Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-17
JEWISH ORPHANS.
Exhibition at the Jewish Orphan Asylum at
Cleveland, Ohio.

| CLEVELAND, o., July 12.-The Sec
! ond annual exhibition of the Jewish
Orphan Asylum, at Cleveland, took
! place to-day. There were present a
| large number of friends of the institu-
/ tion from this city and abroad. The
school room in the west end of the
building was neatly and tastefully
/ decorated with Wreaths Of bouquets
! and evergreens, presenting a very
attractive appearance. The children,
! of which there are Is boys and 81
| girls, ranging in age from five to
thirteen years, made a very credita-
| BILE appearance. The examinations
were conducted by the teachers, occu-
pying both forenoon and afternoon,
and embraced various branches OF
study in three languages, English,
German and Hebrew, all of which
are thoroughly taught. The prompt
ness and accuracy OF the children in
these languages seems little less than
marvellous, rejecting the highest
credit upon them and their instruc-
tors. The English branches were au-
biography, arithmetic, geography,
grammar, philosophy, etc, and also
penmanship and drawing. Books con-
taining specimens of penmanship in
both English and German, from all
the pupils, averaged by classes, were
shown for inspection. They showed
remarkable proficiency, considerably
greater than the average of children
of these ages in the public schools.
A large number of specimens of his
tory were also exhibited, which were
excellent. The exercises were inter
spersed with well-rendered music by
the children. There were also on eX-
hibitiOn many beautiful specimens of
embroideries, knitting, needle and
crochet work, neatly wrought, which
are greatly TO the credit OF the girls
and their teachers, The result of the
examinations was gratifying and sat-
isfactory in the highest degree to the
friends of the Institution. a number
of prizes were offered for those ac-
quitting themselves most creditably,
Cincinnati has the second highest
spire in America.
/ A Congress of GeOgraphers is to be
held at Antwerp in August.
Fordham, the English Jockey, has
az income of 5000 a year.
The Sarraeenia plant is the new
French remedy for the smallpox.
A practical man wants to make a
lager beer vault Of the Mammoth
Cave. ..r.. ......
A good deal Of the false hair worn
by the ladies is cut from the heads of
cOnvicts.
The adoption of the New Constitu-
ton in Illinois secures minority repre-
sentatiOn in that State.
French and Spanish wines are
gradually displacing ale as drink
among the middle classes of England.
An idol, carved out of limestone,
with lineaments well defined, was dug
out of the earth at Madison, Ind, a
few days since.
The revisers of the authorized YER
sion of the New Testament in Eng
land are hard at work and making
satisfactory progress.
DIR. Wolf, of Zurich, and other
European physicists are setting on
foot a movement in favor of the deci-
mai division OF time.
In Cincinnati, the citizens of one of
the school districts have sent all their
teachers on a trip to the Mammoth
Cave, and pay all the bills.
A Russian millionaire, Just dead in
Paris, was famous for having once
given petit S0ssper with parrots
tongues stewed with truffles.
q Al.
paper, declares that Charles Dickens
died of ''OverWork and the habitual
use Of Intoxicating liquors."
Polygamy was not part of the Nor
mon religion originally. 1t was not
until 1852 that the practice of a plu-
rality OF wives was at first recon-
meneed. ..#
The latest instance of a rose being
made to smell as sweet by any other
name, comes to Us from Sidney, Ohio,
where a young lady asked at a music
store for lifeline intestines for lyrical
PURPOSES" m hUs .
Some of the "posters" advertising
anti-eoolie meetings in New England
are adorned with figure of q China
man, with a half dozen rats hung TO
a stick on his shoulder. --f
A German traveller in Asia Minor,
writing from the village of Ciplak,
near the cite of Troy, states that he
believes he has succeeded in identi-
tying the remains of the palace of
Priam.
The Russian army is soon to be re-
viewed, and for that purpose is to be
mustered in thirty-four camps in va
rious parts Of the empire. At War
saw alone over $4,000 men will be in
camp.
As an indueement to remain in
Philadelphia and Join one of the base
ball clubs OF that city, position as
policeman on Chestnut street is said
to have been offered to one of the Red
Stocking Club.
The senior member of a firm in
Commercial street, Boston, on being
informed of the death of Dickens, re-
piled, "Dickens2 Dickens? Seems
to me / have heard the name. Will
he be buried in Mount Auburn~
Two diseonsolate parents, having
lost their little boy, aged two years,
proposed to place the following in
scription on the tombstone they
erected to his memory:
There was one vacant harp in heaven,
And twas unto our darling given"
A French traveller has Just diseoY-
cred that the middle point of the
dome of st. Peters and that of the
porticO do not coincide. The differ
enee between them is nearly five feet,
and must be due either to an original
defect In construction or to the subse-
quent inclination OF theaxis of part Of