Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-18


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A candidate for County Clerk in Texas
offered to register marriages for nothing.
His opponent, undismayed, promised to
do the same and throw q cradle in.
The paragraphist of the Milwaukee
News has been shot at twice for saying
that the inscription on the clasp of a
Fond Du Lac girls's garter was Excel
sior."
A slaughtered chicken with a lump Of
gold in its gizzard has set the people of
Belle PLANE, Iowa, to hunting for the
spot on which the %gluttonous fowl took
its final meal.
Surprise parties are going out Of fash
ion in Chicago. The man of the house
calmly but cordially meets the conspira-
tors at the gate with a shotgun and a
smallpox flag.
Don't 60 to Switzerland to start a pa
per. Ajournal has just been suppressed
there for refusing to believe that the
image of a saint saved a man who fell a
distance of 40 feet.
A spelling-school movement, which is
destined to sweep the country" has
begun in Ohio. The struggles Of the
average 0hioan with the word baker
are said to be almost terrific.
We are still a long way from the mil
lennium. A witness in an Ohio court
has just sworn hat he never knew a
miller on the canal who wouldn't steal
water whenever he got a chance
When a nice young man hands over
eight dollars of his savings for two tickets
to Patti, he can't be said to be throwing
his money away. 1t should be remem-
bered hat this talented woman has seven
poodles to feed.
A scientist has begun taking a census
OF the fools Of the United States. He
stays 10 a city until a fire breaks out in
the daytime, and then he puts down the
number of people he sees running to it,
When a st. Louis drummer Of vast
cheek gets back home the papers publish
a personal something like this; -,
Esq, has returned after a months alb
%sence, bringing his bright and cheerful
face with him"
A chess match between England and
France is to be played. The moves are
to be announced by telegraph. A SINH
lar match was played thirty years ago
and after lasting two years resulted in
the defeat Of the English players.
By means Of a pair Of single spring
tongs recently invented by a Buffalo
railroad, employees are enabled to couple
cars without the slightest danger of get
ting their hands smashed whilst engaged
in the operation.
A Troy stove firm has received a letter
from the West in relation to the pur
chase of a heater for a church, which
concludes as follows: THE heater
furnished by you for the church at -
works bully. Give US your rock bottom
prices, as we are poor, but very pious."
Some persons employed in the famous
French brandy distillery Of Martell were
dismissed shortly after a recent election
presumably because they voted for 9
Republican candidate. This sort of co
ercicn is criminal under the French
law, and the discharged parties have en-
tered complaint.
The Science of Health impresses OF
its readers the pernicious effects of tn,
habit of breathing through the mouth
sleeping or waking. The n%ostrils ar,
the proper breathing apparatus-not thu
mouth. A man may inhale poisonouI
; gases through the mouth without beinl
aware Of it, but not through the nose.
Manageable ages have been the sub
ject Of an inquiry by British representa-
tives on the Continent OF Europe in re.
Spouse to an address made blythe House
! of Commons last year. There is littl,
agreement between nations on this sub
ject. The lowest ages for valid mar
. riages are for Greece, Spain and Portu.
gal-fourteen years for males and twelv,
i for females-although the consent o
parents is required in Portugal. II
Austria, the legal age for marriage il
fourteen years; in Prussia, eighteen fol
males and fourteen for females, although
an amended bill, not yet passed, fixes
the ages at twenty for males and sixteen
! for females; in Italy, France, Belgium
and Roumauia the ages are eighteen fol
males and fifteen for females; in Russia
and Saxouy, eighteen for males and six
I teen for females. In Hungary the mar
! ringe laws are entirely ecclesiastical fix
, ing fourteen for males and twelve FOL
females in the Catholic and Greek
f, Churches, and eighsssn for males and
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