Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-21

About this time o year the man whe
has spent a hundred dollars on his gar
den begins to estimate his onions at two
dollars each in order to make his books
balance. -[Boston Transcript.
General Mcclellan will have a paper
in the October Harper's on the Regular
Army of the United States he makes
a number of important suggestions, but
protests against the reduction of the
army.
The oil Of roses that is manufactured
in the country south of the Balkans is
worth half its weight in gold. A short
crop is 40 advantage to the rose-growers
for the price raises in the exact ratio of
the scarcity of the roses.
Our chief want in life, according to
Emmerson, is somebody to make US do
what we can, Many q man trundles
YEARLY up stairs with an armiul of wood
TO q red headed woman, and never thinks
Of this. -[Andrews' Bear.
Gail Hamilton writes an article for the
Christian Union on How to stay at
home without g~rumbIng.q As Gail has
grumbled about seventy-6ve columns
worth this season, we take il she hasn't
staid at home. -[Boston Post,
An English soldier at Brentford re-
Gently took an organ grinders organ
away from him end threw il off a bridge.
The soldier was fined $40. In this
country he would have been voted a
medal and a pension. Il Hawkeye.
a resolution has been adopted by The
Flat River Baptist Association of North
Carolina requesting the churches to re.
port the number Of moderate drinkers
among church members, and the amount
Of liquor distilled by church members.
A bolt of lightning struck a haymow in
the western part Of this county last Mon
day, pitched the hay out on the wagon,
hitched up the horses, hauled the hay to
Burlington. sold it for $l4 and then ran
away with the money. Nextl-[Hawk-
eye.
That earthquake which visited New
Jersey wa the most terribly disappointed
earthquake you ever heard OF. It
couldn't find a Bit Of solid ground any
where to crack, and only succeeded in
raising big cloud Of sand, which nearly
blinded its eyes.
Agassiz believed in the Immortality of
animals, and there is something pleas
ant in one thinking he can take these.
old street ear horses by the ear in that
better land, and ask them why they
didn't kick the drivers head of.--[De-
troit Free Press.
On the summit Of the Sierra Nevada
mountains, in passing over to Silver
Lake, is seen the name Of Kit Carson,
carved by himself on a hemlock tree in
1874. He shaved off the rough outside
bark with . butcher. knife, then cut his
name and the date SO deep in the bark
underneath that both are perfectly dis.
tinct to this day.
A young lady on Hoyne avenue, asked
her young man Saturday evening why he
called her his Ultra, and he courteously
replied that it was a Latin quotation.
This" said he, is my knee, and when
add you to it | have my knee, plus
Ultra, which is the Latin for L don't
want anything more on my knee Don't
you see, my darling2' She said she did.
-[Chicago Tribune.
Rogers wrote, " Mine be a cot beside
the hill; a beehive's hum shall soothe
my ear, aud on the day following he
moved in. That evening MS wife caught
a glimpse Of him as he shot across the
garden lot, Shaping his hat about his
head, and she passed into the house re-
marking, 81 just expec' ed he would 20
fooling around them bees. The next
minute he'll be in here bowling for -four
and molasses to soothe his ear."-IOil
City Derrick.
he was a graduate Of Harvard, and
he got a position on one Of the Phila-
delpAia dailies last week. Cut that
stuff Of yours down. said the city edi-
tor as the new nan came in with a col
umn where a stick wss desired. DO
you desire a judicious elimination Of the
superAuous phraseoIogy2 mildly re.
turned the Harvard man, mol Boil
it down," Numbered the city ed. The
new man ia gone now-gone back to
Boston. He says there amt "cultuabn
enough in Philadelphia. - Forney's
Press.
She was ironing when her sister came
in with the news that sn uncle was dead.
Dead !" she Gasped, nearly dropping
the iron from her hand Her face was
very pale, as was that Of her sister, as
they both stood there looking at each
Other with that " Strnck exnraaaion
which a death leaves upon the faces Of
the living. Dead she repeated in a
faltering voice "it DOESN'T seem posi-
blei it is SO sudden, so unexpected. so
dreadful that | can scarcely realize il.