Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-26
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

feet three inches in hight, and still grow
ing, is now on his way to England, where
be intends to exhibit himself.
DR.. l.. sent in his bill for visits and
medicine to Snodgrass, the other day,
whereupon our friend proposed to pay
for tire pills and return the visits.
Whenever the shah Of Persia wishes to
change the cclor Of hia soldiers uniforms,
which are made Of cotton, he has them
put into the dye tub for a few hours.
One Of the attractions at DR.. Eggles.
tons church of the Christian Endeavor
in Brooklyn is a shooting gallery.
Weapons: Parlor pistols aud guns; four
shots for five cents.
The members Of Christ Church, Bos-
ton, the Oldest church building in the
city, still use the Bible, prayer.book and
the silverware which we're presented by
King George II in 1888.
The Queen of Madagascar is a thor
ough abolitionist, temperance oua
and friend Of missions. She read her
own Emancipation proclamation in the
presence of $4,000 subjects.
A nan with a dog can get trusted for
two shirts easier than a man without q
dog "a get trusted for one. The dog
seems to give him a lccsl status which
begets confidence = Worcester Press.
The problem of buying a ten dollar
Christmas present with seventy.fye cents
available cash will presently present
itself for the calculation of the brave
young mar : who goes to see.his.girl.-
Newark Call.
1t has been feared that a severe frost
in Florida last winter had so injured the
orange trees that they would not bear
well this fall. These fears have proven
groundlsss; there will be q larger crop
than ever before.
Mons. Adrian liar, the celebrated
finger bjlliardist, has commenced bis ex.
hibition tours. He plays a game against
six amateurs at once, ard makes some
wonderful runs, besides displaying some
incredible fancy shots,
A Virginia City, New, Chinamau has
invented a plan for using old tin cane, SO
that those articles need no longer prove
a stumbling block for the unwary in the
highway. He has built a high fence with
them around his garden patch.
Mrs. Emily Edison Briggs, who had
been appointed a member of the board
of visitors Of the District insane asylum,
by Secretary Schulz, is the first woman
ever appointed on an advisory board in
connection with the government institu.
tions.
Mr.. Blaine's correspondent (by cable),
Josiah Caldwell, is living in samptuous
style in London, but not paying his debts,
as m~ournfully records an American cred
itor for $4,000, who took judgment against
him in both countries, but ~unsuccess.
July.
Gimme FIVE cents worth Of cardamon
peeds," and the druggist did SO, with the
usual Anything else2' The purchaser
weighed the little package of spice in
his hand, and made reply: Well, l
guess have enough seeds here for about
a quart Of whisky, derrick
An invalid Frenchman who hired a
horse every evening from a livery stable
particularly desired the hostler to say
that the horse had nothing to eat for
dinner. Because" he remarked,
Monsieur lie docteur he say l mus TAX
20 gentle exercizo on za empty stomach. |"
He told the editor that he had read
proof for twenty years, and be obtained
a situation. When he spelled "introduc-
ton" with a big 81" and with q *"
and Jehovah" with q little g" the
editor dipped him in the ink barrel,
wrung him out between the rollers Of the
press and hurg him out in the alley to
dry.
Drive out with a horse and be will
switch his tail $50 times a rod, to force
away troublesome flies, but let him once
get his tail over a line aud the old quad.
ruped will wander on for miles without
thinking Of the flies which revel unmc'
Tested in his living gore What q horse
loves above all things is to DO the driving
bimself. -[Chicago journal
Western style of obituary; He was
an open.hsarted, higb.minded man, gen.
erous in his impulses, warm il his habits
and noble wherever he found a friend in
need. He was a whole.souled mas, and
sel6shuess was foreign to his glorious
nature. Of late years be has been in
feeble health, 80 that his friends feared
that the beautiful nature which made
their lives pleasant would not be always
for this coarse world, On Thursday, at
IL q nj he fingered lightly and then fell
into the arms Of death, he having beea
for two weeks q victim Of delirium