Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

walk, went to law and got SloOO LOT the
tiny member.
A surgeon writes from the Australian
gold fields to say that he has now quite
discarded the lancet, end opens the vein
with the piekax.
What to forget and what to remember;
Forget injuries and remember benefits
if you grant favor, forget it, if you re-
ceive one, remember it.
A voter praising favorite candidate
at late Irish election, said; He is as
fine a lady as ever lifted hat to a lady
or boot to a blackguard."
Irate party to bus driver-"Why
didn't you attend to me hailf Bus
driver, with dignity and pulling team,
cause l had my hands full of rein"
An attempt is being made in England
to revive the game of Ombre, which,
during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, used to be the most fashiona-
BILE card game.
The other day a eountryman at Bar
NUNS Museum asked one of the men,
"Where is the mummy" The latter
replied, He is dead" and the inquirer
passed on. perfectly satisfied.
The Reedsburg Wisconsin, Free Press
employs women exclusively. 1t says:
1--WE have a calico foreman, two dimity
compositors, and the sweetest little
devil in pink muslin to be found any
where.
The Empress Eugene is credited with
saying: Men are easily deluded; they
are duped on every hand; the same arts
succeed with all of them, and the woman
is q genus who strikes out new way to
get the better Of them"
A Pennsylvania preacher, while hold
ing service recently, gave thanks for the
prosperous condition of their crops,
excepting, Oh Lord, the corn which is
backward, and the oats, which are mighty
thin in spots"
A Vermont paper says the shores of
Lake Champlain are dotted with the
tents of pleasure seeking parties, ana
their boats may be seen from morning
until night in the earnest pursuit ofpike,
pickerel and bass.
A sportive sturgeon leaped into a boat
in the Savannah river, knocked down
one of the crew, sprained the ankle of
another, and then calmly aoated off
from the boat, which he had completely
filled with water.
The Chicago Superintendent of Pub
lie Schools recommends the establish
ment of school expressly for the worst
class of pupils, to which ill.behaved
scholars will be sent from the other
schools.
England has her first crop of mos
luitoes, result of the recent unusual
heat, and a member of one of the
learned societies sends the Times
specimen insect and anxiously asks,
i Whence do they Gomez" We don't
care to inquire.
e DR.. Kenealy, the advocate of the Itch
borne claimant, is described as man Of
much energy, rather heshy, and strongly
quilt, with bright, flashing eyes, though
lie wears spectacles, and a powerful
'oice. He gesticulates vigorously with
lis fists.
Captain Maston, formerly Of the Eng
ish Grenadier Guards, died in the latter
part of July at Baden, Switzerland. He
,ntered the army in 1913, and carried
he Kings colors of the Third Battalion
jrenadier Guards at the battles Of Quatre
Bras and Waterloo.
A Green Bay merchant put ont sign
If ice water free" Another put out
! sign Of free lemonade, and third
,fered every customer ten cents in
money. A fourth man who couldn't
hink Of anything better got up a dog
light, aud it drew all the crowd.
A negro thief, in Hart county, Ga,
attempting TO enter store by way Of
he chimney. vedged himself SO tightly
n the aue that the chimney had to be
.Orn down next day before be could be
sxiricated and escorted to a place OF
.afeiy, that lie. to cell in the county
jail.
A Sioux City lady went to a gallery
or her picture. After putting her in
position, the artist put the plate in the
,amera, aud told her to look at a certain
pot on the wall. She wasn't certain OF
Ieeing il well from where she sat, and 50
got up and walked over to il, but failed
10 discover anything curious about IT,
Fourteen years FOR stealing a horse
and Eve years for killing q man, is the
Of penalties 10 Texas.' This
looks a little curious At the FIRST BLUSH
but you must remember that while q
hnr.a will cost q hnndr.d dollar in