Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

to support.
Miscellaneous.
Mr. ourtney's newrowingapparatui
has gone to meet Edison's electric
light.
1t is thought in Texas that the tax
on commercial travellers there vii
yield the state 100000 a year.
Mrs. Lander, with her two boys
sails on the 10th for Europe, goinl
thither to witness at 0bbrammergar
the Passion Play.
A prominent Auburn grocer gave
his washerwoman a bar of soap as {
reward for returning $1,000 she had
found in one Of his garments.
The phrase bad form" has grown Sc
threadbare in England that it is sci
down as "a detestable vulgarity that
marks the character of those who use
it."
Friends of Governor Wilt, O
Louisiana, have paid $4,000 for Q
house in New Orleans and will pre-
sent it to his wife. One of the mum.
Der gave $1,000.
Senator and Mrs. Bruce, colored.
are quoted as expressing their regret
that people should come and pay them
duty calls when their hearts are
left behind.
Gen. Myer, "Old Probabilities
was an army physician when he dis
covered the system of army and navy
signalling used in this country. Mrs
Myer is very wealthy in her own
right.
New York pays more for tobacco
than for bread. Dealers say that there
are smokers in the city who average
100 cigars a week, and men whose
cigar bills run up to thousands Of dol,
lars per annum.
Somebody, it is said, once asked
Disraeli how it was that the queer
showed him so much favor, and got a
simple answer: "Well-er-the fact
is, ~l-er-never contradict, and-er-
| sometimes-er forget"
A telegram from Atlanta, Ca, re
ports the birth there, on the 18tl
of May, of a child weighing 20 pounds
10 ounces. Its father, Mr.. Lock Nc
Bride, is a shopkeeper, and its motheI
the sister of a prominent lawyer O
the city.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett has a new
drama entitled "~Pendragon," writer
by Mr.. w. W. Young, and founded OIL
one of the legends of King Arthur
This will be produced by Mr.. Barrett
in Chicago on September q.
He had one son hanged, and anothe
in the San Quentin penitentiary, AM
his wife had eloped with a chrom,
peddler. Have you any family" h,
was asked by a fellow-passenger
None to speak of was the poten
retort.
Employing the old time phase o
General Tombs, the Columbus (Ga.
Enquirer says that Governor Col
quits appointment of ex-Governo
d Joseph Il. Brown as United State
senator "fatigues the indignation"
The farm Of Senator Don Cameron
in Lancaster county, Pa, comprise
between three and four hundred acre
of cultivated land, which produce tn,
best crops of corn, wheat and tobacco
He has forty-nine head of cattle read,
for market.
A centenarian ex-soldier, who re
Gently died in a Russian village, con.
tinued his business Of tailor till death
though he had been blind for fort,
years. His sense Of touch was 81
acute that he could distinguish differ
ent bank notes. He used to threat
his needle by means of his tongue.
General Joseph r. Hawley, of Cor
n%ecticut, Who was to take the place o
Honorable HoratiO Seymour in deliv
ering the annual address at the Berk
county fair, has also declined. H
says: my political friends in Connec
ticut insist that | shall make no en-
gagements for September or October.
A new and fascinating amusemen
has been introduced in Chicago b
small children whose parents live a
hotels. 1t consists in scattering tn
blocks used in building playhouse
along the stairs leading from the uppe
floors of the hotel. The game j
for the boarders to get down stair
alive.
Madame Modjeska has achieved a
unmistakable triumph in England. Al
of the London papers are enthusiast
in her praise, and the Athenaum, tn,
most coldly critic Of them all, say
"the value Of a triumph such as wa
obtained by Madame Modjeska on he
first appearance cannot easily be over
estimated"