Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-11

OF SOCIAL entertainments.
0h-ooh. it's so cold.
As over the world
Nature moves in her hand
The icicle wand.
New England people are already
beginning to break through the ice and
drown.
Notwithstanding the hard times in
Spain, the daughter of the Duke Of Alba
is still paying twenty-four hundred dol
lars a dozen for her handkerchief.
THE prisoner at the bar seems to have
a very smooth face" said a spectator to
a %jailer. YES" replied the jailer, "he
wss irOned just before be was brought
in"
C~srpeaux. the late sculptor, was very
affected while at work, now insisting
upon smoking a pipe, now Electrically
assuming attitudes, and now rushing for
ward to add another piece Of clay.
Charles Warren %Stoddard, at latest &C.
counts, was within reach Of the homes
Of Southey, Wordsworth, De Quincey,
Prot. Wilson, DR.. Arnold, Hartley
Coleridge and Mrs. Hemaus."
Spain, for one, evidently don't want
war; neither do We, for that matter.
But then right is right, and we'd like to
have Der hurry up with her reply to our
little note about the treaty Of 1895.
The Prince of Wales was given a
reception at Bombay such as might
have been expected" says the Washing
ton CAPITAL, from the only natives who
we're loyal in The great mutiny Of 1851"
Numerous experiments have been con-
Quoted in India for the purpose of dis
covering a trustworthy cure for the bite
Of the cobra. The only curs thus far
discovered is to kill the cobra before he
bites.
The French Charge d'Afaires, at
Pekin, the Count de Roueheohonart, has
obtained from the Chinese Government
An idemnity of 10000 taels, for the
friends Of the murdered missionary, at
Szchuen.
A scientific expedition is now being
organized in Holland, under the auspices
Of the Geographical Society, for the
purpose Of exploring the interior of the
leland Of sqmatra, some parts Of which
are quite unknown to Europeans.
A veteran of the war of 1872 celebrated
the Tooth anniversary Of his berth in
Quebec a few days ago. He Wears con-
stantly a medal which was given him by
the British Government in commemora.
ton of the battle Of ~Chateaugay.
A case in one of the civil courts of
San Francisco some time ago had to be-
postponed on account of a conflict Of
jurisdiction, one Of the jurors having
been sentenced to twenty-four hours i'm
%prisonment for intoxication by a police
magistrate.
In asserting the family linen for the
wash. it is noticeable that a woman
bestows her own and the chiIdren's
clothing with that care and nicely
peculiar to the seq, but the minute she
comes to her husbands, things begin to
fly around as if a Keely motor had got
under the pile and gone mad.
At Rawlings, W. T., a fellow standing
on the depot platform of the Union
Pacific Railroad accidentally shot of his
rife. The ball went through a weather
board, through a mans coat tail, and
between an invalid lady and her little
daughter. Amid the sensation the fellow
looked at the weather board and said,
It's q damned smuthe hole"
Charles MstheRs told bis friends some
amusing stories before starting for India.
Said he: Il found myself once in the
Sandwich Islands. l played by com
mand, and in the presence Of His Maj
ssty Kamehamehs the Fifth, King Of the
Cannibal Islands, before an audience Of
Kanakas-black gentlemen, who, q few
years ago, would have supped of me
with pleasure"
AS a German Cir. approaches the com
pletion OF her education, her studies are
somewhat relaxed, and she attends once
or twice a week at a NahschuIe, where
lessons are given her in cutting out,
bHng, piecing, patching and darning,
and all ornamental stitching. She will
make for herself a complete ontGt against
the day when she emerges from school.
girlhood into young ladyism.
Under the head Of he Gets a Monu-
ment, the indianapolis News prints the
following personal intelligence: Poe
was expelled fran the University Of
Firglnisi rescued from the hands Of the
iaT with difficulty at Petersburg; sent
from West Pointin disgrace; he deserted
from the United States army, quarreIed
with his beaefactor, and with every one
OIL his employers attempted, it Is said,
70 seduce his step-mother, and died Of
drunkenness. His wife died OF a broken
heart, and be sold some musical ysrses
In har r,ano.