Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-22


The dry goods heave 70 deep-drawh signs
Would not his finger ends be burning
To press-his hat down Ger his eyes,
charge. Bennett, charge. On, Stan
ley, OF" SO came last news from Liv
ingstone. Be-
Lavater says; You never know
man until you have to divide an inherit
anee with him"
Everybody cannot afford a sea bath
at Long Branch. but penny dip at home
is within their reach.
Joaquin Miller has given Grace Green
wood pair of earrings made of rat
tlesnake's rattles, ornamented with gold.
This is the way North Carolina
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English brides are getting stubborn at
the word obey" in the marriage service,
and dissenters now leave it out alto
gether.
Among the infant schools of the coun-
try we suppose we must reckon the Ne
high University, unless it is a compost
tors mistake for Lehigh"
An exchange, describing funeral,
says: The procession was very fine
and two miles in length; as was also
the prayer of DR.. Perry, the chaplain.
A sailor, looking serious in chapel
in Boston, was asked by the clergyman
if he felt any change. Whereupon the
tar put his hand in his pocket and re-
piled, Not cent"
A Minnesota Ex-Governor said recent
ly: Minnesota has the loudest thunder,
the most vivid lightning. and the most
splendid northern lights of any of the
States.
A Southern editor promises. with his
wife's assistance, to name baby each
year after the person who shall furnish
the largest club list of subscribers to his
paper.
The Christian Union says, Whether
women ought to preach depends upon
whether they can preach. Experiment
should be made, but cautiously, and on
q small scale"
A New York judge has decided that
signs and banners across the streets are
illegal, as q street is not the mere sur
face Of the earth, but embraces also the
light and air above it.
Lovers and young gentlemen who are
just getting on string should re-
member that cambria waists were not
intended for hugging purposes as long
as laundry work is SO expensive. ~
At the funeral of woman, recently, /
a sympathetic and admiring neighber
volunteered the information that I" for |
patient resignation the corpse would I
dance all around any woman living"
Some Of our young ladies who blushed /
when the census.taker asked them if
they we're twenty years old, can remem-
Der of seeing three crops Of seventeen
year locusts, but that does not signify.
Ninety-fve in the shade.
Bring me iced lemonade
Dashed with brandy, and some
Small mixture Of rum.
Let me smoke my iIayannah,
While you play the pian-ah
A jury at Holton, Kansas, recently
agreed to settle difference of opinion
by square hold wrestle between cham
pions of the opposite-minded parties.
The accused was completely vindicated.
What agonies must that poet have en-
dured, who, writing of his love, asserted
in his manuscript that he kissed her
under the silent stars, and found the
compositor had made him declare that
he kicked her under the cellar stairsr'
A Baltimore liquor merchant has
copyrighted a new brand-Longfel-
low-as a compliment to Mr.. Harper's
horse. Longfellow whisky is suggest
i've oflong drinks. Wetake ours straight,
says the Turf, Field and Farm.
Ben Butler says that if Greeley is
elected the Government will be made to
pay for the slaves emaneipated. "If
Greeley is elected" cries he, I'VE have
lost all we gained by the war" Does
not include the spoons and silver plate,
General2
That man" said a wag, came to
this city forty years ago, purchased
basket and commenced gathering rags.
How much do you suppose he is worth
now3" We gave it up. Nothing"
he continued after a pause, and he
owes for the basket"
At the recent wedding Of the daugh-
ter Of the chief Of the Piute Indians
with a young lieutenant LOT Salt Lake,
the bride was attired in blanket decol.
lete, with oyster shell necklace, and ate
heartily at the wedding feast of fricas.
seed prairie dog"
The woman's rights agitation has ct
length reached the Orkney Islands, of
the coast Of Scotland. The question Of
a Womsn's right to hold Office there has
created dispute between the parochial
board and the ho.rd ~ s,,..,,;.,- . A..