Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-21

of second story window and falling
twenty feet on brick pavement. The
fall knocked out some Of his front teeth
and thoroughly wakened him up. He
afterwards went to the front door and
rang for admission. a4o ln.g=
A celebrated actor had ordered green
pea soup; it was served but contained
only one pea. He took off his coat; but
the waiter informed him no one was al
lowed to dine in his shirt-sleeves. Oh, y
was the reply II am only going to swim
for my pea" JE paY
" Are you connected with paper
here?" asked countryman of an in
mate Of the Indiana insane asylum.
"Oh, no" was the reply; 81 have been
to the Insane asylum and am cured; a
man never runs a newspaper after he is
cured.
A photographer of Stockholm, c. ].
Malmber, has received a patent for n
new discovery he calls phototypy He
transfers photographs on metallic plates,
and, by means of printing colors, can
print them on paper, even to the smallest
details.
Laurence and Margaret Shields, bro
ther and sister, have been executed at
Tullamore, for the murder of man
named Dunn. They stood hand in hand
upon the scaffold, repeating the Litany
Of the Saints as the drop fell. Shields
was twenty-four years of age and his
sister twenty-nine. 8di io noflQg s
A great number of starving Jews are
emigrating from Lithunia and Poland,
considerable sums of money having been
collected wherewith to forward them.
Some are going to the Don and eau
casuus, at the expense of the Russian
Government, and Others to the United
States.
A Southwestern paper thus epitomizes
lynch law: -Four Kentuckians, in Jail
for numbering neighbor had a surprise
party from a hundred or two citizens
the other night. They, hadn't any last
words ready, and wouldn't have had
time to say them if they had All leave
families
A few days since little ragged urchin
was sent by a tradesman to collect bill.
He begun in the usual way, but becom-
ing more and more importunate; at
length the gentleman patience being
exhausted he said to him: "You need
not dun me so sharply; | am not going
to run away" / don't suppose you
are, !" said the boy scratching his head;
"but my master is, and he wants the
money 'gae HaF
The Common Pleas Court at Zanes-
vile was adjourned last week on very
singular grounds. A woman was in jail
awaiting sentence, and was sent for, but
the sheriff reported that she had not suf-
fcient clothing in which to make her ap
pearance her mother having carried off
her garments to wash them. The judge
smiled, and dismissed the court for the
day.
A hippopotamus in the Geological gar
dens at Amsterdam gave birth on the
10th of April to twins, a fact which is
considered remarkable in natural his
tory 1t was previously supposed that
the female of the pachydermatous spe-
cies had only single young at birth.
The twins are of different sex. The
male weighed about seventy and the fe-
male forty pounds at birth.
Two experiments have been made in
New Orleans to test the value of am
moaia as a motor for propelling street
railway cars. A car containing twenty
passengers was successfully driven by
this power six miles and back 1t has
been ascertained that ammonia can
be utilized for this purpose; but the ex-
perimenters decide that it will cost more
than horse power, and therefore pos
sesses no especial advantage.
A German telegraph operator has dis
covered mode of sharpening, with
accuracy, any number of
steel or iron wires, by the agency of the
magnetic current. The discovery may
be applied to the manufacture Of pins
and needles, and do away with the pre-
sent process of grinding the points, so
injurious and extensively fatal to the
ql ~
When the sum fixed upon for the sal
airy of the new Episcopal Bishop of New |
Hampshire was announced a great white !
rooster flew upon the fence around the
church in which the convention was sit I
ting, and gave a lusty, vigorous crow. |
This was considered by the people inside |
as a good omen, and that the next Presi-
dent Of the United States viii be a Dem
Oorat.
An Iowa paper having inserted an item
relating that woman of that State had
helped her husband to raise seventy
acres Of wheat and noticing the item
copied BY its exchanges under an evi-
dent interpretation Of facts, now ex-
plains that the way she helped was to
stand in the door and shake broom at
him when he sat down to rest, and ser-
rifying him in other ways,
Red Cloud, the Indian chief, was
lately shown the fifteen and twenty-inch
gums az the Washington Navy Yard. He
expressed some surprise. After taking
their dimensions, examining the powder
used, and satisfying himself that the
guns actually propelled l000-pound shots
Jour or FIVE niles he is said TO have ex-
pressed desire that his tribe should he
.Epplied with few Of these handy pieces
af ordnance. They would be accepted
rs evidence that the government in
ler1ad 10 keau faith with the red man .