Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-28


the other day, and owned up to having
drowned three of his wives in the same
well. Well, well.
An Ohio man, who is TO be hung in
March, has no iavors to ask except a dish
of oysters twice a day until his coil Of
life is duly shufled.
Adam had one consolation when he
fell. Fifteen or twenty acquaintance
didn't sand on the opposite corner and
laugh at his mishap.-New York Mail
The Gothamite girl who pays less than
two hundred dollars for her carriers has
no standing in good society, and might
as well have her hose hanging about her
heels.
A Western poet, who had expressed Il
wish to die amid the grand solitude Of
the eternal mountain tops" was killed
by the explosion Of a pint of cheap ker.
osene.
Think of that When you take a girl
to spelling school in Nevada you have
to ride twenty-iour miles, and she ex.
poets you to keep your arm around her
all the timel
The danger Of dabbling in French pol
itics is shown from the fact that more
than twenty thousand persons have been
arrested in France for insarrectionary
communism.
An Iowa farmer, who has succeeded in
raising seventeen of the worst children
in his neighborhood, says he is bound to
have a representative in heaven If il
takes seventeen more.
A Milwaukee miser froze to death ia
trying to save wood during the recent
polar wave, and as nobody knows where
his money is buried, his death lie regret.
ted by all who knew him.
Indiana proposes a more stringent law
against body-snatching. That's right.
These cold nights tell hard on a man who
has to sit oil a stone in the graveyard to
watch his mother.in-law's grave.
They tried to scare a Toledo man in
Missouri. by threatening to tar and
feather him, but he replied: Come on
with your old tar-Tve been there six
times and I've got a receipt for washing
il of p
Boucicault is going to publish a news
paper. If Dion aeals with as much tact
as in producing original plays, he may
make something readable. But here be
labors under the disadvantage of being
by no means the first in the field.
Some physiognomists says that the
back Of man, his head, etc, show his
real self more truly than his face, with
its trained and conscious expression,
in which he seeks to reveal or hide snch
parts Of his nature as he ices fit.
A Wisconsin man, who wanted TO re-
form the world, sat down and wrote a
long and brilliant communication to o
newspaper. He now finds himself de.
nounced by another communication
writer as "a fool, a liar or a myth"
They have a Bayard club in New York
with the motto sans peur ct sans re.
proche." 1t may be here remarked that
il they conduct the club on that basis, in
New York, it will be necessary to add
soon sans argent. ST. Louis Republican
A pauper who recently quilted the
Kings county almshouse for mansions
on high" made a will, in which he left to
bis children al expression of the hops
that if they died before the Tilton-
Beecher trial was finished they would
not forget 10 impress upon their offspring
the Importance Of cultivatidg patience,
As an illustration Of the kind Of rea
soaing often heard from the lips Of mer
when the interests Of women are under
discussion, Mrs. Fawcett mentions the
case of an Englishman who opposed th,
education d woman because he had trie(
it on his " daughter, and it was al
wasted, for, after all she was married a
nineteen
M. Martin is experimenting the wOrl
Of polishing the lens Of the mirror Of th'
great telescope in the French Nationa
Observatory. The diameter Of the len
is one hundred and twenty centimetres
and the polisher, which is a disc Of fortl
centimetres, is so heavy that the six mel
engaged in using il have to cease work
ing frequently.
"Dars de man, Mister Speaker-dar
de man wot done il, shouted a colore'
member rising suddenly from his seat il
the Arkansas Legislature, with one han
pointing to a white man in the CALLER.
and with the other rubbing the SUNNI
Of bis Uranium. dat ar cusaed whit
man jes done spit down on de top o ml
head. ~ Commercial Advertiser.
Which will you do, smile and max
othera happy, or be Grabbed and max
everybody around you miserable3 Yol
can live, as it we're, among beanntr
flowers and singing birds, or in the mir'
surrounded by fogs and frogs. Thu
aneaka the Giddings (Texasl Tribune