Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-21
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

Notwithstanding the glorious.
poet, VIM. c. Bryant, took so 9 mel.
ancholy a view of his old age IN a re-
cent address to a graduating class, he
returns the pice little income of S57,-
O63.
The people of Hanover axe be-
coming reconciled to their fncOrpara-
tiOn with the PrQssiap Monarchy,
and manS Of the South German
provinces are becoming anxious to
join the North German Confedera-
ton,
Ben. Wade recently remarked ia
the presence of the Irish MayoT of
San. Francisco, that the g Chinese are
add sight better than the irish"
The fact wasn't telegFaphed to the
late ConVention of Irish Republicans
in Chicago,
The use Of wood in the manufact-
ure of paper has greatly increased in
Germany in the last few years. A
new mill Of the kind has lately heen
erected at PetersdOrf in Sileaia,
province where a great deal Of this
sort Of paper is made,
The gradual disappearance of
strip of land about twenty-five by one
hundred feet, covered with trees, etc,
near Fort Wayne, Ind, is causing
considerable comment. There is sup
posed to be an underground river or
lake, causing its slow washing away.
The Berlin Academy of Sciences
celebrated the hundredth anniversary
of HumbOldt's birth Oh the 1st of
July instead of the 18th September, as
most of the members were likely to
be absent at the latter date. a paper
on Humboldt was read by a eminent
scientific gentleman.
The Dusseldorf academy which
has just celebrated its fiftieth anniver-
Sary with great eclat is at present in a
most prosperous condition, and list
of the artists who have belonged to it
would contain the names of most of
the great German painters of the last
fifty Yeas,
in no European country, with,
perhaps, the single exception of Eng
land, have SO many institutions been
established for popular instruction as
in Switzerland. In some cantons,
wealthy people emulate each other by
voluntary contributions, or by the
establishment of associations to get
teachers good positions, improve their
salaries, support poor children, and
erect new school-houses. In the last
ten years, repeated contributions,
ranging from twenty francs to hun
dred thousand, have been made by
various persons for this purpose.
The Berlin wool market, the most
important of all the wool markets in
Germany, has been this summer of
short duration, though no less than
220,O centners, or 81 900 more than
in the preceding year were offered for
sale. Several producers had reserved
their wool for the Berlin market in
hopes of getting better prices than in
the previous ones, but when they saw
no prospect of an improvement they
sold at once, and though the market
only opened on the forenoon of 18th
inst. everything had been disposed of
by noon on the Goth except a few i'll
handled or dear lots,
"A dispatch from Washington says
that members of Congress and of the
National Republican Committee who
have been here for several days are
urging the Administration to give its
support to the Ultra Radicals in Mis-
sissippi, Texas and Tennessee. They
claim to have received the assurance
that every effort win be made by the
Administration to insure the success
of the ultra Radical ticket in those
States, although the President very
reluctantly submitted to the views of
a large majority of his Cabinet on that
subject i+ttat -fatesh
| Although it is,known by certain
parties in Washington that Cabinet
changes are in contemplation, there
is a disposition among prominent
Radical politicians who have con-
suited on the subject to bear at pres
ent theappOintments already existing,
waiting until after the fall election
for change, the idea prevailing, that,
no matter who would be appointed to
| fill vacancies occasiOned by the. retire
ment of the present officials, there
would certainly be growing enough
from disappointed parties to add to
the disafection already existing in the
party ranks.
"A correspondent of the Ame,fcaa
Naturalist states that doe was re-
Gently shot near Minneapolis, Minn.,
carrying a beautiful pair of antlers,
each with four branches, and ask
whether this is a new fact in natural
history or not. To which the editors
reply that they have never heard of a
female deer assuming the character Of
a male before; but it is q well-estab-
lished fact that female birds, living to
an old age, often assume the plumage,
and, to certain extent, the habits Of
the male. In the museum Of the
Peabody Academy of Science al
Salem, Mass, there is pea-hen that
| in the snring before her death. at the