Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

England's Ali Shere seems TO be Rus
sia's sheer ally. y ittl 't~ 9iiN
A Texas mother was frightened to death
by two dogs fighting over her twin babies.
y 'Su,lmus jury, summa injuria," Is the
exclamation attributed to a disappointed
exhibitor at Paris.
~He who says Jump? doesn't tear lis
mouth, but he who jumps breaks his lees,''
isla proYerb of the Caucasus aiIff
The Dublin (Ga.J Post apologies TO
some Of itsb fellOw-citizens for having
sighted them in not asking them to sub
scribe blo, sdf ~ sewrf
"a A Marietta ga woman Of an un-
bounded stomach for quail has eaten thirty
tive days. s-'i ~ ~ 1'.V1'
II shall, like Cincinnatus, return to my
dray as soon as my mission Is accomplish
ed, said Mr. Kearney in a recent speech.
A mans finger Is worth $291 in Peoria,
ILL.,, when it Is bitten off in d fight. The
jury doubtless eiphered this out by the
rule of thumb. nf sl11HL9 IilW,
q Don't get in debt to q shoemaker if YOU
would call your sole your ownl Camden
Post. 3a.6 groisd 9iah s7s9 81
Kate Claxton has appeared in the 1.-TWO
Orphans" twelve hundred times equal TO
two thousand four hundred orphans. ~
After piously caring for the grave Of
his dead father for twenty-six years res
ident of Kalamazoo, Mich, found that the
body had been stolen years and years ago.
Two proyident members Of the criminal
class at Halifax, who always spend the
winter in prison, have been stocking the
jail yard with cats. They were troubled
with rats last year. gloi fidil1a sdf
b The German Socialists have been dis
GUESSING the advishbility.ofa an emigration
en- masse. to the United States or Asia
\ Minor, whore they can profess their polit-
ical and social faith in peace.
A hierophant whom it were the fat
test sort Of baseness TO call "a duodecimo,"
is what the Baltimore Gazette calls q
DemoeRt.who doesn't vote. 9tl.
io The battle of Sedan has been renewed
in Australia, where there happened to
meet each other a few weeks ago, q Ger
man and the French prisoner who slipped
away from his charge, and, hiding in the
4 woods, escaped. ,, VA ~ 800 ,.tri
4 AN honest farmer sent some handsome
\ game and black Spanish fowls. to the
Kingston (Ont.) exhibition. The Judges
washed the birds and it came out that the
former were painted and that the latter
had had their legs blackleaded. 3t3sf
1 The intelligent Mr. James Wilson, of
Bruce Ontario, went to shoot crows and
/ placed his hands over the, .muzzle of his
gun so as TO Keep the crows from SMELL
ing the powder" till the last moment. He
has more sense now, but less hands.
The homepaths have gained victory
iii Calcutta, where DR.. Nj. j.. Sarkar wa
appointed to the Medical Faculty Of the
University. There was a great row ovei
the appointment, and for peace sake til,
syndicate transferred the doctor to anoth
er faculty at his own request, but he gained
the battle Of principle, -.v - +
Parisan local item: /" Brroul 1t will
make cold That is administratiyely dc
cided. To convince yourself of this. Vol
have but to read the advertisements Of III,
. railroads, which they were pastin9 yester
day ON the walls Of the station, and whiel
announce for the 10th instant the re-estab
iishment Of g th9 winter time -table3
Brrou!'
When an Afghan is about to sell hi:
horse he carries on the dicker with the
intending purchaser by pressurcs of their
tngers concealed by his robe, and though
the animal Is carefully examined oi
. course, not a'word is said. Each sducezt
of the hand means five rupees. The theory
is that the horse would lose flesh through
sorrow. il he thought his master would
4 part with him. I'm