Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-10

Is dead gold the aesthetic name for yell
low dorg2
When shall we hear from the Commit
tee Of Sixteen2
Whose smile is the brightest. that of
the sun or the farmer?
Is buying new straw hat tho latest
tile decoration craZe2
Why are there no birthstone monu-
ments in the marble yard?
Is the atmosphere of Memphis salt, that
its citizens are so thirsty?
If Raleigh was a little further away,
would it be a popular summer resort?
Have you noticed what swarm of in
sects the electric light lures to their doom?
What magnetism is there in soda
water fountain to attract young lady's
eyes?
Won't it be pity if the Chicks ever
have to spoil their uniforms in real
battle?
Have you noticed how few of your
friends intend to spend the summer at the
springs?
If glass was sold by the pound, how
much would the hotel clerks diamond pin
be worth?
Ifyou want to make cool thousand
year, hadn't you better go into the ice
business?
Did you ever notice how spattered with
ink are the fingers of the anonymous let
ter writerl
How many men in this city live on
free lunch and chew toothpicks in front
of leading hotels2
Bow is the electric light reished by the
maiden Of uncertain age, and equally un-
certain complexion2
Isn't it a fact that the sweet school girl
grows fonder of school after she leaves it
than she was before?
When the weary wayfarer asks that he
may only .e forgotten, isn't his dying
request likely to be granted?
Doesn't it seem that Miss Summers re-
ception is warm notwithstanding her un-
accountable and inexcusable delay2
Is it the atmosphere of Arkansaw which
permeates the statements Of Memphis
men who have just been over there fish
ing?
Do you droop and languish because of
the continued absence of the aesthetic
mosquito-the fiery, untamed and Wilde
kind2
How would it do to auction of tramps
to the highest bidder, to go into slavery
for one year, like they do in Richmond,
Kentucky2
What could give one better idea of
the influence exercised by newspapers
than the answers of rejected jurynen in
the Mundinger casel
If you were told that the shades of
night were falling slowly, would you in
fer that Old Sol was taking things easy
after his hard days work?
Why is it that those young ladies who
get the most unmixed happiness out of q
well developed sigh, wear tighterscorsets
than any Of their sisters
Would the police he justifable in ar
resting the spindle-legged, tight-panta-
loon young man as vagrant, because he
has no visible means of support?
How many men DO you suppose ex-
claimed served him right" when they
heard of the West Virginia man who was
shot for refusing to take a drink
Do you know of any creature more
miraculous than the small boy who re-
sists the temptation of drawing a stick
across every picket fence he passes2
Win Mary's little lamb be revived at
the boarding houses every spring, until it
gets SO old it will have to be distributed
to the boarders by the aid of dynamite2
. Did you hear Of the awful calamity
which betell a young lady, who got a
freckle on the end Of her nose on account
of watching the electric light too closely?
If "a pious man is told he must either
go to the mountains or to heaven and he
buys an excursion ticket for Pixies Peak
right away, what is the inference 10 be
drawn2
Isn't there something In the ecoincidence
Of beef going up while tafiy-on-stick goes
DOWN, to suggest to poor people tho idea
Of using the htter as substitute for the
{ rmer2
II the new theory that consumption and
all other diseases can be prevented by in
oeulation, would it not be good move 10
vaccinate The entire population Of Menu
phis with red nose?
Now that Carlyle, BeaconsEeld and
Emerson have stolen silently across Inc
river, have we not Just cause 10 congsatu-