Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-18

Our relations abroad" are nearly all
Grants.
The new liquor law of Massachusetts,
fines a man fifty dollars for getting
drunk,
Keokuk has ten lumber yards whose
trade the past year, was over 23,OOO,O 900
feet.
More lives have been lost on the At
lantic this year than for any season for
years.
Why is the conductor of an orchestra
like the electric telegraphS Because he
beats time.
The wife of Red Cloud, the Indian
chief, has name that means the
woman without bow.
Some of the fair sex have hearts as
brittle as glass He that would leave
impressions must use diamonds.
A New York couple stopped "gittin
married the other day to witness a lively
dog fight in the vestibule.
Owing to the European war, number
of wealthy French families have taken
permanent residences in New York city
A chinese thief having stolen mis-
sionarys watch brought it hack to him
the next day to be shown how to wind 1t
up.
A shoe-peg factory at Arlington, Yer
mont is closed on account of the derange-
ment of the market for its wares in
Germany.
Gladstone is having his country seat,
Hawarden castle, connected by telegraph
with government headquarters at Lon
don.
A correspondent describes NJ. Theirs
as "a little, old, short man, in shabby
overcoat and dirty white hat with black
band "
Rev. DR.. Bushnell calls the demand
for female suffrage AN attempt TO make
trumpets out of flutes and sunfiowers out
of yiolets.
Quartermaster General Pitkin has sold
100000 worth Of old guns, stored in the
arsenal at Montpelier, to the French gov
eminent.
The press of America is nearly unani-
nous in calling Mrs. DIR. Walker atten-
ton to an advertisement Of "A female
physician wanted to go to India.
Cincinnati's eight feet Norwegian giant
is said to be undergoing a process Of pet
rifcation on sulphuric acid whisky, with
view of marrying into the Cardiff fam
lily.
In st. Joseph, Missouri, the other day,
two twin sisters played game of seven,
up for the hand of young farmer, and
the winner married the man within
week.
II is said that the eight hour system
was introduced into the workshops oil
Governor Clahin, Of Massachusetts, as
far back as 1861, and without any abate
ment Of wages.
The New Orleans Times suggests the
propriety Of applying to the principal
lottery manager Of the State title oil
nobility-the Lord High Chance-seller Of
Louisiana.
In San Francisco, bold lady in a
street car seized, through the window
the bride of a runaway horse as Il col
lided with the car, and held on till the
animal could be secured.
The number Of library members Of the
New York Mercantile Library is IL 600,
against 5000 in 1850. For the frs'
quarter Of century after the establish
ment of the institution, in 1920, its re-
sources we're small and members few.
A striking Illustration Of the saying
the pith of laGy's letter is in the post
script. was that Of young lady, who
having gone out TO India, and writing
home 10 her friends, concluded with the
following words: "P. S.-You will see
BY my signature that am married
A new style Of swindle developed in
New York is TO purchase cigars, and
when they are delivered 20 have two
bogus United States Marshals rush IN
and while one arrests and carries on tne
seller, the other makes of with the
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