Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

A hub-bubis Boston boy.
A sovereign bet Queen, Elizabeth.
The fate Of howers-to be blowed. N,
mot at home IAN out and out lie.
Change for sovereign--a republic.
Twins, like misfortunes, never come
singly.
Are the notes of a gas company all
set to the same meter2
To-morrow-the day on which idle
men work and fools reform.
The FIVE great powers are; Love,
money, ambition, revenge and a good
dinner. AlN oN.i.es
A delicate female partook of twenty
eight different dishes al a Chicago hotel
dinner.
A New Orleans policeman arrested
man recently for looking scornfully at
him..
An Illinoisan got rid of mosquitoes by
the aid of kerosene, The firemen
worked manfully.
Abiding to chignons, Mrs. Clever
said: :" A girl now seems all head
Yes, till you talk to her" replied Mr..
Clever. tt hl
The fellow who called tight boots COM
Portable, defended his disposition by say
ing that they made man forget all his
other miseries.
Josh Billings says: Never do any
work before breakfast. If it is necessary
TO work before breakfast, have your
breakfast first" 'A
ATroy paper says that at a recent bur
glars convention in Vermont, il was re-
solved that it was "expedient" to use
chloroform on victims.
"Have not right to be saucy if ]
please?' asked a young lady of an old
bachelor. "Yes, if you please, but not
if you displease," was the answer.
Some country papers are earnestly
discussing the question: a" Where can
wool most prOftably be grown2" As if
sleeps back wasn't the best place.
The musical critic Of the New York
Times saws that while there are plenty
Of Fingers who can execute, the rarity
is a singer whose execution has soul
behind it. ~ ~ iioql-
The Geneva Alabama Claims Commits
sion is now full, the fifth Commissioner,
Baron de Itajuba, having just been APP
pointed by the Emperor Of Brazil. The
other four are Charles Francis Adams,
Chief Justice Cockburn, Jacques Sta
empAi, and Count Selopis.
The Court Journal announces that
"Queen Victoria has to ill two vacan-
cies in the Garter which must mean
that she has to ill the vacancies in two
garters, say every morning.
Many scientific gentlemen have won
dered what would be the result upon the
human form to fall from the clouds TO
the earth. The experiment has at last
been tried by Professor Wilbur, bal
loonist, who let go when about a mile up !
The problem is settled-jelly results.
Scene at one of the New Orleans pri-
vate schools-Teacher (striving to find
out from little girl the location of Africa,
Mary, what country is that between the
and Indian oceans% Mary
Idont know" Teacher" Where do
all the negroes come fromp Mary
quickly" Natchez."
Il is related of member Of the Bos-
on bar, that once meeting, in the dog
lays, the estimable son Of father Of
rather equiyocal reputation, in an
moment he amazed him
by inquiring how the old gentleman
stood the heat. The old gentleman had
been dead two months.
A witty clergyman, accosted by an old
by the name of Cobb, re-
piled: Z" don't know you, sir. Ny
name is Cobb, rejoined the man, who
was about half seas over. All, sir,
said the minister, you have so much
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corn ON you that ! did not see the cob. "
"Ohl | see that you are afraid Of me,
,aid the Rev Sydney Smith one day to
young lady who sat beside him at din
Ter. "You crumble your bread, and
hat is an undeniable proof of sbyness.
do it when ] sit blythe Bishop Of Lon
lon, and with both hands when ! sit by
he Archbishop.
The Pike county poet, John Hays,
las visited our mining regions incognito
at least we judge so, from the follow
ng lines, found on deposit of cnriosi-
les in the Middle Park
% Pilgrim, pause. touch not these stones.
A. sacred they as dead mem bones.
Al satan's board he'll Wrastle hash,
Who plumbers this. Dave Billiards. cache.
The barbarous inhabitants Of Afghan
stan, taking advantage OF the disorgan-
zed condition Of the Persian govern
nent consequent upon the ravages Of
anime and pesiilence, have invaded the
after provinces, and that unfortunate
is now afflicted with those three
greatest seourges Of poor humanity
var, famine and pestilenee.
A clergyman was once endeavoring to
,ei a subscription in aid Of some chariia-
he institution out Of close-6sted parish
oner, who attempted to excuse himself
N the ground that he already owed a
.reai deal Of money. " But, said the
Minister, you owe God a largar debt
han you owe any one else That is
o, parson; but he amt pushing me like
be balance Of my creditors"