Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-28

lotA mercury calls him
Judas P Bradley.
Few die and none resign" was not
spoken of the rear admirals.
A shirt dealer advertises a bosom war.
ranted to wear longer than a shirt.
There are twelve of Revolutionary
General stark's grandchildren row
living.
New York has a compulsory education
Law, but the Rochester Democrat asserts
that in that State compuIsion does not
compulse.
Mrs. James H Hackett, widow of tie
lats comedian, is only two years older
than her step-grand-daughter the daugh.
ter of Recorder Hackett.
MOjOr J. B. Pond accompanies Rev.
II. W. 3eeeher, as q guardian angel.
DE formerly acted il a similar capacity
for Ann Eliza, the seventeenth Mrs.
AOuuB VI Obdus
Henry Ward Beecher says that there
is no such word as can't, and yet Henry
repeatedly says, II cant lecture for less
than $500 a night"
Phil Stewart, a negro boy of Rich.
mond, KY, fifteen years old, has danced
1900 jigs, committed a burglary aud
killed two persons. His last jig should
be from the ropes end.
Toledo people are proverbially eco.
nomical. A man who died in that CITY
the other day left word that the door
plate should be taken off and screwed
on the top of his coffin.
A celebrated cobbler the Pere Munoz.
has died in his stall in the avenue Mala.
kOf, at Paris. He was a Spanish refa-
gee, a nobleman with four titles and
twelve Christian names.
MacMahoa has been called the mastiiF
ct contemporary French politics, Theirs
the fox, Gambelta the lion, and NJ. Jules
SIMON the cat. There ought to be at
last one ass in the m~snagerie.
That Boston youth was well informed
ia tie ways Of women who Offered him
self to a girl in this style; DO YOU
love me, and will you be my wife? Now,
ja1t tell me the truth about itr'
1t is said that a Chiuaman can cook
rice in thirteen different ways, but when
it N to making green turtle sour cut
Of a beaf bone, Celestial genius is no.
where alongside Of American versatility.
Common sense is the best guardian
angel any young woman can have
around. But lacking this, a wart on the
nose, short red hair or three teeth out in
front afford a good substitute in the way
of a protector.
Garfield has sued the Cleveland Plaiu..
dealer for charging him with attending a
quadroon ball in New Orleans. The
statesman, however, had better keep
quiet about that little shindig, and let
the matter stand as It is at present.
The Graphic is a Republican paper
sometimes rabidly so-aad yet it has the
m~anliness to confess that "the Demo-
Gratis CT the country are generally acting
in an honorable manner" Could the
Graphic honestly say as much for the
RepublicansH
A New jersey man, after ten days of
married life, went insane. AS New Jer.
sey is a foreign country, we are not sur.
prised at any queer prank of the inhab-
%itantS, but here in the United States.
man wakes up about ten days after mar
riage ana suddenly discovers that he
isn't near SO insane as he used to be-.
The grand Russians went to the Eagle
theater in New York a second time to
hear Mile Aimee sing, aud we're dis
mayed to hear that the oapricious song.
stress had lost Der dog, aud therefore
begged to be excused from appearing.
There are for Aimee many granJlukea
in the world, but only one dog.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, j., heirapparent
to the Vanderbilt estate, has been seen
calmly paying bis fare on his " Fourth
avenue railroad, while the conductor in
the presence Of his passenger, punched
a buff trip-slip for a six cent fare, and
scrutiuized the silver quarter 20 sesi if it
we're good.
Sergeant Matthew, who captured Louis
Napoleon when The latter tried to over.
throw the government Of Louis Philippe
by beginning a revolution in Strasburg,
was arrested for a petty thief a few weeks
ago in Paris. The citizen king had
failed to provide for him, be had no
claims on the empire, and beipg old and
on the point of starvation, he robbed a
priest,
just now London is being visited BY A
distinguished foreigner, to wit, the Es
quimaux Chief olnik. he thinks Lon.
don a big place, and he IS lost in aston
ishnent at the crowds of people, and
wonders where they can all be going
He has besn to The 100, and was greatly
delighted with the monkeys, and was
glad to recognize old friends in the polar
bears. He has brought his chiefs dress