Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-20
VARIETIES.

people.
The flesh of the zebra is said to be
the best animal food in Africa.
A Naugatuck man has invented a
rubber shoe that can be carried in the
pocket. This will obviate leaving it
in the hall for some one to drain his
umbrella in.
Silence is golden. "-Aunt-"Has
any one been at these preserves
Dead silence. Have you touched
them, Jimmy?' Jimmy-"Pa never
lows me to talk at dinner"
The Montreal Witness says hat the
exodus of laborers has had a tendency
to raise wages in that city; that labor
ers are now getting 81 per day, as
against 70 cents, and even less, in the
corresponding period last year.
An old lady recently visiting a
prison asked one of the attendants
why the prisoners received such
coarse food. lie told her it was to
keep their blood from becoming i'm
pure. And when asked what they
would do if their blood was impure,
he dryly responded, break out"
Prince Bismarck has been so i'll
that when the emperor went to Wies-
baden, he waived ceremony, aud him
self called upon his chancellor to dis
cuss the political situation. He stayed
more than hour with the invalid, and
on parting, babe him be more careful
with his valuable health.
Mr.. Lowe is credited with a new
sarcasm. When some one remarked
to him that history never knew of
such promotion as Montagu Oorry's,
from a private s%ecretaryship to a peer
age, he replied: mot so strange, alter
all; and Lord BeacOnsfeld had a
good precedent, for did not Caligula
make his horse pro-consul?"
Oswald P~uckeridge, a retired pub
lican, of Minister, England, has been
sentenced to six weeks hard labor for
causing the death of a valuable dog.
The prisoner painted the dog all over
with the liberal and conservative
%colors, and the animal was poisoned
through licking the paint off. The
prisoner gave notice of appeal.
According to the London Truth,
the injury to the ear caused by the
sleigh accident to the marchioness of
Lorne on February 14th, is much
more serious than it was thought to
be at the time. Every sudden or loud
noise that the princess hears brings on
severe pains and inflammation in the
ear. She will shortly return to Eng
land.
A Georgia paper gives this descrip-
ton ola humming birds nest recently
brought to its office ut was set upon
a limb of a tree the size of a mans
thumb, and coated outside with the
moss of an oak, so as perfectly to re-
present a knot. 1t was about the size
of a large hickory nut, an. inch high,
and constructed of cotton and hair.
1t contained two little white eggs,
about the size Of a common snap
beam"
A Savannah paper reioiees in the
rapid increase of the vegetable trade
Of southern Georgia and Florida. A
few years ago, it says, a few hundred
crates we're considered a large ship
ment, and now the exports are counted
by the hundred carloads and ship
loads. On Saturday last 10 car loads
OF vegetables, nearly all cucumbers,
arrived over the Savannah. Florida
and Western railway, and were ship
ped to this city.
A man calling himself Il. NJ. VIII
lard, well dressed and apparently re-
spectacle, attempted to swindle
Bishop Tuigg, of Pittsburg, Pa, by
falsely claiming to be the executor of
a will which bequeathed $500 to the
Bishops diocese, and presenting a de-
mand for fees. He was arrested.
The same trick has recently been tried
sometimes successfully, upon roman
catholic bishops and priests in other
localities.
A bride of a few weeks duration
went to market the other day. and see.
ing some large goldfish swimming
about in a glass globe, was struck
with the idea of having them for din
ner. I'D like those fishes, if you hav-
emit any smelts," she said mildly to
the man and when told they were
not to eat, but for pets, she declared
it was a shame; for they would
have looked so nice on her Nankin
blue china Saturday Evening Ga.
zette.
The Princess Royal of England. and
Imperial Princess of Germany has
been enrolled a member Of the Insti.
tute Of Painters in Water Color. and
among the works to be exhibited in
the Forthcoming summer show in
London will be found her Roma"
a drawing made in the course of a re-
cent visit to the city of the Seven
Hills. The Princess of the English
royal family have all Inherited a love
Of art.
The Rev. Noah NJ. Wells, said to
be the Oldest Presbyterian clergyman
in this country, if not the Oldest of
any denomination, died recently at the
residence of his son, in Erie, Monroe
county, Michigan, at the age of 80.
He was born in Saratoga county in
1871. He graduated with honor from
Union college, and afterwards studied
for the ministry. He preached
in eastern New York till 1925. when
he was called to Detroit. Mich, and
organized there the first Presbyterian
church.
A lady member of Wilkinson's
Uncle Toms Cabin" company,
cast aside an old corset at a
hotel in Holly, Mich. on the 18th
nit and had hnon ow.. from tbot