Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-29

months; the morning papers are pub
lished quarterly"
A modern ~essayist defines gossip to b,
the putting of two and two together
and making FIVE of them"
"Quills are things. that are sometimes
taken from the pinions of one goose t.
spread the opinions of another"
Union is not always strength" as Sil
Charles Napier said. when he saw the
purser mixing his rum and water.
New York youths is their twentieth
year affect spit curls. No wonder Spair
trembles at the name of America.
A popular writer, speaking of the
ocean telegraph, wonders whether the
news transmitted through the salt water
can be fresh.
Patrick" said an old gentleman tc
his servant, we are all creatures o.
fate" well, if it wasn't for fate, how
the devil could we walk, .sure2"
New York has a man dressmaker who
bids fair to become as distinguished as
Worth. His name is Lanonette, and
they say his dresses are marvels of Gt
and taste.
A site for the Edinburgh monument to
DR.. Livingstone has been secured IL
Princes Street Garden. 1t is to be 9
colossal bronze statue, cast from a mode.
already selected.
Mr.. Barnum is to retire from the beau
tiful business of cooping up and tortur
ing Gods creatures for the amusement
of man. The white or polar bear"
will be especially thankful.
Anna Dickinsts is said to get three
dollars a minute for her lecture ON SOW
ing and Reaping." When a great coun-
try is suffering for information, it gladly
pays the highest prices for instruction.
The annual production of leather
gloves in France is estimated at about
$500, 900 dozens of pairs of first, second,
and third sorts, the average price being
thirty-6ve francs per dozen. There are
5000 persons employed in this industry.
Said q Dakota judge to the plaintiff in
a divorce suit, Johnny, I amt goin' to
inquire inter circumstances in this
deleterious age. You say you smashed
the Teller. You wouldn't a done it, as 0
man, without resting. Divorce granted
Christmas will soon be here. Our
stocking hangs in the chimney corner
awaiting the arrival Of Old Nick
Whitehall Times. Why not be a little
more accurate and'say that the chimney
corner hangs in your stocking2-Albany
argus.
A country girl near Utica mistook the
meaning Of a youAg man who was look.
ing up pickers for his fathers hop yard,
and when asked if she was engaged
sweetly said: Not yet, but Away,
thought it would be pleasant" The
young man rode home quickly, and
dreamed all night of breach Of promise
trials"
An Erie canal boat captain, who haG
been reading of Moody and Sankey, de
termined to lead a better life, and calling
his crew around him he said: " See here
you lying, skulking, wicked, ~disgracefOI
set, you've got to tend prayers every
morning, or I'll lick the whole pile Of YOU
in a heapl"
LEO VII. Of Armenia, prince o
Karigosz, who was dispossessed Of his
throne in 1916, is now living with hi
wife and ak children in the bitteres
poverty at Milan" Another victim
doubtless, to the insatiate answers-to
correspondents man Of the New Yorl
Ledger.
A New York journal comes to the de
Tense Of that eminOnt man, Richard G
White, whose mission is the reformation
Of the language of the press. 1t says 0
him: He makes little mistakes nov
and then, as do the best and visest o
men, but he has done good service il
the fine art Of criticism, and he has al
ways done it like a gentleman"
The instructions of the judge to tn
jury in the Heilman suit against tn
Evansville Courier indicate that a MAJ
who deposits money witha saloon-keeper
with the design Of having # expended il
treats to voters, renders himself liabl
to a prosecution for bribery. The saloon
keeper who acts as an agent become
also liable to a prosecution .-Madisoi
Courier.
Record by a California justice: IN. B
Barber the lawyer for George Work in
solently told me there was no law for m
to rool SO, l told him | didn't care
d-n for his book law, that / was th
law myself. He continued to jaw bacl
/ told him to shut up but he wouldn't
fined him $50 and Committed him 4
goal for 5 days for contempt Of the cour
in bringing my roolings aud dission
into disreputableness and rs a warning
10 unrooly persons not to contradie
this court"