Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-01

Why you don't write it '85.
II the Slater lady was in -
II Willard Potts amt a hummer.
Who carried of that load Of wood.
If Sam Baskin amt the dandy fire.
man.
The difference between q dead beat
and a communist
II the boiling glrls did not get
enough last year.
If Alb and Charley had anything
bet on their scrap.
How many of us win live to enjoy
another New Year.
The color of Nate Whites celebra.
ted mustang pony.
If Bill Barley really wants to lick
a lawyer of this city,
How long before we..can get hang
ing lamps for nothing.
How much il anything can be made
by changing text books.
II our friend. Thos. Hughes, is
not now the dandy dude.
How our contemporary stands on
the school book question.
II Tai Coates did not take Xmas
dinner with his best girl.
II j. NJ. Kunkel is not going to stir
up the boys again next week.
1t you really. realize that you are
one year nearer h--n or hill.
If Sam Baskin found the girl we
were'going to hold ar inquest on.
Why the candidates for the post
Office did not hang up their stockings.
If the creeks are really higher sthan
Capt. Frost ever saw them before
If we can't even have a ball gotten
up in Mexico by the ladies without a
row.
What Rem Gibbs and Miss -
went out to the poor house for yes
terday.
How long you can joke q man
about being lost without his getting
sick Of it.
If the editor Of our jolly and "sen-
sational" contemporary is really 81
bachelor"
If Trimble really insists that he
saw Charley Ross while in the haunt
ed hill cave.
What married man in West Mexico
was out riding with a young lady the
other evening.
Why every man who even marched
in a Cleveland and Hendricks parade
can't have an Office.
II a fellow is not doing first rate
when he shuts off on cigars and goes
to smoking acob pipe.
How people who owe the printer,
grocer, clothier and every one else
can afford to get drunk.
If the Inteuigencer will put a suita-
BILE stomach on the ''ideaI editor"
they are having painted.
If a couple of our friends did not
enIer the ace for hummers in ear
nest and early In the year.
Who will refuse to send 25c. to
help Mrs. Dougan, who has 5 children
and is destitute. Read her letter.
Who were the worst soId-the
yorng ladies or the young gents who
went to a party down at Laddonia.
Why Dave Gentry and Prof. Dill
lenbeck don't give us an entertain.
ment. 1t would be good and pay.
What Is the use of sending money
to the heather in Africaa or Chicago,
when you have people at home starv-
ing.
How long it takes some.of the Ia.
dies in Mexico to make up their
minds whether to keep open house
or not.
II Sam Edwards has really reached
the degree OF scizzer? He has one
more ladder to climb, then he goes to
Congress.
Why Miss - did not drop US a
line about her party if che wanted her
name in the paper. She has no right.
to get mad.
If you can't save several hundred
dollars this year by swearing off from
tobacco and whiskey. You will live
longer, too.
What is the use of the ladies keep
ing open house il the gentlemen don't
show their appreciation by getting
cards and calling?
Who is running the civil service
business-the president or the con-
gressmen? They appear to differ in
this part of the earth.
If some of the Sunday schools will
really notice a falling off in attend
ance, now the Christmas tree is among
the memories Of the past.
II you have read report Of the
births, deaths, marriages, current
events and receipts and expenditures
of the city for the year 1854.
II our contemporary should not
either attend q concert OF find where
the programme was changed before
it tried to write up the same.
II . certain gentleman was really
going to lick us last week for what
the Kansas City Times said. We have
sins enough Of our own to account
for.
How the ladies expect Ms to know
about their parties, or who is going
to keep open house &C., unless they
fsko onoroh iptaresf in Tho matter tn