Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-12


Of 1912, only to die of the whooping
cough at the age Of ninety-Gve last week.
This is good: There are two reasons
why some people don't mind their own
business. One is that they have no bus
mess, and the other is that they have no
mind.
Sedan will soon be an open town. The
old ramparts and Notifications are in
course OF removal, and nothing will be
left but the castle, in which Surenne was
born.
An Indiana widow said she didn't
care to marry again, but if she ever did
get another husband she'd make him
buy a corrugated elbow for the parlor
stove before she said yes"
A Kansas family claim to have lived
on dried apples and snow for four days,
but the early pioneers of Michigan
wouldn't have said q word about snow il
they could have got the apples.
~Citizenesses, awakel arisel or be for
ever behind the times. Only a few days
Of Lent remain, and the momentous
question, "Will jet trimming be worn
another year2' is still unanswered.
A'girl in the lower part of Buffalo
wanted to get married. Her mother
said no. The maiden then petitioned
to be allowed to go to the theater; she
said that she wanted to have some fun.
Sensibly shaped shoes are at last in
vogue. The newest give ease and hand
some shape TO the loot, and do not cramp
it into unnatural size. Yet some ladies'
will insist that their shoes are a mile
too big for themI'
A Cincinnati shoemaker pinched a
lAdy's big toe while fitting on a pair of
shoes, and she borrowed a derringer aud
kept him housed up for a whole day. 1t
is only now and then that such particu-
lar women are to be found in Cincinnati.
The newspaper reporters OF Chicago
propose TO give a theatrical entertain
ment at an early day for the benefit OF
the poor OF that city. 1t will not be ad.
visable to marry into a poor family.
though, on this account Milwaukee
Neps.
Young ladies with beautiful pink ears
and throats faultless enough to be cop
led in alabaster, are perfectly horri-
fed to learn hat the poke bonnets OF
our grandmothers are to be revived.
The old folks are moving in concert
about the matter.
Plenty Of State itemsin Massachusetts
this winter. A Boston paper says:
"Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Gibson became
intoxicated at a charity ball in Spring
field, and proceeded to zigzag home
ward. Mr.. Gibson arrived in safety. but
Mrs. Gibson froze to death"
The private school kept by Mr.. F. W.
Gum at Washington, Conn, and referred
TO so often in the testimony Of Mr.. and
Mrs. 0yington in the Beecher trial as
The Gunnery," is identical with tina,
alluded to in Mr.. j. G. Hollands novel
of ARTHUR Bonnicastle," under the title
Of " The Birds Nest"
The Prussian government has pur
chased for the Berlin Museum, at the
cost Of $4,000, the famous collection
of ancient medals made by Count Pro
kesch-0 sten, for many years Austrian
I%nternuncio to the Porte, but now re-
tired from active service. The collec.
ton contains some of the finest speci
mems Of this branch Of Greek art extant
A Pleasant Prospect.-Traveler lin
Ireland)- Hi-pull her up, man
Don't you see the mare is running
away2" Paddy" Hould tight, yel
Onorl For yer life don't touch the
reins-sure they're as rotten as pears
I'll turn her into the river at the bridge
below here. Sure that will stop her, the
blaegardl"
The vicar of the parish Of Cowley,
England, recently stirred up a hornet,
nest in the town by refusing to say, Oh
allow to be said, the prayers Of The
church over the body Of a dead cricket
player who in life was given 10 drink and
unruly conduct. The clergyman was
mobbed and fairly held his life in his
hands, but held out 10 the end, and the
deceased was buried in his own garden,