Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-06

nomAs Jefferson ana fatrlck henry,
the two early statemen who reused
American sentiment, were amateurs of
the violin, according to the Danbury
News,
For the past twenty years the nations
have been building iron-clads. Should
there be an European war the test will
be applied for the irst time on a really
grand scale.
Victoria Woodruff is going 10 London
to be an actress. She has given Lady
Macbeth new creation, and has also
tackled several other Shakspearean pro-
ductions.
A half witted boy at Bethel, Conn,
fred q shotgun into a crowd Of young
fellows who were teasing him, teaching
L of them a lesson which his parents
had neglected to ineulcate.
There is no trace in Greek-antiquity
of a windmill or a watermill, nor is there
any Of Latin-antiquity of a windmill.
The latter was introduced into England
in 1899, probably from Holland.
Mr.. Upper says he is struck by Anne
rican good manners, as observable in
railway travel" 1t must be remembered,
10 this connection, that Mr.. Upper never
uttered a sarcastic word in bis life.
The engineer Of the Frerch Exposi
ton Of 1863, NJ. Krautz, intends to imi.
tate the He'll Gate explosion, by opening
in q similar manner the excavations for
the basement of the Exhibition building.
In less than twenty FIVE years India
has been covered with o network Of rail-
ways, which nov reaches upward of
$500 miles, and a closer network of .ele.
graph wires extending to some $4,000
miles.
The French paper Of New Orleans has
the following personal intelligence:
Potter Palmer, beau-lrere de Fred
Grant, ct qui. il y a deux ans, etait parti-
slu acharne du papa De Fred, soutient
TiIden."
There was a certain laughable streak
Of human nature in that man of total
abstinence who, on drinking q milk
punch by mistake, enthusiastically cried
out: =" Heavensl What = cowl Is she
for sale2"
Hold the fort" came from General
Sherman's order to General COrse, who
was holding Allatoona Pass. General
Corse, though wounded and bleeding,
did hold it; but, unfortunately for the
Republican poets, be is q Democrat.
A student in Paris, after passing three
years in the Latin quarter, wrote to hi
father as follows: IL have made up my
/; mind to set to work, dear father; there
fore | should like to know whether it wa
Law or medicine that / came 10 study.
t The St. Louis Republican says tina
Tom Thumb casts jugJ as big Q vote ai
Long John Wentworth" This sort Of ,
. story may do to tell in St. Louis, but /
e wouldn't 70 down in this community
where both parties are known. Chicag
Times.
Evarts was about to come out for Til
dem but when be remembered that If h.
! did so 81 the Hayes pagers would issu
supplements proving hat be wrote tn
first. ordinance of secession, beside
!, beating he grandmother 10 death ant
stealing nine hundred acres Of farmin
n land, he judiciously took the safe side
The Caucasian is played out +" /
! Indianapolis. Says the Sentinel: 20
the circle yesterday a white man knock
d ed a Chinaman down for some real o
fancied grievance, and the eternal Atnes
e Of things was illustrated by the promp
!, ness with which a negro policeman =
rested and took the %assaulter to the ST.
le tion.house.'
4 My friend said q returned mission
airy, OF one Of the anniversary meeting
x " let US avoid seciarian bitterness. tt
= inhabitants Of Hindostan, where | hay
q been laboring for many years, have
Of proverb that, Though you battle a dog
10 tail in oil and bind It in splints, yet "a
cannot get the crook out Of it, Nov,
=, mana aeGtariau bias is simply the croo
~ 10 the dogs tail, which cannot be Grad
ID Gated, and l hold that everyone sbou.
ne be allowed to wag 10 his own peculiari.
y, in peace"
a Prentice Mslford suggests that j
y say forty years more, when through Il
- present increase Of books, libraries, al
Of course catalogues viii increase al
,k multiply, and books will breed beyor
be the bounds Of human scope, calculate
q, and ~cataloguing, that dogs whose int,
'"I lirspoe and sagseity will probably !
he crease in proportion with that Of the h
be manity they live amongst, be trained
ID, buut up and run down the title of a
" required book in these future immsn
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