Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-16

taken tue apartments IN King street,
St. James, that were once occupied by
Napoleon III in the days when he was
called Prince Louis.
There is one consolation in being bald.
When a policeman strikes you on the
head with his club the doctor doesn't
have to waste any time in cutting hair
away from the wound.
When an interviewer calls upon Gen.
Sherman the General places bottle of
brandy on the table, says he has to step
out for moment, and is not seen again
until the next morning
Colored people in Alabama who never
saw any body Of water larger than mill
pond, are drawing government rations
on account of the overflow of the Tom
bigbee river last spring.
An English physician during lecture
to female audience, on the use Of alco-
holic beverages, asserted that the babies
of Loadon are never sober fronl their
birth until they are weaned."
The Rochester Union propounds a
eonundrum. 1t says that Mr.. Poland
tried to stop printing press by putting
his finger in cOgwheel. The press,
singularly, went right on, and where is
Mr. Poland now2
A friend Of ours, when little boy,
had superstitious fear of using the
word peradventure, because they forgot
to explain to him the meaning of the
passage: If say Peradventure, the
darkness shall cover me.
Says the Brooklyn Argus: when
Boston woman loses her little black
aud tan, and can't find it, she concludes
it has been stolen, and Immediately
wants to hire Faneuil Hall to hold an
indignation meeting in it.
A St. Louis woman, who appeared
against her husband in court recently,
swore as follows: Since he married
me he has never given me penny, and
I've pawned my watch, my jewelry, and
my false hair to get along"
In Floreutine theater, short time
since, the orchestra, not being paid, left
at the end of the second act of the opera,
and the intelligent publice present
smashed everything in the house in re-
turn for their disappointment.
A li;tle girl at Long Branch, having
been kissed by General Grant, remarked
to her mother Immediately afterward:
81 don't like that man to kiss me. He
smells just like Uncle Frank when he
goes to the closet and drinks something
out of bottle.
At Cambridge, England, the public
became SO deeply interested in domes:
tic drama that they were not satisfied at
the fall of the curtain to see the villain
of the piece mounting the gallows.
They wanted the curtain up again to
see him hanged and they made a row
about it.
Thers is a Chicago medium who can
pour blazing coal oil over her face with
out harming herself, because she is pos
sessed by the spirit of an Indian girl
who was frozen to death. She had
better go about lighting fire with kero-
sene for young women who haven't
congelated Pi Ute for a guardian angel.
The Louisville Courier-Journal is be-
coming philosophic. 1t reasons in this
way; Alta recent baby show in Wis
consin twenty-seven women started home
tearing each others hair and hoops.
Nine tenths Of the women shouldn't be
permitted to have babies. They cant
bear rivalry. If all women were ban
ished from the world we would never
have any trouble at our baby shows
Barnum took about forty dogs to Balh-
more, TO be used in the Hippodrome stag
hunt and kept them shut up over night
in vacant lot in West Baltimore All
the vagrant ours in the neighborhood |
collected outside the Enclosure, sending
forth before high heaven a series Of I'M
earthly yelps and bowls, to which the
CANNES within responded with such An
agoniziDg zest that the neighbors we're
well nigh distracted.
In view Of the fact that Watts hymns
have been translated into the Choctaw
language, and have become favorites Of
the braves, an admirer Of the noble red
men says it is very affecting to think Of
a noble red man sitting upon fence and
singing, How doth the little busy bee,
while he watches his wife carrying home
couple Of bushels Of potatoes upon
each shoulder, and wondering if he
oouldn't swap that squaw for a jug of
robust rum.
A young lawyer in a country town
asked some Of his friends to a game Of
cards in his room, to be followed by a
little supper. Frogs we're a new species
Of food in that latitude, and a dish of
them cooked in the choicest way was the
feature Of the occasion. Supper time
approached, and during temporary lull
in the conversation, the door suddenly
opened, and Milesian waiter, in loud
voice, announced supper thus: Mr. E