Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-20

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e An English meteorological review of
e 1861, states that there were nearly 200
rainy days during the year.
Recently at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, a
I gentleman fell lead while leading a
prayer meeting.
Waterfalls just over the bump of
3 benevolence are the styles in Paris.
= One day last week L. NJ. BeIknap, Of
t Louisville, donated 1000 loaves Of bread
$ to the poor Of that city.
d The Prince Of Wales fights the Pa
roian tiger occasionally, it is said also,
he is naughty lad in other respects.
. I'll is proposed to establish in New
a York a Jewish college or university.
Prof. Bache, Of Coast Survey, is
5 lying at the point Of death at Newport,
, Rhode Island.
j. Davis, of York, Pennsylvania, has
been awarded the contract for supplying
paper to the government printing office,
at Washington. The contract will
amount to $500, 600.
? -Ex-Gov. Brown, Judge Dawson and
A. Walker, Of the supreme court Of
Georgia, have been admitted to the bar
of the United States supreme court.
The whole amount, principal and
interest, Of compound interest notes out
standing is SI7O,s2 SOL principal and
interest falling due in 1867, $4,000 ,122
"A girl in Antwerp tried to drown
herself because she was refused a piece
Of gingerbread.
The Iri6Vne's special says that the
senate will pass both the Louisiana and
military government is.
The Michigan house Of representa-
tives has passed a bill granting 500, 900
in aid Of the state university, on condi-
ton that the regents shall establish q pro-
fessorship of homeopathy.
M. Schonbein has furnished a test
for acids so sensitive that it shows the
presence Of earbonic acid in distilled
water that has merely been breathed
upon.
-Balzac declares no woman can love
with an absorbing devotion until she is
forty years old.
-Ralfe is writing 4 new opera to be
called 1.-THE Knight Of the Leopard
The libretto is constructed from one Of
Scotts novels.
Timber in France, is dyed by vari-
Gus coIors being mixed with water and
%spriukled over the root Of the tree.
Dahlias are also colored by similar pro-
cess.
"A mar is, chemically speaking,
forty-five pounds of carbon and nitrogen
diffused through five and a half pailfuls
Of water.
The latest style of winter bonnets
consists of a postage stamp with strings
Of green ribbons. The hair is combed
back so as to give the air uninterrupted
access to the roots, and the ears and
neck This style is highly recon-
mended by physicians. A box of She
fuhl's neuralgia ointment accompanies
each bonnet.
"A London writer says the late meteOrs
looked like the forehead planets Of an
gels and archaBgels, summoned in splen-
did cohorts and regiments to the service
Of God, and Fastening with the lamp of
the world lighted to the Divine rendez-
vous." American spread eagleism is now
nowhere.
In addition TO Raphael Semmes, ex-
Gen. Joseph Wheeler has been elected to
d professorship in the Louisiana state
seminary. He is to fill the chair of nat
uraI sciences.
In 1898 there were two hundred
newspapers in the United States. One
hundred and seventy-ei supported the
administration Of John Adams.
The mayor of New London, Conn,
has been fined for selling liquor.
Another treasure trove is said to
have been lighted upon in England in
the shape of a number Of Pope's letters,
none of which have ever been in print.
The number of European sovereigns
is now reduced to thirty-nine, consisting
of four emperors, the sultan, the p
ten kings, two queens, six grand dukes,
five dukes and ten princes.
Among the curious adjunets to the
Paris exposition is the advertising on the
building outside and inside. The entire
privilege has been sold for a half million
francs.
1t is announced that a melter i'm the
United States mint has discovered a new
process by which the government in
eoining money, will save at least $500
out Of every million dollars converted
from bullion. The process will be kept a
secret.
A rather cruel 6attae has taken place
near Victoria, Australia, by which the
enormous number of 5000 kangaroos
were slaughtered in one day. This looks
like a disposition towards thepextermi-
nation of this singular animal. Another
proof Of the progress Of what is called
civilization.
The commissioners of Butler county
have determined to construct a suspen-
sion bridge across the Miami at HamiI-
ton. Messrs. Gray OF Co., of Cincinnati,
have taken the contract to build it at
$50 900.
"A French capitalist offered to pay
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fees to the exhibition in Paris, one-half
down, and the other on the eve Of OPEN Z
ing. 1t was refused.
"A compassion in Kokomo, Ind, is !
said to have had a sore finger, from I
which, after suffering great pain, he a
squeezed two BREWER types. A cotempo- .
rsry advises him to squeeze again and :
get the rest of the font and a double q
cylinder press. t
Reliable statistical authority says i
that the Episcopal church of the United +
States have 1906 parishes, over which e
and in which $3.50 clergymen of various t
preside and work. The total MEM 0
bership of the church, young and old, is :
l6l 225, from which the liberal sum of e
s., 81 ,667 was drawn by divers charita- 81
bic enterprises during'the past year. !;
Seventeen hundred and seventy n
deaths occurred in Charleston in 1856. t,
The entire population is estimated at "
35 1000. 81
"A bill has passed the New York leg =
Incorporating the American a.
Jockey club, allowing the association to Vi
hold property to the amount of $500, 600. Sc
The celebrated article in the London
Saturday ReUielo, on the impeachment cl
Of President johnson, which appeared in al
hat paper on January 10, was written u
by Hon. J. P. Benjamin, late Confeder- Al
tie secretary of state. m
james G. Hamilton, a commission in
merchant in Chicago, was shot by his ~
on, a boy of sixteen, last night, the bell d
through the cheek into the neck. gr
The wound is not fatal. The young man al
lad been scolded, and took that e~ffectual i -
method Of stopping his fathers "jaw.U sic
1t costs S3,0O0,000 more to govern pr
View York than it does Philadelphia, py
whose population is nearly as large as =
hat of the former city. a
The Kansas senate has passed the Of
pint resolution to amend the cOnstitu- ~
ion by striking out the words H" white " col
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