Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-22


Paris between dwarf aud giantess,
the former forty inches high and the lat
ter six feet,
Ii is said that the most dilapidated
things to be seen in Chicago are the
omnibuses. These venerable relics date
before the fire.
BuAr wood which comes from points
on the Potomac, York, James and
Rappahannoek rivers is worth twenty-six
dollars per ton.
When You see lady coming out of q
shoe store with picked mines You
needn't suppose she has gone into the
base ball business.
Milk punch is becoming widely known
as cure for diplheria, and people with
slight colds are much more easily
alarmed than they used TO be.
The man who has not anything to
boast of but his illustrious ancestors is
like potato plant-The only good be-
longing to him is under ground.
When the privilege of voting shall be
allowed to women, there will be no ne
cessity for urging them to register. They
viii cheerfully rally to a man.
Ladies don't know whether they like
smoking or not. With special favorites
they ike it; With general favorites they
don't like it, and with no favorites they
detest it.
What is wanted in Kansas is more
telegraph poles and stronger ones. The
average pole holds only about four
horse-thieses Observation-Disclosures
Sentinel
The .colored gentleman whom a Vir-
ginia sportsman mistook for a pigeon in
chincapin bush the other day, says he
don't want to be made game no mo dat
fashun."
At the annual cat show this year, at
the Crystal Palace, there were 287 en-
tries, the total number of cats being $50.
The heaviest specimen exhibited weighed
fifteen and three fourths pounds.
A pious old lady who keeps boarders
says she always admired st. Paul. He
preached the doctrine Of eating what
was set before him, and asked no ques-
tons for conscience sake.
Says the Boston Globe: Thirty days
in jail is the price for throwing your
wife out of doors in Greeuville, Conn.
Those domestic amusements will soon
be so cheap as to be within the reach Of
the poorest.
The Mikado of Japan is selling off
certain images, and adyertises one of
them as follows: For sale, at Kama
Kura, a very fine idol with six arms. 1t
is fifteen feet high, and was cast in
bronze at Sheffield"
Savannah News "a well bred man,
says Montague, " is always social, com
PLEASANT and courteous" a truism which
it would be well for some eminent clerks,
who swell on little brief authority, to
appreciate.
When a Nevada miner leaps into
saloon with revolver in each hand and
a bowie knife under his arm, and asks,
" Who runs this ere soul-destroying
shebang?" echo is left to answer, while
the crowd fall out Of the back door.
When the mother of q" the boy of the
period " wonders what ais him. she
reads the announcement that chest
nuts are both cheap and abundant" and
turns away from the mournful intelli-
geAce, sad-eyed but satisfied
No man can spin around the revolv.
ing seat Of threelegged stool so
proudly, and at the same time carry
pen full Of ink in such close proximity
to his eye without blinking, as The newly
appointed secretary Of life insurance
company.
An Episcopal clergyman, who rather
likes a joke, was engaged to read the
service for brother minister, and was
hurrying to church little belated on
Sunday morning; a friend struck by his
uncommon speed, inquired Sir, why
so fast?' In order" said he, that he
who runs may read.
Peter Cooper failed in making hats,
failed as cabinet maker, locomotive
builder and grocer, and then died worth
millions Of dollors The moral is OBJ
vious. Ia man wants to die worth mil
lions be should first fail IN making hats,
then as a cabinet maker and locomotive
builder, and finally as. a grocer. Try it.
A traveller ia Vermont stopping at
hotel recently, ordered supper. The
meal was a very inferior one, and at it's
conclusion. which was soon reached.
be stepped up to settle for it. "Well,"
said Bonifaee, with alacrity, Il hope
you had good supper" "Yes," replied
he, musiugly, the supper averaged first
rate the butter was strong, and the tea
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