Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-11

in a street car without being ordered to
step down and off.
1t is no harm to shoot a cat in YER
mont, but if you happen to miss the cat
and kill a boy the authorities make an
awful fuss over it.
What did Judas dog' asked a Sun
day school teacher of her class of boys.
He licked the British" promptly re-
piled one of them.
The new dinner glove, lately intro
duced for dinner parties, is made of soft,
flexible unglazed kid, fastened with one
button at the wrist.
1t is predicted that the polouaise
proper will very likely disappear in the
spring, but the combination skirt of two
fabrics will still continue.
The Courier.Journa refuses to con.
tribute a " durn cent to the fund for
inclosing Hiawatha's grave. Hemay be
an Iniun himself some day.
John Thomas, of Maine, a mail car.
rier, lighteAed his load by filling the
gulleys with letters; but they found il
out, and put him in a zebra suit.
Il guess I'll take this book" re-
marked a Chicago lady to the clerk of a
bookstore, tits got twice as much gold
leaf on the owe as any of the rest.
A gentleman in Cleveland now jumps
up and says that Benedict Arnold was
as true a man to America as George
Washington. Hand us those eggs, bub.
Three Chicago girls are about opening
a barber shop. One is to do the lather-
ing, another the shaving, while the'third
is to sit on a sort of a throne and play
on a harp.
Nevada ice dealers are already pre-
pairing to double their prices next sum
mer, upon the ground that the crop will
be almost entirely eaten up by the grass
hoppers.
The official balls in Paris this winter
are said to be tiresome. The royalists
have no objection to dancing over a
volcano or upon the republic, but they
will not dance with it.
A young man has written two poems
addressed to "Florestine,' and sent
them to this Office. Florestine can have
them by sending address and postage
stamp.-NeW Orleans Republican.
Greatness of station always brings
absence of mind as a penalty. Con.
gressmen who now forget all about $780,,
900 checks would have hunted over a
mile and a half of door yard to find a
lost penny.
In one Of the schools in Lewiston the
other day a boy, whose parents work in
a mill, was asked the definition Of holi-
day. II know" says he, "it's the day
when you can stay out without asking
the boss"
Anything to beat Satan" was the
legend suggested by a Danbury politi.
clan when asked to name something ap
propriate as an inscription on a banner
for a Young Mems Christian association
-Ddnbury Meps.
High life below stairs-Mistress of thu
house-"Tve some important letters
want taken to the post, Progmore. Have
you finished dinner down stairs YETI
Butler-"Not yet, mum the 'ontrays' il
just a goin in"
"Pm very much afraid" said a prom
inent church member, that brother
Gurkin will never get to heaven; he hai
fallen from grace so often That's {
fact replied another brother: H
beats all to fall from grace, but he al
ways manages to light. on his feet"
At dancing party ia western Ken
lucky the other night, to which severa
women came with their babies, somt
young men changed the clothes OF thu
infants while their parents were dancing
and mixed them up generally. The fol
lowing day there was a great row, and al
the families lived miles apart, it tool
several days to unmix the children.
The youthful King Alfonso's methoC
Of selecting bis royal advisers remindI
one Of the way the boys play marbles
1t seems that the boy king has a specia
aversion to a gentleman named Mr.
Ortiz du Pinedo, and when the forme
was lately pressed to make said gentle
man a counsellor, the king stoutly re
fused, and when questioned as to thl
cause, said: This is the man who ba'
, charge of the property Of the palace
and he sold my beautiful black horse d
little Johnny Prim, and shall neve
, forgive him, never" Johnny Prim j
t. the son of the late General Prim, and i
. about the same age as the king.
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