Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-12


That very precise people have but
few brains. That is what makes
them So precise.
That the hardest man to shake
from the ladder is the one who mounts
a rung at a time.
That anyone not in favor of gas
and water had best not run for a city
office this spring.
That people we're through putting
up ice before the sixty-nine colored
people were baptized.
That A. Brown never allows any
one to undersell him and that he
means just what he says.
That some people who never pay
their own debts make a big racket
about what is owing them.
That Bob White wants to employ
an original writer Of poetry ''for the
LEDGER"-to shovel snow.
That there will be a red-hot city
campaign this spring. We hope red
hot men will be nominated.
That the best man living cannot
| give an updoubted hond for bis pond
behavior thirty days from date.
That if you want to make people
think as they do let them have their
own way; nothing will tire them out
so soon
That our representative and state
senator are two of the most infuen.
tial and best working men at Jeffer.
son City.
That we will have the cholera ir
Mexico soon unless the council ap.
points good committees to see the
city cleaned.
That the Republicans will try te
run a ''mugwump'' for mayor agains,
the regular nominee of the Demo
cratic party.
That ''Dear Willie, our office boy
is corresponding with a bewitshine
young lady of Fulton. This is his
Golding opportunity.
That Mr.. j. O.. Sayers says be viii
pay the LEDGER what he owes wher
he gets ready. He had best ''get
ready before tomorrow.
That the sensation which is now
developing will be newspaper prop
erty because there will be a public
shooting match connected with it.
That ladies'. when occupying boxes
at the opera house, should not twis'
their necks to see the performer
change his costumes, especially wher
the performer is a gentleman.
That Stuart Rogers gave the usher.
at the opera house a pointer they
will not soon forget. People who
come late should not he allowed t.
annoy people who come on time.
That. business man of this cit,
told the gentleman who rented from
him last week that he could have hi
store for a year for so much if b,
would marry within a year. He hal
no daughters and we don't see thu
point.
That our friend Mounts, of the In
t~eNigencer, had been sent for b,
Cleveland to consult with in regaro
to the policy of the coming admins
tration, but it turns out that Johl
was at his old home in Iowa sellin,
his paper.
That our young lady friend at th
college says she was only telling
ghost story when on the stage durin,
that beautifully rendered operetta
"Katie Dean" she informed tn
audience the LEDGER was not rea,
in heaven"
That there is often a great differ
ence between what gossip monger
call.a sensation aud what we wouI
consider q depiorable, deep, privat
and family trouble which should b
considered sacred from the publ
until told by parties concerned.
That n. T. Baird, who in spite q
a large Republican majority carrie
his wart as the Democratic nomiBe
last year, will not be a candidate thi
spring: Democrats of that war
should at once begin work becaus
we don't want to break our sali
Democratic city government.
1has s people get mad if yc
publish all the news and say YOU a
t sensational. Others get mad Il yc
{ publish any at oil and want a "ciei
sheet" Others say they take q p
e per to zee what is gaing on and if
8 Is not a newspaper stop calling it
that name. and that they pay for Il
news and should have it. Taking
all in all an EDITORS life is not q ha
. py one. You can't hardly find a no
in town but what Things he could n
1.-THE LEDGER better than Bob WIN