Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

another chance, y has been appropriately
apotheosized and entered in the vocabu'
larry of the Western literati with all the
solemnity due to its intrinsic merits and
illustrious origin.
Among the latest curiosities exhibited
in Paris is q dwarf elephant which has
recently arrived from India. The ami
NAL is nineteen years ole, and only thir-
ty.nine inches high. He is intelligent
and performs many tricks.
A Montana editor bemoans the calam-
tiles of 1874 in the following touching
strain: First that Beecber business;
then the g%rasshoppers, then the Demo
cratic victories, aud now an increased
tax on whisky. What is this poor u
try coming tor
A short time ago a man in Leeds,
England, died from the effects Of drink
ing nineteen glasses of rum, which were
paid for by a chimney.sweep, on condi-
ton that the man would drink them all
one after another. The keeper of the
place was arrested and fined two hun
bred and fifty dollars, and the chimney
sweep fed from the city.
NJ. de Brazza, an Italian, who has
served as lieutenant in the French navy,
is about to undertake a voyage into Cen
trail Africa, in continuation of the ex-
ploratious of the late DR.. Livingtone.
He has received a subvention of 10000
francs for this purpose from the French
Department de Marine, and will also re-
ceiye aid from ether branches of the
Government and from the Geographical
Society.
When a citizen of Great Britain ar
rived in Wilkesbarre the other day and
found that his wife, who he'd come to
this country II years before, was mar.
ried to another man, he drove his sue
cessor from the house and gave his first
love and her daughter a terrific beating,
It is the constant recurrence of such lit
tie incidents as these that is gradually
undermining the public faith in that
Enoch Arden story.
Just as the train started out on the
Great Western Railroad in Detroit, the
ether day, a woman leaned forward and
called to her husband, who was ten feet
away: Say, Simon, did you wash your
feet and change your socks2' mo, by
swan, forgot all about It'll" he replied.
"Well,"- said she, as she leaned back, u
feel it in my bones that there's going to
be a smash up, and if you are killed, III
Just pretend | didn't know ye."
A genius recently altered an old Bel
GUM musket into a fowling piece, and
went out to Stay a few fowls with it.
The first time he fred it, it jumped out
of his hands, knocked him down, chased
him across a thirty-acre field, climbed
through the fence after him, and kicked
him, and jumped up and down on him
and the man only saved his life by climb
ing a big tree, while the gun waited al
hour at the foot of the tree for him t
come down.
A correspondent of a London newspa
per, writing from Penrith, states tina
about three weeks ago an easterly winC
blew down a large fir tree on land be
longing to a lady in the neighborhood o
Appleby. The last gale from the west
however, blew itup again, and tits NOV
standing quite stately and majestic, as j
nothing had ever happened to it." This
budding journalist should emigrate, ant
not waste his genius on the prosy British
sheets.
A curious anecdote respecting Sii
George Westphal and Lord Nelson is no
generally known. When lying bleeding
from a wound in the head in the cockpit
of the Victory, Sir George had his heaC
placed upon the coat of Lord Nelson
who had just then been brought down
stricken to death. Afterward Nelson
epaulettes had got into the gaping wound
in Sir Georges head, and as they could
not be got out then they had to be cut off,
Some years after, when Sir George was
asked if he would be able to recognize q
coat offered to Greenwich Hospital as
that worn by Nelson, the circumstance
led him to identify it directly he found
the bullions which had stuck in his
wounded head we're missing from il.