Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-10
Wit, Wisdom and Humor.

| Sea pestS-Iempests
A Highway-The Milky Way.
Paper cuffs-N Newspaper attacks
Mended ways-Repaired streets
Something stunning-A slung
shot.
Table sauce-Impudence at t
meal.
The keynote to politeness-E
natural.
Pleasant checks in life-BanI
checks.
Harmless pugilism-Striking
attitudes.
Dangerous head pieces-Per-
cussion caps.
Men are q covet-us set-So say
the ladies.
A popular tea with young la
dies-Beau he.
The greatest bet ever known
The alphabet.
Illegal pharmacy-Com
ing a felony.
Relatives that ought to make
good pedestrians-Step-sons
What burns to keep a secret
Sealing wax, to be sure.
uts for the millionaire roast
chestnuts about our streets.
Fur-t tive glances-Looking at the
ladies in their sable robes
He who has good health is a rich
man and does not know it.
1t is a mistake to suppose the
sun is supported by its beams.
Big thing on ice-A skater
weighing two hundred and fifty.
A logical fact-The mouths OF
rivers are larger than their heads.
For all the several gems in vir-
tue, vice has counterfeit stones.
Nitro glycerine is said to be a
sure cure for Incidence. Touch
of a little and one begins to
travel right smart.
Mark Twain says Horace Gree
ley once tried to make a living as
writing master, and failed. His
copy was, Virtue is its own re-
ward" and the scholars got it,
Washing with soap is wholly alb
surd. "
"Go away" said Muggins, "you
can't stuff SIGH nonsense into me.
Six feet in his boots Bah; no
man as lives stands more nor two
feet in his boots, and no use talk
ing bout it. Might as well tell
me the man had six heads in his
hat"
A convict in Sing Sing prison
who speaks seven languages, was
asked if that was the reason of his
being sent there. "Oh, no." he
replied, 81 came not here for
speaking so many languages, but
for writing too many hands"
An inebriated man in Lawrence,
Kansas, was clinging to fence,
looking helplessly at a neighbor-
ing row of shade trees. "Halloa,"
said friend who came up, whats
the matter Jake?" Dunno, hic, y
responded Jacob, "that id pro-
cession's never goin' to get past"
A gentleman had just taken his
seat at the dinner table, when the
servant reported a beggar at the
door. Feeling in his pocket for a
STAMP" but finding none, he re-
piled, "Tell him / haven't a shil-
ling with me" and resumed his
dinner. Presently, the servant
returned, with I" Please, sir, he
says he can change a note"
A Norwich, Conn, painter was
called in the other day to paint
the Ten Commandments on the
wall of a church lecture room.
Deacon took the Bible to read
them to him so that there should
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bling the leaves back and forth
for a while, he turned to the paint
err with the question, "Wherea.
bouts shall / find 'em?"
Mrs. Darlington says: q like
to go to weddings. | like to hear
young people promise to love, hui
NOR and nourish each other; but
it's a solemn thing when the min
lister comes into the chancery will
his surplus on, and goes through
the ceremony of making then
man and wife. 1t ought to b.
husband and wife, for faint ever
husband that turns out to be a man
/ declare / never shall forget wheI
Paul put the nuptial ring on ny
finger and said With my good
! l thee endow.' He kept a DIR,
goods store then, and / thought h
was going to give me the Who'll
there was in it. l was young ant
| simple, and didn't know till after
ward that it mean, only one dres