Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-20

Mnzzled your dog9
Are we to have wooden pavements?
Isn't a smallpox patient to be pitted2
Is the electric light. ashamed to be
scent
How many riaemen does it take t maks
a bull sigh2
When will the budding election cam
paign bloom2
Are you a base ballist, a shootist, or a
military mani
Isn't this a good year to wear out old
high water pants
Are you an onery member Of any soci-
ETY., or company
Have you secured reserved seats for the
hanging matinee?
Don't you think the picnic season is be-
hind schedule time.
Aren't you weary Of O'Leary and his
FORMULATING pals2
Oughn't BARRIERS to be we'll informed
about crop prospects,
Hasn't Memphis sustained its reputa-
ton as a summed resort2
Don't you think Miss May Atytoo has
been behaving scandalously?
Which is the sweetest singer, the
nightingale or the cat-at-night?
What is the cause of the increasing dull
ness in the matrimonial market?
How many bull dogs would the average
small boy brave for n green applet
What is more offal to think of than the
present front-door garbage-box system2
If the late food was disastrous, how
much nor so would a big June rise" be?
Do you not have a dim recollection that
somebody said something about a bluff
parkl
If they go at all, who will command the
Porters in the coming contest at Louis
vile?
viii you forget Estival Park, or will
you still wait dismally for some place Of
evening resort2
Did you ever hear of a cashier who
went over the ocean just for his health
and nothing else2
AS Nonconnah bottom Is so dangerous
a place, would it not be a good move to
make a hill of it?
If the present Legislature compromised
the debt at l0-l would you consent as q
matter Of prineiple1
Is there net a bond Of sympathy be-
tween the bed spring, spring lamb, and
the sweet springpoet2
If all the Porter Guards who are anx-
ious for rank could have it, how many
p~rivates would be left?
When you heard that Ju Lee had paid
his poll tax, didn't you exclaim, Gust
like a heather Chinee?'
If yon own property in the city, hadn't
you better give it a coat Of white wash just
to start the ball rolling2
As there are several Chinese babies in
the city now, would it be a good scheme
to get up a novel baby show2
Have you any more definite idea Of
where you shall spend the summer, ex-
cept an indefinite somewhere?
Won't Main street be a delightful place
for a MONDAY promenade this summer
when all the awnings are removed
Couldn't some other place be found tc
put the thousands of wires which now
cumber the streets and alleys of the city
In view of certain recent scandals, cam
you guess the contents of the column il
the Police Gazette headed, Religious
News?"
Would it not be a good idea to give tn,
peeping plant a rest as a harbinger O
spring and substitute the red Lemonade
dealer2
Are not some ofthe airy white evening
costumes worn by Memphis girls sugges
tive Of the lines, "Mother, may l go on
to swim2
Would the food term "June rise" b,
applicable to the spring boil which usually
appears on the end of aman's nose during
that month?
Do you want a personal in the pape,
when you leave for the summer, or would
you like to have n smugglcd in by mis-
take, anyway
Is "Great Guns" an apt exclamation {,
make when you see two double barrelet
men going off for a drive in a single
barreled buggy
Do you think the dogs have enougl
human nature in them to want to BIT
somebody now more than they did befor
they were muzzled2
Won't the clerk Of the weather have Il
give us a good long spring Of pretty day
IL he expects to take of a balance sheet a
the end Of the year,
AS the warm weather approached
won't you pine for a place where you cal
have a mountain in the front yard an
one in the back yard?
When you hear a man in this climat
abusing street awnings, do you not won
/, der how he can be so ungrateful as t
abuse his best friends?
Which sound predominates at tn
church dinners, the chatter Of the knive
!, and forks or the chatter of the beauteou
, and busy waiting. maids?
AS an election is sufficient to warm u
a town without any other agency, woul
1t not be a good plan to charge the tim
from August to December
Are you so completely s~aturate
> with confidence in your husband
} to be willing TO leave him for a tire
months visit to thesprings1
Which are young ladies most enviou
. of-the new spring bonnet which is pref
I tier than theirs, or the face it inclosC
which has the same ADVANTAGE
:, Suppose the man who offers prizes fc
. new comets changes around a little an
offers a medal for the voter who can fin
\ a man not a candidate for Register2
Is not the fact that no other plaC
draws good audiences now except tn
0 Police Court, proof conclusive that it
9 most interesting of local attractions Z
, If, as before noted, sunbeams would b
: good timber to saw up into Stats for al
gels bedsteads, would they not do just
well for use in building the scaffold f
9 the coming tragedy?
2 Surprising you to be a young mar wit