Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-17
NEWS AND OTHER ITEds.

-Milwaukeans drank last year 81, ,O6S, :
600 worth Of Intoxicating drinks.
The new Board of Trade Hall at
Philadelphia will be opened March lst.
Out Of 492. .S69 soldiers In theAustrisn
army, but A, $50 are able to write.
=" Ex tending your shop front in the
newspapers" is the latest definition Of
advertising.
The Hartford companies received
IS 900, 600 last year for fire insurance
premiums alone.
The Nsum keag steam mills, at Sa-
lem, Mass, last year turned out ii, ,000,-
900 yards Of cloth.
The Union Theological Seminary
has l27 students, the largest number Of
any in the country.
--Messrs. Routledge are said to have
paid Lord Lytton $50 600 for fifteen years
copyright of his works, aEd have just
extended their privilege for six and a
half years longer.
The gas issuing from rock erevices
on the western line Of Pennsylvania,
along the Ohio river, has been ignited,
and superstitious people think 1t is the
Anal cor h3gratiOn.
The Canton (Odio) Republican pro-
poses to make a veloeipede with trimmed
wheels, so that it can be run at the rate
of hundred miles an hour on single
rail of a railroad. In case OF meeting a
lightning train, wouldn't 1t be very bad
for the bicyoleP
-"Aw I' exclaimed an English cock
ney to Western traveller in England,
" speaking aW of the law OF prim0geni-
ture, AVE you hentail in Amerwics?"
"Hentail," said the American, looking
at him with curiosity; mo sir. We
have the cocktail in America, and very
popular drink it is."
Among the hooks which have had
the largest sales In this country ere F.: AL
bert Barnes "NOtes on the New Testa-
ment,n of which half million copies
have been sold; Maeaulay's History OF
England" 600 900 copies; Jacob Alb
botps works, l 500, coo; Headley's works,
250, 0GO, and Spurgeon's works, 100000.
Sever & Francis, of Cambridge, an
nounce for the l5:h, "Arne and Other
Tales" by Bjorson. This has been pub
lished in London, and LsypOldt & Holt
had arranged to publish 1t the same day
with "The Fisher Maiden" but received
Sever & Francis notice the very day
they were to send it to the printer-a
most curious coincidence.
Miss McVicker is nightly growing In
favor as Juliet" She is a conseien-
tious, faithful, experienced and skillful
actress. The part she has undertaken is
one OF the most difficult in which to
satisfy the public. Indeed, It Is just
about impossible for any actress to real-
ise to general satisfaction, Shakspeare's
" Juliet"
There must be some very mean per-
sons in Boston, IL we believe what the
Traveller says OF class there who are so
economical that instead Of eating first
class meal at restaurant, are in the
habit of buying roll, then make visit
to an eating saloon, call for small dish
of butter and cup OF coffee or tea,
making the total cost of their " repast
less than fifteen cents.
An extraordinary party was lately /
given by Mr.. Sevy, proprietor OF the
London Daily Telegraph. His large /
garden was covered over, and made to I
"the Alhambra." His wife /
presided at drinking bar, made to re- (
semble the original and the dancing, (
the tables here and there. and the groups /
were likwise on the Leicester square I
model,
"A recent French letter says: A .
tone of melancholy hse been noticed In /
the Emperor's recent speeches. New
YEARS. day, in addressing the Archbishop 4
Of Paris, he spoke of religion teaching |
men how to die, and his opening speseh