Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-06

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Candidate?
Been fishing?
ANY bills yet?
Paid your poll tax2
Are you at all inquisitive2
Do you like Long sermons9
Has the Bluff Park caved in Z?
Where will you spend summer your
money!
Do you pine for another walking
mateh9
Do you desire a change nom gas to
electric lightH
Does it make you tired to witness a
walking match?
How do you relish the idea of
wooden pavements2
Do you think Adams street is pret-
tier than Vance2
Would you like to see Memphis
municipality again?
How would it do to sweep Main
street occasionally?
Are you a hotel clerk or only a.
simple Russian Gar?
Do you ever heave an unutterable
sigh for the unattainable?
Are you itching for smallpox or will
you do that after you get it?
When Second street walls for good
pavement do you sympathize?
Would President Hadden exchange
places with Chester A. Arthur
Are you acquainted with the wise
man who says, Il told you so2"
What's your private opinion about
the Strangers Church controversy?
Have you noticed how many build
ings are receiving new coats of paint?
Why didn't the electric light cleo
trify us last Saturday night as prom
ised2
Upon your honor, did you really
have a splendid time out at the
picnic?
Do you like to ride crosswise, side.
ways or straight up and down in
street car
What kind Of expression ought a
man to wear on his face who wears a
stovepipe hat on his head?
Are you fond of June apples, or
does your soul cling with despairing
tondness to the cucumber?
If you were to put a vase of pretty
flowers in Court Square. would You
fell bad about it afterward2
If a sunfower and lily make an
aesthetic, how many cabbage heads
make an aesthetic society?
Do you ever wonder why the Ex-
position building is never used for the
purpose for which it was built2
Do you know of any vocation better
calculated to destroy faith in solemn
promises than that of the bill collec-
tori
If hope blooms eternal" anywhere.
don't you think the soil of these
bluffs is matted with the roots of the
plant?
Do you ever wonder how certain
callOw youths manage To splurge like
Vanderbilts on salary of ten dollars
week.
Do you know of any better way of
spending a spare dollar than for few
bricks to be used in erecting a public
library?
Did you ever notice the look of set.
tied melancholy which invariably rests
upon the face Of the parohed peanut
vender2
Are you an active or an honorary
member Of the church; or, in other
words, do you attend on your wife's
account
Don't you think the people will be
likely to settle the State debt as AL.
exander solved the Gordian knot
cut it in two
Are you in favor of enforcing the.
Sunday laws to the letter, or would
sou rather the policemen would look
the other way
Can anything give you a better idea
OF animal spirits than the horses Of
the ire department out on their reg
ular evening frolic?
Do you not tremble when yeuthink
how soon you must behold that chaot.
ic mixture ofschool-girl, salt, green
apple and paregoric2
What is your opinion of the man
who mocks nature by wearing a nose
gay OF wax flowers in his button hole
at this season Of the year I?
Do you know the little blue eyed
maid who clips the sweet spring poetry
from the weekly paper and lays it away
with her choicest treasures2
Do you wonder, as you wander
round the corner, with the ice cream
sign in sight, what Miss Horner has
to whisper as her eyes upon it light2
Doyou know that the pointed shoe
which was condemned by the Pope of
Rome during the reign Of Henry VIII,
is trying to get foothold on our
streets ?
| Doyou suppose the Broom Guards
would be offended if asked why they
do not offer prize to the member
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