Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-15

Niehsle MdroRr," an Italian. Isu't
thus Mike Marony italicised1
Sylvanus Cobb wants to be Lieutenant
Governor Of New York State. His
excuse is that he has written 800 novels.
The detectives of the country count
that day lost whose low, descending sun
brings not record Of another Ross boy
won.
This is the latest form of wedding in
vitAtiops: Come around and see me
capture a motherin-law at o'clock
sharp"
Somebody observes that when six
young ladies sit down to talk about dress,
small boy with tin horn is refuge
for the weary.
Its an even thing in Rome-if you
give beggar ten cents, he will bless
your soul, and if you refuse to give any
thing be viii bless your eyes.
No use sending this paper any more
poetry on Susan B. She's come out of
the erueible as tough and shining as a
tin ear.-Defroit Free Press.
A student at an Iowa college boarded
himself on sixty-6ve cents per week and
studied twenty hours per day. he is
now an'overseer of highways.
Quilp, who has heretofore been Uni
versalist, now thinks there are two things
destined to be eternally lost-hfs UNI
brells, and the man who stole it.
1t doesn't look we'll to say the least,
for Kansas church member to have to
draw out his revolver in order to get at
his two cents for the contribution box.
The only unoccupied real estate in
New York is advertised thus: "a nice
three cornered lot in cemetery. short,
and just right for fat man with only
one leg"
Horse dealsr-"I know you don't like
his cad, and | allow he amt got a purity
cad; but lor', now, look at Gladstone,
the cleverest man in all England, and
look at his cad 4"
In giving geography lessons down
East, teacher asked boy what State
he lived in, and was amused at the re-
ply, drawled through the boys nose,
"A state of sin and misery"
A converted liquor compounder has
been divulging the secrets of his pro-
fession. Now, if corner groceryman
could be got to the mourner's bench
what world of good he might do.
Susan Jane must have been scantily |
dressed when she was looking out for her
lover and sang:
He'll come tonight; the winds at rest, |
The moon is full and fair;
III wear the dress that pleased him best
A ribbon in my hair"
An editorial notice Of a woman's
grocery store reads as follows: Her
tomatoes are as red as her own checks;
her indigo is as blue as her own eyes,
and her pepper as hot as her own tenn
per-"
One Of the old settlers Of the Isles of
Shoals seeing the name Of Psyche on the
hull Of yacht, the other day, spelled it
'ut slowly, and then exclaimed: well,
t that amt the durndest way to spell
ish."
A county treasurer in Alabama cant
read or write, but he has put $1,000
where no one but himself can find it.
This shows that a collegiate education
su't essential to the requirement Of
wealth.
A fellow who hid under a sofa at an in
'ormal Boston missionary meeting, says
hat the thirty-five ladies spoke twice Of
he down-troddeu heather and more
han hundred times Of new kind Of
lair dye.
Breakfast for ninety-nine," said
waiter to a verdant clerk at an hotel,
lot long ago. Thunder said the clerk,
we can't do It," The waiter explained
hat ninety-nine was the number Of the
Dom.
he vent out between the acts, and re-
urned vigorously chewing a Glove. His
wife asked him where he had been, and he
aid, TO see friend" She calmly re-
lied that she thought his friend must be
lead, as she could smell his bier.
A party Of young men we're out ser
Inading a few nights since They sat
N the pavement, which had been re-
emily paved with tar solution Next
morning the rear Of six pair Of pants
otted the walk, and music is heard no
more around that cottage.
A colored preacher down South took
or his text the words: Though after
ny skin worms destroy this body, ret in
ny flesh I shall see God" which he
Iivided into three parts as follows:
First, skin worms; second, what they
One; third. what the man seen after be