Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-22

dog vita no lower teeth.
A worthy Kentucky farmer being
asked il daughter, recently married
was still living with him, replied. No
sirl When one of my gals swarlns she
must hunt her own hive"
A New Orleans child, whose death had
been formally certified by the family
physician, was frightened out Of its cot
fin by clap of thunder last week, just
a, the hearse drove up to the door.
An intelligent Massachusetts, horse
recently walked by himself in the vii
lage smithy with broken shoe, and re-
fused to let the blacksmith shoe him out
until it was replaced by new one.
1t is said that St. Louis editor used
to write poetry when a boy, aud had a
reputation in that line extending over
an area of country three miles long,
four miles wide and mile thick.
Dayton gentlemen are very gallant.
Seven of them lately jumped into the
canal at once to rescue a woman.
When they found it was an old woman
six of them padded ashore at once.
A Vermont man who had lnxuriant
hair and full beard, recently lost them
both in single week. He is a strong,
we'll man, and as, moreover, he is not
married, he cannot explain the mystery.
The pale, sad looking young men
whom one occasionally meets in the
street are not consumptive, are not
mourning the loss of friend, and are
not divinity students. They are break
ing in tight boots.
This may be a triae personal, but it's
the way they put things out West. A
st. Louis editor in speaking of brsther
ink-sliager, says, He is young yet, but
he can sit at his desk and brush the cob
webs from the ceiling with his ears"
A gentleman, named Dunlop, re-
marked that he had never heard his
name punned upon, and did not believe
it could be done. There is nothing in
the world more easy, sir, remarked a
punster, just lop off half the name and
it is Dun"
There are people in the world who es-
TEEN it so extremely vulgar to express
emotion that, if an earthquake were re-
ported to have happened in their neigh
borhood, they would consider it proof
of their good breeding not to have been
moved by it.-Punch.
A South Carolina paper thinks that no
Southern man will feel comfortable in
Philadelphia at the Centennial, because
a Philadelphia paper suggested that a
national hymn composed during the
war" should be sung on the opening
day. The proposed hymn was Yankee
Doodle" which became unpleasantly
familiar to the ears of British soldiers
during the war Of the Revolution.
A man in Titusville has an ivory ball
lodged in the esophogus, and it will be
necessary to have asurgical operation Of
a dangerous character performed in or.
der to extrieate it. The obstruction in
terferes with the passage of solid food
to the stomach, and was the result of
malpractice by his physician in treating
his throat.
You ought TO let me pass here free
Of charge, considering the benevolent
nature of my profession" said physi-
clan to a toll-gste keeper. " Not SO,
was the reply, you send too many
dead-heads through here now" The
doctor didn't stop to argue the point,
but paid his toll and passed on.
What a wonderful thing love is to a
woman How it helps her to know that
some one is always fond Of her, and re.
jeicss when she rejoices, and sorrows when
she grievesi to be sure that her faults are
loved, and that her face is fairer TO one
at least, than faces that are more beau
tiful-thGt one great heart holds her
sacred to itsinnermost reverses above all
other womenl She can do anything,
suffer anything, thus upheld. She grows
prettier under the sweet influences.
brighter. kinder, stronger, and life seems
but a foreiaste Of heaven, and all her
dreams are golden.