Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-17
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

next year.
"A German Occulist finds that six
ty-one per cent. of night composition
become near-sighted.
The Hon. John Morrissey Wor
laurels during the racing meetsng il
Saratoga, as field Marshal
The people of Venice once Kissed
an eclipse which did not quite come
up to their expectations.
The coolest place in London Is the
reading-room of the British Museum
which, strange to say, is cooled by
steam.
Parties at Flushing Lake, Long
Island, have invented a button-hole
stitching machine, which works adj
mirably.
The coinage at the Branch Mint
in San Francisco for July was 81 ,04O,-
00l since January l, was $6,00O,-
600.
Steamers of the North-German
LlOyds company will renew their
trips between Bremen and New Or
leans next week.
The last night of the Disestablish-
ment bill, the London Times had but
fifteen minutes between bOing to press
and catching the trains, and In that
time printed $4,000 copies.
Since the first of May there have
arrived at the port of Milwaukee D.
3G2 Immigrants, of which there re-
manned III Wisconsin 12,443; there
went to Minnesota 1887, and - Iowa
So. w.
-Loyeioys hotel, in Park row,
New York, so long known to the
travelling public, is to be demolished
next spring, upon expiration of the
present lease, to make way for a
modern marble block.
-Macoupin county, ILL.,, holds her
great railroad election to-day. The
proposition is TO take stock to the
amount of 5000 per mile in some 40
miles of road projected through that
county.
Accounts from all parts of the
country report attempts to circulate
the new ten dollar cOunterteits. A
letter was received on Saturday by
Treasurer Spinner from North Caro-
lima, inclOsing a ten dollar note, with
the information that the State was
flooded with similar notes. The spe-
cimen was found to be genuine.
Another newspaper is to be started
in PAnama, under Yankee auspices.
\ joint stock company has been form
ed, called "The lsthInus of Panama
Publishing oompany;" the journal,
the EStltnlltS of Panama Mail. Mr..
Isaac Lawton, late editor of the Pana-
ma MelO0RtiIe Chronicle, is to have
the editorial management.
Mrs. Mary Ann Bue, the Florence
Nightingale, and who has carried the
sOubriquet of the Confederate Sol
diers' Friend, ," has established a school
at Edgeield, S. c., for the education
of Confederate soldiers orphans. She
publishes an appeal in the Southern
papers for aid to the enterprise. She
says she spent $1,000 of her own funds
to carry the school through the last
term, and now needs at least $500 to
carry it thfough the next. The object
is q merit0rious one, and Mrs. Bue's
appeal ought to be generously re-
spOnded to by the Southern people.
" Remember the lost is touching
threnOdy.
The Pail Mall Gazette Sleverly
and Wittily says: " We commented
the other daY 0n the item of e3368 in
the Civil Service estimates for pres
ents given by the Duke of Edinburg
in Australia and at the Cape. 1t will
be satisfactory to the British taxpayer
to learn that in other parts of the
world the gins of the English Gov
ernment are somewhat less munifi-
cent. The following items appear IN
the Civil Service estimates, class ::
Cost of presents 30 King Masaba by
Commander of II. NJ, 5. Investigator,
50 0s. 4d.; cost of present to King
Peter for care Of European cemetery
at River Congo, Us. Sd 1t would be
interesting to know what presents be
fitting ROYALTY could be given for
I2s. Sd. The only idea that presents
Itself to an undiplOmatic mind is that
the gift must have taken the form of
a secondhand dress coat, or some an
ticle from theatrical wardrobe. Fur
ther on in the sanae class the follow
ing items are given: Entertainment
of Prince William of Hesse on hoard
her Majesty's ship Fire Queen, Ella;
cost Of provisions supplied to dis
tressed Cephal0pians after the EARTH
quake at Cephalonia, f10 9s. Cd 1t
is again a consolation to the British
taxpayer to know that the miseries of
the distressed Cephalonians can be re-
lieved for about fa less than 1t costs
to entertain a relation of the royal
family at luncheon. 1t is fortunate
that there are some Cephalonians and
King Peters interspersed amid the
more expensive royal princes and
dukes" d"