Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-12
c AND FANcIES.

Alexander Ii. Stephens now weighs
only seventy-six pounds.
Charles Reade has given up his pro-
jected tour of America for the pres
ent.
A tigress was killed in the Madras
presidency by the quill of a porcu-
pine piercing her throat while eating
the animal.
"Use Jones' bottled ale if you
would keep out of there is painted
on the fences of the Pennsylvania
graveyards.
"We all W something TO our
country" said the Briton who went
abroad without paying his income
tax.-PUnch.
General R. Mckee, of Kentucky,
has just been married to his first wife
the second time. They were divorced
twenty-five years ago.
A Western editor consoled a man
who complained that Justice had not
been done him, by the remark that it
was Every lucky for him."
The war left US a debt equaling a
quarter of the entire receipts of the
Government from the date of our in
dependence to the year 1869.
The marriage of Miss Blanche But
Ter, daughter of General Butler, to
General Ames, will take place July
q, at st. Anne's Church. Lowell.
1t is reported that Mrs. Thomas
Hughes is to visit America. Every
American schOOlboy will welcome
"Tom Brown of Rugby" to our
shores.
The st. Crispins at North Adams
have shown their malice by attacking
with volleys Of stones an American
employed to teach the Chinese our
language.
Velocipedes, which have almost dis
appeared from this country, are still
popular in Europe. Velocipede races
are reported from all parts of the
continent.
The King of Burmah, who is known
as His Golden-Footed Majesty, is
sending a representative to visit
England, France, Germany, Turkey,
and Rome.
Belgium, a little kingdom of 1882
square miles-about the size of Mary
Iand-gives comfortable support to
over 5,00s, 900 people, or about 500 to
the square mile.
A Michigan farmer anointed his
potato vines with rat poison to de-
stroy the bugs, and the next morning
found his herd of cows dead, having
broken into the potato patch during
the night.
The Mormons of Utah have turned
their attention to the production of
gloves that rival those of Paris in del
icacy and workmanship. The gloves
are made from genuine kid, raised in
the vicinity of Salt Lake.
When Hawthorne was in England
he was told by Monckton Mines, |
from whose lands a portion of the
Pilgrim fathers emigrated, that the |
next voyage of the Mayflower, after |
she had landed the Pilgrims, was |
with a cargo of slaves from Africa to
the West Indies.
An enterprising phrenologist once
wrote a polite note to the late Charles
Dickens, asking permission TO make
an examination of his Uranium. MI. |
Dickens replied: dear Sir-At this
time I require the use of my skull, |
out as SOOu de IL SHAH DC db leisure Il |
will willingly place it at your dispo-
sal.5' i
They have a queer way of amusing
themselves in Auburn. A party
catch a toad, then a couple of dozen
fre-fies, or /" lightning-bugs." They
make the toad swallow the bugs, and
after ward put him under a glass dish.
The little flies keep up a flashing in
side for some minutes, and illuminate
the toad all over. The toad likes it,
too.
A French Independently gave
ii in evidence before a committee on
the Anglo French treaty, that there is
no market in France for English
stockings. The reason assigned was
that the French ladies are SO much
more finely shaped than the English
that stockings made for the one will
not q 1.-THE other. sJfe
mamma said a child one Sunday
evening, after having sat still in the
house all day, like a good child,
shave / honored you to-day?r "II
don't know replied the mother;
sswhy you ask?p because saws the
little one, shaking her head sadly,
'the Bible says, Honor thy fatherI