Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-07
MEMPHIS APPEAL
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE z, 1869.
NEWS OF THE Day.

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Jenny Lind has made Hamburg hel
home.
The musical society Of Milwaukee
numbers 562 members.
Eieuxtemps, the viofinist, has COM
posed a three-act opera.
Mrs. Motley is a sister Of the late
Parke Benjamin.
NJ. Haussmann, Parisians say, is the
man who does not laugh.
The Queen of Prussia has imported
a cask of Jordan water for royal baptism.
Dom Piatt's journal is to be called
simply the Dayton Daily.
A writer in the Revolution demands
for wives equal pay with wet nurses.
The MormOns are PROSECUTING in
Tennessee. Can't they take Brownlow off.
The National Guard of New York
is TO be reduced from 5000 to 10000 men.
The Louisville C0Rier-JOWnG hints
a horrible suspicion that "Butler is
squirting at the Presidency"
There were FIVE generations of Bachs
who were cOmposers-nOt counting Often
bach.
Ristori is practicing daily in a shoot
ing gallery. Her physicians advised hunt
ing.
The Locomotive is a weekly paper
devoted TO the Railroad, Mining and FL
nancial interests.
Felician David is likely to be the
successor Of Berlioz in the French Insti-
tute.
One-fourth more land than last year
will be in cultivation in lows this sum
mer.
Herr Zenger's opera, "Ruy Bias"
was withdrawn at BreslaU after one rep
resentatiOn,
An Englishman is about to under
tax to ride on a bicycle from St. Peters
burg to MascOw.
Nj. Junius Brutus Booth has pur-
chased for his mother a beautiful summer
residence in Manchester.
The first mass rehearsal Of the Bos-
ton singers in the Peace Jubilee, number
ing Over 5000, was an entire success.
Bismarck's two sons have finished
at the Lyceum, andtheir father has placed
them for one year in the lancers.
Tennyson has been elected an hon
orary member Of the Fellows Of Trinity
College, Dublin.
Ice cream saloons on a small scale,
with little filtration gardens annexed, are
increasing in number in New York.
England's sailor Prince has COM
posed a waltz, and has the ambition to
lead an orchestra.
The three women's rights publica-
tions in Chicago are to be united into an
eight-page sheet, the CajUeTSe.
Tamberlik, the tenor, has left mu-
sic and is making guns in Madrid on a
contract with rho &ngnFgh OGv-arnp1nnr
Mile Pooh, a new prima donna has
met with great success at L aScala, Milan,
in MontuorO's new opera, "Fieschi."
Paris has produced a new musical
instrument, h "typophone." 1t is like
a piano, tuning forks being substituted
for wires.
New Hampshire has thirty-eight
savings banks, with SI7, 2G6, $50 deposits,
an increase over last year Ofnearly three
millions.
Late Cape of Good Hope Journals
confirm the extraordinary intelligence |
concerning the diamoud mines on the
Eaal river, South Africa.
AT a performance of "L'Africainc"
in Stockholm, the ship was made to rock
50 naturally as to make the prima donna
violently sea-sick.
"See here, mister" said a lad oil
seven summers, who was driven up a tree
10y aferociOus -, if you don't take
your dog away, NA1l eat up your apples"
Prentice thinks that if Gen. Butler
were kicked as often as he deserves it. he
would be glad TO 60 to Connecticut and
exchange his hams for wooden ones
1t is thought that the production of
grapes in the Middle States will be very
much larger this season than ever before.
and that the vines will hardly be able to
sustain the weight of the crops.
There is sign in New York. the
legend of which is, Wurstmacberei Won
August Maus"-Anglice "Sansa~e Fac
tory by Augustus Mouse.'-Aps labor
dUi0RdScitUT sausage.
The Shreveport Ne1cs announces the
marriage of Mr.. Michael Mill and Miss
Mary F~urey-her maiden name being thus
reduced to a mere sound, and Furey sig
nifying nothing.
Apropos of the change in the names
Of our frigates, the Hartford Post says that
BOrie is changing his own name by add
ing to it the single syllable that will make
a North wind of him-namely, Borie-ass.
The East IenResSeedR learns that n
colony of Baltimoreans is being estab-
lisbed in the neighbOrhOOd of Paint Rock
Ferry, in Roane county. Several fami-
lies, it says, have already arrived.
The statement of the public debt
for the first Of the present month is a most
gratifying exhibit. On examination we
find that since May ] our national in
d~ebtedness has diminished SI3,3s4.77 81.
and since March S2O,O5O,646 50. =
Chinese seals, of white porcelain, |
to be found in Ireland. They
are exactly similar in design to those still !
in use in China, in the province of Foo /
chow. The inscriptions on them, also. are &
for the most part proverbs still current in
China. I
Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, has
discovered in the tertiary deposits of Ne '
Draska, the minutest fossil horse vet OBJ }
aimed. 1t is only two feet high, although :
grown. This makes the seventeenth l
of fossil horse discovered on this q
continent. =
A Belgian bell-founder has cast a r
arge church bell of aluminium. THE
,ound OF tie bell is astonishinoiv clear q
md penetrating, resembling that of a r
slass harmonicO. The belt moreover
Notwithstanding its size, is so lieht NAT .
I can be easily rung by a child. g
A Minnesota Judge has decided D
a man is legally drunk. He says: r
II is not necessary that q man should
e wallowing in a ditch, or humping his U
cad against your posts, that you may q
now him to be drunk; but whenever he =
egins to tell the same thing over twice, "
hen he's drunk p