Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-07
NnMs AND 00satP.

An aged Bostonian last week di.
vided 81 100000, the half of his for
tune, between his two children.
Under the new French budget the
duty will be taken off paper, but tax
will be put on newspapers according
to their circulation.
General Grant has, it is reported,
sold his farm in st. Louis county,
No., 10 Mr.. Jay Gould for $75, 900.
AThe farm contains over 200 acres and
is we'll improved.
The San Antonio people complain
of little fishes in the water mains
They can't expect the water works
company to furnish them with whales
12O feet long for one dollar month.
A young lady of Holyoke, Mass,
where there are FIVE women to one
man, has come forward as a missionary
to bachelors, and offers olead galaxy
of 100 maidens out West.
The Sheriff Of Newcastle, Del,
says; II don't want to see the whip
ping post done away with. It's good
thing to check crime. In small
State like this we'd be overrun with.
out it"
A man drawing his wife in wagon
trudged into st. Johnsbury, Va, hay
ing played horse from Waterbury,
fifty seven miles away, on bet that
he could do tin three days. He won
by half day.
James Mcconnell, Esq, asks the
city Of New Orleans to pay him $50,
600 for attending as special counsel
during the past twenty FIVE years to
its interests in the suits brought BY
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines against it.
The elevated railroads will not work
in st. Louis; it seems the City Coun-
Gil of that city has just declared them
nuisances, and defeated all the many
Il" schemes before it. New York
will, therefore, still enjoy a monopoly
Of this style oftravel.
The Lendon Truth asks: "Is this a
fair bet If win you are to keep me in
chocolate creams for a year. Mind
like the pointed ones. 1t you win I'll
work you something There is GER
tain vagueness about that something
though none as to the creams"
A society in memory to the murdered
Gear has just been established in Rus
STA. Its aim is to create in towns and
villages industrial, agricultural and
technical schools, museums, and saw
ing banks. 1t is very powerfully sup
ported both by clergy and laity.
Poverty makes us acquainted with
strange bedfellows" is doubtless the
Khedive's reflection now that he has
become, by comparative pauperism and
strange sequence # events, the
Pope's ueighbor. Had ever Pontif
before big harem at his elbow.
The editor Of the Richmond Star
has discovered at Charlottesville a
colored boy about twelve years old,
who shows extraordinary cIeverness
in drawing and sculpture. He is a
pupil at the colored public school,
draws original pictures on the black
board with great rapidity, and has cut
figures in wood and marble for many
years.
In the British navy officers and men
wear all the face hair they can grow,
but in the army, except on foreign
service, boards are taboed. In most
of the continental armies similar re-
strictions are in force. In France
walters are vigorously prohibited from
wearing a moustache, and the same
rule attains in leading restaurants in
New York.
II saw more intoxicated women at
the Derby than on any former coca
sion, said Edmund Yates in the
London World, and not merely the
female with whom inebrietyis normal,
but decent looking women, apparently
the wives and sweethearts of artisans
and small shopkeepers. Perhaps the
heat of the weather upset their cal
culations as to the amount Of liquor
they could take with impunity."