Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-12


ridieuled as lemonade, stale-cake af.
fairs"
The ice.houses in the vicinity of Bos-
ton are fairly bursting with their crys-
tai board"
Two million fish were Matched last
year by the Government at the Michigan
State Fishery.
Mrs. Safely, OF Mount Vernon, Iowa,
has safely reached her one hundred and
third birthday.
Fewer Americans, it is'said, are hiber-
mating in Paris this year than for many
years past.
A Detroit obituary concludes with,
ne was an old ~inhabitant of many
years standing"
There is said to be a possibility that
Charles Fletcher will be obliged to have
his leg amputated.
The number Of failures in the United
States last year was $3.50, exclusive of
the disaster to U. S. Grant & Co.
The Boston Transcript sees more
talk and longer sessions in the election
of so many lawyers to Congress.
There being no mermaids or barmaids
to put into the New England rivers,
those streams are to be restocked with
alewiyes.
The superintendent Of the gas works
at Augusta, Me-, has stopped his paper
because it spoke Of the miserable gas he
makes.
Lieutenant Cameron, an English ex-
plorer, has recovered a valuable map
aud note book DR.. Livingstone left at
Ujji.
When the thermometer gets up to zero,
st. Paul, Mimi, citizens congratulate
themselves on the arrival of spring
weather.
An investigation is to be made into
the reason of so many deaths in the
British army In India occurring from
delirium tremens.
a Texas plantation has produced this
year $4,000 worth of syrup, from land
which, it planted in cotton, would have
yielded only about $500.
The Harvard school Of instruction in
geology for the surumer of this year will
be established at a camp near Cumber-
land Gap, Kentucky.
A West Georgia, widow of Sc has
for fifteen years supported eight chill
dren by laying tor walls, harvesting,
and other heavy farm work.
Miss Ada Sweet, of Chicago, who is
the only female pension agent in the
country, receives the hi ghest salary paid
to q woman by the Government.
An unknown mao, who wears dia-
monds, pays a boy twenty-five cents to
keep his seat for him at the Beecher
trial while he goes out for lunch.
1t is said that the autograph manu-
script of Don Quixote," signed by
Miguel ~Cervantes is at present in one of
the libraries of the Duke de Medina
Celi.
An enterprising Texas journal is
achieving fame and a Large circulation
by publishing chronological charts of
the citizens of the town in which it is
printed.
A COW worth $l25, 900 has just died in
Kentucky. -[Boston Globe. Thank you.
Throwing in a 100000 bull always
makes a stock paragraph more inter-
esting.
II i'll becomes the English to sneer at
dueling in America. The foolish and
barbarous custom came 10 us from the
English, and is not much worse than
many other things which we have copied
from them.
The Hopkinsville New Era myeter-
iously alludes to "the responsibilities Of
the matrimonial relation" That is the
guarded way in which a man always
talks when the matrimonial relation"
is his mother-in.law and the old girl is
running his domestic machine for him.
A candidate for Congress, in Illinois,
was declared to be defeated at the late
election by a majority Of two votes. Not
contented with this, he demanded a re.
count Of the votes, the result Of which
was that the two votes swelled to two
hundred. He has not applied for any
more counting.
Mr.. Tracy proposes, so it is said, to
read in evidence the whole of Mr.. Til
tom novel, Tempest Tossed, and the
other side will ~retaliate by reading Mrs.
| Stoves book on Byron and Mrs.
Beechers cook book. The privilege of
attending this great trial is nearly
equivalent to a liberal education
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