Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-06

Getting spliced doesn't make a girl
any taller.
The bad oyster plays a dead open
and shut game.
Study to make friends, but be choice
in their selection.
Many actors are true to nature and
false to themselves.
What brand of hopesis used to brew
storms Of troubleS
1t will soon be a case Of shear ne
cessity with the sheep.
A Boston dry goods clerk is so Gull
tured that he calls it Miss Emma
~broidery."
Four thousand dollars is the latest
quotation for a West Point cadetship.
A pretty girl may talk slang but she
never says to her beau, none Of your
lip"
Constipation may be removed by
drinking a tumbler of cold water on
rising in the morning.
Whistling concerts have broken out
in the west, and yet We wonder at the
increase Of crime.
How strange it is that those who
have no regard for law are among the
first to call upon it for protection.
To obtain a good nights sleep,
sponge the entire length of the spine
with hot water for ten or fifteen
minutes.
The highest price ever paid for
Chicago real estate was $4,l25 per
improved front foot, and the sale was
recently made.
The men who have the strongest
intellects have the weakest memories
they trust more to invention than
memory.
kissing is something like seven-up
If he begs. and she thinks she can
make a point in the game, she viii
give him one.
The custom of distributing choice
flower seeds as rewards to scholars has
been started by several Su~nday-school
in Philadelphia.
Cooks make the mistake of boilinl
things too much. After reaching the
boiling point meats should simmer
The toughest meats can be made ten.
der by so doing.
When an elephant gets cold they
give it five gallons ofwhisky, and that's
the reason why some men, who have
been to see the elephant, carry such q
peculiar odOr about them.
Under a new law in Massachusetts
a person guilty of three offenses o.
drunkenness is liable to a years i'm.
prisonment. Three men have already
received the full penalty Of the law,
Pennsylvania has over 5000 more
women than men. Poor girls, 5000 o.
them will have to 90 husbandless I'M
less they can swap off with their
neighbors in New York or Ohio.
When Denver people advertise fol
a servant girl, they make it one of the
conditions hal she will. not marry fol
at least six months. 60 west, young
woman, go west, and hunt up a hus-
band
Know yourself" was the CHIEF
maxim Of Greek philo sOphy. The chieI
study Of mankind is man, says the
poet. Every mar ought to know him
self as accurately as he knows his bank
account or his farm produce.
1t is said that broad heeled shoe:
will soon be the fashion for ladies
No one will regret the departure o.
those Elizabethian high stepping look.
ing heels, which made lovely womsr
look like a hen on a hot griddle.
A Chicago society offered last year
a prize of 500 for the best treatise on
the question, "How to destroy rats
The prize has Just been awarded &c
DR.. Burnett, of Philadelphia, who an.
swered, Increase the number ofcats.'
She was talking on the cars, and she
said: THE meanest people are those
who peep out of windows to see what
their neighbo,s are doing. Now, this
morning l was looking through the
blinds Of my window, and what dc
you suppose | saw that mean Mrs.
Jones doing? Why, she was peep.
ing through her blinds to see if l saw
her-the mean woman"
Teach a child that he is totally de.
PRAYED, and you do all in your power
to make him as depraved as he can
possibly become; tell him that he has
a divine nature within him, that only
needs bringing to the front, and theT
he receives an inspiration through the
confidence you encourage in his OWL
possibilities that help to battle with
all lower proclivities, and rise more
nearly to the standard of the CRANE
man who is a conquerer and not {
slave or machine.
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