Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-08

lush hres have occurred, n great
damage has been caused.
The British Government is, it is said,
abont to construct a large dock at Glib
%raltar. This has long been needed,
there being as many as 5000 large
steamers entering the bay every year.
Your feet are not very stylish" said
a man to his friend, whose feet were COW
cred with bunions. mo, not stylish,
but exceedingly nobby,' was the good
natured reply.
"Mr, Smithers, how can you sleep?
The sun has been up these two hours"
well, what if he has2" said Smith. HE
goes to bed at dark, while I'm up till
after midnight"
Alter all it isn't right to take babies to
the matinees. They don't like to go;
anybody can see that. If they liked to
go they wouldn't be bowling and scream
ing all the time.
Mrs. Hugh Smith, of Maine, married
young, and this winter the only mar she
ever loved kept her chained in a ~ireless
room until her feet froze so hard that
amputation became necessary.
A number Of the citizens of Lyons,
N. Y, are buying ice at a dollar a ton
and melting it down, SO as to obtain
water to meet their wants. Two-thirds
of the cisterns of the pls ce are dry.
Anything to beat s atan,'' was the
legend suggested by a Danbury politi-
clan when asked to mani lie something ap-
propriate al an inscription on a banner
for a Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton.
1t you desire to put a mans friend
ship to a severe test, ask him to divide
his last chew of tobacco with you. II
ne does so, you may set him down as
0. K.-as trimming over with friendship
towards you.
The %janitor of the Charleston Opera
House has held the place for nineteen
years, and he never found even a penny
on the floor, He wants to 90 North,
where gold watches are left on the seats
every night.
Said a downy.nustached youth to a
dashing young widow; Gould | but find
a woman, good and true, whose life was
not haunted by the ghosts Of departed
loves; for such a woman | would risk my
life here and my salvation hereafter"
Mr.. j. W. Simcoe Kerr, by hereditary
right chief of the tribes of the Six Ma
tioDs, and a descendant Of Sir William
Johnson, the Tory Governor Of New
York during the war OF the Revolution,
died at St. GATHERINGS, Ontario, on
Thursday of last week.
The other night, when a we'll known
gentleman had to stay out all night. his
wife hardly slept a winl; for fear he
would get hurt; yet he had Mt been home
half an hour when it took Two policemen
to u%nclasp her fingers frem his hair and
pry her teeth off his ear.
Only a woman's hairt Who has moi
some time in his life picked such q
golden thread from his best coat collar,
and felt his heart beat the quicker fol
it? Or gazed upon a tl,ess laid away in
some nook, and not felt the influence o.
tender memories2 Only a woman
hairl and yet we don't ike it in a bis
cult.
When a disheveled actor rushes across
the stage with his hands clutching hi
vest, and howLs Me ha-a-a-rt is bairst'
ing" 1t is then that an unappreciativt
audience begins to think that the price
of admission is twenty-five cents toe
high. 1t knows that he will ring il
something about the wynd" before his
paroxysm subsidies.
Not a bad story comes from the Saw
age club, London, but it does not seen
clear who first made the joke. A "Sav
age was standing or the steps at Evans
hotel, Covent garden, where the Climb il
now located, when a gentleman came W
to him and asked him if there was :" q
gentleman with one eye named Walker
in the club. IL don't know responded
the Savage what was the name oil
the other eyer
Dumas, jr., the new member of the
French Academy, is once more the SEN
sation Of the day in tickle Paris. The
young playwright Of Camille and a good
many other similar pieces, still modestly
prefers, Notwithstanding all the glory
thrust upon him, to consider himself
unworthy Of unloosing the latchets OF his
fathers ghosts shoes. he aims rather
after a simple style Of talking, living and
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