Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
Is base ball an Olympic game?

Is base ball an Olympic game?
Was Ananias an Arkansaw fisherman?
What is the difference between Fusseu
and Fissel2 "'oi'
Can a green political speaker be called
a stump sucker?
What watering place did the milkmen
visit this summer?
Who is bold enough to tackle the Broom
Guards for a prize drill?
Does the pound-keeper know that wa
nave magistrates at larger
Does 1t not seem as if Memphis were 70
become a great railroad center?
Are we to have broad-tired wheels and
born-tired loafers on our streets2
Would the Adams street pebbly pave
ment be a rafting place for a riot2'
Is 1t a secret sorrow, or only cucumbers
that weighs you down with grief?
Can the Shelby street '1utep be accused
OF stealing away his neighbours sleep2
II ten cents will buy a watermelon how
many watermelons will buy a darby?
Does the saying, "Whom the gods love
die young" apply to the spring chickenP
Isn't yellow fever one of those things TO
the view of which distance lends enchant-
ment2
Why is 1t easier to raise $4,000 for
Jockey club, than $500 for a public
library
Will not the Porters rife the North
ern cities of all the smiles of their beauti-
GUS fair2
Can we not manage to exc out a miser-
able existence without any more pedes-
trianism?
Have you yet contrasted the number Of
vagrant dogs on our streets with the nh
n of hydrophobia2
How are the Republicans to be under
stood, when they speak of seeing a b;o
majority ahead for next fall?
What does the pious Pinch pie yender
mean by the placard, 'Shem, - and
Japhet sandwiches sold here?'
Is 1t true that Arab has t~elegraphed IN
Memphis for a few native politicians To-
help him run his old machine?
Isn't a tunnel under the Mississinni
river from Hopefeld to Memphis ono Of
the possibilities of the great future?
Can it be said that the faces of some of
the fair Memphians who have returned
from the seaside were painted in water
Does the Adams street pavement resem-
bic a prize ring from the fact that one day
the dirt is on top and the next day the
gravel gets the upper hand2
Does it not seem from the number of
Arkansaw patients in our hospital. that
Arkansaw has no hospital for the poor, but
plenty of poor for the hospital?
Is it not a noticeable Memphis matter Of
fact that only mules are used for draws
and street cars and rarely ever ANYTHING
except horses in other vehicles?
Don't you think it a sarcasm keener
than the surgeons knife for your druggist
to give you Wolf river water when Your
prescription calls for aqua pura?
iii is true that another Mempbian of
burly. build is after Oscar Wilde, hadn't
that jimber-jawed aesthetic better run as
fast as his long legs can carry him2
As free women, should the fair Of Mem
phis assert their right to aid in the boom
about to strike Memphis by ESTABLISHING n
Irritation exchange" next door to the
Cotton Exchange?
Is it not strange that the present crop of
w%atermelons is unaccompanied by the
usual number of pains, and have You no
ticed that doctors who say it is not a pay-
ing crop are looking melancholy
Why did a certain Vance street maiden
look as If she sat on a hornets nest when
told in answer to a question that coins
dated the year of her birth were very hard
to ind, as only old collectors had them?