Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-27

Fixed that sidewalk YETI
Have you seen Blanks red noseP
Isn't summer looming up rapidly
Who will furnish the next Senator2
What do you know about the CITY
Why don't you whitewash your prem-
ises2 P'
Shall Memphis put up a pitiful mouth
any longer2
VIII the coming comet behave like
Bopeep's sheep?
Has the city debt kept away the enter
prlslng mosquIto2
Have you any private opinions Of the
Mundinger natter
Have you noticed that very few have
lett for summer resorts?
Are you a l5-ball pool young man, or az
l6-dollar hat young girl?
Who is Jumbo, anyway. and what has
he to do with the city debt?
How many hundredths of a point will
the Chicks be off this year?
Who will write your announcement
essay for you, Miss Arabclla2
How many feathers, and what length of
leg, make a spring chicken2
Which do you dread most, the armv
worm or the neighborhood gossip?
Do you suppose that "Lorne" tennis ia
more popular in Canada than here?
Ought the Chickasaws put boards on
the inside or outside of their wire fence?
How much did the old clothes man
help you toward paying for your new
aren't the fire boys Of No. l too COM
fortably fixed now to pray for the bell to
ring?
Why don't the Governor pardon
Sandy now and give him q big dinner al
the Capitol2
How far from the corner of Front and
Monroe streets is the lair of the Memphis
Jay Gould2
How many more c~lassifcations of lar
ceny have we than our forefathers, who
never knew but one.
How would the ladies live without an
occasional sensation in which they are in
some way interested?
Did it ever strike you that the less the
intelligent voter knows about the public
debt the more he can talk about it2
If the policeman knew he owed his bein
o Sir Robert Peel, of England, wouldT
become offended when called a "peeler?"
Do you pine for Oscars coming. or
would you rather take u '~css-ear for the
Wilde and intensified solitude Of Elm
wood2
Is there any truth in the delightful
rumor that mummies will be imported
from Egypt to act as our School Board
next season.
Don't you think Memphis ought to,
have some glory for the recent victory of
the Crescent City Rifles on account Of
having furnished the Captain2
If a man desires to borrow money ON
the plea that he has Just been PLAYING
poker, would it not be appropriate to
give him a new deal Of iron poker2
Isn't 1t a pity that the Old Folks, who
intend to decorate Winchester Cemetery
tomorrow, can not be certain whether
the mound they beautify holds a dear
departed n or not2
Do you know why it is that the ever
AoobiAB bhldll IVY ultoI uhNluB CAL6H u
gorge Of green apples, always asks, with
a horrible expression on bis face, "whO
will care for mother now"
In view of the fact that Rivers sem
tence has been commuted, and Matthews
has not, would it not be better in future
for man simply to stab his victim four
teen tunes instead Of just killing him ut
a single blow2
What makes a man, after entering a
car, sit down like a pile driver on the seat
as soon as the car starts, instead of taking
it easily, calmly and with the gentlemanly
leisure which characterizes his move
ments elsewhere2
Calculating that eleven persons will
perform their additions at the calaboose
bathhouse every day, how long before
enough soil will accumulate in the tub to
build a levee of sufficient strength TO pro
tect the low landsl
Ifa local newspaper we're to have
wholly ignored the recent legal proceed
ings in the Mundinger trial, and kept AS
quiet as q mouse on the subject, would
friends Of the parties concerned say the
paper was prejudiced?