Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-02
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pretty, and we are sure they are.
The HopkinsvilIe (Ky.) Conservative
says: Some Of our farmer friends tell US
that the recent rains have greatly in
jured the tobacco crop in this section Of
the country.
"A writer in the st. Louis Democrat
thinks that pews in the fashionable
churches ought to rest on pivots, so thst
the occupants could see those coming in
without stEaiDing their necks.
"A barbarous writer says that the
" Greoian bendersn might be properly
termed animated parentheses, not only
on account Of the Shape they affect, but
because they include what is &" not
necessary either TO sense or construc. =.
ton"
When 8 Hindoo priest baptizes
child he addresses it as follows: " Little
baby, thou didst enter the world weep
Ing, while ell around thee smiled con-
trlve 60 to live that thou mayst depart
in smiles, while all around thee weep
1t is said that Mr.. Emerson considers
the writing o. twenty lines, completely
finished and cTeditsble to himself, fair
dsy's work. Some have thought that
to read and understand twenty lines Of
mis- writings was sufficient days work
for his readers,
Two gentlemen were scrutinizing
signb board on which was written ed
OTpheus, plumber and gas fitter." One
of them suggested the inaDpropristenes
Of the business for such a name. "Ou
the contrary said the other, "it seems
very appropriate that heshOuld 90 piping
sbout.n
AT CRANKY, Mass, In the yard at the
residence formerly owned by the late
Rev. Elijah Gridley, there is fine elm
tree Of century's growth. Upon the
side Of this tree, twelve feet from the
ground, is 5 eurrsnt bush rooted in the
bark which has -thrived and produced its
annual crop for yesrs.
Louis Napoleon is said to be mindful
0fthe interests Of his old friends. One Of
these, bankrupt in 1880, has by the
EmperOT's sid smaSsed $50 coo 00O, while
many others are said to have been placed
on the track Of large fortunes By bis adj
vice and assistance.
$. W. Bloom, OF Rromstown, ind,
has made from common eoFastaiks a
syrup superior il flavor to sorghum,
though there was a sorghum flavor dis
cernsble. The yield is nearly equal, per
acre, to that of sorghum, and Goes not
interfere with the production of green
corn for market, from the same stalk.
"A few days since, while some per-
sODs were walking upon the side OF the
bluffs in the rear OF La Crosse, q singu-
lar subterFaneoDs sound wRs heard,
which,prOyed, upon to pro-
eeed from a large underground stream OF
pure water running only three feet be-
low the surfsce of the rocks. The stream
is said to be ample for the supply Of the
city.
The Cincinnati Con3B1oner says that
near the locality OF q great battle be-
tween the R9mans and CsledopisBs, "is
g small village called the Blair a woEd
in the old language signifying locus
pUgRG-the place where battle Was
fought. /" LiteFally, this translation may
be correct, but according to the present
apDlieatiVe sense, the Blair is the
ground where the battle is to be fought"
DIR. w. Leigh Burton, OF Richmond,
Va, hss bsen awarded patent st Wash
fngtoa Ter an improved electro Nesting
Invested by him. The object
is to afford a safe. reliable, and eeononi-
cal msthcd Of hesting railway passenger
cars by electrical currents, FsdiSted from
metallic plates. The principle can also
be applied to heating residences, public
and, property managed We
can see a comfortable pile in it for the
DCctOr.
A sensation wss crested among the
uptown people OF New York by tue dis
cOvery Of the perfect remains of s human
foot and leg eI3 bedded in some granite,
which the qusrrymen are blasting a. the
corner of Tenth avenue and FOrty-secODG
nil 70. f- acla nd k,u
human remains are perfectly black. The
questions for the philosophers and the
now are, are these thsrelics
of some primevsl man, and was this
primevRl man black 2
The Report of the Grand Secretary,
resd at the recent meeting OF the Grand
Lodge st Baltimore, furnishes the follow
ing Statistics Number Of Lodges in the
United States and British North Amer
les, Sl42; Grand Lodges, Al Grand En- :.
81; members, 24S, T9B.
Money expended in relieving the Oretb-
rem and their widowed families, in edU-
eating Orphsns and buryiDg the dead
s6S3 090. Annual receipts, S2,093, las.
This Order has been established on per-
manent basis IN Australia, there being in
that country 1900 mem 5ers affiliated
with the organization in the United
States.
The corner stone Of Whitfeld's Tab /
ernscle was recently laid with sppropri- F..
ate ceremonies in London. This build I
ing is &bouE 20 be erected on the sits
Of the old chapel raised in I740
by Rev. George Whitfield, ana long the
scene Of his ministerial labors in Taber-
naele Row, Finsbury, q borough OF Len
don. The new edifice will afford seats .
for one Thousand persons, and will cost .
about $50, coo 10 gold. The chsnge in the .
condition of the Dlssenters in England .
since Whitield's time is very remsTka- .
bic, for when he built his tabernacle in .
the open fields Of Finsbury there were
only three eleTgymen Of his way of 4
thinking in London, and their chapels I
were hidden in obscure courts.
During the Grst half Of this CEN
tury $40 shocks Of earthquakes were no.
!iced, or about one every week. In En- I
rope, during the last ten years, there I
have been go earthquakes, or one every
nine days. At the commencement OF 1
the fifteenth century only 7s0 Of these
shocks hsd found q place in history.
During the next 800 years 2S04 earth 1
uuakes are recorded, or almost four
times as many as during all the succeed
Ing ages, From these facts it hss been 4
inferred that, whateYsr may be the ori- 1
gin OF these uphesvings OF the cTust of (
the earth, the phenomena are greatly in
creasing in number and their causes 10. !
violence. This il cheering and resssur- 7
ing to Us poor mortsls.