Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-19

Worth, the Paris msn-milliner, hal
written a play to show off some Of hi!
costumes.
A c%ountryman in Boston paid 5000 t.
see King Kalakaua. He paid it to q
pickpocket.
Miss Thackeray's new book is to BIZ
called Miss Angel. It's a polite way Of
addressing a winged being.
1t is not the dread of death, but Of
renewed matrimony, which urges Dis,
raeli to retire from politics.
Fill up your pockets when you re in
the ring. "A little earning is a danger.
GUS thing" Minneapolis Mail.
With the fashionable world the cutting
OF dresses is often changed, but the cut.
ting OF poor relations goes on the same
forever.
1t is said that Queen Victoria carried
off the prize for pigs and Herefordshire
heifers at q recent cattle show in London,
She has not yet returned it.
1t takes half a fire company to thrash
a Fort Wayne reporter, and after thew
get through he is able to climb a
creased pole thirty feet high.
The doctors couldn't tell whether a
Cairo mai had bilious collie or HYDRO.
phobia, and allowed him to die with
Inflammation Of the lungs.
Is this country composed of Phil Sher.
idan and his spurs, or is it made IN of
real estate, lakes, rivers, and now and
then an ~unassuming citizen?
Among other thing Mr.. Stanley has
discovered that there are no banks in
Zanzibar, and that the nabobs are
obliged to carry their money with them.
Cincinnati woman burned her hus.
bands Sunday suit because he wonld
not put on a buffalo robe and crawl
around the back yard, and play Santa
Claus.
when Congressman threatens to sue
Piatt's paper for libel the Dor =
turns over a postal card and wrii .s, +.
Dear sir-Sue--soo-sew-saw and hs
darnedt'
An exchange says: THE extract Of
Oranberries and hemp is said to cure
NEURALGIA and both nervous and biliou,
headache" Too much stress is laid
upon hemp,
Ersk.ine was reproached with bis pro.
to punniBg, and was told that
puns were the lowest kind of wit. true"
said be, and therefore they are the
foundations Of wit"
An Ohio youth is to be hanged next
for killing a small boy to get nos.
session OF a pound Of brown sugar. It
was the principle of the thing, not the
sugar. which influenced the jury.
Comparing the two women together.
Milwaukee News says that Mrs.
irant is not so handsome a woman as
Anna Dickinson, but she can get up a
boiled dinner than Anna can"
Mr.. Tilton has three or four hundred
Unanswered applications for locks Of his
lair. The fair solicitors are requested
o exercise patience until he can get
ime to start a jute factory BROOKLYN
a little girl, four years old, created a
ipple by rsmarking to the teacher of
Ter Sunday.schOol class: "Our dogs
lead. bet the angels was scared when
hey e him coming up the walk. Hes
ross to strangers"
DR.. William +. Rosseter, Of Bridge.
'oTt, Connecticut, has just died from the
fleets Of ;hhsling ether, which he was
administering to q patient four wsel q
go. 1t produced symptoms similar 10
hose OF typhoid fever and dipthsri "
Style is only the frame TO b, Id onr
thoughts. 1t is like the sash r,f a win.
ow; il heavy It will obscure the LIGHT
he object is to have as r.ttIe sash as
'il hold the light, hat we NAV NOT
hlnk of the former. but have the latter.
A woman has been arrested in Bali.
lore on the charge OF being a common
cold. The laws of Maryland make no
royls'On for the Punishment of such an
nense' and she is to be tried under the
ID English common law. This deGues
ucn an otfense as common ~barbarity,
provides as one Of the e a of
enlistment boring a hole through the
ongue."
Nine. Van de Weyer, widow Of the
l'e Belgian Minister to England, has
0ns a graceful act by making over the
ension allotted to her by The Belgian
overnmeut for the assistance Of literary
in impoverished circumstances
lose OF her husbands native proviuc =
Ouvlu' TO have the preference. NJ. ne
Dc Wsyer Inherited that vast tor,.
ne Of her father, the late Dir. Be ~. Of
nainn Nes, "