Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-07
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CAPADURA.

Are you a Young mani
Have you seen the comet2
Shall we have an abattoirl
Where are the base ballers2
What shall we do with m~urderers?
When win Poplar street be paved?
Where is the man with white pantsY
How long will the burnt cork deluge
continue?
Hadn't Miss Flora better retire to the
conservatory now?
Who is the greatest orator, Eb. James
or Patrick Henry2
Does it seem likely that electricity will
supercede gas in this city,
How would Robert Wilson's carcass
look on a lamp post2
Could a stronger ticket have been nom.
mated by the Democrats?
Can't some minstrel company tie IN
here and remain for the season?
Is it likely that the astronomer could
measure tbs tail of a mule as easily as that
of the comet?
Are you aware of the fact that our
transient visitors now number about foul
bundled II day2
Because tatfy on stick has disappeared,
is it probable that ether varieties of that
commodity will everc cease to exist?
Whese are those trees and shrubs thai
were to be planted on the bluffs immedi.
ately upon the departure of the circus.
Are we not forcibly reminded by the
noted catastrophes of the past few day,
that in the midst Of life We are in DEATH
Is it not strange that we have so little
honey in market, considering the number
of persons who have bees in their bonnets'
How would it do for Memphis to adop'
the plan of Montgomery, Alabama, ahd
enter In a register the name of every visitor
to the city2
With a doctor, a lawyer and a mer
chant on 1t, what combination could b,
formed strong enough to beat the Demo,
cratic ticket?
Is the Customhouse forever to remain ,
standing, roohess and pointless Joke. anf
what real good will it do the city wher
finished, il ever?
Are you fully prepared for the awfu'
Information that the book agents like the
other stump speakers, have organized fol
the fall campaign?
What question would be harder for m,
average darby to decide than whether h,
should spend his last half dollar for ,
watermelon or Il circus ticket?
Was it not right for the Police Commits
sloneTs to sustain officer Jenny as well a
they honorably could, and as they ala
against the Monroe street sharks?
Since the dog days are over, nav W,
not expect the dog nights-those Lowell,
nights when the man in the moon amuse
himself by pulling their tails to hear then
how'll WV
Would a law against the practice o
cigarette smoking by small boys be un
constitutional, and il so, oughtn't tn,
constitution to DO amended to meet tn
emergency
Was it the hight of impudence for al
up town young man who engaged to mar
ry his landlady's daughter, to pawn sale
daughter sjewelry to buy a suit to MARI,
another girl in2
viii the young mar who stole the hear
" " y'NhhS luuJ az llt EOull mblllpnl
party last night p'ease enfold it in the sill
handkerchief stolen at the same time anc
return it by mail?
Breathes there a man so dead tothe in
t%erests Of his country, as not to be absorbe,
with the belief that no white boy SHOULD
black boots, and vice versa, that no col
9red boy should sell papers,
Is it not true that all political partic
are something like the Kilkenny cat:
swallow each other all but their tails be
fore the battle, and only wait for the da,
of election to bury the dead2
Isn't the title Of the Emperor Franci
Joseph, Of Austria, which would consum
a fourth Of a column of this paper. enough
to make the faces of the army Of Memp6i
colonies burn with modification and envy
Are not our laws made for the protec
ton Of criminal rather than citizens. ant
Is this not proven by the voluntary sur
render of Frank james, together with IN,
escape Of several criminals In this neck o
the woods through loopholes in the lawP