Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-10
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phians.
The lAwabiding dog now wears a
muzzle aud pants In the summer.
Both the Memphis Theater and Green
law Opera House will be open next sea
sou.
Sympathetic ink is now the rage Of
sympathetic people who write on postal
cards. N IT. I.ilIII'Ili 90
The members of the Cant Get Away
Club" should get up a Court Square
concert.
In the ambisexual colleges up North
the degree NJ. A.-Maid Of Science-is
conferred.
Several lottery clubs in the city got
their money back in the Louisville Ii
brary scheme.
Manager Charley Whites benefit at
the Jefferson Street Opera House TO-
morrow evening. cas-
Tomatoes are recommended by physi-
clans for their beneficial effect on the
liver and other organs.
The people are beginning to indulge
in vegetables and fruits, since the p. ID.
ceased to be an epidemic in the city.
j. Livingston and John Harvey, two
belligerent Africans, we're incarcerated
in Castle Athy this morning for an as
sault.
The number Of men who sold prize
tickets for small bonus just before the
drawing, mother, amount to many dozen
in our city.
This morning at Bray Station, Edwin
Polk Hill, aged nine months, and son of
Napoleon and Mary Wood Hill, died of
congestion.
The coarsest and widest brimmed
straw hats are now the fashion with
school girls and likewise with girls Of
larger growth.
The Second Chancery Court, Judge
Walker presiding, will adjourn to-mor-
row to court in course-the first Monday
in October next.
Memphis did not become wealthy over
the Louisville lottery drawing; but Mem
phis will go several thousand dollars on
the next scheme.
The Board of Health should attend to
stagnant pools, foul wells, odoriferous
cellars and Easements, unwholesome
dairies, slaughter houses, etc.
The total value of real and personal
estate in Tennessee Is $493, 200, 900; the
value of farms is $2lS, 100000, and Of
farm products $S6,5OOOOO.
In few days there will be a sale of
valuable lots at the town of Lucy, on the
Paducah railroad. Esquire Caldwell is
now making out the diagrams, etc.
Ladies take advantage of trips to the
Vienna Exposition this season by visit
ing Paris and having their faces enam-
eled. So says New York journal.
An old essayist once said that all
repartees belonged to one Of three
classes, namely: You are another; you
are fool; you are liar; a series of
phrases of cumulative meaning.
Although not persistent admirer Of
Billingsgate we admit that Josh Billings
gives good advice when he writes, " You
had better not know so much than to
know so many things that amt true.
The Appeal men object to having their
private Office wherein are their ex-
changes turned into a public reading
room by idlers. The exchange fiend is
an animal most persistent in his visits
to all editorial rooms.
One of the most popular places of re-
sort in the city during moonlight nights
is the bluffs at the foot of Madison street
In any other city number Of iron or
wooden seats would be provided for Wis
itors on this public promenade.
Sullivan, of the Herald, insists that
Vicksburg :" is the healthiest city south
of the equator. This may be true, but
Vicksburg is not by several thousand
the healthiest city north of the equator;
that is, provided the equatorial line is
where it has been heretofore.
What latent power is it that impels
one, when he sees friend with a new
hat, to take it off and serenely try it on
his own headP And yet it is a common
custom in Memphis and elsewhere. But
why not pull off another fellows new
socks and boots and try them on like
wiser
The soul of the man desiring sleep at
twelve o'clock at night does not 60 out
to greet in a friendly manner the mu-
steal neighbor who blows through a wind
far into the night as if he
was competing for the position Of prize
nuisance.
The Register advocates the collection
Of back city taxes by the State and
County Revenue Collector, just as if the
City Tax Collector could not do it
equally as well. The General Council
was exactly right in refusing to make
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