Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-05-24
What the Ledger Would Like to Know.

When it will turn warm.
If Joe amt a dandy on the dance.
When we will have another circus.
How Vandalia a support two pa
pers.
Who fell headlong into the gully in
West Mexico.
When that paper is to be started
at Benton City.
If Gus Hiner came home to college
commencement.
If we are going to have a Fourth of
July celebration.
If Bob White isn't the proudest
man on earth to-day.
If Tom Bell made his debut as a
guitarist at Montgomery City.
Why the Cornet band don't give
US a series Of open air concerts.
If John Roseberry has learned yet
how to spell ''R. & L." Junction.
If that respectfully connected young
man won't eve ''drop on himself"
If Jim Gregg wouldn't make agood
reporter. He gets 'onto" every
thing.
Which one of the college girls
thinks little Harry Plunkett is de-
ceitful.
Why that man of family on Liber-
ty street can't keep his handkerchief
in his pocket.
Why u friend Ben Dobyns now
gets shaved, and has his boots shined
three times a day.
If the LateNtgencer won't enlarge,
in every sense of the word, since get
ting the city printing.
If Ben D0byns hasn't got a high
stopper in that new horse of his.
The girls all think so.
How any parent or friend of the
public school can afford to stay away
from the examination.
How many 'sbirds'' our friend J. D.
Tucker killed at the State Gur
Club shoot at Moberly.
How long before Mexico will be
struck by a cyclone, OF an Uncle
Toms Cabin Company.
Who wrote that letter to Centralis
asking information regarding an in
nocent party in this city.
;, How it happened that the bids Of
the Press and Inteligencer for the
city printing were the same.
How many prohibitionists there are
who do not think more Of their fanat
icisms than they do Of their party.
Why an ordinance is not passed
restraining COWS. Mexico at thu
present rate will soon be a COW lot.
What makes Walker Ragsdale lik'
monkeys, and why does he 60 'roun'
the corner so often to look at them
Why the authorities do not put Of
, their glasses, and look after the whit
as well as the colored houses Of ill
fame.
What the cyclone at Jonesbur,
had to do with a certain party goini
=, to Slater. Simms queer to the casua
! observer.
How it is that some people Away
' know more about their neighbors pr
+ vate affairs than the neighbors them
selves do.
What was the occasion for that lad
: running the other evening whe
:, the wrong gentleman put in an al
pearance.
Al What's the use of that young fe
low "monkeying'' around why don
n he 60 in for all it's worth, and ''gt
there, Eli"
81 If a certain girl who goes to til
post-of1ice oftener than anybody els
don't think she's just about it, as II
CARDS style.
,s II that citizen who floats around
South Mexico at unseemly houI
It hadn't better let up before somebod
# hollers, "What's on you'll"
it Why the Press don't put in steam
/, Probably its readers would stea
something of this sort in lieu of tt
u~stolen and rewritten local items tn
: appear weekly in that sheet.
,o Which one of the two smitte
youths escorted the young lady hon
% from the depot, who arrived on tt
4 st. Louis train Saturday night.
10 was a Luckie miss, but Hisey goil
If to stand it?
N What course to pursue as regar'
a healthy scandal in social circles tn
ia about to strike this town like
thousand of brick. When it do
>, come, look out; you may be connet
:. ed with it in some manner.
20 Why a duck goes into the waite
"a For divers reasons. Why does
r come. out? For sun-dry reason
in Why does it go back? To liquids
its hill. WHY does il come out aqai