Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-06
LEDGER LINES.
Fine table butter at Oliver, Finnie q

On the streets yesterday ladies ap-
peared enveloped 10 spring garments.
Professor Mueller's grand terpsicho.
rean exhibition at the Memphis Club
Hall to night.
A Memphis poet is attuning his Tyre
to the theme of the spelling match -
yet to come of.
There is less actual want and fewer
people ont of employment in Memphis
than in any city of its size in the United
States.
Ladies who are studying law will be
pleased to learn that their sex can now
practice law in Wisconsin, Missouri,
Maine and Illinois.
Peach and apple tree blooms adorn
the p~arlors Of suburban residences.
Suburban people enjoy flowers in abund-
ance and the songs of wild mocking
birds.
Thursday night next DeMurska will
MARBLE at the theater before a large and
fashionable audience. The Hungarian
is the best operate singer on the cont.
nent at present.
The sensation drama, entitled The Cut
Win, will be presented at the Greenlaw
Opera House on Friday evening. The
trained dogs, Romeo and Zip, will ap.
pear in the cast.
The Chickasaw Guards will give q pub
lie fulldress parade at the Assembly
Hall tonight. Fhe Chicks have in.
vited a large number Of ladies to witness
their evolutions.
Some Mexican war vets recently met
III Texas and cordially invited Colonel
Jefferson Davis and Captain U. S. Grant
to be present at the next meeting. The
old vets properly stick to the titles won
during the Mexican skirmishes.
Now sing, 20, lead my infant feet to
walk into the spelling schools Let other
children sneer and laugh at photographic
rule; but me that better way still lead
till perfectly l spell; go may l shun the
path that leads to where Josh Billings
fell"
There is n barber shop in this city
where your hair is brushed by revolving
machinery. While the operation is per.
forming you are uncertain as to what
size your head will be turned ere the
work is concluded. Big-headed citizens
should ~patronize that machine.
Our reporter was presented with a dol
lar and a half pointer dog yesterday, for
which taxed animal the owner asked one
hundred dollars a few weeks since. Our
mar desiring to become a taxpayer, &C.
cepted him for the purpose of flushing
and retrieving items during the spring
and summer months.
Already the youthful Memphian d.
vests himself of clothing and laves him
self in the muddy waters of bayou
Gavoso, very much to his own satisfac-
ton, but utterly regardless Of the amen
tiles of social and civilized life; but
whena juvenile has swimming on the
brain he falls into q state Of youthful
barbarism and becomes a duck of the
D%arwinian system OF philosophy.
The young mar Of the Appeal again
boasts that "a young lady has promised
to darn his socks by weaving among the
meshes golden strands Of her own au-
burn c%urls," purchased some time since
and now out Of style. Think of a man
stepping on auburn curls and then writ
ing up items Of news. He should wreath
his items in poetic diction, aud court in
SEPARATION from her throne by placing the
socks nearest his heart when returned
from the Chinese laundry.
The Appeal man wants the author
and abettors Of the ten cent school tax
to step to the front and receive the exc
crRtions of the public Gentlemen,
forward Haiti Right facet 'FRONT.'
Public, prepare to execratel Execratel
Admission, ten cents; parade in front of
Appeal Office. The School Board
superintendent Pickett on "dooty;"
Barnum, on "dooty also, will
be in attendance to call for an encore
and cry out in a loud voice, Reform
and retrenchment,' adding, soto voce,
= in a horn"
In view Of several prospective hang
in the county jail-yard the Sheriff
is philosophically considering the new
invention of the drop" to locate the
irop below the surface Of the ground in
stead of above it, according to the old and
disgusting style. The new improvement
has been adopted in several States, and
has met with unqualified Endorsement of
except the malefactors; but such a
as universal satisfaction 90 ~ orr