Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-25
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Boston has = Brains Club" an or
ganization Of women.
A man at Northampton, Pa, will
shortly ship $4,000 school states to
Japan.
Women are now employed almost ex-
clusiyely N the Italian telegraph offices.
Scranton had a haunted piano until
the top was raised and a rat allowed TO
jump out
The proverb says; Laugh aud grow
fat. What a saving of corn it would
be il pigs could laugh.
The Paris newspapers are advocating
the holding Of another International
Exposition in that city in 1878.
An indianapolis man is excited be-
cause one of the papers called bis fine,
large Latian nose a snuf-tank.
I%llineiS is to send two tons of geologi-
cal specimens to the Centennial, among
them quite a number of Chicago editors.
The New York Sun believes that crimi.
mails sentenced to bs hapged should be
allowed to commit suicide if they want to.
But the privilege might cause their
death.
In one scene of La Belle Poule"
Schneider looked as though she had been
outin a rain Of diamonds, and was drip
ping with great drops and live ~rivulets Of
light.
Wales is on HE way home, and, though
several thousand mites away yet, he has
begun to practice the look of virtue and
Innocence with which he must meet his
wife.
Mrs. LivermOre is still going about with
that lecture. She knows that Incidence
and gush are the combination that is
keeping her wronged sisters down, but
she doesn't tell them that.
Thea age Of machinery. A Connecticut
woman was wearing a calico dress the
other day only seven hours after the
process Of printing the cloth began.
Calico pattern woman, that.
Grace Greenwood writes that Schuei.
{ der lis %undeniably coarse, But there is
still a strange sort Of magnetism about
D the woman-in her rich, strong vitality,
: her abandon, her Astounding, perennial
8 jollity,
Wishing to pay his friend a compli.
meHt, a gentleman remarked: 81 hear
8 you have a very industrious wife. "
I" =" Yes" replied the friend, with a melan-
: oholy smile, "She's never idle. She's
always finding something for me to do. "
He was reading to his wife about an
accident, and casually remarked, II dare
I say there was q woman at the bottom o.
it, when something transpired that
made him grasp his head in both hand {
and rub it deliriously as il there had been
a woman on the top of it.
> The following new scale Of postal rate
base been recently promulgated.
A one-cent stamp for a circular.
A two-eent stamp for a newspaper.
A throe-cent stamp for a sealed lettair.
: All licked on In the right cornair.
. Lick, brothers, lick with care,
: On the right hand side, not everywhere,
! Unless you want the postmastair
To make things hot, and "cuss and swear "
. W. Il. Jardine OF Point Mouliere
q Mich, is said tc have educated five wild
ducks to a very f-e point. They e
T where and when they please, come a
call, and accompany their teacher to the
hunting grounds, either perched on tn,
bow Of the boat or swimming by it's side
e Arrived at the marshes they act a
decoys, splash and call, until they attrf c
flying ducks, who come down and ar
v shot; while the tame ducks stand up
g in the water, shake their wings, ant
. scream with delight. The days spor
, over, they either fly home or ride in tn,
n boat, as Mr.. Jardine directs.
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