Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-05
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Who will be Queen Of MayP
Is dynamite the Fenian's mite2
Are bOotblaoks necessarily blackP
Are picnics all they're popped up
When win progress march past
picnics2
Is the good work of stone paving to
60 to the bottomP
Which is hardest, to calculate the
city debt or to pay il?
Will the Exposition building hold
its Mozart audiences?
Is it the proper thing to say uncivil
things about a civil engineer2
Should women work on the gang and
it not what is to be done with them2
Who said the Memphis horses
would not make the dust fly at Nash.
ville2
How many bales of hay does it take
to buy box Of strawberries at the rate
they are now sellingP
How many more men would be
rendered happy if the milliners were
to declare a rebate on spring bonnets?
Is the tax on tombstone dealers
supplementary to the poll tax-taxing
man for living and taxing him when
dead2
If every new building that goes up
can be said to be a step in the progress
of a city, isn't this suburb on
Jump
Is it because there is no higher
court than Judge Hadden's that his
decisions have never been reversed
by any other tribunal?
Isn't it about the time when the
housewife darns up the old mosquito
bar and worries because she cant find
but three of the four rods2
Now that the ladies of Memphis
have all adopted the Mother Hubbard
style of dress, may they not be ex.
pected to don the Mrs. Noah hat the
next thingP
Now that Uncle Sam has given the
tobacco men a rebate, was it not
natural for the liquor men, who were
fined under the four mile law, to have
rebate alsoP
If the hard hearted parents Of
Memphis were called on to vote as 10
the length of school hours, would not
large majority favor the full ten
hour-a>day system2
When will Memphis ever reach
such pitch as to force the powers
that be to provide lemonade fountains
instead Of Wolf river puddles for the
weary and thirsty
Isn't there some danger that the
ever ready effervescent camp meeting
enthusiasm of the rustics will break
out in the midst of the grand swell
of music to be heard when the Mo
zarts chorus opens up2
With all the sentimental twaddle
about over worked school children, is
it not plain, unvarnished fact that
not one in 800 is really hurt by the
tasks now given them to do2
Would not law making it felony
for any citizen of the United States to |
own dog. do more real good than |
hundreds of other acts to which so
much Importance is attached?
Oh where will the sweet
Diploma dead beat,
Who has spent all her time on the street,
Find soms one TO treat
Her subject so neat
On the slyi
Is it not right and natural that
graves should be neglected, and the
symbols of sorrow fade and die as all
earthly things, feelings and sentiments
must one day do, each in its own good
time?
How would it do for the ananciers,
who have tried every other method of
computing the capitalization of the
city debt without undoubted success,
to begin at the beginning and try
plain old arithmatical methodist
Is the dude always as complete
fool as he looks, and are there not
many who are actually such miserable
idiots that they don the buds of the
dude, and gil them, without knowing
that they are classed as such by fash.
ionable naturalists?