Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-27
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The 'trAmN whe Apply tor lodging
nightly AZ the s,alieAAoase no loager
adOru The Recorders courtroom door.
They nov occupy The upper rOoms OF the
prison proper where ,Aey ara permitted
to sleep over aigAt What TO do with the
tramps" Is becoming an important
QsesGon, They Aegle to inorcase nightly
aud soon from 6Ny 10 enc hundred and
6Ay Of them viii be applying for station.
house lodgings They should be put to
work on the streets aud in this manner
made to pay the expense Of feeding and
lodging them, This would also have the
effect Of ridding our city Of many va
grants who have a horror Of honest
labor,
Among the amusing facts connected
with the Centennial masquerade ball at
the Exposition is mentioned one, that in
attendance en- masQue at that affair we're
Eve negro women, with whom the boys
aad beaux wAl,sed, Quadrilled, prone
Rsdea aud ehatied in a lover,lke style.
This is undoubtedly true, and it was dis
covered by = few, but they thought the
isAe too good to let out, SO the negro
women continued to enjoy the delightful
festivities until the affair broke up early
in the morning, and next day (yester-
day the boys in the secret promulgated
it around town to the chagrin of many
a stylish beau who thought that he had
made quite q conquest while masquerade
ing at that ball.
Candidates for the mayoralty race in
January had better read carefully the
following pOetical remarks, written by a
political and p%oetical editor: "0n a
platform made of plank, there stood
poor foolish Blank, for passers-by to scru-
tinize and scan; and his followers all
said: Blank was level in his head, and
the office would fit nicely to the man.
But his enemies, with stress, called on
BlAnky to confess, how he came to have
that money in the bank; how he poisoned
a neighboring we'll, sent a family all to
hi; how be lied, how he gambled, how
he drank-how he used his hired help,
called his opponent a whelp, and was
down on the Bible in the schools; how
his father wasn't sane, how his grand.
mother was lame, how his family ran to
s%croiula and fools"
During the presentation at che theater
Of the Two Orphans by the Kurdish PEG.
pie last week, and during the presQnts-
ton of Mons. Alphonse by the DAILY PEG.
pie at the same place last night, many Of
the audience shed tears. Let us a~nalyze
a tear chemically, and what do we find
it to be. The principal element of a tear
is water. This water, upon dissolution,
contains a few hundredths parts Of sub
stance called mucus, and a small portion
Of salt of soda, Of phosphate of lime
and of phosphate of soda. 1t is the salt
and the soda that give to tears hat Pc
culiar SAVIOR which has earned for tears
the epitheto Of salt and bitter" When
a tear dries the water evsporates and
leaves on the cheek a deposit of the sa-
line Ingredients. These, as seen through
a microscope, array themselves in cross
ed lines, which look like diminutive fish
bones. So you see chemistry takes the
romance even out of tears.
Professor Tice, of st. Louis, predicted
cold weather for a week, commencing
the Goth Of November, which prediction
was correct, and he added: ut will be
warmer about the 9th of December, and
then cold for another week. 1t will be
warmer from the 18th to the 18th, and
then turn cold again. About the Goth it
will be warm, and about the Both cold to
very cold until January 9Th; then warmer
until the 18th; then very cold to- the
Goth; then warmer for q few days, fol-
lowed by cold weather until the close Of
the month. The month Of February
will be very boisterous, generally warm,
but short spells of intensely cold
weather" M~emphians, if they have
faith in Professor Tice, had better pur-
chase clothing and coal in view of his
predictions, provided they have the
wherewith SO to do. If they have not
this latter sine que non, they had better