Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-07
c AND FANCIES.

The Empress OF India has to wear
glasses when she reads.
Michigan murderers in prison io- life
are allowed to keep dogs, for the moral
effect"
The Indians are holding sealping bees
in the Black Hills. They are largely at
tended.
Times are good again. Because a base
ball match in Boston attracted 10000
spectators.
my boy, were you ever baptizadf"
"0h, yes; half a dozen times. But it
never took"
The individual who was accidentally
injured by the discharge of his duty is
still very low.
The spring style of hand organ has
only enc stop-it begins in the moraing
and stops at night.
Vermont says that lager beer is not
intoxicating. That depends on who
drinks how many kegs.
The last words of the great Emanuel
Kant were, 1T is enough" They had
just given him some wine.
Over one thousand heads OF families
10 Canada have applied for work on a
canal, and only one hundred got it.
Roscoe C. is the name Of d member of
a Northwestern base ball club, but he
isn't president of the organization.
Miss Ransom's portrait Of General
Thomas has been excluded from the
Centennial exhibition because it recalls
the civil war.
The Municipal Council Of Antwerp
offer 5000 francs for the best history of
their city's school Of painting. to be
written in the Flemish language.
General Joe Hooker, who some weeks
ago went to the hot springs Of Arkansas
for the benefit of bis health, has received
no benefit from the treatment.
Proctor, the DISTINGUISHING English.
man who thinks be knows so much about
astronomy, has delivered 244 lectures in
this blaWsted, benighted country.
Never marry a woman with a musical
ear; they are tickle. A musical ear can
be detected easily from the ordinary
kind, it is about four inches longer.
4 New York women take their poodles
a with them when they 60 out for a drive
because the Princess of Wales is sup
n posed to do that way With her terrier.
The pe~nitentiAries are now more fully
occupied than at any time since they
S were built. Unless the expected reac-
ton begins soon, they will take to them.
selves wings.
{ The successive storms have raised the
. price OF fish 10 the London market 10 a
remarkable degree. Salmon nov sells
! from three to four shillings, while in
e other years it sold as low as a shilling a
o pound.
One Of the New York car companies
is said to have on its hands a full bushel
of counterfeit nickels. This, too, after
the conductors have passed off as many
! as possible in making change.
Debt is a fire which will consume your
substance, a viper which will poison
T. your life, a hyena which will eat out
your very e@ntrails; it is a heart without
a JOY, a face without a smile, a world
without a sus.-Dr. ". W. Hall.
Minneapolis takes to women suffrage
gracefully. Under q new law permit.
/ ting women to vote for school officers,
about two hundred voted last Tuesday.
% They we're very politely received by the
assembled crowd, and the ballot boxes
were decorated with flowers in their
honor.
t. The rapid and emphatic recital Of the
n following is said to be an infallible cure
for lisping: Hobbs meets Snobbs and
K hobbs; Hobbs hobs to Snobbs and Npbbs;
Ie HOBBS nobs with Snobbs and robs
Nobbs's fobs. This is" says hobbs,
g the worst for Hobbs's jobs" and
re Snebbs sobs.
THE Duke Of Eppenburg and Henry
VII i" is the name on his card, and he
81 calls at the Treasury Department at
Washington every few days to demand
r that the Geneva award fund be delivered
= to him. 1t amounts to Sl7, OOO,O 900, and
be will throw off the interest" He is
We crazy as a loon and nobody knows who
he is.
ct A case OF general average; "Aren't
te you rather too old to ride for hall
Ell pricef' said a ticket clerk to the elder
~ of two boys. well" remarked the
in youth, I'm under fourteen, and this
IT boy with me is under six. That don't
make twenty, and you will take two
Y boys undsr ten for half each" And he
ID took them.
n what would be your notion of absent
~ m~indednessY' asked Rufus Choate Of a
" witness whom he was crosSexamining.
ig well" said the witness, with a strong
Yankee accent, II should say that a
man who thought he'd left his watch to
ham, and took it out'n his pocket to see
ce il he'd time to go to hum and get it, was