Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-10

The school boy cares a great deal more
for his vacation than he does for his vo-
cation.
The San Francisco Mail says: When
people cant confne their religion TO
churches, it gets to be i%utents."
Lydia Thompson's company is appear.
ing in Oxygen. That's about as much
as 1t ever appeared in Boston Post,
The vocal Tom cat nightly before he
begins yelling asks himself the question:
How'll do It2'-[Easton Free Press.
One often hears a person complain of
a dull headache" and yet they would
not enjoy q real lively headache any
better.
The new London magazine, The MIN.
teenth Century, has been a great sue
cess, reaching a circulation Of over $4,000
copies.
When you read the street.corner lie.
gends, Peaches lOc a dozen" remem.
Der ten is a sign of the decade. Il Boston
Bulletin.
Michigan could spare one hundred
weekly newspapers without any of the
remainder being able to make a dollar.
5[Detroit Free Press.
A Milwaukee editor says George Sapd
may have died from strong coffee, but
there has been no mortality from that
cause at his boarding house.
The season at Long Branch ia TO be
extended two weeks. This ia TO give
parties time to send home and make ont
new mortgages. -[Free Press,
Now does the willy bank director find
a deficit of $4,000, and cxclaims, This
comes OF supporting men in idleness."
Ordered, that there be a reduction Of ten
per cent. on the salary of the night
Waterman .-[Puck.
Ednond de Rothschild, Of the house
of Rothschild Brothers in Paris, is en-
gagged to the daughter of the chief of
that house in Frankfort. The marriage
will be celebrated in that medieval seat
OF the German Diet, which was also The
cradle Of the Rothschild family.
The Presidents household now con.
sists of Mrs. Hayes, Miss Pratt IA niece
who has for a long time made her home
with them, Msssrs. Webb, Birchard and
Rutherford Hayes, (Young men from
eighteen to t~wenty-four years OF age),
and two little children-Fannie, aged 10.
and Scott, aged Z.
a wedding was held in a drinking 81.
loon in Denver. The following ia a list
OF the killed and wounded, copied from
a local newspaper; John Meivs, alias
Antelope Jack a laborer, killed.
Jack Williams, badly; VIII
liam Mullen, badly; King, badly cut;
Sandoval, shot ia the hand thigh; Stew.
art, cOlOred. shot"
A family out on Barnes street is in q
nice fix. A colony of wasps have raised
a subscription and built a probe and
bodkin factory right on the lower sash
of a front window, and every time any
one Of the family attempts to raise that
the foreman comes out with a
probe as long as a darning needle and
says, Drop itl' Prominent physicians
and entomologists who have been con.
say the family will Just have 10
the window down and sweltsr until
he first snow.storm. 1LScientiGc Ameri.
IAN.
Il wouldn't a minded bout losing
hem three fingers by that ere buzz saw"
laid the man, sadly, "bnt since that time
I've kinder Grown reckless, and gone ON
lrinkin' by the wholesale, and never
lnOwin' when ter stop" But what had
he losing Of the fingers to do with Your
becoming a drunkard2" broke In the
stranger. wy you see, r~espondedthe
nebriate in explanation, them three
as | lost was he same ones / aIIns
ised to gauge my whisky With. and when
hem was gone,I was gone,tD Chicago
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