Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-22

Saturday night thoughts (fol, young
woman)-What shall wear TO morrow
Stop of at Williamsporl Penn, If yon
want to see woman with hair FIVE feet
long.
1t was jolly fight. She punched
away at the ivory keys like mad. and the
piano forte nobly.
A good natured man will put up with
almost anything short Of lining his wig
with a mustard plaster
81 wonder what Gauges my eyes 40 be
so weakY' said fop to gentlcm an.
They are in weak place" replied the
latter.
The "'convales cen" dress of the Ouch
ess OF Edinb'Irg is Of gray velvet,
trimmed With white lace, and opening
over blue attn skirt.
One OF the meanest things small boy
can do is TO put tacks in the chairs when
ne knows. that u young man is coming to
see his sister that evening.
Earl Russell, in his RecollectfOns," "
feels that it would be dishonest and un-
just not to let the world know that iter
an impartial consideration he fslly ap.
proves of himself and his career.
A rural New England moralist says;
Give your son good education and a
settled purpose in life, and when he is a
man he will not be content to sit back of
a grocery store ard crack his finger
joints"
According to a n edical certificate pub
lished by the Mus ical World, Mile Nils
son is suffering OF only from "inaam-
nation of the lI ynx," but also from
insomnia and dyspepsia, two COM
plants which, we'faney, go we'll together.
A blazing COW ran through the streets
OF Kansas City the other day. Some
person whose premises she had invaded
had bathed her in coal oil and ct ire to
her. 1t will be long time before she
breaks open any more gates, evnn if she
RECEIVERS.
A man n Michigan has .lourishing
lemon tree, aud by keeping it in his
house and using plenty of fir ewood he
manage to raise a few lemons in the
course Of the year. One season he
raised a peck of them, but the yield has
since been more moderate, anil he has
ceased to hope for anything, like
bonanza in this kind of fruit.
The st. Louis Globe tries to make its
Subscribers willing to die by predicting
the approach of the time when Wagner
shall draw the themes for his operas
from Bancroft's histories. Imagine
Washington singing, 81 cannot tell a
lie, father" in a minor key, with drum
accompaniment representing the blows
OF the hatchet. Boston Globe.
A daughter of Mr.. James Gr,ly, of
Parksville, Sullivan county, N. Y, was
recently the victim of peculiar acci.
dent. While combing her hair in fr ont
OF looking.glass, her older sister called
her attention to something, when she
turned her head around suddenly. and
through the displacement Of some cord
her head has since remained in the same
position.
They have a novel method of raisin 9
funds for the poor in Rising Sun, Ind.
Each individual pays his quarter" is
thoroughly bliudfolded, takes wheel,
barrow by the handles, turns for a stake
one hundred yards distant The person
who lands the wheelbarrow nearest the
stake is entitled to the pile" which is
then donated to the widows and or.
phans."
A one-legged Yankee orator named
Jones was pretty successful in bantering
an lrshman, when the latter asked him:
How did you come to lose your leg2'
Well said Jones, ION examini ng my
pedigree, and locking up m y descent,
found there was some Tri sh in me, and
having become convinced that it had
settled in that left leg, ] h Gd it cut off al
once" BE the powers. said Pat, fl
wOnld have been a bette thing if it had
settled in your head"