Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-02

- inyuFeu D1 the euectS 81 co education.
The fact is that there has been fifty per
cent more sickness among the boys than
the girls.
A Conkling paper has been started at
Utica, New York. II ssysit intends TO
take the old fashioned ground Of Lincoln
and Grant" A Hayes man remarks
that politically be takes his Lincoln
without Grant.
A witness, on entering the box, had a
Testament presented to him, but be de-
clined to be ssorn. Being asked his
reasons for refusing, be nsively replied:
I'll tell a lie wi ony mon i England,
but I'll not swear to it,"
In a New York Court" We're you ever
in Albany ?" "Yes, sir" How long
were you there?' Six months, sir"
Were you in the psnitentiary at that
timer Yes, sir; but | never was in
the assembly, sir" "Sllence in court"
The sensation on The tspisi in Hamburg
is a revival TO celebrate the 2OOth ami
versary of The production Of the first
original German opera, a kind Of mys-
terry called Adam and Eve" With solos,
choruses aud symphonic orchestral
pieces.
Army officers say that out Of respect
to his position General Sheridan will be
compelled to prefer charges against Gen.
o. 0. Howard for publishing an official
report in a Chicago newspaper 10 viola
ton of General Order No. l57 of the
war department.
Mira. 7. j. Suggs, Of Castor county, N.
C., recently gave birth to four children,
which makes her quota of ten children
since her marriage five years ago. Less
than two years 2 Mrs. Suggs became
the mother of triplets, following the
three separate births Of the other chill
dren.
1t was about ten minutes before church
time last Sunday morning when the
Presidents collar button slipped from
his fingers and rolled away in nine diff
ferent directions, and Mrs. Hayes says
she hasn't seen the President lock so
vexed and perplexed since he studied
the Ohio returns, -Hawkeye.
Among the newest fashionable shades
are the following; Dead Turquoise, start.
led nymph, Endymion's mooubeams,
uenuphar or water lily green, pasha's
green, cooked sorrel green, Persian lilac,
Dubarry pink, Pierrot white, souei or
marigold yellow and matador red.
A school board inspector asked a small
pupil Of what the surface Of the earth
cansists, and was promptly answered,
Land and water" BE varied the oues.
, ton slightly that the fact might be i'm.
pressed on the boys mind, and asked,
What, then, do land and water makeY'
To which cam the immediate response,
Mud"
A correspondent writes: "Do you
think it is wicked to smoker" Oh, dread.
! fully, awfully, sinfully wicked. Send
your cigars to this Office and let us burn
them up for you, while you swear of and
reform before it is too late. 1t is already
too late for us. We went to swear of
! last week, but the Office was closed and
the mau had gone to a picnic. -[Hawk.
, ye.
A society for the protection of babies
might well be established in one Of thu
farming districts of England. The DO.
lice have just stopped there the exhibi.
ton in a travelling circus OF a baby who
weighs only one pound four ounces. In
the same district, SOM laborers eend out
their fve-yesr-old infants to earn q shil.
ling a week by soaring the crews from
the fields.
The State Of Texas has Just purchased
fourteen hundred acres of land, with
valuable buildings and improvements.
near Hemstead, for the State University
for colored youths, The price paid was
twelve thousand dollars. The intention
is to combine the State University with
the Agricultural and Mechanical College.
the anne in effect to be a branch of the
college at Bryan.
Bishop McLaren, now the honorable
Episcopal Bishop of Illinois, used to ba
a local reporter on the Cleveland Plain
dealer staff, and it is said in those unre.
generate days could go on a " lark " with
any Of the boys. BE was a reporter.
and now he is a BISHOP 1t is enough to
take ones breath away, We don't have
to lose our breath very often that way,
however [Cincinnati Commercial.
The sculptors who have entered into
competition, with models, for the eques +.
trian statue Of General Lee at Richmond
are Winnie Rsam, of Washington; Val.
%entine, of Richmond; Ezekiel, of Rome;
D, B., Schehau, Of New York; Robert
Reid, Of Canada; Bubert and A. DAM
ore, of New York; Joseph Z. Burke, Of.
Philadelphia; J. A. Bailey, of Philadel-
phia; Clark Mills, of Washington, and
Gilbert r. Firth, Of Virginia.
If we take a baby Of, say, six mouths