Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-23
HUMOROUS.


the latest for bed-bugs.
Have you had your mornings morn
ing this morning2" is the latest way Of
putting it.
A baby elephant said to have been
roaming round New Jersey, turned out
to be a salt-marsh mosquito.
An English jury recently returned q
verdict of Not guilty, but we believe he
broke into the house for all that"
A dandy asked BARRIERS boy if he had
ever shaved monkey. No, sir" an
swered the lad; but If you will take a
seat, I'll try"
At coroner's inquest witness was
asked, What was the last thing seen by
the deceased" Kerosene" was the
reply
Arbuckle gees to New York with
Gilmore, and there will be no more
cornet in Boston-except in johnny
cake, says the Lowell Courier.
A California paper tells about boy
climbing tomato vine to get away from
mad dog. Tomato vines attain an
enormous size in California, and SO do
lies.
Drunk as usual" said professor,
reproachfully, on meeting dissipated
student in the park. No, sir-not
drunk 'sus'l-li'l drunkrn us'l, replied
the student
An amateur farmer wonders " why on
all this fair earth the ground is spread
bottom-side up, so that it must be
tHrned over with pillow before crops
can be raised"
If you don't want the SCOT don't go
up the chimney" was the reply of an
editor to respectable - parties who re-
quested him not to mention the fact that
they had been arraigned in the Police
Court.
Two babies we're shipped several hun
bred miles by express, in Geor gia, re-
Gently, and arrived at their destination
all right; but the express agent was
almost worn out telegraphing ahead for
milk, shingles for spanking purposes,
and other necessaries.
Two Milesians we're standing at the
Paramount Water Works in Philadelphia,
watching the big wheels splashing the
water in every direction, when one of
them remarked: mike, isn't this a
quare country, where they have to grind
their water before they can use it2"
An Irish lass wrote to her lover, beg
ging him to send her some money, and
added in the same letter, by way of
postscript: l am SO ashamed of the
request that have made in this letter,
that sent after the posimau to get it
back, but the servant could not over
take him"
Moceasin Caucus is what the freed
men down South call the habeas corpus,
and one of them in Eufaula looks at it IN
this light ooh, yes, take him out wild
de moccasin caucus, and turn i'm loose
to kill anudder niger. Sumbody gwine
to yet hurt bout this moccasin caucus
yit."
An old lady, recently visiting prison,
asked one OF the attendants why
the prisoners received such coarse food.
He told her it was to keep their blood
from becoming impure. And when
asked what they would do if their blood
was impure, be dryly, responded,
Break out "
The Lapland cradle is a queer thise;
it looks like a sledge with the lower part
opeR. Before the child is put in j, is
stuffed with fine soft moss. II the
mother wishes to carry the child with
her, she fastens the cradle on her back,
with the child peeping over her shoulder.
II she wishes to leave Il at home, she
lets down the cloth Of the cradle head
to keep of the knats, sunshine or cold;
aud il there are wolves in the neigbbor-
hood. abe hangs It on a tree; as the
wind breezes up. the child rocks to and
fro, and lies quiet enough.
A few mornings ago, says q Kentucky
rural paper, We neekly approached an
emigraut wagon and inquired Of is aus
tere proprietor. Whittier boundga Ne
loTd removed bis quid 10 the larboard