Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-10

great fsasts of the Jews we're, promptly
replied, Breakfast, dinner and supper"
The cell of a convict in one Of the
Indiana prisons is kept lighted to scare
away the ghost of his murdered brother
in.law.
AT the Cape of Good Hope they have
found a diamond weighing two hundred
carats. 1t has been sent to Amsterdam
to be cut by Herr Casta.
As a token of respect to the late
lamented Emperor of China, only black
tea will this year be drank by the Chi
nese residents in this country.
Fifteen years ago there were scarcely
ten ~millionaires in America. Now in
New York city a mai who is not worth
$l0, 0O0,0 900 is not considered rich.
A Vermont lumberman recently had
the misfortune TO have a log roll upon
him and break in twain one of his legs;
yet he loaded his wood and drove home.
The Presbyterisns of Philadelphia are
going to erect a centennial monument
to the Rev. DR.. Witherspoon, one of the
signers of the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence.
There's where q man has the advan-
tage. He can undress in a cold room
and have his bed warm before a woman
has got her hair.pins out and her shoes
united.
There is no more sublime spectacle in
this world than to see a woman descend
from the discussion Of her last milliner's
bill to add up the items in her grocer's
weekly account.
A sympathetic newsboy in Lexington,
KY, seeing a convicted murderer on his
way to prison for life, gave him a news
paper, saying: I'm sorry for yer, boss
that's the best | kin do
The Rochester Chr onicle says: "a
Brooklyn lady has gone insane over the
Beecher trial. She is mot even remotely
connected with the case; if she we're she
would know better than to do that"
A large number of Pittsburg doctors
certify that coal smoke ia healthy, and
that Pittsburg is q fine resort for invalids,
but a man would feel more at ease in
that town if snugly tucked ap in a coffin.
Count Jeahnes says that the New
York Tribune building will stand until
an Indian President Of this republic
shall gaze in wonder at the void space
and rugged rocks of the dried-up Falls of
Niagara"
Recently, in an English theater, the
stage manager struck a supernumerary
who had exasperated him behind the
scenes, whereupon the s%upernumerary
came before the footlights, and formally
announced to the audience that he had
resigned.
A young man in Ashtabula sought to
secure his sweetheart by strategy; so be
took her out for a boat ride, and threat
ened to jump overheard into the lake If
she didn't consent to marry him. She
offered to bet him a dollar he dare not
dive in.
An old saw m~odernized you may
kindly guide the %prancing steed to the
crystal brook which babbles down the
hillside in the summer sun, but you can
not coerce him to stoop and slake his
thirst in the silvery stream If he be not
willing to accept your profered kind
ness"
II in your business you are grasping,
sordid, tricky, some clerk in your en-
ploy will be the same ten years hence,
made so by you. If you are fretful and
envious as a woman and wife, more than
one girl will catch the fever of your con.
duct, and somewhere ahead make her
home as unhappy as you are now making
yours.
If you yearn for a nice souvenir of a
pretty woman, you can answer this ad-
vertisement in a Paris newspaper, and
get what you want: "a fine human skin,
taken off whole aud tanned in that con-
dition. 1t is the skin Of Aissa, who was
the most lovely Of the slaves of the EN-
peror of Morocco. She was only twenty
when she died, and her skin was milk
white"
A stranger stepped into a North
Adams, Mass, restaurant the other day,
and ordered a plate Of beans. On FIN
ishing his lunch he asked the price.
Thirty cents" replied the host, think.
ing that he had a customer from whom
he could make a few cents. Isn't that
a devil Of a price for beans2' asked the
stranger. Failing to get a reduction he
left. The next day the saloon keeper
received a telegram, the charge on which
was thirty cents. On being opened 1t
was found to contain neither date nor
signature, but only the words; lent
that a devil Of a price for beans"