Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-11


A young printer having occasion the
other day to set up the well known line,
Slave, have set my life upon a cast"
astonished the proofreader with the fol-
lowing version: slave, | have set my
wife upon o caskl'
Worcester drunkards get bottles filed
with whisky at the saloons, put them in
their pockets, take similar bottles full
of colored water out Of other pockets,
place the bogus fluid on the bars, and
say, I've forgotten my money let it
stand there while | 90 home" The ber.
keeper, after waiting vainly for the return
Of the customers, pours the colored
water into the whisky barrel without de-
tecting the trick.
The vending Of pencils, pens and ether
articles by teachers in the public schools
is attracting attention and arousing pro-
tests in Boston. The practice interrupts
the %lessons and d~istraets the minds of
the pupils, and is productive of no a6-
vantage except a pecunisry one to the
teacher. The machinery OF a school is
sometimes brought to a standstill in order
that change may be made in effecting
the sale of a slate pencil, The newly
elected School Board is expected to
remedy the evil
A case Of l%aziness is reported at Wash
iDgton. A young man appointed to a
clerkship in the Treasury Department
was conducted to his desk and informed
what his duties were. The chief of the
department discovered him a short time
after comfortably reposiug in his seat,
with his feet Enthusiastically resting
On the desk. "Hello," said the chef;
don't you expect to do any work.
Work be hanged" exclaimed the as.
tonished youth II had to work hard
enough to get here
A few days ago a woman living at
Saugerties, Albany county, N. Y, awoke
in the night with severe headache, and,
taking q bottle of salts frsm q stand near
by, applied it to her nose occasionally.
She soon fell asleep, and on awaking in
the morning found that she had retained
the bottle in her hand, and that the salts
had drawn a blister on her thumb, which
had covered the mouth of the bottle. In
q short time Inflammation arose, gan
creme set in, and in spite of every effort
to stop its progress her entire system
became poisoned so that she died.
Some time ago TIVE London thieves
pat in practice a plan Of robbing a jew
eler which had been described in a story
in a popular periodicals piece of poor
invention. The %jeweler was furious (he
lost $40, 900, so it was excusable), and
wrote to the editor of the magazine
asking him if it was his mission to in
struct thieves in new ways Of ~plundering
the public. my dear sir" replied the
eNtor blan6ly, "If you had taken my
periodical (which l hope in the future
you will do), you would have been put
upon your guard. This comes Of neg
Letting the claims Of literature
The Baltimore American, with its STAFF
is moving into its new seven.story build.
ing, and will proceed to infect the elegant
rooms of the intellectual department
with the torturOus odor of nicotine.
After a while some rats will die and lend
their fragrance to the daily accommodating
perfumery, and tie editorial apartments
will then be fully prepared for the brain
work Of the concern. new Office looks
we'll enough, but for a short time il lacks
the necessary stencil, and its great ninds
become, as it we're, becalmed in the
purity of a natural and God-made stmos
phere.