Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-25
FOREIGN NEWS.
London has eooo public cabs.


Paris is holding an Exposition
G'nirerSejte of postage stamps.
! There will soon be eighty-two
4 drinking-foantains in Glasgow.
Italy is kept in state Of corporal
sanity. by ten thousand doctors.
Travelling in private carriages is
the fashion in Europe this season.
The deposits in the savings banks
of SaxOny amount to about S28, ,000,-
600 in gold.
The British Government is eX-
pected to take possession Of the tele-
graph lines before the end of the year.
in the Austrian province Of Kar-
nithia 1893 legitimate and 441O illegiti-
mate children were born in 1868.
Great Britain has Il, 800 miles of
railway, costing 81, $40, 900, 900, against
43, 900 miles in this country, costing
only 81, $40, ,000, 600.
"A meteorOlogist of England
wishes to explain recent cold weather
by the numerous spots on the disk Of
the sun.
The entry of Don Carlos into the
province of Navarro is confirmed.
Great precautions are being taken by
the Spanish Government.
The subject of Mr.. Tennyson's
new poem is announced to be the old
German legend Of the "Quest of the
Holy Grail"
The Hungarian soldiers are work
ing in the harvest fields, their en-
ployers paying the Government IF
teen cents a day for the wear Of their
clothes.
On the flfty-fOurth anniversary of
Waterloo, Just past, there were living
l35 English officers who took part in
the battle.
1t is estimated that of the popula-
tiOn Of France about l, 900, 900 persons
are living in the cities, and about 2G,
100000 in the country.
The viceroy of Egypt has offered
one thousand seven hundred costumes
from Paris for his new theater, Their
aggregate cost viii be $50, 600.
Norway numbered, in 1866; 53G
midwives, 3GG physicians, 60 drug
stores and 49 hospitals. The pOpula-
LADll VI iitt tDi1lt-, ISNOiAAiiisS ~ lIiI Ntii-
sus, was /, ~ ,257 souls.
1t has been found impossible in
France to procure by public subscrip-
ton the four thousand dollars which
is necessary to erecta statue to Lamar
tine.
The Prince of Wales set the full
dress fashion of blue coats and brass
buttons to save certain intimate
friends from the annoyance of being
constantly mistaken for walters.
Five hundred dollars reward is
offered in London for two young
ladies who have abscOnded with the
supposed intention Of proceeding to
Rome for the purpose Of conversion"
u Eglise LJre, a French journal,
of which Rev. Leon PLATTE is editor,
proposes Rev. JOS. p. Thompson,
ID. D., for the chair of American
literature, which, il is announced, is
To be established at Heidelberg Uni
versity.
The great needle mandatory of
Carl Schleicher, in SchOnthal, near
Duren, ON the Rhine, exported, in
1868, no less than $40, ,000, 600 of sewing
needles, which were disposed OF in
various parts OF the continent of Eu-
rope, in North and South America,
and in Africa.
Premier Giadstone's long an
nOunced book is at last published by
Macmillian-"J JuVentus Mundi; Gods
and Men Of the Greek Heroic Age"
with a colored map of the outer geo
graphy of the Odyssey and the form
of the earth according to Homer.
1t is found necessary to renew the
lead on the cupoIa Of st. Peters,
Rome, which is much damaged by
The Pope aids the work
with the contribution Of one hundred
thousand francs from his privy purse.
The cupola will be partly gilded, as in
the time of SiXtus Y.
Said Lord John Russell to Mr..
Hume at social dinner: What do
YOU consider the object of legislation?"
number" What do you consider
the greatest NUMBER" continued his
lordship. Number one" was the
commOner's prompt reply.
-The great sugar-pF0tEucing district
of Germany lies in the industrial
uuadrillateral of Magdeburg, Halle,
HalberStadt and Brunswick: but
Silesia and Anhalt have also several
manufactures. and Baden, has one at
Waghausel. In 1866 the raw beet
sugar exported was calculated at 700
600 cWt., and must now be at least
500, 900 cwt. The greater part of it is
sent to England, Scotland, France and
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