Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-04

A lobster never comes ashore without
great risk of getting into hot water.
Silver coffin trimmings are hired out
for private funerals in Lewiston, Maine,
to be returned after the ceremony.
A Georgia paper crticising the quail
fications Of candidate for office, says
that he would be but an average dog in
any drove"
Women, wake up exclaims the
Revolution; and an indolent editor adds:
[" Yes, and d-n it, turn out and make
fire and put the tea-kettle on"
A Maine girl whose lover had lost
limb, replied TO her companions banter,
II would not have man with two legs
they are so common
The Boston Journal begs the New
York papers to give their readers some
thing else besides Tammany intelligence.
That branch is getting monotonous.
An ingenious baker accounts for the
high price of his loavcs by saying that he
has it on the authority of an eminent
naturalist that the dough belongs to the
dear tribe. l .t
The editor of the Marion Ind. Chron-
icle offered his paper for one year as a
prize for the largest watermelon. Al
though over one hundred have been
brought to the Office, he has not made
the award yet
A youthful Chicagoan aged six years,
who was refused permission to go fishing
on Sunday, incontinently hanged him
self in order to relieve his parents mind
of any apprehension that he was born
to be drowned.
A cynical old bachelor, who firmly
believes that woman has something to
say on all subjects, recently asked a
female friend: Well, madame, what do
you hold on this question of female suf-
frage2" To him the lady responded
calmly: "Sir, hold my tongue.
While some of the doctors profess
their inability to say with certainty that
case of real hydrophobia ever occurred,
people continue dying of the disease in
various parts Of the country. In New
Orleans, week ago, Police officer w.
Dourm met his end in that way. He
was bitten by dog three weeks pre-
yiously while on duty but thought but
little Of it. He was attacked with the
disease in the court room on Monday
morning, and died in few hours.
Midnight croquet parties are the latest
English dissipation. A London paper
describing ose of them says: The
company numbered some sixty persons.
! The guests arrived at ten o'clock and
played at croquet by the light of Chinese
lanterns, with which the grounds were
Illuminated. Under such circumstances,
that which had been a sort of penance
in the midday heat became a novel en-
joyment during the cooler hours. Al
midnight precisely the company sep
arated.
The anti Masonic agitation has broken
out with fresh fury in Vermont. An as
ISOLATION devoted to the movement in
sists on the enforcement of the law
against secret societies, and declares
them hostile TO republican institutions
and dangerous TO civil and religious
| liberty" The engineers Of the move
ment, ike those who are running the
new KnoW-Nothing concern, have eyi-
IDENTIFY forgotten that worn-out popular
excitements never secure a second lease
of life.
At length a defender has arisen-a
second Daniel has come to judgment,
and his mission is to do justice upon the
enemies Of the much-abused hackmen at
Niagara Falls. He holds the Office Of
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