Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-22
ITEns OF IATEREsT.

The following is said to be sure cur
for corBs: One tesspooufdl OF tar, one 0
coarse brown sugar, and one Of ssltpeter
( Ihe@ hole TO be warmed together. SpreaC
10 os kid leather the sizs Of the cogns
aud in two days they will be drawn out
1t IS sisted that on the day OF BsroI
/ James de Rathschiidis fuueral, bis widow
{ gave orders that every beggar Who came
/ to the door should receive a gold piece o
twenty francs, and that in pursuance oi
/ this order 40 less than sixty Thousand
! dolisrs was given away in the course o
I tie day.
The Washington correspondent o.
/ the New York World thus describes Sen
stOT Morton, of Indiana: The general
esp.tal ensemble is robust EOtUud.ty, in.
+ formediy big black eyes. which have the
/ picture faculty of looking every wsy at
once. In manner easy, and even eor-
! disi, Mr., Morton succeeds in repeIIing
! the expectation of HOosieT loudne ess, az
/ well as of grating on to g New England
( alertnes5 that smooth something which
nakes q New Yorker the equal Of a
Yankee in quickness without any Of his
angles.
The Engllah books exported from
drsd weight, ard were valued at 50 052, -
$50 The United States took SS9l. .555
worth; Austraiis, $3.50 $50; Egypt s325 =
635; British North America, S26afss,j5 (;
British Indis. S2lS l95; France, 52l4 "a; ;
italy, Sl09 eos; South Africa, sI0A oo5 /;
Hamburg, sos 500; West Indies Gld
British Guiana, $50 sos; snd Holland,
$50, $50. The Countries taxing smaller
quantities Of books are omitted. The
imp0rts Cf books into England, during
1867, weighed 10 273 hundred weight,
and we're valued ct s6lS, 5S5
The Houston Telegraph remarks that
10 ten years from this time the Pacific
Railroad will be completed, branch roads
will be running from it in every 6irsc-
tior, the New Orle8ns and Texss Z. all
road will be completed, and daily trains
running to and from the Crescent City:
the Central Railroad will have reached
its Iestinstion, and all the other roads
now projected will be ia running order;
the Ship Channel will be cemplated, and
vessels from ali the great ports lying at
anchor st the city Of Houston, ami HoUs-
ton Will bs city Of fifty thousand in
hs5itsnts. Ten years hence the teeming
milii0rs Of Texas will be the happisst,
most prosperous people on this continent
The New York EUeuing Past pub
fishes the following extract from ) pri-
vate letter, written by S well-known
South Carolins lOyaiist and Republican
10 gentleman IN that city &" Oar pros
pecss in South Carolina, ami I think all
over the Sguth, are now very e0c1uFeg-
ing, both politically and materially.
LawlessEess has ceased almost as If by
magic since the elections, and everybody
tn q mt Ean -, r,Ff { Of
Us have peace Good feeling seems rap
idly returning between the tg-o parties,
and prominent Republican is treated
different fTom what he was only a month
sgO. The dnRucisl prospects or the State
have improved wonderfully within the
last two or three weeks
The Hlmalaya mountains are the
subject Of g course OF lectures now bsing
delivered in New York by Prof Robert
Won Schisgiatweit, who, with his brotn-
eTs, has thoroughly explored tbsss re
gio0s. The approach t. the Hhaalayas
lies over & msrshy tract, covered with q
wilderness Of luXurisDt vegetation, and
the haunt Of fer0ciOus wild ceas's The
eXGalatl0us are fatsl TO stTa0-
gers, and the fever-smiLten Inhabitants
are Obliged to live in buts built sew Wal
feet above the groucd. After this region
Called TsrRi) is passed, the traveller
suddenly stands before the Hjmalzyas. .
This chain OF mountains rises TO Sn aver .
sge hight OF l6 0g0 to Is 000 feet, though
forty five OF the peaks are ever 23 600
feet in altitude. The highest point al
which contiUusily Inhabited Village is I
to be found is II 746 feet above the level 4
Of the sea.
We were surprised a few days since, .
says the New York ECsliing Au3. to see .
that Ime. Matilda Heron was 90 deliver
the Op. aing address az jarrett sud Pal .
ner's new Tammany Concert Hall. It .
lid not seem possible that one Of the .
stars OF tbe legitimate drama would as
30aiBt6 he- name in any wsy with this
colossal lsger beer ballet ssl0On ia Four
.eentb street. II the few dramatic ar
lists We have OF ur sGliied reputation con-
sent 10 lend the II llleuce Of their names
10 such places d dissipation as concert /
saloons, then We have but little hope OF
even the shadow of dignity
Ipon the stage. Il would be Z sorry
light to see any artist bsfore the audience
# low saloon seeking 30 render fash
Onsble the vice OF iBtempersnee. We
IRE glad 10 be able to positively contra
Iict the report that Madame Matilda
Heron viii deliver an address upon the
platform of the great TammaDy Hall
.ODg and dance house.
1t is estimated that there are 50, 500
,oilers ia the United S+stes, representing
, power OF over 5000. coo horses, or Of
: eco, Geo men, These 89, 500 boilers are
distributed g. follows! Locomotive, 5000;
team host, 10 500 stationary, 50. .0G0
At recent meeting Of the Massachu-
sits Institute Of technology, z lecturer
.sssrted that, according 10 eXoariments
nade by himself, ali boiler explosions,
except ia the few eases which burst ia
be Ueekest place, are caused by the nn-
.QUsl z X psU5iep Of the metal. It was
stated that the greStsst numbe- OF boiler
explosions, especially on locomotives,
,ceCr ia this country between the nTst Of
September snd the first OF January, IN
he interval bstHe6E summer and the
ime when the engineer supplies feed
RaJer heated by his waste steam, the
'old feed water st the above season caus
ng unequal expansion OF the metal. Ia
Drder 10 prevent this, 2 device has been
invented by which wster is taken from
he bottom Of the boiler, and by means
4 an automatic apparatus, furnished to
he toy. Ia this Wsy feed water OF the
Of the steam IS constantly
uyplied TO the boiler, and unequal ex
,aDsiOn ig prevented