Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-25

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pound.
At their fair in Logan county, a party
Of Illinois farmers awarded a large doll
to the stingiest old bachelor in the as
ssmblsge.
The King of Wurtemberg. it is said,
is interested in large beer garden. as
well as in two restaurants, well patronized
by his people.
The new English hangman is a small,
thin man with soft eyes. and a eat-like
step, and he likes to hang a man with a
Roman nose.
An Aberdeen girl supposes that the
reason she has never kinded fame in
any mans heart is because she is not q
good match.
1t is stated that 576.O54 baskets Of
peaches were canned this season by
Gamers on the peninsula Of Maryland
and Delaware.
The hard times seem to have no effect
upon the consumption Of pins. all the
New England factories running at pres
ent on full time.
BY the Masonic authorities in Iowa II
has just been determined that dancing
in the Lodge room is inconsistent with
the good of the craft.
Mrs. Dulpb, of Glastonbury, CT, so
years old, does the washing for four large
families, besides her own household work
fer family of three.
The Emperor William breakfasts at six
o'clock. He may therefore be supposed
to catch the worm over and above all his
royal contemporaries.
NJ Theirs always goes to sleep inme-
diately after dinner It's thought that
this habit will ultimately cut him of in
the Hover OF his youth.
A gypsy has told Queen Victoria that
she will live forty years yet, and the old
lady smiles blandly and orders more
peaches laid in for wiRter.
The quantity Of lumber used in the
construction OF peach boxes this season
at Salisbury, Wicomico county, Md,
will amount to nearly 100000 ieet.
Old Matthew Vassar built his college
without closets He said every girl could
have two nails in her room--one for her
school dress and the other for her best
dress.
The Baltimore School Board proposes
to grant pensions to public school teach
ers who have served for thirty years or
more, and by age have grown unable to
further discharge their duties.
In New Haven, after the casket con-
tanning the remains of a little child had
been taken from one lot to another
and reinterred there, a black and tan
terrier laid down by the grave, and would
not be driven away either by coaxing or
menaces. ="
A crab-apple tree in Westfeld, Yer
mont, has blossomed four times during
the past season, and now has four sets of
apples on it or in prospect, the oldest
nearly ripe, the second about the size of
peas, the third just setting, and the
fourth in blossom.
The costliest dog in England belongs
to one A. S. D. Fivas, who wants $780,
600 for it. The name Of the beast is
CRANKY, and if some person were to
throw it button one of these dark
nights the happiness of Fivas would be
completely wrecked.
A Professor of Cornell University has
made application for the body of the
noted trotter, the American Girl in
order that the skeleton may be placed in
the mpseum OF that institution, and pre-
served as specimen Of the bony struct-
ure of typical American trotting horse.
An Englishman was boastiug to a
Yankee that they had a book in the Brit,
iSh Museum which was once owned by
Cicero "0h, that amt nothin'," re.
torted the Yankee; " in the museum in
Bosting they've got the lead pencil that
Noah used to check off the animals that
went into the ark. ="
According to a Paris correspondent
there is ghost or some sort Of mystic
Fous forms at work in Calais. Showers
Of stones are from time to time thrown
at factory Gere, and all the efforts Of
the police and Of the people have been
insufficient to find out where the stones
come from or what projects them.
The wife Of Mohammedan in Cal
cptta had her husband arrested because
he refused to support her. The husband
was equal to the emergency, and then
aud there divorced himself from his wife
by pronouneing three tmea tho word
"Tullak." That was sufficient to dis
solve the marriage, and we commend