Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-04
ITEMS OF AtL SORTS.

uiies oHu zVOiOUO,OO0 people.
E "A little girl at Pisistow, n. a., lately
4 killed herself by eating matches.
4 Walt Whitmsn's 4" Leaves of Grass u
are to appear in German.
n Milton and FsraGay have had new
II streets in Paris named after them.
Emerson says Shakspeares sonnets,
should be read aloud only by poets.
: "A thousand lives q year are lost in
Great Britain by accidents.
-WuFtemburg still foTbids marriages
+ between Christians and Jews.
n "A family in Wisconsin all have ten
/ toes to the foot. This is some tOe-tal.
: Great Britain employs over three
hundred thousand people in its coa
mines.
r The largest advertiser in France is 8
. : man who has invented a patented bait for
, fish-hooks. --
Extremes meet. 1Spsin's last Queen
was notorlously loose; spsin's new ruler
is certainly Prim.
A church in Paris, st. Genevieve,
presses upon It's foundation 5000 pounds
TO the square foot.
The population of British America is
four millions, and its area 6S2, 800 square
uiles.
A resident Of Walthsm, Mass, has
Travelled on the Boston and FitchbuTg
Railroad lis, 900 miles.
The Grand Duchy Of Baden, at the
census lately taken, contained ], ,494. 797
inhabitants.
Several families In Germany have
lately died from poisonous mushrooms
and trichiD@ pork.
The Governor General of India re-
ceives Sl25, 900 salary, with another
800 600 fog expenses.
-Bayard Taylor is said to be worth |
$780, 600 besides three shares in the New
York Tribune.
Sixty thousand gallons of wine will |
/ be made this year In the vicinity Of Bur
/ liBgtOn, Iowa.
| "A " congress of poets" recently as
! sembled at Saint Rsmy, in Provence. /
They ate, conversed, and, alas, wept.
The Baptist Cemetery, at Woon-
T sOcket, has become 6 common, and cat
( tle, hogs, goats, ETC., now grazs upon it.
An Iowa girl Of sixteen recently
killed q large lynx with rn-cutter,
sfser it had whipped two dogs.
More than four hundred thousand
life policies are in force in the State of
New York, representing upwards Of
Il, ,000, 100000 in risks.
In Msine, Massachusetts,, Connecti-
cut and New York, the savings banks
4lone hold $4,000, 600 Of Government Sc
1uritiss.
British India contains an area Of
ne9r a hundred thousand square miles
sud population Of hundred and fifty
millions.
Edgar Quinet, the author Of the cell
ebTa-eg Work on the French RevalutiOn,
is writing a book on the American War
Of Independence.
Henri RochefoTt, rumor in Paris
says, has been offered a position on the
Independence Beige, Of Brussels, st
salary Of 40,000' year.
AT Dresden, in the welI-known piano
forte factory Of Earnest R1senkrRnz, es-
tsblished 1871, the seven thOusandth piano
was finished few weeks ego. 4
In the United Kingdom there are I
9,O36 SOC cattle, 35 sos 42i sheep, 3, 1885, |
800 pigs, and 80 369,645 humans, OF
which latter Ireland Owls 5,522, ,343.
"Colee Eelee-Oh," "P:p piD-Pipsy-
wipsy-We,' - Muffio, Tea, aud Crum- :
pet" She Gives me Lumbago," are
the lste London popular sorgs.
On an inn at Weisenstein, Germany, :
q vine, measuring two feet in Circumfer !
ence at the bottom, and forty feet 10 q
hight and width, produced more than
20GO punches Of rich grapes. :
According to the Chicago Erenfag :
Journal these three books are the sun
total Of great libT&Ties; The Bible, c
and Webster's Royal t
QuartO. O
In Mariden, Conn, family, the
father is q Universslist. the mother
Methodist, the son an Episcopsiisn, ana Z
the daughter a Baptist. That family l.
ought to be represented in heaven. U
"A Maine man has packed no less .
than .600, 600 cans of green com this
year, employing over 200 hands, not TO .
mention huskers, and having 1900 acres y
Of sweet corn under cultivation. =
In 1866 there were in Paris 500 600 A
persona, Of whom 1,098, coo were born !.
out Of Paris. The city woTkmen and o
heir families smOunt, in Paris, 10 740,- :,
900; servants and dOoT-keepeTs, 216, GOO;
Il COO; and vsgsbonds, 90 900 d
In New York stock theaters the bust Y
ness manager gets 5000 a year; the
stage manager $50 s week; ths lesding e.
man SIS week; the leading lady the Il
ssme; the soubrettes $50, and the ballet 5
Is q week. b.
Louisa Muhibaeb, whose books have g.
enabled two German publishers to make
a large fortune, is poor. In 3 recent let
ter she says that she would like to have 81
money enough to buy q small house and tC
garden, which she might leave to her II
two daughters. u
The wife of Gen. Moltka, a matron 3
Of sixty, WAS recently severely injured u
by the explosion of pistol, fired by her Y
little grand nephew. AT first it wss G,
thought that the lady could not recover, G
but the latest reports state that she is out
1f danger. b.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam q
Navigation Company is the largest steam d
inc in the world. The yearly cost OF oi
,Osl ia four millisns, the whole expenses, o.
IL. .235, 600, and the receipts half mil di
ion more. 1t has nearly hundred RI
steamers, running SOC. 080 miles year.
The estimated cost Of conveying q v v
on Of merchandise q mile Oh the ocean =
8 from half cent TO one and half =,
,enss on the lakes two cents; on the ~ -
iver two and three fourth cents; on the ~
,auals two to five cents; and on the rail- -
oads from three cents 10 thirteen and q
laf cents.
The quarrel between Wilkie Collins
nd Crisafulli, the Partisan manager, is
DecOmiug more and more interesting. III
Hikie Collins hRs written rather in al
u ting letter in reply TO that in which
re French manager demands an eXpla- pl
lation about the words :" &c Monsieur" M
which Wilkie Collins applied to him; CO
md Crisafulli threatens 70 sue the Eng ht
ish novelist for defamation. W
-Beusps position in the Austrian y,
Cabinet il considered, in Vienna, very pre- NY