Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-23
RIcrs AND FANCIEs.

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State of Affairs in Utah-Harem'
scarum.
The bone Of contention Is said to be
the jaw-bone.
Chill, too, means to have universal
exposition in 1915.
GrasshOppers are setting the wheat
crop all awry in Texas
The husbandman sows wheat while
his wife sews tares.
Query-Arc the Michiganders any re-
lation to the Portuguesef
| A remote next of kin lays claim to the
entire town Of Hickman, Kentucky.
Lodi, N. j., chronicles the birth OF
three sets of twins within few days
Mississippi hires out her cOnviets at
sixteen dollars month, and doesn't find
them.
The S. P. c. A. Of Buffalo has pro-
cured the arrest of cruel fisherman
who cut of q surgeons tail.
A poetic Hibernian explains that love
is commonly spoken Of as a flame
because il is a finder sentiment.
The New Haven police are said to be
an well drilled that they will not speak to
their wives, unless properly saluted.
A wealthy citizen ofTrsntOn' Indiana
is said to have presented every poor
widow in the city with barrel Of flour.
Professor Agassiz desires to throw
omen to wemen all the educational In
situations and facilities under his control.
The women Of Ohio are getting up
huge suffrage petitions to be presented
10 the Ohio Constitutional Convention.
A woman named Wade shoes horses
at Fort Scott, Kansas, while her hus-
band plays billiards around the corner
Fort Smith, Arkansas, has a woman
blacksmith who can throw mule and
shoe him in fifteen minutes by the
clock.
Moore county, Tennessee, manufae-
lures fifty barrels of whisky day, and
vet the inhabitants, like Oliver Twist,
cry for Moore.
A Peoria man says that his wites
tongue wears out so many sets OF false
teeth that the dentists bills have nearly
broken him up.
A medical writer says the healthiest
position to lay is with the. head to the
north. People who own hens should, bear
this fact in mind.-DdnbuTy Ne1s.
The first base ballist was James fitz
James, who said, or ought to have said
'Come one, come all--this rock shall by
From this firm base as soon as /.
Somebody asks What is home with
out cradle2" Hang the cradle. It's
the little cuss in the cradle that makes
home howl, if anything does.
The New York Mercury regrets that
the President hasn't son just graduated
from law school, for then he could APP
poiut a Chief Justice from the family.
A St. Louis girl sigAalled train with
her parasol and prevented an accident.
She was rewarded with free pass by
the company, and realized two dollars
extra profit on the sunshade.
A st. Louis man is preparing a "Po-
liceman's Pocket Directory" with type
large enough to be read by moonlight.
1t will be very valuable to policemen
who are strangers to the city.
The planet Vulcan, lying within the
orbit of Mercury, accomplishes its year
in thirty-four days and some hours. The
Albany Journal says everybody can be
his own Methuselah in Vulcan.
The Louisville Journal, in speaking of
Captain Jack, says: His ideas in regard
to back pay are uncertain, but he has
way of going for an adversarys back
hair, which is unpleasant, to say the
least Of it.
While Texas man was trying to an
Choir his mule to a stake recently, the
animal managed to get the rope around
the mans neck, and then ran away at
the top of his speed. The widow wants
to sell the mule.
The following is going the rounds as
very proper amendment to the Constitu
ton: Every scoundrel shall have the
right, as Congressman and Senator, to
vote himself an increase of salary when
ever he feels like stealing"
Barnum wanted to spread his tent
over Rhode leland, but was forced to go
over the line, as his show would inter-
fere with the spring photograph trade in
the State, and stop all sittings while
bis canvas shut out the blue sky.
By cable dispatches we learn that
calico is higher in England than for
years before. This is severe on the aris-
toerats who use fabrics Of this charac-
ter, but in no wise affects the servant
girls and lower classes who wear silks
and Eatins
A Milwaukee girl, with a morbid
craving for earrings, has been supply
ing herself by stopping ladies in the
street to tell them that their pendants
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