Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-24

No man should try to negotiate loan.
He should have some one with him.
1t is a little strange that the most
stupid help comes from an intelligence
office.
The Pittsburg Leader talks about
i" the fanciful, 6ashy, foppish gospel that
is so often applauded.
An Indiana father crawled under a
corncrib and wept when his daughter
married an astronomer.
A Georgia editor has been indicted by
the grand jury for playing poker. 1t
seems a man has no rights there.
The Executive Committee of the Wo-
mans Club, Boston, have arranged for
series of lectures for the winter season.
OF what science does q man think
when railway train is coming toward
him in a narrow cutting2 Engine-near-
ing.
A darkey preacher lining out hymn
from memory said:
Plunged in gulf of dark despair.
Ye wretohed sinners-come out Of dar
Not drop of rain in the Crimes for
four months; all the surface of the earth
movable mass of dust, and no winter
wheat yet sown.
The procurement of clean paper
collar for the groom delayed high
toned Newark wedding an hour and
half the other day.
European physicians are now sending
consumptives to Algiers, where the eli
mate, it is said, is greatly beneficial to
pulmonary complaints.
They have musical society in Pitts
burg called the Frohsin Society" The
rendition Of "Greenland's Icy Noun
tains should be its specially.
If you want to knew whether your
grandmother was cross'eyed, or where
your great uncle stood in his arithmetic
class, just run for office, and you'll
know it ALL
Nobody requires a larger stock Of
Christian amiability and forbearance
than the young man who keeps matches
in his room where the other boarders
can get at EN-.
The Atchison Champion says of the
paragraphist: Personally he is per-
feet gentleman, but his jokes are like
one of Badly Sewers trotters-they only
show up in spots
Hepworth Dixon has taken back what
he said against American women, and
now he has our permission TO go ahead
aud hang up his picture in lager.beer
saloons and music stores.
A man who will 90 to the cemetery
with his wife on Sunday and weep over
her first husbands grave and walk home
without cross word shall have our vote
every time he comes up for Office
A Jersey City lawyer was making
high.Aown speech the other day, telling
about angels tears, weeping willows and
tombstones, when his Honor said: Con
fine your remarks to the dog fight"
They have people in Chicago who are
referred to as eighteen carat
frauds" There are men who profess
Christianity and charge ten per cent.
commission for passing round the hat in
church.
The law for the protection Of HOLSTERS
in Massachusetts seems to be vigorously
enforced A lobster dealer in Boston
was fined eighty dollars last week for
exposing for sale Holsters less than ten
and half inches in length.
Rather than see it neglected, a
thrifty Eastern farmer is raising pots-
toes on the grave of Tom Paine. Lou
isUille Courier. Journal This is the
Age OF Reason. and that farmer is sim
cere in bis dattery of the dead man.
Talent is rewarded at Worcester,
Massachusetts,. The Spy says: "Mr.
Emanuel Crupi, pupil of Mr.. Ben T. |
Hammond, who made such hit at the
musical festival, has opened a snug lit.
tie barber shop in the Central Exchange
building"
The Lynchburg Yirginian records this
incident: "a singular accident befell
Captain Drew, agent Of the James river
line Of steamers, at City Point. While
the captain was sitting in his chair, in a
state Of profound sleep, some rascals
stole out Of his mouth fine set Of arti-
fetal teeth. The loss is a serious one,
but the thief left no clue behind"
Crawford writes from Washington that
the President laughed aloud at Toole's
acting upon a recent occasion at Ford 8
Tbeater, and Crawford notes the impor.
lance Of the Occurrences by stating that,
previous to the occasion mentioned,
" there was no Trustworthy witness on
this Gods foots,ool who could testify to
having seen this model Of sioicism |