Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-08

"nholofOlJ loCJuISIs is Ill Ill nealJn,
suffering nervous prostration and
partial paralysis.
1t is a fact not generally known
that all the captains in the French
line of steamers are graduates of
the French Navy.
The belle of Canton, Mass, be-
came so enraged during a game Of
croquet that she knocked a fellow
down with a mallet.
Madame Judio, the singer, is so
extensively advertising a lost dog in
Paris that her enemies accuse her
of shrewdly advertising herself.
A wag, noted for his brevity
writes to a friend to be careful in the
selection of his diet. He saws.
{" Don't eat Q.cumbers they'll
W-up."
James Dean started out in Lon
don to express his hatred for
women. He struck, choked and
kicked six, one of whom died from
the injury.
Peter Keiser is an Illinois man
who is disguised with hard money.
He carried a silver quarter in his
pocket for fifteen years and on try
ing to pass it few days ago, found
that it was counterfeit.
Those three Cinnamon who took
a watermelon home and cooked it
say they feel able to worry along
on rice a short time longer without
fooling with any more new-fangled
arrangements in the vegetable line.
The Bank of England clips every
light sovereign that it receives.
The weighing is done very quickly,
5000 an hour being weighed by one
machine. In 1875 the bank weighed
f22, 100000 worth of coin, and re-
jected eS4O, 900.
A little girl who was in the car
of state at Virginia City Nevada,
on the Fourth, was asked what
State she represented on that occa-
sion. She said ''Oh, l wasn't q
state. l was a sort of halfway
thing-I was a territory"
A wife in San Jose, California,
became wildly jealous of her hus-
band, and killed herself, which left
her husband free to marry the
woman who had caused the Jealousy,
and he did it. The Spiritualists Of
that town are on the qui vive.
A petition for the pardon of
George Smith, a convict in the
penitentiary at Springfield, ILL.,,
contained the names of seventy
five leading citizens of Chicago.
The Governor might have granted
the request had not the signatures
turned out to be forgeries.
d. When a 200-pound darkey woman
throws herself into the Centennial
rollingchair and pays over her
sixty cents for an hours ride, the
gloom that settles over the gentle
manly white attendants face can be
|, felt from one end Of the grounds to
, the other,
"What do you sell those fowls
? for?" inquired q person of a man
attempting to dispose of some
. chickens of questionable appear
ance, 81 sell them for profits" was
the answer. Thank you for
the information that they are pro-
phets," responded the querist. II
, took them to be patriarchs."
Miss Catherine L. Wolfe, of New
York City, some time since gave
! $4,000 for founding a school for
, girls in Nevada, on condition that
a like amount should be contributed
: by the citizens of that State.
l Bishop Whitaker has succeeded in
! ! raising the required amount, and
the school will soon open at Reno.
: "Behm & Wagner, in their an
S nual review Of the population Of
the globe, state that Europe has an
= area of 100000 square miles, and
( a population of 3O3,OOO,OOO Asia,
S $4,000, 900 square miles, population,
699,000,OOO; America, $4,000, 900
: square miles, population 81, OOO, 1000;
Australia and Polynesia, $500, 900
square miles, population 4,5OO,-
900"