Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-27
X. wrITMORE,
Publisher aad Proprietor.


tocrat when he can lay in his coal in the
summer.
We milk 100000 cows 10 this coun.
try, and have cheese and butter pro
duct Of $l5O,OOO,OOO.
Madame Patton is dancer, ninety
four years old, who yet continues to
Patton the stage Of French circus with
her still nmble feet.
The friends of Sunday schools through
out the world have fixed upon October
18th and 18th as days Of united prayer
for the Sunday school cause
A statue Of Christopher Columbus,
which has stood for some time in front
of the Champs Elysees in Paris, has
been removed and sent to Limi, its orig
inal destination.
LondonFun: Old party who stammers,
comes in for some ipecacuanha) )-"0h,
if you p-pleast, young man, / w-want
some ip-ip-ipip--" Festive assistant
(6red by recent reminisceuces)-" Hur.
rahl"
M. Bouti0, who saved the lives OF fifty
persons at Toulouse, France, during the
late inundations, was recently drowned
himself in the Seine by the upsettipg of
pleasure boat lie was an accom-
plished swimmer.
Does my baby annoy you nights2'
said a fond mother to serious-looking
young man who occupied the adjoining
room. "0h, no; not at all, he meekly
replied II love babies" And yet he
had been engaged for several days upon
an article in defense Of Herod. Brook
Iyn Argus.
Whittier calls autumn the period Of
the fatal triumph of the perfect year.
That's poets way of looking Tit. A
man of baser clay who resurrects "
his OvercoAt from a sarcophagus OF
tobacco leaves, too often has occasion
to think Of autumn as the period Of the
fatal triumphs OF moths.
Maria Mitchell, the atrong-minded
Professor of Astronomy in Vassar Col.
Iege, will preside over the third WomRn's
Congress TO be held at Syracuse, N. Y,
this week. The friends of the cause"
are determined that the present session
shall be totally unlike the one held in
Chicago last year, in that the woman
with the patent "chemiloon" shall not
be permitted to occapy the majority Of
the time in advertising her iayention,
Mrs. Livermore brings her umbrella
down upon the table with a tremendous
whack when she has recited the following
statistics. I'm Berlin there are one and
one half million more women than men.
In Massachusetts there $4,000 more
women than men, and in New York city
10000 more manageable women than
men. War end drunkenness decimate
men SO that, Though there are LOG boys
70 every 100 giris, the vc&sp the world
over are in excess"
There is a story told OF Joaquin Miller,
the poet, that, when he was at Barnum 8
Hotel, Broadway and Twentieth street.
few weeks ago, he wrote to friend in
New Jersey and ended the letter; Come
and see me when-eve you can. am at
Birnum's." The friend, who does not
appear to have been familiar with the
names Of the city hotels, answered: u
am sorry you have commenced to ex-
hibit yourself. If you had stuck to lit.
erature yon would heye made your mark
aud fortune. Whereabouts is the show
DowP'
The hold which the tobacco habit has
on the American people is shown in the
fact that an article praising corn cob
pipes is admitted to the pages of one Of
our most carefully edited magazines. II
the author Of the article has boy about
twelve years Of age, aud that boy isn't
seen raising q foubsnelling cloud at
some variety show before the end of an
other year, the retrbution be deserves
will have failed to oyertake him. What
is to become Of the editor Of the mag
Azue, unless he dies Of paralysis at the
epd Of a pipe presented to him by his
oout ril.ufnr "a 10 ba,d 10 No.,