Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-17

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be answered.
Lady Burdett Coutts fayors the use of
goats milk. She thinks if public atten-
ton we're directed to the use made of
goats over the world, and to the improve
ment Of the breed, a great boon would
be conferred.
The distinguished Lady Bardett Coutts.
appeals to the danes and demoiselles of
fashion, to stop wearing humming birds
in their hats. as they can only wear
them by perpetuating the wholesale
slaughter Of birds.
The German Grown Prince has, and is
entitled to wear, fifty eight stars and
crosses. Bismarck's decorations amount
to forty. and General MoItke has thirty
nine, aud yet a free and Independent
Memphis policeman only has one starl
This ought not to be.
Van Pelt, the temperance lecturer,
the Ohio crusader, the specimen brick Of
converted saloon-keepers, the browning
triumph Of the street-praying ladies'
nuisance, has been arrested for getting
drunk and disturbing a religious meet.
ing at Wilmington. Ohio.
The Milwaukee News says: Chicago
policemen should be furnished with tel
escapes. When one Of them is off duty
and pursuing bis old profession Of house-
breaking, it is mighty unhandy for him
to have one of bis partners on the force
FIRE at him by mistake, thinking am one
of the common herd Of burglars"
A Philadelphia woman remarks in the
Press: Where are the poor who seek
employment Yainly have ] searched
for a fortnight for a oma willing TO go
eighteen miles into the country, at high
wages, to live in a comfortable warm
kitchen, With plenty Of food, aud kind
treatment, and cook for a small family,
doing her duty as a faithful servant"
Edward Sadd, q conductor in Burling-
ton, iowa, was made happy by having
voted to him a badge at a public fair.
Being called upon for a speech, he was
hustled upon the platform. Looking
around for a moment, he calculated
" Tickelsl" and retired. 1t was so effec
tive that the band couldn't play for ten
minutes.
A farmer in West Baltimore, Ohio,
made a bitter enemy by discharging an
employee. One night the man got into
the farmers stable and began to mutilate
a span Of horses. He cut of their names
and tails, and was about to hamstring
oae Of them when il kicked him sense
less. Three Of his ribs were broken, and
his other internal Injuries are likely TO
kill him.
Some observer who has noticed the
effect Of great religious awakenings
might do the good cause a service by
publishing the number Of old debts that
are paid after each revival. There are
scofers who affect to believe that If an
amount has been overdue a very long
time no religion in the world will make
the debtor hunt and pay the man he
owes.
1t would appear that the taste Of the
Prusaian soldiers FOR time-pieces was
once possessed by French soldiers also.
At Lausanne, in Switzerland, there is a
clock that was made in that city in the
time Of Louis XIV by one Golay. 1t was
stolen thence by a soldier and carried to
Berne. From Berne it was taken by a
French soldier in 1898 into France, and
from France it was taken by the ineyita-
Bile Prusaian and sold beyond the Rhine.
A young lady Of Danbury whose com
pany is much priced by an enterprising
merchant teok charge Of a class Of little
girls the other Sunday. After the lesson
she told the children that IL they wished
to ask her any questions she would an
swer them. Will you answer true2"
asked q ~brighteyed little cherub. Ger
tainly, said the teacher. = Well. then,
said the little one, hesitatingly, ado-do
you love Mr.. B-7' The teacher col
Iapsed.
Mrs. Bimpson, Of Quincy, Illinois, is
feeling a little embarrassed. Some
years ago her husband, a wealthy manu-
facturer, sailed for Europe in the high.
headed United Kingdom, accompanied
BY his two daughters. The United
Kingdom has never been heard from till
now, and the news is that Mr.. Bimpson
and the girls are on their way home.
When they get there they will find that
Mrs. Bimpsou has not OILY drawn the
$4,000 insurance on Bimpson's life. but
that she has a second husband and an-
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