Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-22

Are you al Athy-ist?
What will the harvest be?
Who went back on the Greenbackers2
Is the Selma railroad a reality or a
ruse?
Why do live candidates discuss dead
issues2
Will William B. Bate in the coming
c~onteSt2
How much did the late how purify the
water supply
Is it not quite plain that Memphis has
q little "Patience?"
How is this weather for the sunAower
and other fool crops2
OF what use are parasols when cart
wheel hats are fashionable2
Breathes there a man on these bluffs of
the rank of Private Dalzell2
Is a wire puller necessarily an iron
worker, and therefore a mechanic?
Have you attended enough picnIcs this
year to become sound on lemonade2
What is more awe inspiring than the
wall of a mosquito about a barless bed?
How much more will a man weigh after
having eaten a forty-pound watermelon?
Is it not wonderful how nicely we
manage to get along without Oscar
Wilde?
How are we to bridge the bloody
chasm between the picnic and theatrical
s~easons2
Why should the man who paints his
nose grumble because his wife paints her
cheeks2
Who will refuse to believe in the doc
trine Of humiliation after the August re-
turns come in2
Is it not safe to say that all the ROSTERS
of the kind which crowed when st. Peter
told a lie are dead2
Why don't the Main street peanut VEN
der get up aplatform and resolutions, with
a ticket attachment
Which are you most interested in, the
war in Egypt or the amount ofindigestible
foam in your glass Of soda?
Is it because Eyeglasses magnify the
number of their beaux that certain Mem
phis young ladies wear them2
If there was no such thing as brandy
would the Adams street fishermen dread
snake bites as much as they do2
Il it necessary for the good Of a Taxing
District form Of government that all of It's
Presidents should DO childless2
II cabbage heads were worth a dollar
each, how much would the Tennessee sky
blue Democracy bring in MARKET
Have you heard the new beatitude,
BLESSED are the ticket makers, for the
kingdom Of promise shall be theirs2"
What do the sky blues mean by Haw-
kin their high sense Of honor about RS if
it were charcoal, at so much a bushel2
Are we to have no more archery. no
more croquet and no more hearts pierced
with arrows and hammered by mallets?
Is not a strange coincidence that a ter
rible war should be raging about ancient
and modern Memphis at the same timer
Is it true that the agile President Of the
Memphis Jockey Club proposes going into
training in order to ride his own entries2
Wouldn't an outsider be- justified in
thinking Memphis chief trade was in
confectioneries when there is so much said
about candy-dates2
Don't you suppose Nashville will be
crowded with guests to witness the won
derful exhibition drill Of the Porter Rifles
on the End Of August
Is it not like writing an obituary upon
the enterprise Of this city to say she can
not raise sufficient funds to purchase n
building::for the Nash libraryS
From the fact that doctors disagree
about ice water, and use some very sui
phureous remarks about it, is it not plain
it possesses some Of the qualities of the
more inspiriting beverage2
II the male portion of the community
who intend going away for the summer
were we'll informed, would they not 90 10
Paraguay, where one is expected to kiss
every woman to whom he is introduced