Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-Garlbaldi speaks fourteen different
languages.
"A Frenchman in Louisiana is going
to raise peoples for opium.
Queen Victoria wears her hair as she
did twenty-five years ago.
"A child has been born in Watertown,
having a full set of visible teeth.
The Detroit architects have adopted
a common schedule of prices.
The time for the prize papers for
Pandm's Magazine is extended to April
Is.
-Wilkie Collins has given up novel
writing for dramatic authorship. He is
working jointly with Fletcher.
An article on Thomas Carlisle,
I" from 6 distinguished source" is to APP
pear in the May PutnGm's.
Mr.. Samuel Sharpe has published,
In London, a history Of the Hebrews
and their literature.
Napoleon thinks of placing a Pro-
testant minister and a Chief Rabbi
among his Senators.
Mr.. Hepworth Dixon, in his new
book, claims that Shakespeare was a
Puritan.
The brother Of the Tycoon has played
Paris a naughty trick. He has run away
from his creditors.
IT is reported that queen Victoria lie
q Spirituaiist, and talks with her de-
parted Albert every day.
French vineyards give employment
to eight million people, not counting
doctors or policemen.
The total loss by fire in this country
for thirteen years is placed at $3.50 $685.
600.
Oregon begs two hundred aud fifty
servant girls to come and do its house
work.
DIR. John C. Draper will write OF "Tea
and its AdulterstiOn, }" in the March
GALAXY.
The Mason county (Ky) hemp crop
turns out well and is selling for Sl60 8
ton.
Ammonia injected into the veinseis
pronounced & certain antidote for the bite
of poisonous snakes.
Taunton, Mass, has four velociPede
manufactures, which are now turning
out ten machines daily.
in the chapel CT the Tuilleries were
lately married the heir of Marshal Ney
and the widow Of Labedoyere's son.
Georgia proposes q canal scross the
State, $50 miles long. 1t a be built for
$4,000, COG.
Except Kansas, Massachusetts, is the
only Northern State that has increased
its public debt since the close OF the war.
Mile. Rouhef, daughter of the Pre-
mier. is to marry NJ. andre, Deputy of
A. Cd MT. ur,FAAl s-1o-o =, rom
900 q year.
1t is said that Gov. Hartman, Of
New Hampshire, lie the second applicant
for office under Gen. Grant, Chas. s.
Spencer being the first.
"A German couple in Wisconsin late
ly petitioned for a divorce-One wanted
ssleratus in h~spjacks, and the other
didn't.
"A noted japanese author, Kioyte
Bakiu, has completed his 100 volume
novel, commenced thirty-eight years
ago.
-CesselPs ILLUSTRATED Bible" at the
time it was published serially in London,
met with a sale of g quarter of million
a week.
"A case or two has occurred in S an
where the smallpox infection
carried from family to family by q
cat.
"A Connecticut Yankee unites the oc-
cupation of rum-selIeT and Orgsnist, and
the church can't be induced to dismiss
him.
Scientific men In France and Ger
many think the recent commissions of
the earth indicate the ultimate formation
Of Q new continent.
Jordan, Marsh & Co., of Boston,
lately filed an order for the entire dry
goods Punishment of g Mobile hotel
twenty-four hours.
In the New Orleans wine case the
other day, the Judge, counsel and an ex-
pert, used up about twenty bottles in ez-
detrimental tasting.
Eighty persons have applied for d.
Vorce at the February term of the Fort
Wayne, Ind, Common Pleas Court. We
say it was q common plea.
Father Goodwin, Of New Haven, de-
,ires to cell his six hundred scrap books,
which he has made in the last sixteen
years from newspapers.
The Chicago Tribune calls for the
of those who notified Grant that
re might expect opposition to his cabinet
{ announced p~rematurely.
There is an old who for fifty
years has sold apples and candles ct the
entrance to the Qlsen's Bench Court,
Westminster Hall, London.
At Interlaken, Switzerland, the gas
,meter recently exploded ard leveled
he entire gas works and adjacent Luild'
ngs.
A recent earthquake in Denmark
umbled into the SEA an enormous elf,
our hundred feet high, called the
Queens Seat"
DIR. James E. Cox is the man who
las hired the Cincinnati lamp-pOsts for
,1vertisiag. He pays So 50 each per
mum.
1.-THE Lie of Edmund Ksan," COM
lied from various published aud unpub.
shed sources, By Wynford Hawkins, is
nnOunced in London.
The Chicago Post knows a literary
IAN whose name il prints Junius Hen
eigh BrOughne. A few years ago, ia
,incinnati, he was plain John Henry
The B leton Transcript says that the
lild winter has enabled some twenty
thousand mechanics and laborers in that
icinity to work, with scarcely an in
eruption, since December l.
Weston is steadily "pegging away"
t his pedestrian feat. In spite of all the |.
spape abuse, he seems to be greeted !
J crowds Of admirers at every place he
{
The Odd Fellows will celebrate their {
,mi-centenniAl anniversary by q ma
onal convention in Philadelphia on the |
Sin Of April, ct which it is expected :
900 will be present. f,
The last advices from Paraguay indi. (
ate that the war il likely soon TO end, !
trough the exhaustion of the resources ,
the persistent Lopez. But We have !
card the anne story several times be- .
re this. G
Tue Salt Lake Daily Telegraph in c
strangers TO visit UCah, eat straw t
srries and apples, and adds: "You
ssd not have more than n wife, if
1u don't want to. There's no compul-
about it."
The Boston Transcript asks: Were
70 proceedings OF Gen. Butler in the r
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