Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

/ at BRUSSELS.
Alaska ice cells for five cents q pound
in San Francisco.
North Carolina has yielded nearly
SIC, 0,000,0 900 gold.
-Filicide is the Chicago word for kill
ing daughter.
Vermont raises annually seven mill
lion pounds Of maple sugar.
Forty millions annually is said TO be
earned by washing shirts.
-Velocipede riding is discouraged at
the French court.
Eggs at ten cents dozen clog the
Georgia market.
Louisiana, by law, authorizes gam
bling, license costing $4,000.
The Iowa Attorneyess-at-L1w is ad-
vised to call herself q bRr-maid.
One wing Of the Kansss State House
at Topeka has already cost $500 600.
There are six eolored men in the
medical department Of Harvard Uni
versity.
"A New Bedford ship lately caught
Sl06, 900 worth of whalebone on her way
home.
One hundred and eighty ladies have
already entered the College Victoria,
Berlin.
"A London bigsmist survived for
twenty years without letting either wife
know Of the other.
London has thirteen Mary Ann,
eighty-seven John, and fifty-two New
streets.
"A Virginia papsr calls BrownIow a
PlutOnian note at long date, paying an
enormous interest.
"A Cincinnati genius called on the
papers the other night, and left notices
of his own suicide.
"A floating prison-hulk at Cayenne
recently sank and drowned number OF
French converts.
-Lprvy, the hair-dresser Of the En-
press Eugenie, employs eighty persons
and is very wealthy.
1t is estimated that Mrs. Segundi
snd her courtiers have benefited Paris
to the amount of five million francs.
"A Chicagosn, irritated by the suc-
cess of his wife in divorce case, at
tempted to shoot his two daughters.
in Otsego, n. Y, an estate of $500
has just been settled. The heirs got s.
apiece-the lawyers the rest.
"A Paris shopkeeper has been fined
for exhibiting goods in his window at q |
lower figure than he would sell them for. |
OF the Presbyterian Theological Sem |
inRTies, Allegheny has y students, |
Princeton 103, and Union 127.
1t is proposed to give the women of |
Utah the right to vote, and then see |
what will become Of polygsmy.
town because it hadn't women enough |
to quarrel at it's convention"
Prince Amadeus, of Italy, is badly |
hen-pecked. His wife often slsps his |
face in the presence of the servants.
Before our late war, Marseilles re.
ceiYed only 100000 kilogrammes of |
cotton, and last year received 22,065, ,529. |
king Louis, of Bavaria, is to spend |
two and half million forms on palace, |
near Hokenschwangen, for his bride.
Essex, Mass, wants railroad, bank,
town hall, town clock, high school and |
soldiers monument. That's all.
OF the two thousand citizsns Of In |
who swOre eff the first of |
January, eleven still hold true, seven |
being editors.
Only one OF the five maids OF the |
Empress Eugene Is a FrenchwomsD, |
and the two English girls are the only |
pretty once.
The tickets Of invitation to the Tuil- |
cries balls are white for cOmmoners, |
green for noblemen, and red for foreign |
The favorite Chinese " concealed |
weapon ia San Francisco is an iron |
bolt about eighteen inches long, covered |
with red cloth.
"A boa constructor in Singapore has /
swallowed a SIS 600 diamond necklace |
with young lady, and the natives are |
hunting up the snake.
"A London milkmsn has just married |
his fifth wife within ten days Of the
funeral of his fourth, whereat the mob
smashed his windows.
"A Western medical firm, who cure
by the laying on of hanGs," has lately
been fined for practicing medicine con-
trRry to law.
AT the new female college in Berlin,
courses will be given in French and Ger
man literature, the history Of art, and
the natural sciences.
Hong Kong has an annual trade OF
two hundred million dollars, aud con-
are English and American.
Rev. George r. Taylor, OF Stanton,
has been appointed Chaplain of the
ofVirginia. His father filled
the place thirty years ago.
The invitations to a "hard time
party " in Wisconsin are on brown ps-
per, and each guest is to dress in every
day clothes, and bring crackers 10 his
pocket.
On one occasion damon and Py-
thias was being played at a theater in
Washington. In the last act, as Da-
mon " was about to be led to execution,
he was strsining his eyes in the effort to
discern bis friend in the distance, and
asking, as he coming >" a locOmO-
tive whistle sounded close by. He'll
be here in the next train" shouted q
wsg, and in an instant the emotion was
to laughter.