Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-07

A bridal party approached the hy-
meneal altar and the clergyman pro-
ceeds with the service.
Wilt thou, Mary, take" etc., he
inquiries.
Nav p is the reply.
What !" cries himself the good pas
tor; "ifyou didn't want to marry this
gentleman why didn't you say so soon
err What made you wait till the mo-
ment of the CEREMONY
Because, sir, you are the first per-
son who has condescended to ask my
advice or consentment in the matter. "
French Paper.
u. o." writes to the Pail Mall
Gazette: | have been much interested
in a short paragraph acquainting your
readers with the discovery of an in
strument for the alienation of deaf
ness, called the "audiphune." Nv
wife suffers from the infrmity of deaf
ness. When | sing, she accompanies
me on the piano, but she cannot do it
without getting a large ivory paper
knife, one end of which sheplaces
against the centre of the piano, the
other end against her teeth. With
this aid she never plays a false note,
without it many. | look upon the
audiphone discovery at Chicago sim
ply as an amplification of the paper
knife. 1t is essentially the same prin-
ciple.
The total number of recruits of the
German army for the year 1889 was
1919, of whom 2574, or 1.8 per cent.
could neither write their names nor
read. The majority of the illiterate
recruits came from the eastern pro-
vinces-East and West Prussia, Posen
and Silesia. They were 1886 in num-
Der, and formed more than 8 per cent.
Of all the men leviedin these districts.
Out of all the rest of Prussia there
were only 332 men without education.
or about one-third per cent. Of the
other German States Bavaria sent 101,
or / per cent; Of uneducated recruits:
SaxOny 10, or t per cent; Wurtem.
berg 3, or 3 per cent; Baden B, or 6
per cent; Alsaoe-L Lorraine 149, or 3
per cent; Hesse 6, or 2 per cent;
Mecklenburg-Schwe s, or 4 per
cent; and Brunswick 6, or 6 per cent.
Of the other small States Anhalt sent
4, Coburg Gotta 2, and Sake Weimar,
Oldenburg, Saxe-M einingen, Sake
Alternburg and Waldeck l each. The
States had no uneducated
recruits.
One of the celebrities of Paris has
recently died. This was Mile. Fou-
cault, commonly called la Femme
en- Culottes." She was the daughter
of a colonel and granddaughter Of a
general of the first empire. In 1913
her father died and left hera penniless
orphan. She tried all sorts of means
to gain an honest living, but failed.
till one day the idea struck her to as
sumo male attire, and in that disguise
she became a %corrector of the press in
the printing Office of NJ. Dupont. She
remained there two years, when, her
sex being discovered, she got notice to
leave. She subsequently wrote in one
or two small prints, then she became
A concert hall singer, and, finally.
to Alexandra Dumas the elder.
On leaving the service of the novelist
again found employment in a
printing office, where she was able to
save enough money to buy a small
piece of ground at Clichy. Here she
quilt a series of small houses or rather
which she let out to rag-pickers,
and which are now known as the Cite
Foucault. Her feats of arms among
her turbulent tenants have become
legendary, She died, it is said, worth