Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-05
ITEMS OF AEL SORTS.
London has $50. 600 houses.

-Jeddo, Japan, is now ToOkei.
Switzerland wants the money.ordt
system.
The Prussisn army in time of W,
con tains 7l0, 900 men and ia 800 horse
OF the young men mustered for militar
! service in Prussia this year, sixty pt
cert. were able-bOdied, while forty o.
cent. were not ft for service.
The death Of the king of Paris re-
tGurGte1lrs, Pascal, proprietor of the ce
ebrated Maison Philippe, Rue Monitor
quill, Is reported. The hope has bee
expressed that the receipt for his 5Ootdo
Ia btsque viii be found among his ps
pers.
The expense Of supplying the distriC
Of Camberwell, near London, with ws
ter, is so great, that the American tub
wells, used SO successfully in Abyssinia
are about TO be introduced. Esch well, i
IS stated, can be sunk for five dollars pc
foot.
-Airee, the gymnast, had bad fall il
the city of Mexico. He was hanging by
one foot, when he had q rush of blood t
the head and tumbled on the netting
Jumping, he elambered again up th,
rope, only to lose his grasp Of the ring
and fall this time to the floor, sixty feet
The tobacco manufacturers of the
/ Atlantic States itisrepOrted, are making
/ arrangements for the erection at Louis.
/ vile, KY, Of extensive buildings for re.
drying and cutting tobacco. One firm Il
now engaged in putting up factory 10C
/ feet deep, thirty wide and three stories
| high, and will employ 100 hands in the
business Of packing tobacco.
According to the report of an emf.
nent collector of statistics, the proper
tiOns which the different races Of the
Austrian Empire bear to each other are
ss follows In every thousand 254 are
Germans, lS6 Czechs and Slovacbs, 154
Magyars, IS RuthenisDs, So CrOsts and
Serbs, 81 Wsllachs, 6S Poles, 81 Slovens,
80 Israslites, l6 Italians, and not classi-
fed.
Below will be found what is deemed
a proper text from which to preach the
funeral sermon Of Ben. Butler From
jeremiah ill.,, 10: "And the basins, and
the firepsDs, and the bowls, and the cal
drOns, and the candlesticks, and the
spoons, and the cups; that which was of
gold, in gold, aud that which was Of sill
yer, in silver, the captain of the guard
took swsy."
Some one who had no visible means
Of support, and does not deserve any,
has calculated that the snuff annually
consumed in France would N Ike thirty
columns as large as that in the Place
VendOme, the smoking tobacco would
mske solid cube IS large as tha Arc
d. 'EtOile, chewing tobacco would fill
$3.50 two -hect0litre casks, and the cigars,
laid end to end, would stretch round the
globe twice at the equator.
The Island OF Jersey, off the coast
Of France, but belonging TO Great Brl-
tain, has become celebrated for its crops
to an extraordinary degree, with sea
weed, stable manure, and Peruvian
gu8nO, to force the potatoes forward
Tbs crop is sent to the London market
early, and obtains so great a price that
81 acre Of early potatoes is valued at
$500 in gold.
Brighton, England, is to have an i'm
mense aquarium, 1850 feet long, with a
width. A company has
been formed, and the town council will
probably contribute the sum of $1,000 to-
ward the construction of this aquarium,
which will be, when completed, one of
the chief attractions OF q place already
one Of the most popular Of English sea-
side resorts. The plans and drawings
promise, a very complete aquarium.
AT a recent dinner, at which no Ia
dies were present, q man in responding
to the toast on " Woman,D dwelt almost
solely on the frsilty OF the sex, claiming
that the best among them were but little
better than the worst, the chief differ
ence being in the surroundings. At the
of bis speech . gentleman
rose snd said 81 hope the gentleman, In |
the application Of his remarks, referred |
10 his ODC5l mother and sisters, and not to 1
1Ursn
The ordnance manufactured by the /
celebrated steel-woTkers, the KrGpps, has |
stely been modified SO as to produce /
much more formidable results. The i'm
it is stated. consists in the |
snlarging Of the chsmber in which the |
is ,caged. The charge is to be /
iouble what il wac, while the ball re.
mains at the former weight Of 200 pounds.
When tried side by side with the nine
nch Armstrong, having 8 ball of 227
pounds, the Krupp gun, it is alleged, |
proved greatly the superior.
-BourboUze is the name Of a new gas
light now used in France. It il reported
u
while it costs less. Coal gas, intimately
mixed with atmospheric air, is urged by
yentle pressure through q tube, and
passes through metal plate full of holes
Many jets are thus formed, which, after
,eing driven through a fine tissue of
platinum wire, are lighted. The plati-
lUm soon becomes white hot, and so
,Tillisnt that the eye can hardly bear It.
feet of gas is consumed per
lOuT.
1t has been discovered that eft For
es, in Scotland, there is an extrsordina-
y DETECTION from the plumb line. Il is
veil known that this is common near
srge mountains, but in this case there
re no mountains near. II is c0njsctured
hat underneath there must be mass of
unusually sOlid matter. The extent and
irection OF the detection are 10 be de-
by very ingenious use Of two
locks, one az a distance which will
suse magnet to click by an electric
Tire beside another clock at Forres.
he cause will be Investigated after
yards.
-Justus Liebg, the celebrated Munich
heZnist, complains bitterly of the num-
er of foolish and impertinent letters
which, he says,-b receives every day,
rom nearly all quarters of the globe.
Ie says his letter mail often comprises,
q q single day, two hundred letters,
7rittsn in eight or ten different Ian
usges, and mostly containing inquiries
bout the most simple chemical prob
ems, the solution of which may be
OUnd in any elementary handbook Of
mot only" says Professor
4ieDig, in letter addressed to an Augs-
urg paper, "srs / utterly unable to an
wer most Of these letters, but they rob
ne OF much valuable time"
The ex-Kirg OF Hanover, q grand
On of George III, OF Great Britain, in
ends, il is stated, 10 take his seat in the
.BgliBh House of Lords, under his title
{ Duke OF Cumberland. A curious
uestion has been raised, whether the J
lysl marriage act, which provided that
,ithout the consent of the crown, no |
of George III should contract |
latrimony, affects the family relations
{ this thrOneless King. Eight sover-
gns were present at the marriage, in
343, OF the eX-King Of Hanover, and it
-ould be remarkable il, after all the pa
ade Of the occasion, the ceremony was
lvalid, and if the supposed hereditary !
'rince Ernest Augustus has no title to
is rank or bis possessions In England.
Mrs. Basil Williamson recently died,
{ CbsTlestown, Va, aged So years. She {
-as 8 6iQner to the deed. to (Sanergl 6