Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-20

selves IN straight-jackets. They do
so from a force Of abit.-[BOston
Post.
Socrates swallowed a fatal dose OF
hemlock and his memory remains
evergreen. The moral is Obvious
american Queen.
The Duchess Of Marlborough hints
broadly that Mr.. Parnell has Eli Per-
kinized his facts.-[N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
DIR. Bernard Davis, an English
physician, has 1900 skeletons for sale.
Some Of your own raising, doctor p
ALBANY journal.
Such is James Gordon Bennett S
enthusiasm for Ireland just now that
he signs himself james O'Gordon
MISUNDERSTANDING J%ournal.
The long-sought- after "infallible
anti-fat remedy seems to have been
found. Prescription Board with
the Rev. Mr.. Cowley.'-LNew York
Tribune.
Owing to the industry of medical
students an Ohio man is useful after
he is dead. Ohio seems to have the
bulge on everything and everybody.
|-lAtlants Constitution.
1t is of no use to try to explain
away the anti Grant defeat in Penn
~sylVania. The most confident Of the
Grant men could have hoped for any
thing better.-CNew York Sun.
Young man, if it is II o'clock and
she goes to the piano and plays a few
bars of"The Sweet BY and By" you
may consider the seauce over for the
ght.-[Philadelphia Item.
1t is very easy to adopt a platform
or nominate a candidate to please the
one thousand independents which
may lead ten thousand Democrats to
stay away from the polls. -[Buffalo
Courier.
Bismarck has 466 decorations. The
other day he put them all on and pre-
sented such a gorgeous appearance
that he was taken for an advance
agent Of a negro minstrel show
Albany Journal.
Thomas McElrath, Of Marlborough,
a victim of insomnia, has not slept for
twelve years, and offers a liberal re-
ward for a cure. We recommend him
to join a police orce.-[Brooklyn
Eagle.
Will Colonel Ingersoll please come
to the front to state whether he con-
tinues to leave his pocketboOk where
the children can help themselves
The interest in this experiment has
never bated.-[Cincinnati CONNER.
cial.
The truth is tina. the spirit of re-
beilion which struck the first blow
when the flag was fired upon at Fort
Sumter, in 1861, has been a fruitful
parent of all sorts Of frauds and revo-
l%utionry steps to this day.-lNew
York Tribune.
The hotel keepers and the railroad
men and the tradesmen of Cincinnati
are specially anxious to bring the ma
tional Democratic convention to this
city. They have contributed S45 to
that end. They are willing to risk
that, if they ose.-[Cincinnati En-
quirer, (Dem.)
The mystery that a Rockland boy
desires the advancing years to unfold
iswhy he always is rushed off to bed
when he is not in any degree sleepy,
and made to get up when he is 20
sleepy that it seems as il his whole
system vas clogged with PITCH
[Rockland Courier.
One of the worst pieces of turnkey
ism ever perpetrated in Washington
is the publication Of Parnells speech
in the hall of the house in the RECORD
to be handed down as a part of the
congressional proceedings. A black
list should be made of all concerned
in t.-[Cleyeland Leader.
The Rev. Edward Cowley, who kept
a children's starvation hall in New
York, is an Englishman. He might
have been a Ute, a Sioux or other
brute, or even a thug Of Hindostan,
but a nice discrimination made him
choose the fttest nation, and he is an
Engllshman .-[Boston Pilot.
You fancy you are sorry for the pain
Of others. Now, | tell you just this.
that if the usual course of war, in
stead of unroohng peasants houses
and ravaging peasants fields, merely
broke the china upon your own draw
ing-room tables, no war in civilized
countries would last a ek.-R Rus.
kin. =
Mr.. Smith Weed is worrying the
political paragrapher Of the New York
Tribune. 1t seems that Mr.. Weed re-
Gently went around among his friends
and got a 81 bill changed and bought
a railroad. The amiable p~aragrapher
comments upon this fact with CON
Stunning bitterness.-[Atlanta Consti-
tuition.