Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-25

Two printing offices in Sweden are car
ried on exclusively by femsles-one il
Hudiksval and one in Christianstadt.
Governor Fairchild recommends thai
the Legislature of Wisconsin submit tc
the people constitutional amendment
abolishing the grand jury system. ry
When you see the word 'bosh" printed,
do not call it slang, Il isia pure Turkish
word. Bosh DER" say the Turks,
which, translated into English is, "it is
nothing"
The London papers tell how street
crowd was greatly amused when the
carriages of wedding party were blocked
| in narrow street by tive loads Of cradles
! and baby wagons. 14
In the large dry goods establishments
,be clerks now pass q watchword on the
entrance of certain class OF customers:
The phrase is simple: Two on ten"
This means, Keep your tho eyes On ten
fingers" - W Af8N 81.
aBoys," asked the teacher Of an In
fant Sunday school class, ibid you ever
.aa ,aaS az, ELEPHANTS skin p Yes, sir, l
7 aid" uiDed little fellow away down
at the foot. "Did you, Robert2 Where
was il r. 'fod 90 elephant, sir 03
disappointment, not in love, but in
marriage. caused Kentuckian to hang
himself last week. He had married an
aid maid Of seventy for the sake OF her
large fortune, and found he couldn't get
it after all )0D YAQl yh
A son, seven or eight years old. of DR..
DeWitt. of Dougherty county, Georgia,
sss killed on Sunday last by the falling OF
a tree which was cut down. Both parents
witnessed it. but we're unable to save their
child. - -,. s-.-.ss,, =.
The losers by the Boy,ton Bank rob-
bery, Boston, offer twenty five ner cent; !;
Of the money recovered 'as rewcso
the thieves want fifty per cent. SO there
ia falling out, and yet honest men do not
>st their due. Toe directors of the bank
have offered 40 reward.
A seh,,olhouse at Baston, Pennsylvania,
took fire the other day, in which was q
lane GIRL Eho was always allowed the
n,;v;lsse az dismisssl iE advance of the
o,Lsr scholars When the alarm was
g;ysn the pupils all kept their seats until
the cripple had ssiSl.v passed the door
and then rushed out.
A correspondent who has been three
wears Q private in the army, complains
of the tyrannical way in which privates
are treated by officers, so that they leave
lbe army after theirterm of service with
no,bing but hatred for the flag under
which they have suffered SO long. He
anneals 20 the Military Committss for an
investigation. 5 IRA l1lGk.Es
Tn excavsting beneath the rock at
csnpbelPs Chain in the Idississippl
river. seven miles above Davenport.
snn.a very fine specimens of coal have
hesn discovered. 1t is very light, re-
senhIing camel coal. quite clear, and
boras with light fame, giving ont but
i;l,le amolre or SCOT The vein Is eix
faat in thickness, and is remarkably free
eson, slate and dirt. A shan is 70 be
srnL from the surface of the Ijsland for
he purpose Of mining IL tUAhd
He,s l. one of Rocbefort's malicisus
80. IN the last number Of La Aarseil-
80 - 1.'-UThe next day after Heuri
Poos sfort replied 10 that veil known In
nsr;aI r.S simiie, Napoleon The Third, after
s;ana- @ vas seated on his easy chair,
vbsrs he seemed TO be q prey TO uhpless-
ami reveries. A courier stepped up 70
him and said, "Sire, you are troubled
! hout the word hacOn y (Roehetoft, u
is veil known, said, 1sy os Very
ridiculous fellow, but surely ! never
on the ssasbore ~ltn 50
reele on lay shsu.ser, and piece o. es'
eon in my hat rt .e-N