Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-04
VARIETIES.
The prospects seem favorable for a
full crop of politics this year.

full crop of politics this year.
What barle er should talk about
while shaving man.-AbOut two
seconds.
"How can we help our town.
asks Chicago editor. Did you ever
try leaving it2
The peach crop isalight this year
the speech crop promises to be un-
commonly heavy.
The reason why wine is put in
mock turtle soup is probably because
wine is a mOcker.
A Dayton man boasts of owning a
dog that has learned to smoke. 1t
must be little whifht.
Modjeska is the Pole that will knock
down the tragic persimmons the com
ing theatrical season.
Has any one yet spoke of the deca-
pitatiOn of Hoedel as Be HoedelY
Mind you pronounce it right
If Kearney succeeds in making the
Chinese CO." perhaps he will turn
his attention to the Keeley motor
It's easier to tie knot in a bulls
horn than to make your wife believe
that every other night is lodge night
Tilden begs to inform the Tribune
? that those cypher dispatches were
strictly confidential, and to ask the
Tribune if, under the circumstances,
their publication is gentlemanly.
A staff commander was suspecting
an English yeomanry regiment on out
! post duty. What are you doing
! there, my man." he asked vidette.
" Maxim DANCED fule of mysel sir"
, "How so2" why, l should be at
/, hoam carryin' hay" His heart was
2 not in the parade.
! A Bergen county man pleasantly
l sat down to breakfast, and his loving
wife said; "Barling, does your head
ache?" He replied with sufficient
dignity. mo; why do you ask?
s And she said back, "Well, dear, you
came home at 3 o'clock this morning
and as you couldn't hang your hat OF
the rack, you put the rack down OF
:, the floor and said you'd hang ever
! hat in the house on it, and | though
u your head might ache
e The other day a visitor surprised
e Richard Grant White saying to hi
. baby, "Onny, non-ny, mussy tick hi
'e little foOtsy tOotsies out from under z
10 banky wanky OF catch coly woly al
have re snuffles." just then h
caught sight of the visitor and said [
Or the infant. mo, no, you must not e1
" pose sour pedal extremities by extend
2 ing them beyound the projecting cove
Vi of the blanket, or you will lay you
system open to attacks of catarrhi
SC affections. And the astOnished chill
rs shrieked as though some one ha
&c winged it with a defective safety PHI
es 1t is understood that Kearney ha
le instructed his secretary to write
y, Charles Reade for a new speech, an
to request him to make it a littI
"a more vigorous and left-handed tina
u, the blackguard missiye he sent [
y that Cincinnati man. If KearnC
IN thinks Mr.. Reade can surpass h
present speech, written by a billing,
, gate fshwoman, he is sadly mistakel
r Thelunhappiest visitor in the mour
lie tains Is New Jersey man, who h;
I'd come up to look at some land, q
OF acres, for which he traded last year
is very fine colt. The trade was mad
lie on the Jersey flats, and the JersC
,u man had never been to the mountain
he He tells the story pathetically, an
es ends with: Stranger that $50 acr,
is a leetle more than particular.
cq We read in a Western exchans
that two bushels of No. 2 wheat wi
70 pay one years subscription to the pt
- = per. This is a new feature in journa
,e ism, and we shall have to meet
90 90 gradually. 1t is not to be expecte
Sas that we can break off suddenly and a
~ ~, at once live like Western editor
~ Until further notice, and on this plal
.as av six fat turkeys, two headquarters
T. steer beef twenty-six dozen eggs, thi
! ty bushels of potatoes, two barrels
y -four, forty quarts of cranberries, OF
= barrel of A sugar and seventy stalks
n well bleached celery will pay for Il
Nv Rome Sentinel for one year.-Ron
bo Sentinel.