Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-08
MNA

Who eliminated the cockroach?
What is life without a mosquito BARI
Who invented the glorious Fourth
How much are you out on the drill7
Stay, good ghost, were you ever q
Porter?
Who was the first man to have his
boots blackedH
Who is responsible for that cracked
Nashville company?
Wouldn't J. Gould have been a
good name for Register?
Couldn't fans appropriately be
called the wings Of summer?
How will you manage to smuggle
your fish home tomorrow evening?
Hadn't the Porters better 20 West
and revenge themselves on the lnjunsP
Didn't the little fellows look hand
some in the parade yesterday evening?
Which is the most likely to enter
an open window, hygiene, or thieves?
What more delightful weather could
be desired than that of the past few
days2
Why do Fort Pickering dairymen
persist in putting minnows in their
milk?
What do you think will be the
result of the three cornered political
fghtP
Did the Nashvillians turn out all
their hearSeS yesterday to meet the
Porters?
Are spring chickens so called on
account of the elasticity of the cooked
article?
If there is grain of patriotism in a
fire cracker, how much is there in a
loaded anvil?
AS the summer waxeth warmer, do
you not wonder what are the wild
waves saying?
Did you ever examine the nose of
the man who is always warning you
against ice water?
How many men do you know who
are so sorry they did not think of run
ming for register2
Why have we not heard of the Com
mittee Of Fifteen appointed to investi-
gate the city debit
What do you think of the parable
of the prodigal son as applied to Shell
by county politics?
While rents in real estate are slowly
crawling up, what are rents in the
necks of breechs doing2
In the year 1899 this interrogator
expects to ask, when will the Gus
tomhOuse be completed?"
Have the Ohickasaw Guards any idea
of disSolving themselves into social
and literary club, as rumored2
What would you have done if you
had swayed the mighty scepter of a
delegate in the recent convention?
Will the Chicks bury that Porter
Rife uniform. redeemed from my
uncle" at Louisville, with the honors
of war?
Don't the muscle indicator on
Monroe street tell some striking
stories OF the degeneracy of Memphis
youth2
Isn't it a good thing the sidewalks
were widened before the umbrella
straw hat was invented and worn by
females.
Speaking of the Bridge of Signs,
don't you think it would take bridge
OF pretty considerable size to span the
Mississippi?
Can it be said the fire. bells we're not
ringing for a fire yesterday evening,
when the very city itself was ablaze
with enthusiasm?
What is more suggestive of a mos
quito than the fedgeling in wide fiat
straw hat, tight pants, git-up and git
coat and dangling fob chain
What is more calculated to fill the
defeated candidate with gloom than
the sight of his announcement in the
daily papers The day after the battle?
Isn't it about time for the spring
lamb to be laid away in the silent tomb
rather than to be resurrected from the
clearinghouse cupboard three times a
day.
Instead Of using patent fly brushes
turned by water power, why not pre-
sent each fly with case ofrasors with
an accompanying receipt for case o.
suicide?
Who is the most patriotic, the smal
boy with fire cracker attachment, Oh
the political Abraham, who is anxious
to sacrifice his hopes on the altar o.
his country?
What is more awful to contemplate
than the doom Of the little fly who un
suspectingly meanders over tie glazeC
pate Of the statesman, under the SHADOW
Of Eis slowly descending hand?
Now that Memphis is becoming ar
onion market, is there any reason VIII,
home made kisses should not be vel
favored, and thus a new industr,
inaugurated, to be known as the man
: ufacture of "Aromatiled Osculato
ries2"
Did you ever see a politician or
monkey sitting on the end OF a rail
picking his teeth with the end Of hi