Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-21
CURIOUS THINGS.

Calcutta is laying out a street rail-
way.
Saratoga hotels receive 80 new
guests daily.
A ball given to Mr.. Chevreau in
Paris not long since cost $2l0, 100.
About $1,000 Iowa cows have gone
into the cheese factory business.
Nebraska City was founded in 1854,
and now has a population of 5000.
Plumb Centre, Nevada, has had its
first child born, and has given it $500.
Delaware promises to send /, $50, 900
baskets Of peaches to market this sea-
son.
The Quartermaster General is set
ting out hedges around national ceme-
teries.
Mississippi is to have no less than
forty agricultural fairs the coming
autumn.
It is reported that a Washington
alderman runs a barber shop at Long
Branch.
The births can't keep up with the
deaths in the Sandwich Islands by
ll55 a year.
Frank ThOrneis recovering from his
injuries received in the leap at Buffalo
some days ago.
Musical instruments closely resem-
bling the modern flute, have been
lately discovered in Pompeii.
Two hundred bales of silk recently
passed through Omaha, shipped direct
from China to London. gas
Country school teachers have been
waiting upon the tables of the Profile
House, White Mountains.
Peter Hogwaltz and Jacob Chicken
dancer are competitors for trade in Cd
Posite stalls OF an Indianapolis mar
ket.
Thirty publishers and $4,000, 600
capital are employed in the publish
ing OF Sunday school literature in this
country.
1t is said that four Presidents of the
United States never visited New Eng
land-MadisOn, Harrison, Taylor and
buchanan.
De ROdas is to have fifteen thou
sand more Spanish troops at his COM
mand if the Cuban rebellion is not
quelied before the LIST OF September.
The German people of San Fran
cisco have subscribed $50, 600, and the
French citizens $4,000, to their re-
speetive war funds.
The Rev. Henry II. Garnet and
John w. Langston will be among the
Leading members of the COlored
Mems State Convention at Saratoga
the 2lst.
Amasa Goodyear, father Of the In
inventor, is said to have
been the first button maker of Amer
lea. He patented a style Of buttons
about the year 1900.
General Won Falkenstein, of the
Prussian army, has arranged a tele-
graph line along the Prussian coast,
by which he is informed in a moment
Of the appearance of the French fleets
at any point.
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to
the doctors of Berkshire that, ''if the
of belief does not swing
through a pretty wide are, the hands |
Of progress viii hardly be kept go
Major James Belger, who was dis
missed from the military service by
order of Secretary Stanton, has been
appointed special agent of the Treas
ury Department. 1t is said that Gem
eral Grant viii restore him to his rank
in the Quartermaster's Department.
An Englishman writing from Saar-
bruck on July %, says: "I can't help
tierating that in all the shooting
there has yet been the Prussians have
had out and out the best of it.
Nothing could be worse than the
ehassepot at short ranges. Wesee the
Frenchmen splitting on their cartridges,
sticking their fingers into their guns,
and giving every possible sign that
after a few shots the ~chassepot gets so
Ioul that they don't know how to
,reat it,"