Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-24
LITERARY, THEA RETKC Al
AND NEWS ITEMS.
cannot live In Montana.

, Cats cannot live In Montana.
Mrs. Lander is playing in Indiana.
The spring book trade promises to be
very active.
: The Mobile theater has been closed
for want of patronage.
Six OF the chief London theaters are
managed by ladies.
Chicago has a theater comique-a
= new thing.
NORTH Carolina has raised green peas
thus early.
Massachusetts spent over 81 900, 900
for school houses last year.
Miss Bateman is expected to play
at Booths next October.
Chicago has projected two new ho-
tells, the Pacific and the Inter-Ocesnic.
Albany is to have new theater in
plsee CT the one burned about q year
ago.
The first piano ever sent to Japan
was shipped lately by New Haven
manufacturer.
The high price Of hides in Texas has
stimulated one branch OF business
cattle stealing.
Seventeen hotels in st. Paul, Minn.,
have been destroyed by fire in as many
years.
-Fifty-nine new pieces were brought
out at English provincial theaters last
year.
-Itis said that the Germsnsin Charles
ton, s. c., intend building thesteT at
the cost Of $50 600
"A rife has been invented which is
eighteen inches long, and can be carried
in the pocket.
A new edition Of Shelley's Works,
edited and with Q life By Wm. NJ. R0-
sstti, is announced ia England.
1t is said that Mary McVicker's re-
liCious opinions kept her from the stage
for several years.
"A bill has been introduced in the
Kentucky Legislature prohibiting the
msrrisge Of first cousins.
Forrest refused q New Orleans en-
gsgement because one Of the conditions
was that he should play Sunday night.
DIR. Westlsnd Msrston has written a
poeticsl drama which will be produced
/ at the Lyeeum thester, London, at Easter.
CHARLES Resde, it is said, intends
building 8 thester in London for the
performance Of his own works.
-Loits, Chanfrsu, Josie, Orton, aud
two versions Of "Barbe Bleue" are the
! present attractions at New Orleans thea
| ters.
The New Orleans Varieties propose,
to visit the principal cities of Canada
and the United States the coming spring.
"A man in Delaware tainted and fell
into the fire last Saturday, roasting him
self nicely before he was drawn cut.
The Philadelphia North American
says that houses in thst city which
rented for $3.50 year ago, are now So
| liciting occupants at $500.
A speciality Of the present London
! season is the 4" At Home - parties given
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, at
their residence in Brompton,
-"F Fgirtt '" is q new verb In the French
| language, from the English "hjrl." A
proposed definition is "the boundary line
between friendship and love"
San Francisco supports an Amsri-
canizsd italian opera troupe, two circusss,
a'minstrel company, and three legitimate
| theaters.
Mr.. W. G. Drummond, Of BOOTHS,
| is said to be the oldest active profession
al in the country. He played leading
/ parts in 1913.
| Judge A. G.. w. Carter, Of Cincinnati,
/ hss written q plsy, The 5 cillsn Sis
ters," which Mrs. Scott Siddons has
adopted.
"A Paris theater issues monthly tick
cts of admission OF a reduced rate, the
holder being entitled to seat at all but
first performances.
The only living specimen Of the ga.
I zelle in this country Il in private
park ia Peoria, Illinois. Il was caught
/ in the mountsins Of Lebanon.
The curtain at the new San Frsp-
/ cisco theAter is made Of reps in stripes Of
| green, red and gold, and the act-drop is
view Of the hsrDor.
Seventy FIVE years ago su actor left
| a fund for cakes and vine, to be psrtaken
OF on Twelfth Night by the DruFy Lane
cOmpsDy ''in the Great Green Room,
forever
Mrs. D. S. Bowers has br ught cut in
Buffslo new play nv Mr.. Fslconer, en-
titled Snare; or, What Money Can't
Do" which hits the insane asylum
abuses.
"A pair OF disconsolate lovers in New
Orleans tied their hands together ard
| jumped Of bridge, but caught on rail,
where they hung and kicked until res,
cued.
Meadow Lake, on the Pacific road.
which lately boasted two thesters aud
twelve hotels, has now population Of
tbirty-five, and 3 building that cost 5000
sold the other day for SIS.
Frank B. Wnkie, of the Chicago
Times, is writing Wsr "Reminiscences
of an Army Correspondent" He saw
considerable service In the Southwest
during the late unplesssntness.
The latest literary sensation in Eng
land is the snnOunesmPnt of an edition
OF the " Midsummer Nights Dream"
illustrated by "A silhouettes, or scissor
cuttings.
Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott, the author
of Little Women" the sequel to which
will be issued by Roberts Brothers in a
few weeks, Is also the editress Of MeTTy's
Museum.
We notice growing use Of the
phrase from thence" among very
many OF our best writers. As the latter
word includes the whole idea {" from
that plsce''), the phrase is certainly not
good English.
Robert Buchanan has In preparation
two books, one a poem and the other
prose. The fret Is the " Book Of 0rm-a
/ IENlN1S ~ Aub LFabg hAA NlG SpSb1Ng
Hebriies, the Cruise Of the Tern
through the Scottish Isles"
"A collection Of six hundred and
sixty-twO letters from Queen Ehz lbeth.
Lord Burleigh, and others, between 1882
and 1894, some OF great value, and all
interesting, have been discovered Ia 8
lumber room in the Guildhsll, London.
One Of the finest art works which we
have seen, is bound collection of fifty
photographs, uniform size, OF the chef
d'guUres of the great masters. The book
was imported from Florence, we be-
lleve-snd we think there are but two
copies Ia this country.
-" Horticulture for Women " is the
present objective of the Boston Re
form CIub.n Emerson, Weiss, Wssson
| (Emerson's faint eehO) and the rest, are
marching on It, but at last accounts were
stiu lighting above the clouds. Mean
time the gardening season Is at hand
and Woman waits impatient.
Mr.. Edward Crspsey's article. I" WIN
Murder Out?" in the March G0ldgy
does him great credit. He gives the bis
tory Of several remarkable cases OF mur-
dar In which the guilty Dsrtv hes neyar