Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-24

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nuisance to the reporters, who are moi
allowed to put their feet on the table il
order to escape a collision with the frisky
CANNES. The dogs must be there lobby.
ing against the dog ordinance
The smallpox is spreading fron the
Northern to the Southern States. In
Georgia it is prevailing to- considerable
extent. Hundreds of emigrants from
other States pass through this city on
to Texas, which fact is well enough to
recollect, and also, that no fact is more
absolutely established than that perfect
vaccination is a perfect preventive Of
smallpox
In the Mayors office hangs a portrait
Of Isaac Rawlings, the second Mayor Of
Memphis. Why not get up a portrait
gallery at the City Hall and secure for it
the portraits of all the Mayors of Mem.
phis since it was first organized. 1t
would be a curiosity and would be quite
an attraction not only to citizens out
strangers. There are no doubt photo
graphs or portraits OF all the Mayors Of
Memphis, in existence.
People who ask reporters for news
paper puts gratis should recollect that
the reporters are charged up with and
have to pay the usual rates at so much a
line for these aattering testimonials; but
then the reporters are all men of i'm.
mense wealth and can stand it. If you
want to puff" your business apply OF
the business office Of the journal you
desire to ~patronize, but do rot impose
the tax on the reporters.
Why is it that drunken men generally
visit the station-house, ever when not
arrested by the police? They walk in,
ask all manner of silly questions and
show off generally. This is a strange
mystery worthy the investigation OF
scientists or spiritualists, They are i'm
PEELED to make such visits By some I'M
known mental powers, not the result of
reason certainly, but it may be owing to
that sense which is called instinct in all
other animals except man.
Memphis contains a greater number
Of pretty girls, compared With the popu-
%lation, than any other city on the CONT
nent. Not more than half of them are
engaged to be married; and Of these en-
gagemeuts two thirds are OF that kind
which, you see, lis binding on you but
not binding on me- This gives a chan e
to the centennialite bachelors here and
elsewhere. To use the usual market
quotations, the disposable stock on
hand may be quoted lively, brisk, small,
refined, in fair demand--active, nomin-
ally unchanged and unsettled.
Human weakness is developed to no
little extent by those who attend the the
alter on Friday night, the fashionable
theatrical night in Memphis. ION such
o night" as Lorenzo and Jessica would
say, did all those who owned or could
borrow diamond rings or pins put them
on, and wear them to the theater2 The
hand with the rings on is always held
up on exhibition, and is used to arrange
the hair, the bat, or to lean the head on,
but always in such a position as to dis
play the jewels to advantage. The weak
ness and vanity Of mankind can always
be detected from a diamond standpoint.
The Nashville American, calls the
Avalanche man "a Mephistophilian
sneerer." There is some historical pro-
priety OF a%ssoeiating the name Of Meph-
istopheles with a disciple of Faust, the
old printer of Metz, who with Gutten-
burg in 1860 printed the Bible with
wooden types, and as they used no ink
the cry was raised in Paris that they
embelli8hed their books with blood and
that they were in league with the devil.
But of course we do not desire to be un-
derstood that our Avalanchian neighbors
are in any way connected with that old
league, even when they take a hand in
municipal elections.
DR., Howard, of the Sisters of Provi-
dence Hospital at Montreal, Canada,
cures lunatics by giving them brandy
literally, which liquor, be insists, is
better than. medicine; in fact, nothing
else adds in so material a manner to
brain power. In this city the liberal use
of brapdy has made lunatics, but it
may also cure them on the principle that
the hair Of the dog is good for the bite.
DR.. Howard recommends brandy in no
quantities to every lunatic
in the world. Our County Poor
house authorities must have heard of
this treatment some time ago, il one can
Judge by that big whisky bill which was
rejected by the County Court committee
a lew days since.
"A city father, in detailing the miseries
and troubles attached to the Office, said
to our reporter; IF we cut down all
aalaries, all employees become mad; il
we cut down some, these will get mad
because the others are not so treated;
and il we cut down none, they who are
not city employees will get mad. So
whether we do anything or not, one
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