Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-31

The Lowell Courier propounds a socl-
ETY. question: Does entertaining en-
terta:n2
We have often heard it said mother,
home and love" were the three sweetest
words in the English Language.
There are good things even in the
tropics. Queen Emma Of the Sandwich
Islands is said to have the most beautiful
eyes in the world.
1t is said that the announcements OF
the Emperor of China's death and the
decapitation of his chief physician we're
made simultaneously.
A ballet girl fell from a horizontal bar
in a German theater. The musician,
whose fiddle she smashed, threw her on
the stage, shouting: "What is this nom
sense, anyhow
A Missouri aspirant to matrimony adj
y~ertises that he will give three mules to
any maiden who will marry him; which
gives rise to the question, what respecta-
BILE married women would want such a
four.in.hand.
A Danbury woman, who had carried
an ancient penny in her purse for over
FIVE years, and accidentally paid it out
while in New York last summer, had
the identical piece restored to her in
Boston recently, in change for a car fare.
The London Jewish World says: A
letter recently received from a coreli-
zionist from the Atchin war, dated
December LIST, contains the following
remarkable note; 1.-THE language of the
Atchinese is half Hebrew; when / re-
Gently killed a native he exclaimed She
mang Yisrael."
There is a story in Paris which says
that one of the famous brothers-we will
not say whether NJ. Charles or NJ. Louis
Blanc-when asked who wrote in the
best French style Of modern writer's,
replied, my brother" But after your
brother20 II do" Modest, but some
what truthful.
Kate writes from Brooklyn for the
purpose Of advising gentlemen to study
the art of sitting gracefully in q chair.
She says that most men seem to be at
war with their lower limbs when in the
company Of ladies, and betray a CON
seriousness Of ~awkwardness by constantly
changing position.
A life insurance company has refused
to pay a $4,000 policy because the in
surer committed moral suicide, he hav-
ing procured the policy in reply to a
message from a friend in the unseen
world to the effect that he would GER
tainly die upon a certain day and hour,
which he did.
The Dore Biblical Gallery was recently
opened for exhibition at a church in
Dorchester, Massachusetts, and the pas
tor delivered an explanatory lecture.
When he came to Job he inquired Of bis
bible class: For what was job most
noted?' Instantly a shout wentup from
the class, Il" Boils."
There are two novelists, three dra.
matte authors, one indefinite literary
man, two historians, two philosophers,
five poets, one bishop, six ministers,
seven dukes and counts, and nine pro.
fessors 10 the French Academy, all at
work on a monster dictionary of the
language, whose publication remains al
ways to be made.
Mary Ripley, of Columbia, is sixteen
years of age, and feeling that the time
had come when she should commence
her work in behalf of humanity, she
hired a hall and invited the public to
come and hear her lecture on Social
Topics" Mary began as follows;
Ladies and gentlemen; If there we're
no men in the world there would be
fewer poor miserable girls wandering
Mary proceeded no further in her dis.
course, because at that point her father
Rnlked nnnn the nlatfnrm and lnd her