Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-31

for the front row, while the younger sis
tiers are kept more in the background
The young men look grave, and more
ready for fiirtations than real business
A Chicago police sergeant, who JOINED
the force twelve years ago poor man
has accumulated 100000, and resigned
to give another poor but honest man an
opportunity.
IA Louisville paper suggests the need
of an exchange in that city-one that
would produce exchanges for folks who
had mt the newspaper offices, and annoy
people who want to work.
gWhy don't you get down and lead
the horse2 That is the way to keep
warm," said a gentlemen to a boy one
cold day. NO." said the American
youth, 1T is b-borrowed horse, and III
ride him if freeze"
The saddess instance Of misplaced
confidence on record is that of Con-
neaticut man, who rescued another from
watery grave only to find that, instead
of his long-lost brother, it was person
to whom he owed three dollars and a
half for turnips.
A Terre Haute boy of tender years
and heart has drowned seventeen kittens,
tied pans TO the tails of nine dogs,
brushed his father new silk hat against
the grain, and blown up pet canary
with firecracker in the last month, and
still his fond mother intends him for the
pulpit.
A story is told Of college President
who, meeting on the cars a student
whose character for sobristy was not
good, and whose appearance evinced a
recent debauch, approached him and
solemnly and regretfully said: Been
on drunk2' $50 have /, was the i'm
mediate reply.
Lawyer-~How do you identify this
handkerchief Witness-"By its gen.
eral appearance, and the fact that have
others like it." Lawyer-"Thats no
proof, for have one just like it in my
pocket" Witness--'I don't doubt that;
| had more than one of the same sort
stolen"
At Lynchburg, Virginia, recently, q
blast was exploded on new line of
railroad in course of formation, near
the city gas works, and large stone
was thrown on the gasometer, at time
when it was full. The gas escaped
through the hole made by the stone, and
the city was without light until repairs
could be effected.
When Mr.. Lincoln was questioned in
regard TO some Of the witticisms attri-
buted to him, he laughed and said: The
papers make me smarter than ! am; |
have said none Of these things with one
exception. did say when l had the
smallpox, Now let the ofIice-seekers
come, for at last have something l can
give to all Of them"
A Troy paper recently printed two
articles, one Of which was an obituary
notice and the other funny anecdoie.
The headings accidentally got changed,
and when the paper appeared the editor
was Mortified to see the obituary notice
headed, "a Good Joke, while the funny
anecdote was pre6xed with the caption,
"a sad Announcement. 4"
The remnants of the Mohegan tribes
Of Indians who live on a reservation in
New London county, Conn, became
citizens on the 9th inst. The red men
are now supposed to be able to take care
Of themselves. They have abandoned
the methods Of livelihood practised by
their ancestors, and live like their white
neighbors, by agriculture and the arts.
Joe Hardin, q desperate less than
twenty-one years Of age, but who has
the bloodiest history Of any man Of his
age in Texas, has been arrested by the
sheriff of Cherokee county. He is re-
ported to have killed twenty-four men in
Texas and four in Kansas, making
twenty-eight, since he was fifteen years
old. His father is Methodist preacher
of high standing.
Policemen in Berlin receive dollar
and quarter a day; in Munich, one
dollar; in Vienna, one dollar and ten
cents; in Venice, ninety cents; in Paris,
two dollars; in Madrid, one dollar and
half; in Rome, eighty.fye cents; in
BuehATest. Seyeniy.fve cents; in St.
Petersburg. sixty cents; in Copenhagen,
one dollar. and IN Stockholm, one dollar
and flteeD cents. In Constantinople
they have to content themselves with
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