Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-15
ACT n FANCIES.

AM AANNALDa
In France widows wear mourning only
eighteen months.
Pronouncing matches are beginning
to excite attention.
Tilton will put in the defense that he
is a somnambulist.
There are only two things that smoke
habitually-men and chimneys.
OF all his wives, not one visited Brig.
ham Young while he was in Jail.
A Chicago mar thinks that the worst
speller ought to ge. the dictionary.
1t is said hat there are ffty-seven
women editing newspapers in this
try.
Little Rock, Arkansas, is said to have
several thousand children and not Que
free school.
A Methodist conference, held at Man
haitian, Kan, has condemned the Quaker
Indian policy,
That looks like a terrible waste Of
time" remarked a man as he saw a Jew.
eler tearing a clock to pieces.
At Rome they expecta beautiful a
dal when the judicial inquiry is made
into the murder of signor ~sonzoguo.
A Chattanooga telegraph operator ac-
cidentally got an electric shock that took
every hair from mis- head the other day.
Six Milwaukee women, with babies.
met the other day, and agreed to vote
which was the ~handsomest infant. Each
child got one vote.
M. Walton, author of the French con
stitution, is the original of the ancient
philosopher Colline, pictured by Henri
Murger in la Vie de Boheme."
When the crowded omnibus drives up
to a fine three-story mansion, one of the
young women getting out invariably and
artlessly remarks, Home at lastl'
Col. j. c. Lane, of the United States
army, will have command of the expedi-
ton to be sent out by the American So
ciety for the Exploration of Palestine.
A young lady in Chicago, who accom-.
panied her beau to a spelling sociable
the other evening, gave him the mitten
because he spelled it with one t and
an o.
A great national museum is to be
erected at St. Petersburg. Foreign as
, well as native architects have been in.
vited to send in plans for competition in
building.
In the course of a case brought BY
Emanuel, the London jeweler, it was
shown that he charged 500, 900 for a
necklace which was valued by a Paris
%jeweler at 81 1900.
Count Malvaria, Of Italy, has invented
an earthquake indicator to give warning
Of coming shocks. The instant that {
trembling of the earth occurs the nae
ehauism fires off a gun.
At the trial of ore Putnam, at Virgin.
City, for leading a dissolute life, Distric
Attorney Campbell defined a hummer a
IAN aggregated, c~oneatenated, conglOm
Grated, segregated, contaminated, d.
%loafer." This decided the jury at onoe
and they found Putnam guilty.
n The fashion Of Introducing mnsic int
modern romances is growing rapidly
and for the full enjoyment of a work o
u fiction it will soon be necessary to know
e how to sing and play the piano. No les
than three novels have appeared recent
ly, each Of which contains snatches O
music, or whole pages of notes, as th
case may be.
d There is no greater delusion than tina
Of supposing that the best music can b
enjoyed only by the musical 0rdinl
' ry people can derive keen pleasure fror
a sympathetic listening to good music
n they win but believe that they can, an
y so attend to it accordingly. There is n
IL need Of being bafled by a want Of know
E. edge concerning keys, nor by an ign
ranca ri modnlation