Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-10

prize fight.
Mary Anderson, the Louisville girl
who has so quickly succeeded as an
actress, has a handsome face, and money
enough to outdress any rival.
A woman at Minneapolis, Mimi, a
few days ago found a little package that
contained seventeen diamonds secreted
in a desk which had once belonged TO
her grest-grandfather.
A man in Michigan snapped his horse
for a wife. An old bachelor acquaint-
ance said he'd bet there was something
wrong with the horse, or its owner would
not have fooled it away in hat reckless
manner.
The Paris Exhibition Of 1873 will
cover Trocadero Heights and the Champ
de Mars, aud these places separated by
the river will be connected bytwo bridges
across the Seine. Paris has voted $24,-
OOO, 900 for improvements.
The army of Greece is a tremendous
thing. The cavalry branch Of it is said
to consist of eleven men, nine horses
and q 'bus-not a blunderbuss, but an
omnibus. When Greece takes up a gun
Europe lies down behind a log.
Seven Chinese officers have arrived at
Berlin-a captain and six l%ieutenants-
to serve for a time in the Prussian army,
as some japanese officers we're allowed
to do some time ago, for the purpose of
scquainting themselves with the German
military system.
Biologists complain that when they
want specimens of the common rock of
a country, they receive curious spars;
. just so, historians give US the extrsordi-
j nary events and omit just what we want
fI-the everey day life of each particular
4 time and country.
A Chicago surgeon called in the night
to perform an operation, put the neces'
sary instruments in a bag and started
A policeman stopped him, examined tn
contents of the bag, refused to believ
that they we're not burglars tools, ant
- arrested the surgeon.
n The most natural beauty in the worl'
is honesty and moral truth. True fea
VS. lures make the beauty of a face, an
true proportions the beauty Of architeC
IS ture; as true measure that of harmony
lie and music. In poetry, which is all fable
d, truth is still the perfection,
We find but few historians of all age
who have been diligent enough in thei
search for truth. 1t is their common
method to take on trust what they dis
tribute to the public; by which means
II falsehood, onee received from a fame
writer, becomes traditional to posterity
v. Put it out of the power of truth to Civ
you an i'll character, aud il anybody re
ports you not to be an honest man, lie
your practice give him the lie; and
&c make all sure, you should resolve to liv
ly no longer than you can live honestly, 70
IN it is better to be nothing than a knavt
he Reverend gentleman much excited
IN Now, just look at tbis coat. Do you ca
be it q good 6t2 The fact is you can
e. cut q coatl Tailor Whose dignity
s' touched)-Sir, if you could preach
y sermon half as we'll as l can cut q col
d. you would have been a bishop betol
now.
c. Honesty is not only the deepest polio,
,er but the highest wisdom; since, howev'
difficult it may be for integrity to 90 o.
it is a thousand times more difficult {,
knavery to get off; and no error is mo-
fatal than that of those who think thi
virtue has no other reward because thu
have heard that she is her own.
n. A bird Of the species called the woo
ibis, which is seldom seen north Of Flo
ida, was shot at Sand Lake, Renssels
county, N. Y, a few days ago, 1t had
=. beautiful plumsge, stood two and on
= half feet in hight, and measured thr,
feet aud ten inches across the wings, al
les two feet ten inches from the bill to Il
tail.
Small girl-Plaze Misther Donova
NC what o'clock is it2 H%orologer-Ha
"A past wan. exit small girl. An int
val Of one minute. Re-enter small girl
of Small girl-Plaze, Misther Donova
No what o'clock is it2 Horologer-Sur
amt l afther tellin' YEP Small girl
:. Och, but It's another woman towld me
ak ye this time.
r.. Two ladies DESTROYS Of asserting t
,st rights of their sex astonished the ci
zens of Fryeburg, Me a few days ago
ind appearing with hoes in their hands a
'rs, insisting on committing a highway Ia
the for which they had been assessed,
2Sr working on the highways, which is o
of the privileges OF the male tax.pay,
. in some towns of Maine.
In Baltimore two-wheeled drays
et, used, and instead Of skids or eArtru
to form a bridge from the cart to
doorway Of the warehouse, a pair
nee shafts are built into the dray, stick
: at out far enough beyond TO cover the
4 lance from the curbstone to the wa