Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-24

myself. but when her mother is around:I
an not even a stockholder in the con-
cern." Ntusrille Herald.
AS an argument against the closing
of saloons at IL o'clock at night, it is
stated that a st. Louis police sergeant
was recently frozen to death while max.
ing his rounds.
A Boston paper makes an idiotic pun.
A st. Louis paper copies it aud tacks on
a worse one. A Chicago paper copies
the two and adds one that is still more
hateful. Then the Cincinnati, Milwau-
Zee and other interior sheets copy this
accumulation and put the finishing fool
ishness to il.
A baggage'smasher tossed a trunk out
Of the car at Pella, the other day, minus
one handle. "Why," asked the Pelican,
didn't you rip off both the handlesg'
Sorry to disappoint you" said the
trunk-sealper, 'but it's a rule on the
road always to leave one handle on"
Paris boasts of a standing army oil
something like 5000, 900 rats, and some
one has computed that if the rodents
were to array themselves ten abreast
and march upon Berlin, the vanguard
would enter the German capital while
those in the real we're issuing from the
gates of the French metropolis.
Minnie Myrtle Miller has a lecture on
Man" in which she gives Joaquin q
thrust by talking of the "poetical hum
bug who signs and rhymes about imagin-
airy females, and starves his wife" We
don't believe there is any danger of the
ladys starving, however. If she does,
at all events, she will let the country sur
rounding her know the reason why.
Mrs. Grant has discontinued her re-
ceptions, owing, it is said, to the delicate
state of Mrs. Ssrtoris' health. The
President has also abandoned his recep-
ton for the same cause" Exchange.
1t might be well to add in this connec-
ton that Mrs. Sartoris has also aban-
doned her receptions for the same
cause" It's a mighty delicate piece Of
business all around. though, to talk
about.-Another Exchange.
Rev. Mrs. Olympia Brown rays she
doesn't want to go to Boston, and OBJ
iects to the disposition Of many clergy
to 90 there, regardless Of sex or
ut would seem, ahe says,
that our ministry is nothing more than
the game which the children play, call
ed Boston, in which there are seats
enough for all the company except one,
who stands in the center and waits for a
vacancy in Boston"
David Crockett, after returning home
his first trip to New York, gave his
backwoods audience an idea of the first
in the metropolis: Philip
Hone is the most gentlemanly man in
New York, boys, and I'll tell you how l
know it. When he asks you to drink, he
hand you a glass-he puts the de-
on the table, and walks off to the
and looks out until you have
finished it."
Some time ago, when money was less
than at present, a Boston mer-
chant subscribed $500 to a theological
enterprise and paid 5000 of the amount
at the time. Recently, finding it conve-
be forwarded the remaining three
hundred. By return mail he received a
Of acknowledgment and a request
for nineteen dollars and some odd cents
interest on the three hundred dollars
the dale of the original subscrip.
ton. A fact Commercial Bulletin.
The orchestra selected by Wagner for
the representation of his great Nibelun-
gen drama will consist Of one hundred
and fifty of the best players of Germany,
selected from the principal theaters of
Brunswick, Dessau, Coburg, Meiningen,
Weimar, Berlin and Hanover. There
will be sixteen first v%iolins, sixteen sec
ond %violins, ten %violas, twelve yioloncel-
Ii, twelve double BASES, sever harps, FIVE
clarinets, two English horns, FIVE flutes,
five hautboys, two bass clarinets, sixteen
horns, eight trumpets, trombones, and
six pairs of tympani.