Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-30

Laughing a welcome, open nlngs
His doors. and as he goes he sings"
A Circuit Court-The longest way
home from singing school,
Punch says the unfortunate man s
friends live long way off.
Please define a good wife. A silent
partner in the concern.-Josh Billings.
Four Long Island men have formed a
company for the shipment Of oysters to
London.
Perfect, the Chicago murderer, made
eleven dying statements, which differ
widely as to details.
Two Pittsburg surveyors have found a
tract of land in the city worth $4,000
600 which has never been properly en-
tered.
A gentleman lately refused 20 cele-
brate his silver wedding on the ground
that he was not yet reduced to beg
gary"
Neal Dow is lecturing on total abstln-
ence in Scotland, family hoping that the
people may esteem a virtue, though they
have it not.
The New York World blames Barnum
for having two rings in the nose of his
circus. Insatiate Barnum, would not
one suffice?
The Columbus Journal says that W.
D. Bickham loves cocktails and not
cock fights. That is mistake. He
loves them both.
An attempt to utilize the rise and
fall of the tides, and apply their force
to mechanical purposes, is to be made
at st. Malo, France
A Wabash editor returns thanks for a
centipede received by mail from Texas,
ana says it is the first cent of any kind
he had seen in a month.
Coming in and going out-Every
eight minutes, night and day, one per-
son dies, every five minutes one is born,
in the great city of London.
The belle of Milwaukee carries a
pocket full of prunes, and chews them
on the horse cars, and then snaps the
kernels at the conductors eyes.
A Milwaukee omnibus man is willing
to bet that he will take passenger to
one depot and his trunk to another three
times out of FIVE, and no takers.
A New England boy writes home from
a Western town that he has Joined three
different churches and proposes to have
a hand in all the fun that is going.
The obituary notice in Western
paper contained the touching intelli-
gence that TIE deceased had aecumu.
lated little money and ten children"
A Petrolia parson was marrying a
couple recently when a dog fight inter.
fered, and the bride called out, Drive
ahead; the WALLER pup has him by the
forepaw."
In his youth Sir Henry Thompson
was linen draper. Now, at the age of
ffty-three, be has the largest income Of
any surgeon in England, and is at the
head Of bis profession.
Among the steady habits of Connect
cut is a steady habit OF drinking. Fit
teen out IF every forty-one one who
have died in that State during the past
five years we're Jrunkards.
3" ] meant to have told you Of that
hole sad a gentleman to his friend
who, walking in his garden, stumbled
into pit Of water. No matter, said
the friend, ] have found Il.
a California Snowman is wandering
around the county Illustrating the exc
cution OF the Modoc esptiVes by means
Of puppets The agony Of the hanging
IS worked up m most skilltul manner.
"Who dares spit tobacco juice on this
car aoory' asked a burly passenger on a
Mobile train. / dare, answered a
slender youth; Il did IT," You're
just the chap In looking for; give me
q chaw.
a pious old lady being asked By her
pastor what she thought Of the doctrine
Of total depravity, replied she thought il
a most excellent doctrine, and had no
doubt il had been the means Of saving
many souls.
a barber IN London, TO attract Gus.
tom. had on his sign a picture Of Abss-
ION suspended by hrs hair from the
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