Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-20
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- -L2st year ?, 432 0S6 bushels Of whea
s. were exported rom Winona, Mum.
There are between 90 OCO and so O0
barrels Of apples stored in b ston.
"A six feet vein CT tuperior coal hs
i' been discovered OF the line of the Pacif,
Railroad.
Uniform postage stamps are to fol
d low q Uniform coinage in European coun
: tries.
Six hundred live quaus were shipped
from Dubuque 70 Massachusetts, a few
days ago.
"A mensgerie man In Paris keeps his
money Ia the cage OF his most ferociou
Buimsls,
France owes 4 debt Of s.. .225 coo 900.
and her annual expenditures ia peace
amount to S5l5 900 600.
, The MenkeG's debts have been paid
by the French Dramatists' Society. They
smcu1ted to over 5000 francs.
The Empress Eugenie has paid one
, % her dressnaksrs q hundred thousand
} fraucs for single years service.
"Tiess says Vo,taira, are like
0esrds. Men only get them when they
grow up, and women never have any.
Thieves lately stole the carpet from
an Ohio church, and when it was newly
esrpeted, brought back tie old AMI stole
the new.
Hay aud straw are 50 high Ia Mon
trGal that owners Of horses sFe using
sawdust foF bedding aud carrots for
food.
-MszziuieEpgCtst to live Until rhe " R.
public OF the United States Of ElroDs''
. is proclaimed. May he accomplish it
and die early.
They have at leugth discovered g
resi- workman in the British Parliament,
a Mr.. Csrter, N P, for Leeds, vino be.
gan life IS : laDorer in 3 eoiIiery.
The young American lady who was
studying anatomy a. Nienus, hiss been
persuaded by 8 wealthy youog Huuga.
Tlan to give a. medicine for matrim0ny
2 The Duke Of Argyle hiss s new work
IN press, entitled PsimsVal Man: Al
Examination Of Recent SpeCuIatiors -
HIS "Rsign Of Law" has passed to q
fifth edition.
The Berlin Midsight Mission reports
having reclaimed over two hundred
fallen women, Of whom thirteen have
married aud forty have returned 20 their
parents.
The London plan Of propelling cars
by TIE weight Of the passenger reminds
I as OF the man VINO tried to hoist himself
F over fence BY pulling on The straps Of
his boots.
On dit in Berlin that Madame Clara
Muodt, better known as l. uiza MUh'-
bach, is soon 10 become Princess PuekIer
Musksu, The old Prince and author hay-
lUg proposed 70 her.
AT q late bail in the Toronto Lunatlc
Asylum, the Emperor OF China and
Bloody Mary danced poIks, and the
man with 10 j7ints Ia his legs stepped
around lively.
" What's lhston askrF g scho0Iuas. .
ter, pciutrg to the letter Y IT'S dad
Gy'5 Esme No, yCu J.ockbesd, it's .
y" Tsilt y Duthe-, i.'s daddy's
name, for 1 see him write it many q
time"
The town Of w lls, VI, has & elti. .
zen who married al seventeen. His first .
child IVES daughter, who married gt
thirteen, g. d eighteen months aiteERari /.
made her father 9 grandfather. st the .
early sgs 0f thiriy-oue and B half years .
Mrs. julia Ward Howe, ia letter to .
Mr.. Henry Jsmas, inviting him to re /
peat his lecture on " Womau," sGys:
" As the Chairman OF the Comm jttee on /
Art aud Literature Of the New E0glsHd
WomsL's Ciut, L am commissioned -
etc.
Eggs are preserved oG @ large scale .
IA 7 PzTis by placing 70 wire baskets abcus
q zen ~ time, and iDmgrsiUg them .
for abCu. minute ia boiling wzLer. A .
thin layer Of the egg cOaEU!ates on the .
inner surface Of the shell, forming li!m
inpeue tTs5le 10 air
After g careful seFies Of Observations
Of he eXcrets Of cholera patients, Prof
Hsllior, of Jens, has detected micro I.
scapicsl fungus 10 consiIeTl bic quantity,
which proves 10 be q species Estive 10 .
the rice fields Of India, upon which they .
exercise . very in ijdrious effect.
The O8ondags salt sYriDgs Of New
York, in l6US, yielded s,Ty5,5l4 bushels .
Of salt, being an Increase OF Ol6, ,454 .
bushels over 1867. The amount Of reve- .
nue received by the Stale was SIS O49, /
ard the expenses Of the superintendent .
were S49, 28S, leaving a ret revenue Of 4
s3S 6lI.
st. Petersburg is 10 Esve q novelty .
locomotive Gu ice. Tue only difference
between the new e0Qiues and cars and .
these now in use viii be that the wheel7
will be. made very broaS, and 30 con
structed as to bite the ice. If the new
will he very valuable 90 toe trade OF Rug-
siA.
The proyerJlal luxury Of the ancient
Romans is fast bcirg 0atdone by mod
eTn women OF fsshiOr. The most uele-
tralsd OF Paris beauties has just insugu.
rated one o. the mOs5 eXtravBgant inno-
vati0ns Of this eXtgsvsgsnt sgP. Every
day she changes the decoration Of her
sOud0ir as il by magic. On aWazlEg in
the morEirg she calls for, say, her pink
toilette; and while she sacrifices to the /
drscts, the chaInsleon-Hke apartment
that Wzs m9uye satin yesterday il
changed to pick silk to-day, and will
most likely be green velvet tomorrow.
Mr. E L Brady, an engineer, pro-
poses 70 DO away win the i 8st River st
New York, thinking that the only means
q saving the hsrbor. He bss projected .
8 dixie from the South Ferry scroFs the
shadows to Brooklyn, which be would
make eeveral hnnureed feet wide, with
ample dock roOm aDd space for streets 4
and warehouses. From these docks and 4
warehouses 1ir Brady calculates sn in
come which, ia 8 few years, would pay
the cost Of ths whole work, which he
estimates st Sl6.0C0.G GEO.
"A Singular and Interesting incideat
is connected with the death OF Mr. Dor
sey, who expired 30 suddenly in The Sen.
ate chamber on Wednesday. Asstated.
Dir. Dorsey was very old man. and has
had q pregentment that be would one
day die very suddenly. On Wednesday
morning, before leaving home, ne re-
quested bis wife anu daughter to write
his name and residence upon 3 piece Of {
paper and place it in bis pocket, remark.
ing that he might die away from home, (
and the name would be the meass Of .
Identifying him. The request WAS sona- .
piled With, and sOout three hours hoeFe. 1
alter the paper was the means OF idsnti-
lying him.
-Phe Church Almanac for 1883 gives /
the following summary of the statistics (
OF tbe L )iscopai Church: Dlocesea, SO F.: /
bishops, AZ bishops-eleet q priests and |
desc0ns, 26S7 whole number Of sIsrpy. /
25s6; parishs y, 2472; ordinations-iea (
COILS, los; pTiests, 50 total, 296 eandi-
dales for orders, 33z chuTche. conseera-
ted. So; baptisnis-iufants, &c S35: admits
7cr-. ,,,,s sfotaH 1901 tofal az -oa - 4