Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-14

The President. it appears, didn't talk
through his nose enough to suit the New
Englanders.
The economical baby puts its toes in
its mouth in order to make both ends
meet.7[N. o. Picayune.
General Howard says be wouldn't like
to speak to Chief Joseph without a regu.
lar introduction LIST. Louis Times.
The young men who play the pianos
in the Chicago Exposition dance too
much with their heads. -[Chicago Jour
nal.
The farmers have got home from
camp-meeting, and are watching chances
to sell 25c worth of potatoes for 4Oc.-
Rome Sentinel.
Max Won Weber, the famous engineer,
son of the composer Of Der F~reischutz,"
is to be appointed chief Of the German
railway department.
The first fall poetry comes in Just in
time to kindle the first fall fires lighted
to take the chill of the raw autumnal
evenings. -BOston Traveller.
Mr.. Robert c. Winthrop lately made
the ascent of Mount Washington for the
second time. The first was made fifty L.
one years ago, and then he walked up.
A correspondent says the Turkish sol.
diers are proverbially slouchy in their
attire. We had supposed they were gen.
orally dressed to kill.-[NsY. Com. AID.
Quinine is now so high in price il Eu.
rope that doctors are using instead the
liquid solution of strychnine, and find it
nearly as ~eficacious and much cheaper.
A correspondent writes that the Rus.
sian army is Offered exclusively by men
Of royal blood. Even a great many of
the non-commissioned officers are car.
gents.
The many miles of snow sheds on the
Central Pacific railroad are to be pro-
vided with watehmen and an alarm tele.
graph. There is danger Of a Gre sweep.
ing them away.
1t has been proved in Nevada and
other silver-producing States Of the West
that capital devoted to agriculture Jays
better and more regularly than if put
into gold and silver mines.
An ex-member Of congress will pre.
sent his Experience in Post.oHice An.
pointments" in the next number Of
%Scribner's Monthly, in an argument in
favor OF civil service reform.
The mar who comes to the depot two
minutes behind time, and sees the rail.
road train scudding out the other end,
derives 10 satisfaction or comfort from
the proverb, Better late than never"
A gentleman from Chicago lately
called upon Mr., Emerson and introduced
himself with the remark: IL hone I
don't intrude." THAT depends" said
the philosopher, upon how much wa
have in common"
A Chicago fashionable clergyman has
failed. Liabilities $4,000; assets twenty.
two pairs of worked slippers, assorted
sizes, thirteen dressing gowns, thirty pen.
wipers, two dozen fancy pin.cushions.
nine watch pockets and seven cushions
for easy chairs. -[Norr. Herald.
At a Harrison county (Ky.) wedding
the bride in a playful mood kicked the
groom's hat off without touching his
head. After they have been married n
few years her activity will not be ap.
peased until she has kicked his head off
without touching his hat.-[Puck.
Dio Lewis has given up fricaseed saw.
dust and fried grape skins, aud is get.
ting really extravagant in his food. He
informed a friend the other day that be
had a crow to pick with some of these
photographers. But we really don't think
photographers care much about eating
crows.
Old Deacon Blasford is a good Chris
tan and a rigid temperance man. lint be
owns a dog that has barked fourteen
hours a day for the past six years, and
the good old man ia greatly ~scaudalized
because the rumor has gained currency
that he ia a well.known bark.keeper.-
Burdette.
That leopard" said Mr.. Middlerib to
his friend W~ipedunkS, of Peoria, as they
were at the circus Friday, will eat off
your hand" "PossibleT' Sid Mr.. Wipe,
dunks. Fact" replied Mr.. Middler,b.
Mr.. W%ipedunks then laid a piece of
cracker in his hand and extended it to
the leopard. The docile animal imme-
diately bit off the thumb and two fingers
and expressed a hearty desire for more.
There" said the heartless Middlerib.
knew he'd eat of your hand, but |
didn't suppose you'd give him the
chance" This is a true story. As true
as anything about a circus ever is, at any
rate. - burlington Hawkeye.