Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-16

Jane Grey Swisshelm is credited with
saying the man who assumes to exhibit
hsr as a Centennial relic will be pretty
apt TO look himself as if be had gone
through nineteen wars and an Irish
dance.
An Ohio exchange says that a babe
BORN in that State on the 22d OF February
has red, white and tlue hair. There is
only one way to explain this pheno-
msnon. The Ohio exchange lies.
Herald.
W. b. Smith, the leading American
hotel keeper in Japan, has failed for
800, 600, aud his native creditors have
each sent him a sharp sword. he smiles
a civilized smile, and says American
inanciers don't pull up their vests.
Spurgeon says that the clergyman who
talks through his nose can never secure
q firm grip on his audience, and he ad-
vIses all such 10 turn their attention to
agricultural pursuits. True for Spurgeon.
II you want to get a firm grip, anybody's
nose is better than your own.
A DanburY man, wishing to engage
several bushels Of potatoes from a person
in the suburbs, asked a neighbor what
sort Of a man he was. We'll" said the
conscientious neighbor, II don't know
much about him, but should think he
would make a tip-top stranger"
Miss Nora FELTON,, of LoveIand Village,
o., tied a handkerchief across her mouth
before she Jumped into the river and
sought the happy land. Can anybody
explain what the handkerchief was for2
= Chicago Tribune, Certainly. 1t sig
ni6ed that a human wiper had caused
her death.
A train en- the Northern road ran iAto
q COW the other day. 1t didn't hurt the
COW, but it threw the engine of the track.
People accustomed 10 the beefsteak fur.
nished in the boarding-houses Of this
section express much surprise at the
slight damage done to the train.-Nor
sCich Bulletin.
Over two months Of leap year have al
ready winged their eight, and we don't
suppose u young man in a thousand
has received q single proposal pointing
towards matrimouy. This, perhaps, is
owing more to the poor stock Of young
men on hand than to the timidity Of the
girls.-NOr. Herald.
A correspondent Of The Woman s
Journal, writing from ~mid.oeeau, asks:
"Can there be anything more impressive
than this infnity Of spsceY' Nothing,
we should say, nothing, unless it is to
walk four miles through q snow storm to
see your girl and then find another fell
low making love to her. -Norwich Bill.
letia.
During a recent trip of the steamer
Illinois from Philadelphia a hawk came
on board at the mouth Of the Delaware
river, and followed the vessel all the way
to Liverpool, resting upon the yards
only occasionally and defying all at
tempts at capture until within three days
Of port, when it was caught by a sailor.
1t was very large and fierce.
Victor hugo preserves a blot on his
carpet, caused by the upsetting Of his
inkstand, just as he had finished one Of
the most celebrated chapters in Lies
Miserables. SO a man might always
cherish a patch in his pantaloons, in.
serted after he had been kicked all the
way down stairs. There is nothing
under the sun like sentiment.
1t is nov asserted that the sweetness
Of l~icorice ROOTS not due, as many sup.
pose, to glycyrrhizin, but 10 tsse p~ressncs
Of glycyrrhizats Of ammonia. But we
don suppose the small boy cares whether
there is glycyrrhizin in his'n or not, 50
lodg as it enables him to expectornte the
same color as the tobacco juice his father
spits on the -Norristogn Herald.
The other night a merchant prince at
tended q church meeting and made an
eloquent speech. As is often the habit
of men accustomed to lay down the law,
he emphasized each sentence or impor.
tant word by tapping with his knuckles
on the table, which moved q young man
not as yet a merchant prince to remark
audibly, al one OF the orators most i'm
pSssioned flights, "Cashr' The effect
was electrical. But that merchant prince
says that il they are so smart and light
hearted, then they had better lit that
ehurch debt themselves end buy the new
organ without any Of his money-that's
all Al California.