Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-07
BY the rule Of three.-MedicaI

tlplies by the rule OF three. -Medical
] Review.
Tnere is something in store for u:
all, but it takes money to persuade the
clerk to hand it out.-Quakers' Jour,
nal.
Every mar is a miserable sinner in
church, but out Of church it is unsafe
to say much about it-except to
small man.
Did it ever occur to Mr.. Sherman
that he would like a ~judgeship in Ger.
tain contingencies? asks the Cincin.
natl Enquirer.
A young fellow who had a rich auni
to keep him in money, referred to hel
as his ine-aunt-cial backing.-Mone
tary Journal.
Putting the cup into Benjamin,
sack was a sack religious piece of bus
iness.-New Haven Register. Not il
you put the spoons in too.
Instead of sending the Indian CHIEF,
to Carl Sehurz, for conference, il
would be better and cheaper to senC
Schurz to the Indians.
When a couple of Cree Indians sci
married it's a sort affair.
Grip thought it was to increase the
populatiOn.-Scientif American.
A miser is known by the come penny
he keeps.-Whitehall Times. He must
be penny wise. Nevertheless we have
our opinion of the Times.
viii advertising pay? is a very old
question, and it has been proven that
it will; but what most interests the
editor is, will the advertisers pay?''
Collector.
Chicago kills six hogs for every
minute of every hour of every day in
the year.-Current Item. What a
boar it must be to the timekeeper.-
Pewee Methodist.
Trying to chew caramels with false
teeth ranks with trying to unite a
shoe-string with mittens on your
hands, or to do business without adj
vertising,-Veritable Truth.
A hen will set on a nest of eggs for
days without a murmur; but let a man
set on a dozen eggs but fer a minute
and he will use fowl language enough
to fill a barn-yard.
The Paraguayan government has
imposed a tax of So a year upon all
single men between the ages of % and
90. Women are not taxed, on the as
sumption that they are not to blame
for remaining single.
1t will be the style for gentlemen
who intend attending theatrical per
formances this season to fold up their
oyercoats and sit upon them, that they
may be raised above the tops of
women's bonnets.
Between his new baby and the
wreck of the Freedman's Bureau, the
cOlored Senator Bruce has no time to
play poker with his Republican col
leagues.-Atlanta Constitution.
When a landlord is corpulent is it a
case of in-fat-uation ?-Cin. Saturday
Night,-Nol We have always heard
that tavern-keepers who began to
swell generally burst before they 60
through.
Congress has begun to fire resolu-
tions at England on the Irish land
question. 1t is a long range for paper
balls, but the moral effect may be
prOdigious for all that. - Irish
Patriot.
A baby is a very small thing. 1t
don't usually weigh over nine or ten
pounds, but it will keep a family
awake all night as easily as if it was
as large a an elephant Il
Christian.
1t is said that a girl who can shed
three or four tears at a critical mo-
ment and follow them up with a auiy-
sigh, a marryall around a good
looking blonde who does nothing but
try to blush.
A handsome monument is one of
the few things of earth no fellow lives
to enjoy.-[Stubenvilla Herald. If
you would interview George Washing
ton you might ascertain from LIS
standpoint that no fellow who dies is
better off.
1t takes forty-horse lung power to
awaken the sleeping school boy in
time to escape a tardy mark; but on
holidays he will groupe around the
house in the early twilight AL out Of
sorts because breakfast is not ready
Boys Own.
Life is put together considerably
like a set Of harness. There are traces
Of care, lines Of trouble, bits of good
fortune, breaches of good manners.
bridled tongues, and everybody has TO
tug to pull through.-Des Moines
Register.
here are a few skating costumes
recently observed on the lake at the
Bots de Boulogne l.. A yellow gold
dress with black braid; 2. a blue
polOnaise with sable trimmings: 9. a
chestnut cloth overall with gold braid.
In all cases, muf, bonnet, boots and
gloves to suit.
Jane lunder nine) to her governess
Miss Blunt, when ma asks you to
have some more wine to-day at dinner.
do, please, say yes" Governess :
Why, what do you wish me TO take
more wine for2" Jane: "Oh, / only
want TO see mas face"
z. lfupOn a snowy day a gentleman
sees another gentleman slip and fall he
laughs, whereas ifhe sees a horse slip
and fall be does not laugh. Why Is
this thus2 A. Because if the gentle
man that laughs had fallen the gentle
man that has fallen would have laugh
cd whnrnaa thn hnran .rn..II-t 49,