Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-09

The Pacific railroads have received
from the government S64, OOO, 900 and
220, 00O, 900 acres of land.
A survey Of all the large merchant
steamships has been made by the British
government with a view to their use as q
part Of the royal navy in Ease Of a for.
Sign war.
It's easy enough to write for news.
papers. A man in Virginia offers to send
first class editorials" to all the papers
10 the country at the comparatively in
significant rate Of three dollars q column.
While an Iowa woman was struggling
10 the water and likely to drown, her
husband yelled out: New bonnet
swim for life!" and she kicked out and
safely reached the shore. Detroit Free
Press.
Mr.. Beecher said recently: IF | see a
lie | want to hit it on the head" If he
had betrayed this tendency a year or
two ago he might have had plenty Of &C.
tive exercise in and about Plymouth
church.
In order to excite the ambition Of the
young ladies in her audience. q lady lee.
turing on woman suffrage in Maine the
outher day remarked that if women had
political influence, chewing gum would
be put on the free list aud kept there for.
ever
A chap on his way to Washington to
get q patent for a scandalometer iueau-
tiously took his machine over to Brook,
Ign, aud now he is looking for the pieces.
BE says it wasn't calculated to register
beyond the Ten Commandments N. y.
Com. Adu.
When q certain woman in town speaks
of her late husband you must not
conclude that she is a widow. Her has
band is living, but he never comes home
until midnight, and lies in bed until nine
o'clock an. This is the reassn she calls
him her late husband"
As the spring advances, the Mephis-
tophelean c%ounteuance of the baseball
reporter widens and crinkles in a sar-
castle smile, BE is thinking of how
many telegraphic dispatches will be
crowded out to give place to his produc-
tons during the season"
Two old ladies' Of Saugus, Mass will
send to the Centennial a sample of the
tea pitched into Boston harbor. Their
grandfather received il from one of the
patriots who took part in the demoustsa.
ton. Might as well send the pitcher
along too.
The advance Of civilization in Japan ia
indicated by nothing SO plainly as by the
increased business in the law courts.
Last year $4,000 cases were besred be-
fore the civil courts OF Yeddo; and in
s%olveucies are so frequent that, to pre-.
ven business FROM accommodating, the
judges dispose of the suits in lunches Of
twenty or thirty,
Iu a certain Methodist Episcopal
church on q recent Sunday morning the
usual donuipg Of overooats was proceed
ing amid considerable confusion, but had
not been finished when the pastor arose
to pronounce the benediction. He paused
q moment and said Brethren, | guess
/ will put on my .overcoat hereafter
during the beuediction, so as not to lose
any time"
1t was a mean man who got on the
North Side (Chicago) car and rendered
the conductor four cents Tor a fare. Not
wishing to stop the car to eject the fell
low, the honest and generous conductor
made up his mind TO take it, and draw
ing bis punch 10 operate I'm the presence
Of the passepjare" vss astonished to
hear him exclsim iu excited tones
"Hold on, don't shoot; here's the other
cent?