Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-08

euehree Because the party wins that
carries the Five Points.
An agricultural paper says It IS q
well authenticated fact that Gen. Wash
lngton's camp mule was eighty-three
years old.
A western justice lately horrihed a
bridal couple whom he was about to
unite, by coming to the house on a hearse.
AT one of the skating parts in Brook
lvn, prizes are suspended in the center
and people skate for them blindfolded.
The Irawaddy river in India sweeps
from Burmah sixty-two cubic feet OF
earth every second OF time. How long
would a German principality stand this
wash?
Remington, Vermont, has a new
water fountain which throws water u
the hight of one hundred and fifteen feet,
twenty feet higher than any known
fountain in the world. The water is
conveyed over a mile in iron pipes, and
has a fall Of three hundred and five feet,
The editor Of the Lexington Ky.
Ga-etfe has seen a golden eagle which
measured seven feet and one inch from
tip to tip Of wings. Mr.. David HarT
shot and killed it at the distance of one
hundred and twenty-five yards, neal
the residence Of Granville Smith, about
/ two weeks ago. II was such an eagle a.
could have, with ease, seized a lamb OF
a child in its claws and borne it away.
Lord Mas, the newly appointed
governor general of Canada, is an Irish
peer, and whilst in parliament wa,
called " the fat Irish boy"
The monastery Of Arcadi, which wa;
lately blown up by the Cretan insur'
gents, was eight hundred years Old, and
was the finest and richest monastery in
the Levant. It contained a very rich
library, with rare Byzantine manuscripts
all Of which persisted in the ruins.
An Iowa paper, in an article about
eisterns, says that a cisteFn i've feet in
diameter will hold q fraction " Eve
barrels for each root in depth six feet, q
fraction over six barrels per foot; seven
feet, nine barrels per foot; eight feet,
eleven barrels per foot nine feet, fifteen
barrels pen foot ten feet, eighteen bar
rels per foot.
The Daily National, published al
Grass Valley, Nevada county, Cal, is the
smallest sized paper issued In the United
States, being nineteen by fourteen inches
but it is like most small packages, very
precious, being n dollar per month.
The legislature Of Maine, which Is
all but h0pelessly radical, has repealed
6 that portion of the statutes prohibiting
in Maine the marriage OF . white person
with an Indian, negro, or mulatto.
Amalgamation is thus sanctioned by Law
in Maine.
Before the republican party came
into power the treasury depaTtment1s
the United states had four hundred and
sixteen clerksg- Now it has two thous,
and three hundred. The difference Is
suggestive in simple arithmetical pro.
portion, as two thousand three hundred
are to four hundred and sixteen, SO Ina.
been the expense of the government
upder republican rule.
The Louisville Democrat says A.
Dad as the southern people are charged
with having treated the negro, they
have never sent him to as mean a place
as the Mazsachqsetts legislature.
The corpse Of an Indiana lady was
recently taken up near Bonneville, fol
the purpose Of removing it 10 the GENE
terry neal the town. II was found to be
in the state Of ~petrifactiou, weighing
some seven or eight hundred pounds and
taking sol1e eight or ten men to lilt il
from the vault. The features we're per-
fectly natural but hard as q rock.
Mr.. Washhurn, OF Indtsna, stated in
the house Of representative recently
that a Confederate major-general had
recently recovered in Indiana 81, 900
damages against the soldiers vino had
captured him. Thus congress can boast
Of having a Munchausen amongst the
rare collection Of human ~curiosities there
assembled.
Dryden was 20 bound up in hisbooks
that ais wife one day exclaimed 81
wish I wers 2 book, that might always
be in sour society" ~ wiah you were
az sImanac, 50 / could change you every
year.
They are about cutting a canal in
California that will irriga.e owe q mill
lion acres Of waste land in several Of the
counties Of that state. The canal will
not only furnish a supply Of water for
the iand, but will serve also As a high
way for carrying tbs products Of the land
to the San Francisco market.
1T is stated that an e~nterprising Con-
necticut man has succeeded in curing
beefin South America, so that it can be
safely put up and Drought north. It
costs, cured, a cent and a half a pound.
The freight costs two dollars a barrel.
and when brought To market it is equally
good, aud brings The same price as mess
put up in Chicago.
The following sewing machine story
is going the rounds: 4 young man out
west was intrusted with he money to
bring home 10 his father "a good family
sewing machine. He carried off a Deigh-
boris daughter 10 Chicago, and married
her, aud brought her home, declaring
she va the best family sewing machine
he could procure. If she is Of the right
kind, she will soon want that kind OF a
machine which the old man had
in view.
Experiments made BY Drs. Ringer
aud Richards on men and animals go to
that alcohol, In poisonous doses,
such AS, for instance, would cause drunk
snness, will reduce the temperature Of
the body. It was found, also, that the
temperature falls as rapidly after the use
alcohol as after death itself. The re-
snlt of these experiments are in perfect
agreement with the observations every
where made Of the great readiness Of
lrunkards, and Of those who drink
argely Of alcoholic liquors, to be affected
" extreme cold, to the point Of freezing,
nd OF death itself.
stuart, the celebrated portrait paint
r. once met q lady in the street, in Bos-
on. who ssluted him with, nAh, Mr.. |
1 have just seen your miniature,
nd kissed it because it was so much
Ike yon.5' land did il kiss you in re-
lrn2n aWby no. "Theni'' said
tpaft, st was got like as,'t >