Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-27
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION:
Ia .,.all0n anonnh. Ask papa.

q A maiden speech; Ask papa.
Man is mister and woman MYSTERY
A name for a female ball club Femi-
nine.
The lap Of luxury A cat enjoying
,her milk.
A shocking thing to think of; A gal
vanic battery.
Woman is a delusiou, but men will
hug decisions.
To the benevolent Judy knows a
man so hard up that he sleeps on tick.
A young woman's conuudrum: Who
il our foyorite Roman hero2 Marius.
Whom can road be said to be emo
tional2 When it has positive inclination
The coal fields Of Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island cover three hundred square
miles.
Two tons of sponge are prepared for
bedding every day at Lebanon, New
Hampshire.
The first thing hen says to her brood,
and not the last thing child says 10 its
father" She'll ut."--Fun
The New York Herald, speaking Of
Jefferson Davis, says; His capture was
one of the blunders Of the war.
Why is husband like Mississippi
steamboat? Because he never knows
how soon he may get blowing up.
The song of the repentant husband
after knocking his wife down, Come,
rest in my bosom, my own stricken dear
Wendell Phillips got showed up in
Connecticut, and lived for forty hours on
crackers and cheese. He still survives.
The young men of Gotham are accused
of crowding the sewing girls from the
beaten path into the snow. Chivalrous
Gotham
An immense deposit of black iron
sand is said to have been discovered on
the banks of the st. Lawrence, near
Batiscan.
A man tumbled into cave in st
Helena, and lay there two months with
out food. He was somewhat thin when
taken out.
The great design of the Radical State
constitutions of the South is to contine
taxation to the whites and political
power to the blacks.
An Ohio housekeeper set some arsenic
poison for rats The rats not only ate
it, but tracked it over food in the closet,
and poisoned the whole family.
e. w. Moore, of Cleveland, has not
slept since the Both of November. If he
keeps on much longer, says the World,
his friends will have to celebrate his
wake.
1t is supposed that the Illinois prairies
were once the bottom of lake. Timber
is buried thirty and forty feet below the
surface-pine, cedar, hemlock and other
varieties
Henry Ward Beecher, noticing recent
attacks upon him by orthodox papers,
says. Like drum, never seem to be
answering the end of my being unless
somebody is beating me-"
The Huntsville Independent says that,
notwithstanding hundreds of negroes
are idle in Marion county, large part
of the cotton now in the field will perish
because hands cannot be got to pick it.
When you see young man and woman
walking down the street, leaning against
each other like pair of badly matched
oxen, it is a pretty good sign that they
are bent on consolidation Louisrille
Journal.
A contemporary wisely advises that
children should be given sound and ripe
apples, instead of pies, cakes aud sweet
meats, and says this course will prevent
a great deal of sickness among the little
ones
Dickens says there are very few mo-
ments in mans existence when he ex-
peaiences so much ludicrous distress
or meets with 30 little charitable COM
misseration as when he is in pursuit of
his own hat.
A little girl was run over by locomo-
tive in Augusta, Ga, the other day. Two
wheels of the tender passed over her left
leg, Discriminating the knee joint and
tearing the flesh from the thigh bone for
several inches above the knee. The right
was also dresdfully mangled, but such
was the hopelessness ofth case that the
attending surgeons deemed it useless to
disturb the little sufferer in order to
an examination. She died within few
hours.