Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-25
THE NEWS.

-Seu0E RDMeIO - soon 70 return Z
Washington.
Z Geo. Wm. Curtis has delivered " Pc
litical Morality " to Springfield.
Cheyenne offered Parepa $1,000 t.
"switch of there and sing soBg"
/ The " peerless Horiscchin is dancing
in /" Lurlinen to the Boston Puritans.
st Paul has this year erected 3el
/ buildings, costing 81, COO 0G0.
The corn crop Of Ohio this year i:
Z estimated st 14I 0Oo, coo bushels.
"A divorced Westerner married sgsin
I but soon elOped with his frst wife.
-Pennsylvanis farmers grease their
( peas before planting, to prevent rottiDg.
"A house built on g large wagon is
carrying sn excursion party through In
/ diana.
Two fences, each l73 miles long, are
building along the Union Pacific Rail
road.
The corporation of London gave
! Napier a solid eighteen carat gold sword
before be left for India.
1t is said that Grant has ordered
cigar lighters made out Of all sppli-
cations for Office.
Predicted, that in ten years the
NeoshO Valley, Kansas, viii contain
1000. 600 people.
-Seventy-two persons have already
been announced as "sUren Of appoint
msDts in Grants cabinet.
"A New York lawyer, in the Great
Western suit, received SIO0, GOO for HIM
self and assistant counsel.
The following ticket il proposed for
1872: Fer President, Anna L. Dickinson {;
for Vice-President, Wendell Phillips.
The Emperor Alexander is the best
horseman Of the sovereigDs OF Europe,
but is neither msrksman nor swords
man.
Victor Emanuel is a passionate
hunter, but knows very little about feno-
ing, and is 8 somewhat awkward horse
man.
-Jeferson and Jansuscheck are
amusing Buffalo. A combination per-
formsnce of Rip Van WjRkle is sug-
gested.
The Imperial Library in Paris, it is
stated, contains I,lO0,G0O printed and
so O00 Ms. volumes. The total number
of volumes in the public libraries OF
France is G. .233 coo, nesriy 5000 600 more
than sre in the libraries Of Great Brit
ain. The private collections in England,
however, are much. larger than those in
France.
The eruption Of Mount Vesuylus
viii probably relieve the countries Of Eu-
rope from the threatened earthquakes.
The mountain, as reported by the AtleD-
tic csble, IS in very vigorous condition
the streams Of lava filing and overflow
ing the loDg, deep ereviees in the side.
The 6i-sction of the current is the same
as during tne eruption of 1855. On the
airbt OF NoVemb Der 10th, the upper cone
discharged columns OF sshes, occasion
sIlv Illuminated by flames Of fire.
Crowds of spectators are hurryipg to
Naples to witness the grand sight.
The Feejee Islands sIs at present de-
yastated by 8 terrible war, w3ged be-
tween the natives Snc the settlers, IN
which both parties peTpetrste the most
cruel atrocities. The colonists are GTiven
from their plantations and the buildin gs
burnt. The commander OF the British
var steamer Challenger destroyed q Ds'
tive village and killed forty-one ssvsges.
King Thakembau has pSii the fret in
stalment of the debt due to the United
States. amounting TO sl2,25Or TO the
United States Consul at Melbourne.
The explorers sent out by the Smith
sopiaD Institute in search OF American
antiquities, have discovered large num-
Der of skulls and idols In the mognds or
Indiana, Missouri and Tennessee. These
remains are supposed to be older than
any thst have hitherto been found in
this country, and are believed to have
belonged 20 q race anterior TO the IN
disns. The skulls are smaller than any
previously noticed, are box shaped end
almost square. In the same mounds
were also found pottery and implements
unlike any that have hitherto been dis-
covered.
The practice Of this new theory Of
cure wss introduced, it Is stated, in the
United States by German physician,
DR.. Grus, who, IN the year 1925, pub
lished treatise on the subjsct. At frst
not much attention was paid TO hOm pa0-
pathy, but in the next ten years, six
works advocating the principles OF Hsh-
nemann were published. In 1884 Jahr's
manual was translated, ead found many
students. At present there are 1887 prac-
utloners Of homoe 1pathy 10 the United
States, OF whom SIS are TO be found in
New York, ga in Pennsylvania, 352 in
Ohio. 275 In Michigan, and 25l In MRsss-
chusetts. There are 81 Societies, 8 being
national, 2 sectional, 10 State and 40 To-
cal. There are : colleges and "A hospi-
tails, infrmRries, ETC., IL different States.
"A process for coating brass ana cop
per with 5 bright surface OF platinum,
has recently been published in the for
eign papers. A nearly neutral solution
of chloride OF platinum is made py
carefully adding carbonate OF soda to the
l. rHOrn Ia e effarUpa-
eenee. To this solution Ia added little
Glucose and some chloride OF sodium,
without which latter substance the platl-
mum would be deposited black, The ar
ticles to be coated have only TO be i'm
paersed in this mixture but when 1t Is
wished 10 ocRt 3 mum Der OF small objects,
such as pins, it Is recon- amended to place
them IN a sort Of zinc sisTe and immeTse
The whole IN the solution, heated to about
I6O degrees Fahrenheit. The coating of
platingnn is deposited almost inlmeeiste-
IL. and the articles have then only to be
wei; washed and dried in wsrm sawdust.
Madame Mogs has quarreled with
the Emoress Eueenie. Who is Madame
Mogs? Her Msjesty's Dress mskerI who
for Ten wears received about hundred
thousand francs a year for filling her
Msiesty's wardrobe; until recently the
Empress always yielded TO the dictation
Of Madame Mogs in matters Of taste and
stvie; but several months sgo Enge1ie
commenced rebellion against her su-
tbority, and ss Madame Mega, who is q
very independent lady, would not stand
suy snubblng, & rupture ensued.. MaG-
su5e Mogs now relies on the patronage
of the Princess de Metternich, who has
been the Iesder Of Paris fashions for two
or three years past, and who seems to re-
main as young as ever, while the EN-
press is fest growing old.
The mastcdon discovered some time
ago ia 3 slougb, one and half miles
southeast OF FairDount, Vermillion
county, ILL.,, was recently the subject OF
. report 70 the Chicago Academy Of Sci
ences. Only one-eigbth part OF the bones
have been exhumsd, and these, owing
10 their having been near the surface of
the earth and in the bed Of the slough
which was sometimes fun o. water are
not in a very good state Of preservation,
being exceedingly brittle and bard to
handle. Some OF the In dividual bones
are quite perfect, such es the bones of
the feet, nearly all the lower and upper
g..-o .,.H frars,,anfa of tho goQrrltsa and