Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-22
c AND FANCfEs.

A Paterson IN. J.) clergyman skates
three miles to church THE winter.
Lent is at hand and the women of
fashion are already seolding about it.
In the earthquake region of California
it is reported that real estate is active"
Oakland, California, has a Presby-
terrain Sunday school with l43 Chinese
pupils.
George Brown, the champion oars.
man, is reported to be dangerously i'll at
Halifax.
The new mining district at Coso, CAL,
is in good odor; that is to say, they
smel't there.
An irreverent Pacific ribald alludes
to Massachusetts spinsters as match.
less maids"
A beggar was heard to remark yester.
day that love of cards had played the
deuce with him.
Red Wing, Minnesota. wants to be
called the primary wheat market Of the
world or nothing.
A blind dog, which leads its blind
master safely about, is one of the curl
osities Of hot Springs, Arkansas.
The Pacific Hotel, Of Chicago, having
failed, St. Louis has the first CLEAN of
real happiness it has known for years.
When the Chicago Times complains of
scanty skirts on the stage in that city it
is about time for the authorities to in
terfere.
In London the highlevel sewer is car
ried for a distance of two miles under
houses and other private property thirty
feet below the surface.
Bottles of warm water for the feet,
provided in all the public coupes in
Paris, make riding in that city extremely
agreeable, even in the coolest of weather.
Orthodox Bostonians have made it de
rigueur to get up at day break in order
to see the dazzling effulgence ofthe rising
sun reflected from the new-gilded State.
hnuse dome.
One Of Hogarth's masterpieces, repre-.
senting "Strolling Actresses Dressing
in a Barn." was destroyed by FIRE the
other day at Littleton House, near
Staines, in England.
Kslaksua says if he should write a
book about his reception in Chicago and
some other American towns and express
bis real impressions he should look for
early assassination.
A schoolmaster thus describes a money
lender: He serves you in the present
tense, he lends in the conditional mood,
keeps you in the subjective and ruins
you in the future tensel"
A New Hampshire antiquary has q
unique curiosity in the shape Of a irunl
made in l724, which, during the ante
baggage.smasher era, was in conste n
use for more than l25 years.
Iowa hasp't reached the compulsor.
education point Of civilization yet
They're going to hang a man there jus
for beating his daughter to death becausI
she didn't learn her spelling lesson.
Two sisters, Of C~arrollton, ILL.,, who ha,
married two brothers named Flat, had
fat falling cut the other day, and befor,
the fight ended one had lost a finger an
the other a nose. jealousy was tn
cause.
Mr.. H. f. Durant has spent 81, 900, 90
on a building, near Natick, Mass, a col
lege exclusively for the female sex
Every officer and teacher in the builC
ing, from the president and professor
downward, is to be a woman"
John s. McClelland, a telegraph OBJ
rator who was convicted in the Hudso
county New York. Court of Sessions,
manslaughter, in causing the death
four men by collision of trains on th
Pennsylvania railroad last March, ha
been sentenced TO pay a fine Of two hun
bred and fifty dollars and costs.
Gold has been found in upper Georgi
in large quantities. Rumors have bee
aaoat for several days concerning a ne
milne Of immense richness, where mar
: Jumps in q pure state bad been pickle
up on the surface, varying from thirty
-, forty pennyweigkts, 1t is within q
: hours ride Of Chattanooga, and miner
say its riches promise to eclipse an
/, thing on the continent.
i Augustus oochiE one day Intervene
n a Paris ragpicker. He said: "Wh
|. induces you to take up this occupation
pride" was the answer How pride
Yves, | was a carver; but had a gre
deal to do with my wages, aud my cor
rades ridiculed my clothes. Butt choI
new companions among the ragpicker
. who do not laugh At me, and | am hapI
= 10 my tatters."
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