Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-16

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day.school superintendent the other day
but telegraphed that he couldn't serve.
When telegraph operators have no
other news to transmit they can always
branch of on another murder in New
York"
The police of Cairo, H., are after a
ghost whose walking costume consists OF
stovepipe hat and pair Of double
soled boots. ussA
John Franklin, New York farmer,
got tired of hearing his wife scold,
scold," and tied a pillow point to his neck
and drowned himself.
There is one mensgerie travelling this
year which has not got the wild Aus
tralian children" but of course has the
wild man of Borneo.
The Cleveland Plaindealer thinks that
dime-novel writers will stand aghast at
the idea of Captain Jack being captur ed
with satchel in his hand.
A Missouri girl washed all day, made
a supper off twelve boiled eggs, and then
danced all night. The funeral process
sion was nearly mile long.
Says the Boston Globe: What is the
use of living if seventeen female lee
turers are to be turned loose TO alright
and desolate the next season.
The cost Of maintaining the public
schools Of New York for the csming year
will be S9.S56,OOO. 0fthis sum teachers
viii receive little over $2,0OO,OO0.
Atlanta has fooled with the spiritual
ism business until it has raised medium
in the shape Of baby fourteen months
old, that writes messages from the spirit
land. .ial
A New Yorker, who has had his pocket
picked one hundred times within five
years, at cost Of forty cents, says it is
an amusement much cheaper than the
theaters.
A clerk at Xenia, Ohio, voted himself
fifty dollars back pay, and they jagged
him quick as wink. He cant under
stand why he hadn't as good a right as a
Congressman.
Miss Owen, daughter Of Robert Dale
Owen, who began to shine as a magazine
writer few years ago, has been com
PEELED, by the failure of her eyeaght, to
relinquish her Literary career.
A new entrance to the royal vault at
Windsor, where are inferred most Of the
sovereigns of Great Britain buried at
Windsor Castle, has been constructed
for the private use Of the Queen.
Bishop Paddock, who accepted bis
election, ought TO make a good pastor;
but change o. pasture, in his case, will
not inure to fatness, for he leaves q sal
airy of $4,000 for one Of $4,000.
A boarding house fend tells the story
that in a recent thunderstorm the war
ring Of the elements was so awe-inspir-
ing that the hair in a dish Of butter, in
the pantry, turned completely white
during the night.
A man who had grudge against his
neighbors adopted horrible method for
annoying him. he waited till the wind
was in the right direction, aud then built
a garden fire, on which be put his las.
years oiled cloth carpet.
New Hampshire is seriously beginning
to think Of amending its constitution by
abolishing the clause which provides
that none but Protestant church mem
bers shall be eligible to the Governors
chair or TO the Legislature.
The Burlington Qowa) Hawkeye says:
" There is no law in this Stlte for hang
ing man who murders a lightning-rod
peddler or life insurance agent. Let
tAe oppressed people remember this and |
exercise their privileges"
A gentleman describing 3 wedding.
the other day. got off the following ex-
traoriinary sentence in regard to the /
bride; "In regard to her bony face the /
twin roses Of health and beauty shone."
he probably meant to say bonny, but
. the careless printers"
Cincinnati is to have Whaf, 50 FAR as
Fe know, is a novelty in American cities
"A public forum, TO be used for meetings
4 citizens. A wealthy citizen proposes
. build It on public square in front Of
he new postofkce, at a cost Of hall a
million dollars The rostra or sPeaksr's
tsEd is to be Of marble.
The India-rubbsr hustle is sg,in
isari from. This time il vas q Brock
yn young lady, Who vas thr0Tl' from