Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-24
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.disnspolis.
Camel four.in-hands are affected by
the Dsbobs OF India.
A Boston colored club has named it.
self in honor Of Wendell Phillips.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has en-.
gagged his usual quarters at the Twin
Mountain House next summer.
A Western writer has evolved a new
name for the Legislsture-"acts grin
derS.'
A boy only twelve years old was 6ned
in an Indianapolis court the other day
for drunkenness.
The Msjsr Domo OF the Pontifcal
Palace at Rome has just ordered 800
lightning conductors for the Vatican and
St. Peters.
Three children we're born 10 the Wis
%consin State prison last year, but the
warden promises that nothing of the kind
shall occur again.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that
Ben De Bar, when he isn't playing Fall
staff, packs his bowels Of compassion in
q trunk.
One Of the two St. Louis mayors is a
blonde and the other is a brunette. To
what complexion it will come at last, no
fellow can find out.
The editor Of the Courier Journal pre-
nounces as hopeless the full-grown young
man who calls his mother NAV and his
father paw.
A f~avorite amusement Of the New
Workers. is to go around Madison avenue,
look at the Tweed mansion, and remark
thoughtfully, "H'ml l wonder where be
is now9'
An interesting Harrisburg %journsl
says Mrs. SiebOld, of this city, is eighty
four years Of age, reads without glasses,
and has had her back Sroken three
times
Steam has been introduced on the
street railroads in Birmingham with
great success. A speed of about ten to
twelve miles an hour is attained with
perfect safety and convenience.
A Vermont man returned home the
other day, after an absence of eleven
years, and found that neither of the
three husbands his wife had married and
buried had fixed the gate. = Chicago
Tribune.
A Sunday sermon in a Japanese
church never lasts over twenty two
minutes. 1t hardly pays to scrub a boy
up to send him TO church, but such short
sermons leave the men plenty of time to
20 6ahing.-Free Press.
A burly Brittop, msddened by some
stage reflections on John Bull in a Mil
waukee theater a few nights ago, charged
upon the actors, revolver in hand, and
cleared the Stags 10 q jiGy, Aud yet
they call this the Centennial year.
A Southern journal, referring to Mrs.
Woodruff as a lecturer, makes the aston
ishing assertion; "Sbe has neither mau-
uscriptnor notes, but goes upon the stage
with a simple skeleton, upon which she
builds her literary structure
A young woman in Cincinnati, who
WAS in the recent crush at the Robinson
Opera House. escaped from the deadly
p%eriliG which she supposed herself to be
by jumping from the window. Then she
recOllected that she had left her opera
glasses and muf behind, aad she bravely
fought her way back aud secured her
treasures, What is life without opera
glasses aud NUTS?
Credulous reader, Judge Howard, Of
Prescott, Arizona, who has been recently
sick, was attended oil through his illness
by bis fsyorite cat Jennie, and one day
when his attendants we're later than
usual in bringing him his food, she be-
came very uneasy, and went out and
caught q snow-bird, which she laid on
the bed beside him, and went out to look
for another, but was unsuccessful. When
she returned he had hidden the bird, aud
she seemed delighted with the idea that
no bad eaten it"
When Bessie Turner, who is on her
lecturipg tour, registers her nam aud
asks the hotel clerk to give her . quiet
room where she will not be disturbed by
the trsmpiug through the ball and other.
wise, he glAuces al the signature, smiles
q light, sarcastic smile, aud thinks OF a
loDE-haired, thinlegged man in a autter-
ing night shirt, luggirg her, OF tho dead
Of night, from the basement TO the garnet
Of q house in Brooklyn. without disturb
Ing the tranquility Of her slumbss
Chieogs Km1s.