Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-24
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eiOu NJ" huthOets one tuOusAnu ahu
ninety five active members.
Why don't people Who banker after ihe
dollar Of their daddies 60 to the Old
Dollar Store aud buy one2
1t was a darkey who exclaimed as he
rose from his knees at a camp meeting;
Here l raise my eben.knees-sirl"
The Marquis Of Lorne lately gave an
order in Paris for a diamond diadem
costing $4,000 as a gift to his wife, the
Princess Louise.
The Devil Fish" is going home to
New York in a day or two.--[Boston
Transcript, How will no get in. since
General NewtOn'blew up the sntraucs2
The newest toy savings banks are of
cast iron, inscribed with the title hold
the Fort" a miniature cannon is on the
wall, and The deposits are fred by it into
a tower.
An exhibition of mole skins at the
recent exposition at Morelis, Mexico,
has led to the establishment Of a factory
in Mexico for the manufacture Of gloves
from mole skins
P. S Gilmore has received an invita-.
ton from the commissioners Of the Dub
lin Exhibition Palace to give a series Of
concerts with his military band while en-
route to Paris.
Human jaws sell fer two dollars apiece
at the seat Of war in Bulgaria, and yet
the American people pay $4,000 a year
and mileage to their congressmea.-
Worcester Press.
A little girl said to her mamma:
Mamma, have you heard of the man
that get shot2" mo, child, how did he
get shot2" asked mamma. "Oh, said
the young precious, "he bought en-"
Zach Chsndler's head granger up at
the farm has prepared an agreeable sur.
prise for his chief. He has planted
twelve acres in mint -[Ciacinnati Com
mercial. He ought to coin money of it.
A resident Of Hanover, N. H., has
sued a young towasmsn for $500 for
room rent, fuel aad light during the de-
PENDANTS courtship Of the defendants
step-daughter-a period of over four
years.
Il told her I'd never smoke another
cigar" he said, softly, and l won't.
A pipes plenty good enough for me-
and he gracefully drew a match over the
largest part Of his oasers.-[Rockland
Courier.
II rode in the carriage with the Wild.
over" said the cook, on her return frsm
the obsequies of a friend, and then
added, HE said the funeral would have
been nothing without me."-[Bostou
Transcript.
Brother Kimball may be very good at
raising church debts, but the best hand
at that business is the young minister
who wants to put in a new organ with
half an acre of stops before the church
is paid for.
DR.. Mary Walker doesn't fight against
the tyrant man in the regular ranks, bat
as a guerilla. -[Boston Post. But she
never hangs on the skirts of the fight.
She is always to be found storming in
the breeches.
An inquisitiVe boy in Iowa wished to
hear how birdshot sounded when it
whizzed out the muzzls of a gun. Here.
after he will travel through this beauti.
ful world Ornamented with a leather ear.
-[Roekland Courier.
The sweet singer of Michigan was
smart enough for the Chicago inter.
viewer. you were the Oldest of the
family, were you not2" be said. mo.
Of course not, replied the poetess; my
father and mother we're older than me-"
If Mark Twain has apologized for his
Whittier speech in the abject manner
reported, or, indeed, if he has a~polsgized
at all, it will be necessary to apologize
for him. To say, for instance, that be is
a victim Of emotional insanity .-TBufalo
Express.
A barrister described his poverty as
follows: "When | began to practice I
was in perfect rags; the smallest hole in
my shirt was the one l stuck my head
through, and had to have that, my only
shirt, washed by the dozen, for it was in
twelve pieces"
A lover Of good coffee entered a gro.
Gerry, aud, holding up a handful Of ground
coffee from a big can, be inquired: Are
there any beans in this coHfee2" mo,
sir" promptly replied the grocer. How
do you kuOw2' asked the man. Be
cause | was out of beans, and had to put
peas in" was the answer,
While he was Counting over the col.
lection money on Sunday last, the dea.
con Of a Washington church found an
old and faded piece of paper, which, be.
ing unfolded, proved to be bis own nearly
outIawed note for $50 and interest.
which the holder, unable to collect, had
turned into the treasury Of the Lord.
They tell a story of an Alabama cler-
gyman, who remarked conidentially to