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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-24

He ~ Truly n stump Speaker
Who, when talking, exhibits a mouthful
of stumps. If you would keep your
dental fixtures in perfect talking order,
use the fragrant s0ZODONT daily; the
recipe is simple but sure. eod
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-24

FoR the convenience Of dow n4own
customers, Coles leundry has opened a
branch office at the cornes 81 Main and
Union streets, %eDtrspee on Union street.
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WAITED.
LOST.

DAIR Of gold spectacles. on Main street,
Il or on Vance or a Main street car, last
Thursday. 18th. Liberal rewari will be paid
DOCKS Of the old firm of r. B. Bawley &
d Co. left with Joe Cash, corner of Madison
and Front streets, cannot be found. ANY par
ties having same in possession will leave
them at this office, and charges will be paid
on them.
72T R. b. HAWLEY.
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Anp BOARD

MICE furnished rooms, with or without
N boa-d: at u. Moeller,s, $40 Main ST 81
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Cream soda &c, at Wright's,
206 Main st. est
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Ice cream at Wright's, 265
Main st. est
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ReirigeratOrs and water.
coolers, at TurnbulI's, asa
Main. 64t
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Buy McOarihy's Star Shirts,
at 235 and 235I Main st. 5Ot
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OOlsred sunday.schooI Picnic

The colored children Of the Sunday.
schools are enjoying a picnic at the
Exposition building to-day. Hundreds
Of them appeared in column and in car.
riages in a street procession. There we're
dusky May queens from the Nile, black
queens from Africa, and queens having
the faintest trace of negro blood in their
faces, Many of the queens were richly
dressed after the manner of white chill.
dren on picnic day, the negro race being
wonderfully gifted with a talent for i'm.
imitation.
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The Grnnt ni.oorarX.

Leidy & Co. are progressive business
men. They have introduced the blue
glass straw hat, which prevents sun
strokes, causes the hair to grow on bald
heads and cures morning. headaches.
Their stock Of straw hats is immense.
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John Walsh, Undertaken,
81 Second at, next to postofiee. Il
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sTRAwBERRIEs headquarters 2s1 Main,
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DRY GOODS.


T EUBRTE'S.
GEUBRlE'S. SPRING DoENRTs NOW OPEN.
LEUBRIE. SPRING Flowers NOW OPEN.
LEUBRIE. SPRING RIBBONS AND SILKS oPRN.
Two-buttOn kid gloves, fashion LEuBRIE
able shades, Soc, worth SOC, LEUBRIE
A good dollar corset, 60c. LEUBRIE
Ladies' linen handkerchief at LEUBRIE
81, worth fully $3.50. LEUBRIE
Two hemstitched handkerchiefs, LEUBRIE
25c. LEUBRIE
Ladies' regular made hose, extra LEUBRIE
length, 25c,V til 40c. LEUBkIE
Towels, &c. SIC, lOc, worth more LEUBRIE
than twice the money. lEUBhlE
Croquot sets 81, worth Sl.5O. LRUBRIE
PATTERN HATS 10 PER CENT. ABOVE LBUBRIR
COST. LEUBRIE
LEUBRIE LEUBRIE LEUBRIE
LEUBRIE MILLINERY! LEUBRIE
Sailor school boys hats. this sea- LEUBRIE
SOM styles, Zoe, 25c, CSC, 4Oc, zoo LEUBRIE
Hall ornaments sc, 1Oc, l5c. LEUBRIE
Fine French flowers cheap. LEUBRIE
LEUBRIE'S CHEAP STORE,
"a MAIN STREET. 23.100
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Strangers, go TO COnverse's
billiard parlOrs, 81 3. Court VI,
lot
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U~LLATHORNE a. Co,
Seeds, Implements aud Hardware,
I9S msin street,
Near Corner Washington. 5st
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Play billiards at COnverse's
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villa Eden Water cures
night sWCats In a few hours.
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SMOKE Cbickasaw Guards cigars. 70
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Ice cream delivered 10 faml.
lies by O'Brien, 4O9 Main st.
70f
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-16
The CI,Ineee vrall.

The great Chinese wall was meas
ured in many places by Mr.. I'm
thank, an American engineer, lately
engaged Cd q survey for a Chinese
railway. His Measurements give
the height at eighteen feet, and q
width on top of nfteen feet. Every
few hundred yards there is tower
twentY-four feet spare, and from
twenty TO forty-five feet high. The
foundation of the wall is of solid
granite. Mr.. Unthank brought with
him 3 brick from the wall, which is
supposed to have been made 200
years before the time of Christ. In
building this immense stone feuce
to keep out the Tartars, the builders
never attemp' ed to avoid noun
tains Tor chasms to save expense.
For 1900 miles the wall goes over
plain and mountain, and every foot
of the foundation is in solid granite,
and most of the structure solid ma
sOnry. In some places the wall is
built smooth up against the bank,
or canons or precipices, where there
is sheer descent of 1000 feet
Small streams are arched over, aud
in the larger streams the wall runs
10 the waters edge, and q tower is
built on each side. % the top of
the wall there are breastwOrks ami
defences, facing ia and out, SO the
defending force can pass from one
tower to another, without being ex-
posed to an enemy from either side.
To calculate the time of building OF
cost of this wall is beyond human
skill. So far as the magnitude OF
the work is concerned, it surpasses
everything in ancient or modern
times of which there is any trace.
The pyrmids of Egypt are nothing
compared to IL.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-16

A SCOTCH COURTsHIP. "A shy
young man of Scotland for four
teen years had wooed the iassie OF
his heart. One night jamie, for
that was the young mans name,
called to see Jennie, and there was
q terrible look about his eyes--just
as there is sometimes when they've
made up their minds to pop the
question. And jamie came in and
sat down by the fire lust as he had
done every Tuesday and Friday
night for fourteen years, and he
talked of the weather, and the cat
tie, and the crOps, and the stock
market, was going to ssy-but no.
they didn't talk about that. Aud
finally, jamie said:
Jennie, I've known you for a
long time" 7tT
"Yes, JAMIE" said che.
"And-I've thought I'd always
like to know you, Jennie"
"Y-e-s--Jamie."
"And so I've bought lot-Jen-
ME-"
"Y-e-s-J-a-m-i-e."
"So-that-when-"
"Yes-Jamie-yes."
"We're dead we can lay our bones
together"
The fool had gone and bought q
lot in the graveyard, but Jennie
was not discouraged. She knew
her man well-after fourteen years
she ought to-and so she said gent
ly;
Jamie"
ayes, Jennie"
"Don'C you think 'twould be bet
ter to lay our bones together while
we're yet alive 2
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sAS1Slss
The horse for hard times-pay
sir.
At the Wocdbins Hotel, PhIladel-
phia. there Is cat that weighs eighty
pounds.
-4OnIy the female mosquito bites >.
bat they average 90 females out Of .
hundred.
-"My lord" said the foreman Of q
Welsh Jury. when giving In the YER
diet, we find the man who stole the
mare not guilty"
The show business generally
throughout the country Is worse this
season than &C any previous time with
in ten years.
"A Berlin order for silk goods has
been received by q Rockville, CT. firm,
which exhibited the gooca ct tie GEN.
tennial.
-SemebOdy says. EVERY failure e =
step 20 success This viii explain
why the oftener soma men fail the rich
er they get.
when 3 Virginia gentleman axis
another 70 drink he blandiy SAYS
Shall We igive the public debt lfft p
And they ilft.1a -
The eucalyptus treea planted At
Nice have prevented, darinx the last
two years the malsrfal fevers usual Ia
that city.
Il Boston paper claims that there
are babies from Providence In the bs-
bx show theses Probably the mothers
claim, that th6y all came hence.
"A phYsician advertised that. AZ tlIe
request OF his friends, he had Removed
near the church yard, and trusted thsi
| hIs fen1ovsf would accommodates mans
iot his pasienfs. ss.Es xsaz
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Society Talk AbOut Any LASS
k'RIRmEA

y S8A412A2s
First Matron-Oh, It's such bsd af-
fair for the Bust family.
Second Matron-Oh, indeed it, Is.
I'm so sorry fer the misses Bust.
Third MatrOn Positively l was so
shocked. l haven't got over it yet.
Fourth Matron-.But the Busts have
long been keeping up a style which
was hard to account for.
First Matron-Well, for my part, /
always thought there was something
not quite right about Mr.. Bust's affairs.
Second MatrOn-Yes, and how those
Bust girls dressed.
: Third Matron-They gave too many
parties.
Fourth Matron-Mrs. Bust was al
ways at Tiffany's.
First Matron-They had no bus mess
to keep q carriage.
I Second MatrOn-Nor visit Europe.
Third MatrOn-And the Bust family
went to Saratoga IS regularly every
summer as we do.
Fourth .Matron-Well, people must
learn to live within their means.
(Doesn' know whether her husband
makes $4,000 per year or 81 200.
Fifth Matron-I'm told that last gar
den party OF theirs cost $1,000. How
PSoPAO Sou, OSOs z iASaA AAattOh L4S
nagged Mr. No, all summer to give
one just like it.
Third Matron-PeOple must learn
in these times.
Second Matron-TheY must.
First MatrOn@They must.
Fourth Matron-They must.
Fifth Matron-I shall go home and
cut down the chambermaId's wages 81
per week. Mentally resolves 10 buy
q $lO0 dress with the savings. Ideas
not entirely clear aTitbmetically.)
Third iMStron-Bust gives great
deal to charities.
Second Matron-Humph!
First Matron-He--h Supposed to
be sarcastic.)
Filth MatIon-Wefl, for my part,
think charity-shonld begin--but i
win nor be censorious. 1t is not chris
tian like. Still Bust had overmuch
worldly pride in those things.
First Matron-Yes, and it's just as
well when people set up carriage and
cottage st Newport to know whether
they can pay for it (Who left her hus-
band this morning in high dudgeon
because he declared they must ecOno-
mize.1
Second Matron-Why, I'm told he
actually had plans drawn up for new
house on our avenue.
All Three-GoOdness! Well, such
extravaganza every one of these
ladies has been praying for such new
house.)
Third Matron-Do yoa know, heard
something about Mr.. Bust this morn
ing that beats all--but it's q secret.
All ThEee-Now, do tell us, that's q
dear!
Third Matron-0h, cant-p0sitiVe-
ly. I've solemnly promised not to re-
veal word.
Second Matron-It shall never go
beyond this room.
Fourth Mstron-Indeed, it shall not .
Third INSTRUMENTATION you must
promise, you know, never to tell. Now
lspeaks low, and their heads. come to-
gether; only detached words heard)
expensive apartments--creatu
poor wife knows nothing to this hour
the most expensive imported dresses
kept a carriage for her alone-been
going on Tor years |
All FiYe--O-o-o-O-oh, m-y-y-y land
they depart straightway and whisper
the eidings in every directioH.--New
4 DIX u rHDnfC.
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FeminlnIttes.

There isn't much difference be-
tween q grasshopper and q grass
widow. Either will jump at the
first chance. -
When young lady offers to hem 9
cambria handkerchief for q rich
bachelor, depend upon it she means
TO sew in order that she may reap.
A woman may not be able to
sharpen a pencil or hold an am
brella, but she can pack more arti-
Giles into a trunk than 8 man can in
a one horse wagon. /.
Miss Nelly Glover, of Blois couu-
ty, Wis, ran away with her lover
last week. ThaIs the way with
inch and they'll take q Neil.
In order to save time and trouble,
young men should remember that il
is ploughing sand and 60 wing salt TO
attempt TO talk poetry to q girl who
has been eating onions.
When q man loves a woman,
wholly, truly, purely, and to her
highest honOr-sueh love is the
highest and noblest thing in this
world, and nothing should lead to
its sscriflce-no ambition, no hope,
no friendship.
Daniel Webster once affirmed IN
company that no woman ever wrote
a letter without q postscript. any
next letter shall refute you'll" said .
lady of his Acquaintance. The
"Great Expounder" soon after re-
ceiVed a letter from his fair dispu-
tant, where, after her signature
stood ''P. S.-Who is right now,
you or p
A lady in general conversation,
by ingenious cooking her DATES, was
reducing her age to an astonishing
limit. Her daughter, whose parity
French blood had brought her q
keen wit, interposed with the re-
InoDstance, "At least, IeaYe nine
months between our ages, mama 7
Mr.. CHEEKY bles asked his wife the
other morning: "What is the differ
ence, dear, between bribing q man
with 8 ten dollar bill to keep bis
mouth shut, and q mixture Of In
dian meal aud water2 He almost
took her breath away when he al
swered why, you see, one lie hush
money, and the other Is m0sh,
honey r-e..e.
D--wanted to get rid of hil
nephew, who cost him . lot Of
money every year. All the Offers
he had made him about getting mar
ried had been declined, under ths
pretext that the girls were either toe
young. or toe old, or too bsa-tem-
pc ed, sc. La despair D-Went
10 matrimonial agent in order to
have q large choice. He was o.
cou rse quite welcomed by the agent
who showed hin. has register, and
photographs of some Of hIs clients
The surprise of the dear uncle Ii
impossible to describe when nc die
covered his own Wife's likeness
Nearly out of his mind, he goes
home and sternly demands an OK
EplanatiOn. al can't denyFthe faet,
the wife said gently; s1but IL Wa
last year, my dear, when you hal
been given mp by all the doctors
Hem!
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HIGH AND Low INTEkEsr.-This Is
one OF the most important of financial
questions, and one generally treated
by financiers as OF no Importance at
all, is thus illustrated by Massachu-
sets fnancier:
"Mr. Register-in- Bankruptcy Noyes,
of Boston, holds that. one of the causes
Of bankruptcy is that so few persons
properly estimate the difference be-
tween q high and low rate OF interest,
and therefore often borrow at so rnin-
Gus rate thaf no legitimate business
can stand it. But few have figured on
the difference between six ard eight
per cent. One dollar loaned for one
hundred years aL six per cent, with in
terest collected annually and added to
the principal will amount to $40. At
eight per cent it will amount tn So
,208, or nearly seven tins as much. Al
three per cent, the usual rate of inter-
est In England, iC amounts TO $40 %,
whereas at ten per cent, the usual rate
in the United States, it lie $l3,SOO, or
nearly one thousand times greater.
AT twelve per cent is amounts to $S4,-
900, or more than four thousand times
as much. AT eighteen per cent, (Which
we some times hear talked ~t) it reach
es the enormous sum OF S2,55l 500 .404
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WONDERFUL KANSAS.
atS Prod nets nG the CenGenniaI
Only an 4 ndex 10 lhe
pmhHEc-


The following is a paragraph from
letter written by Lucy Stone to
the Boston Globe, after a trip from
Boston to Colorado. She says:
The fullest sense of Agricultural
wealth and wonder a. Its immensely
begins after you leave the state o.
Missouri, wherein sort of slip
shod state of cultivation (perhaps
the shadow of The slaYe system) IL
places leaves fields of corn full OF
weeds with signs of neglect and
thrift. But in Kansas it's all the
other way. There on the 10000
6elds, waves just such magnificent
corn as was the admiration and
wonder OF the Centennial Expos
itiOn. On the wheat fields where
the harvest has been gathered straw
was put up in stacks such as home
staying Yankees never dreamed of.
On one farm counted twenty five
of those stacks, and on that single
place was straw enough to bed all
the cattle of Massachusetts. The
grass was so tall that q woman
walking through it parted il with
her hands above ner head, which
was only visible lower than the
grass. The crop of fax aud hemp
was fine, and ss we whirled past on
the cars, we found ourselves saying,
"Wonderfulw Kansas is by far the
finest we saw. A gentleman on
board said, "The land here will al
ways be doing something. If we
don't give it crops to grow It will
raise weeds" And he pointed to
rag weed which was taller than some
of the horses.
The little log cabins are still dott-
ed about. And some of them occu-
pied still, but the larger part of them
are given over to the chickens, while
the neat frame house close by shows
the improved condition of its own
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ATToRNEYs AT LAW.
e. EEzloos
HENRY A.RmEy

3sfrefs = BUCh q hELLOGG.
a TT0IsNEIS AT LAW. Emporia. Kan
"a Office in NEWS biack. 4s-tT
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The Locust NlovJng West.

DR.. A. S. Packard, Jr., secretary
of the United States chronological
Commission, returned early in Oc-
tOber from an extended journey in
the western territories and on the
Pacific coast, which was undertaken
for the purpose of ascertainiDg the
western limits of the migration of
the Rocky Mountain locust, and to
determine whether it was this locust
or a similar one, which for two CEN
turies past has periodically made
ravages in certain localities in Ore
gon and California. His trip has
been successful In settling both
these points : 1t was found that the
Rocky Mountain locust had this
summer migrated from the region
about Boise City, in southwes tern
Idaho, into northern Nevada, by
way of BruHesu Valley, where they
were abundant aud destructive in
July. During the first week in Au-
gust they invaded Nevada, proving
very annoying in the Owyhee VAL
ley, near Cornucopia, Nevada. They
ate up the crops, even filling wells,
such was their abundance. They
had never been seen or heard of by
the settlers prior to this summer.
In Oregon the Rocky Mountain
locust migrated from Montana or
Idaho in the Burnt River country,
about the 10th of July, destroying
the crops on several ranches, and iL
is feared by the farmers that anoth-
er year they will reach the vicinity
of Walla Walla, where q good deal
of wheat is now raised. This is the
first season that it has been seen go
far west, though from the nature OF
the country there seems no reason
why swarms of loSusts should not
extend as far west as the DalIes OF
the Columbia, or the eastern flank
OF the Cascade mountains. 1t ap-
pears IS matter of fact that the To-
Gust ranges as far west as the 120. b
meridian. ard extends from lititude
55 deg. l.. ~ deg. along the merid
ian. 1t was found that a grasshop-
per closely resembling the Rocky
Mountain locust, but smaller and
with shorter wings, abounds on the
Pacific coast, on both sides of the
Sierra Nevada, and extends north
west into Oregon aud Washington
Territory. 1t IS believed by the
commission that this IL the locust
which has in former years in places
devasted wheat fields in Oregon
and California.
Many facts were also collected re-
gsrding the cricket which has de-
Vastated Idaho and Oregon and
Washington Territory. In one To-
cality ia Nevada in 1876, $4,000
worth of wheat was devOured by
these insects.
The commission have made a gen.
eral survey of the locust region du-
ring the past season, and accumula.
ted a large mass of Information re-
garding the habits of the locust aud
the best means of preventing its
ravages, which will be presented to
Congress early in the winter. The
commission aud their assistants have
been everywhere aided aud en-
couraged by farmers and others di.
rectIy concerned in agriculture, and
it is hoped that the results of the
work thus far accomplished will bC
of lasting value to the agriculture
OF the west.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-16

Fred Douglas says: HThe very
best thug the white people can do
for ns is to stop doing for Us, and
lesve US to do for ourselves. They
have done SO much for us ihst they
have nearly undone as. If we can't
live honestly by our own labor then
we ought to die. The question with
as Is, will we work as hard for our
selves as we once did for our mas
ters? If we don't we shall go to the
wall, for liberty Is as essentially .
state Of hard work as slavery Is Of
disgrAceful sloth. 1t Is only by hard
labor that we can ever catch up
with the white race, and by imitat-
ing their virtues instead Of their vi
ces. Emigration Is q delusion and
9 sham. The white race is every
where on the face OF the globe, and
we could not get away from them if
we would"
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PHYSICIANS

I. d. JACOBS, RI. d.,
OFFICE in Pcrlcy & Ryder's drug store
Ct.
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mi.lndornemenn.

A man with q long oVercoat and
horsewhip in his hand entered bank
near the post office yesterday, and pre-
sented a check calling for $40, which
he had received from a commission
house.
"Please indorse it, said the cashier,
as he handed it back.
''I'll indorse it, of COURSE" replied
the man holding up his right hand as
If ready 20 swear.
"Write your Endorsement" explain
ed the clerk, pointing 20 the desk out
side.
"Oh-oh-that's it, ell - And he
went to the desk and slowly and care
fully wrote on the back of the check
"This is awl rite"
When the cashier entered into q
clearer explanation, the man drew
down his hat, got red in the face, and
growled:
'sDarn EN-, They just hate to let &
cent slip out o. here, and don't you
forget it."-Free Press.
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A New York paper is getting excited
over the Savings bank question, and
says: ~.
"It Is only question of time. They
must all 60 surely and irrevocably, and
he system must disappear just as that
Qually radical evil which permitted
wilde banks was swept away into
the heap of barbarisms. The sooner
the officers of sayings banks come tS
recognize these truths the better it will
be for the stockholders and depositors.
They must wInd up and quit. They
are anachronisns and of that harmful
kind which mankind prefer not TO toll
crate, alter they have heen discovered.
They are even worse than anachron-
isms. Every savings bank Is a crime
against the enlightenment of the nine
teenth century.
"The argument that q poor man
needs an institution wherein he can de-
posit his savings Is not the less tOTcib e
now than IL has ever been. But IL does
not follow that because such an one is
needed, the only form of safety for his
earnings Is few weak men, entIeDch-
ed behind counters in an Imposing
building, and In q position at any time
TO put the banks assets into a carpet
bag and depart for Europe. We now
know that the government Is the prop
er custodian of the individuals savings
and that the national debt Is the prop
er representative of the surplus capital
of the citizens. Great Britain has al
ready adopted this idea in her postal
savings banks-sooner or later We must
recognize the same necessity"