Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-12

How will this month average with
former Augusta
Should the subject of illuminating
the city by gas be thought lightly of?
If sanitation received more atten
ton, would not Hsculapius receive
less?
Is it not fortunate for the ice factory
men that they deferred their enterprise
until next summer
Does the average aesthetic know that
the %sunlower keeps its face turned to
the sun all day longP
Next to a political defeat, what will
take the s~tiffening out of q man quick.
er than a water hose?
Can the ladies rest Easy without
establishing a rival to the mems
Memphis Jockey Club?
How many applications do you sup
pose the lucky candidates have for
positions as deputy clerks?
Il the old city debt is not settled,
will it not be detrimental to the up.
ward progress Of Memphis?
If the back doors of saloons were
closed on Sundays, would the boys 90
to church for spiritual consolation?
Has the LADY who escaped from the
steamer Gold Dust with only the loss
OF her slipper, any reason to complain?
Is there any objection to our having
electric lights because a good deal Of
wire working is necessary for US to get
them?
Have you noticed hat with a proper
regard for the eternal fitness Of things
that the bicycle has hid itself in the
woedshed?
If the Porter Guards were to fight
the Egyptians and be driven back,
would they, like the English, call it a
Reconnaissance"
Shall we try the electric lipht after
the story that came from Ottawa that
they tried it, with the result of a dark
failure and a cost Of SIS, 900?
Is it not highly probable there are
a couple of vacant cells in the town
from which those ban6it looking Syri
ans came, who visited the city this
week?
From the number Of dogs that rem
der the midnight stiffness hideous
with their howlings, might not Mem
phis be considered the happy land Of
canine?
Are those who are at present such
strong advocates of wooden pavements
any kin to those who, a few years ago.
regarded Nicolson as another term of
pestilence1
Ought not the Memphis Club an.
nounce several days beforehand when
they intend to have a shoot, so the
farmers about Oatsmoor could drive
up their COWS?
fit is not too late in the day to
ask, were tie marriages of colored
people performed by President Had
den legaland binding upon the con
tractlng partles(
Have you stopped to ponder how
awfully neal you are to the season OF
country fairs, with all their gorgeous
ness of cOrpulent pumpkins, pretty
girls and waddling porkers?
If twenty thousand dollars a year
had been spent on the Nioolson pave
ment, which cost a million and a half
dollars fifteen years ago, would it not
have been as good as new to-day
If we could labor under the halluci
nation that we were at some fashion
able watering place, instead ofsummer
ingin Memphis, would not the state of
the atmosphere at home be Just 700
too?
1t is time to ask again, When will
we hear from the committee of sixteen
who were appointed to confer with the
bondholders, and learn the lowest
basis upon which the city debt could
be compromised?
If some female readers of the LED
GER knew thai way back in Ovid's
time tho young ladies were taught to
smile gracefully, the grace cf a smile
being determined by its length, would
they not be comforted2