that Office in
the State.
1t is said that Miss Lille Eldridge,
who was called on her posters " the
American Juliet" whatever that is, is to
marry Charly Backus, the rich colored
minstrel.
A plumber had an Irish lad in his
employ, and one day having occasion to
use a piece of zinc, ordered him to get
one twelve inches square. Eyes, sir"
said Pat, twelve inches square, but how
longY'
A citizen of Chattanooga has just
invested in the stock of a Tennessee
railway. purchasing shares which repre-
sent a par value Of 1861, 900. He paid
the enormous sum of twenty-five cents
for the lot.
According to the Cologne Gazette,
the Spanish navy is in a deplorable con-
dition. The ships and armament are of
old.fashicned design, while both officers
and men are badly disciplined and few
in number.
Stealing tombstones need no longer be
r~elegated to the realms of fiction. A
local item in the Corpus Christi (Texas)
/! Gazette relates that a tombstone " four
feet high, one foot wide and four inches
thick has been stolen from graveyard
in that vicinity.
Adolphe Belot is much enraged at the
reception given by the critics to his
book, 1.-The Woman of Fire" All, well,
don't mind 'eml "The smiles of JOY,
the tears Of woe, deceitlul shine, deceit
full flow; It's all illusion here Belot.'-
81 Louis Republican.
A widow, being cautioned by her min.
lister about flirting, said that she knew it
was wrong for maidens and wives to airt,
but the bible was her authority. II
said " widows mite" She was flirting
awfully at last accounts; the pastor
acknowledged that widows might
A Minnesota Judge, in p%ronouncing
the death sentence, tenderly observed
3" If guilty, you richly deserve the fate
that awaits you; if innocent, it will be a
qualification for you to feel that you were
hanged without such a crime on your
conscience; in either case, you will be
delivered from a world Of care"
Judge Perrin, of Falmouth, Ky, per
formed a marriage ceremony for Clay
Ashton and his sweetheart. A week
later the husband called again. "0h, ]
see" said the Judge, you have come
after the certificate" "Oh, you dom
see," was the reply; 81 haven't CONF
after the certificate. What | want is 8
divorce"
They are working up that old storl
again of a man in a hospital going t.
butting with his head and eating grass
Just because the blood of a goat hat
been transfused into his veins. Just on'
thousand and one magazine hoaxes hav'
been written on that anne theme, but |
was when people knew less of transfu
sion than now. Brown, in his Amuse
ments," speaks of having transfused thu
blood Of an ass into the veins of an as
THEOLOGICAL quack, and W have frequ0n
evidence that the mans descendants arr
still living.
A woman called into a commission
house on Michigan avenue, the othet
: day, and made for the real end Of thu
/; store without waiting to speak to an!
one. The proprietor followed her ant
/. inquired: did you wish to look at SOM
. butter, madam mo, sir" she cartly
; replied. WAN some eggsY' he con
tinued. mo, sir" "P'raps you'd like
some of these dried peachesY" mo
sir" There was a painful pause, bu
A she braced her nerves and said There
something w-wroug with-with my skirts
! snd-and il you will Thunder
! what a fool ann exclaimed the man
; and he got into his Office and left her in
peace. Detroit Free Press.