Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-15

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L "A London letter says two pieces Of
y ice were found in the brain of a nan who
died recently. It is supposed his COM
'e plant was cold in the head.
AN American PaacA is about to be
started in New York.
Norfolk is peaceful and happy with
y just no dogs.
-Hx-GoVernor Lubbock is now an
e auetioneer in Houston, Texas.
D The Virginia papers TEEN with no.
tees Of rohberies by negroes.
s The present wheat crop of Virginia
: is the most promising since 1850.
The southwestern Georgians are
. going to import laborers from Scotland /;
: and 40 people in the world are more
f thrifty than fanny SCOTS.
en- Of the pupils in Gen. Lees col
lege in Virginia is Massachusetts, boy,
the aon of a democratic lawyer near
Boston.
AN exchange says Burr, of the Ma
con Journal and Messenger, is a little
hard On subscribers. The terms an
nounced for his weekly are " 3 900 a year
in advance" Probably he still takes
Confederate currency.
A large black wolf was killed near
Oakts, Wisconsin, q few days ago. A
large wild cat was killed within forty
rods Of the business part of Grand Rap
ids. Wisconsin must be a pleasant place
to live in.
Two ship loads OF American contri-
buttons for the " great exposition" have
safely reached their destination.
The Rev. Mountebank Beecher viii
soon speak on national affairs at Brook
iyn academy. He is understood now to
favor impeachment, and it is expected
his address viii place him again in the
front rank of radicalism.
IA senatOsSRamed Chandler ia a re-
cent speech averred that if lmpeached,
the r~emovsfof President johnson would
create no more excitement than that OF
a custOmhOuse officer.
THE Boston Post calls Mr.. Parton's
estimate Of Daniel Webster, as given in
the North american Reriew, "merely
an ambitious PERSONS attempt 70 chalk
out his " diminutive length upon an
immense background
The postage stamps consumed annu-
ally in the United States amount to
350,COO,000, in France to $50, 900, 900, and
ia England to 500, 900, 900. The French
contractor makes l,5O0,O 900 per day for
the government at 80 cents per 1900. To
prevent photographic forgery, the paper
is first covered with a sort of transparent
ink, the composition Of which is a secret,
so that both inks, the transparent and
the colored, would stick to the stone, if
an attempt were made to transfer the
design. After printing, certain specks of
color are also laid on with a brush by
hand.
Cincinnati is said to be the cheapest
place 10 live in in the United States.
The current session of Cumberland
university, Nashville, opened on Mon
day last with more than two hundred
students.
The aggregate amount of claims for
supplies furnished the army by "loyal
men" is said to reach $12,O 900, 600. 1t is
suspected, however, that many Of the
claims are either forged or greatly exag-
gerated.
In the state library, at Richmond,
Va, may be seen a curiosity in the shape
Of a piece of white pine plank, in the
heart of which is a perfect representa-
ton of a human leg and foot, complete
in its proportions as well as color.
-Psrk has been selling in upper East
Tennessee for six cents per pound, and
corn for fifty cents per bushel. !
Charles Andersen, an incorporate i
woodsawyer of Fairfield, Iowa, has 5
fallen heir to a fortune of $1,000 in !
Sweden.
The Chinese government consents to l
the establishment of a European college :
in Fekin, a step which will place all the e
other great powers on an equal footing c
with Russia in that capital. t
OF emigrants arriving at the port of .
New York during 1896, only I54 were 3
Russian, while 6S,O74 were Irish, Sc, IS6 +
English and 1919 Scotch. z
The Irresponsible John G.. Sake soon n
intends infiicting all Europe with his j.
presence. 0
The c~ostliest watch that wa ever !.
made is said to have been one which e.
was constructed in 1916 for the Sultan n
Abdul Mediid, who must have found it 81
rather inconvenient, since it was five :,
inches in diameter, and struck the hours ?,
and quarters on wires with the sound re- r,
sembling that of 8 powerful cathedral I
clock. 1t cost 1900 guineas. y
Edwin Booth says Ristori's acting is n
finest specimen of the dramatic art Ii
he ever witnessed. d
"A marriage was recently celebrated :
in Il Cornish town, one of the party to D
the bride, was less than thirty o.
six inches in hight. individuals of mi a
ming populations are often thus dwarfed. -
"A poultice of onions, applied morn n
ing, noon and night, for three or four Il
days, will cure a felon. No matter how o.
bad the case, splitting the finger will be ~
unnecessary if this p~oultiee is used. al
The growth of the city of New York 70
1890 is stated by decadesas follows: o.
I79), S3,lS1; 1900, 90. 529; 1910, 96,378; N
1929, 128, 7O6; 1890, 1871, O92; 1910, 3l2, 10; +
1850, SIS, 574; 1850, S13,662.
The Buffalo Commercial advertiser M
hat the first national bank of that -,
has, in q period of four years, aeou- fr
a surplus greater han its origi- pc
lal capital, and, without impairing this "a "a
it paid its proprietors a dividend n
or the past year of fifty per cent. eli
The Detroit Post calculates that in Of
he "great storm " lao, 10000 tons of 10
now fell, or more than ten times as IN
much in weight as all the wheat grown to
4 the United States since the discovery tic
( The continent by Columbus. ~
1T is said that RistOri has thus far ss
feared 100000 by her engagements in in
.nierica. ne
1t is not generally known that the &c
,aves of a geranium are an excellent a..
pplieation for cuts, where the skin is In.
Itbed off, and other wounds of that w
ind. One or two leaves must be bruised ha
I'd applied to the part, and the wound a. q.
i'll be cicatrized IN a short time. sor
"A locomotive has just been dis bu.
from service on a Massachusetts, Ri
after having been run nineteen S'
ssrs by one engineer, during which he,
n e it has travelled S72, 245 miles without got
accident, and with only occasional car
neral repairs. r.
i'm a snow storm at Pittsburg, Mass, but
e other day, a bag of netting was found pre-
led with moss and hair. A local paper Una
Ids 1.-THE bundle has been identified, un0
ID proves to be a ladies' waterfall. 7
ow it became detached from the wearer me
Unknown, but the conjecture is that Puu
e owner, caught in a storm, was OBJ rest
I'D to throw overheard her ballast in cleo
to make Roadway" tior
Since the close of the war the negro Sne
p~ulation of Virginia has been reduced the
1909. con
Thomas w. Knox. on his Russian ing