Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-01
FACTS AND FANcIEs.


Grants head, his friends say, was mot
turned" by sudden elevation. We hope
no one will deny that he should apply TO
some owner of good lathe and have
new head turned.
The Prince of Wales, in a recent speech
at a dinner given in aid of the London
Childrenis Hospital, said: There is one
fact, gentlemen, to which / wish to draw
your attention, viz: that one-tbird of the
adalt population of this country never ar
rives at maturity"
In Bradford county a child has been
born with two noses. If this kind of
thing becomes at all common, extraOrdi-
nary activity in the pocket handkerchief
market may be expected. The conse-
quenoes of that babe getting cold in its
head will be simply appalling. But how
much better is its tate than that Of Pho
NOnosei
The utter emptiness of very hungry
man was never better expressed than in
the old story Of fAmished traveller who
arrived a. a country tavern and sat down
TO dinner. He was so completely hollow
that the bystanders actually heard the
first mOuthful strike against the chair!
What is a TOrricellian vacuum TO that
kind of a vacancy
Ii is said that Washington Irving drew
$50 600 from his last publisher as his share
of the profits of ten years sales Of his
works, and that during his lifetime he
earned $3.50. .OG0 by his pen. 1t is estima-
ted that Sir Walter Scott cleared S5O0,OB
in twenty-six years. Dickens. it Is said,
left an estate of Si50,O0O, and he must
have spent at least hundred thousand
dollars within the last twenty years NO
other author ever made so much money
by his pen.
Spotted Tail selected the horses fur
nished by the Government to the return-
ing children OF the forest. The Sioux
CITY Tunes saws: "SpOt gave evidence of
being good Judge of horse-tiesh in his
examination OF the points and qualities Of
the horse. He went through similar
movements and gestures as his white
brethren 90 through, with the exception
that be spoke not word until his invss-
LEGATIONS were concluded. Then he
turned TO Captain Poole and said some
thing that sounded very much like 'd-n
heap good and Captain Poole concluded
the bargain"
Here is a first-rate chance for ever so
many young men to make good start in
life. A paper in Mississippi advertises
for " an able bodied, bad-tempered, hard
featured, freokl face young man to col
lect outstanding bills for the paper. He
must furnish his own horse, saddle-bags,
whisky, bowie-knife and hide, and
must swear harder than Horace Gree
lev" 1t seems to US that the num-
Der of accomplishments required is
so great, that there must be a large
salary attached to the position. We
ED1W several persons who can fill the
hill with the exception of the last item.
That can't be done by any body; and the
challenge in the same paper that the
editor can tie one hand behind his back
and still outswear Mr.. Greeley, we regard
as a piece of Southern buncOmbe. Ho-
races ObjurgstOry power is a gift. He
swoTs with huency years and years be-
fore be cut. his tlrst set of false teeth.
The New York Dispqteb says ''thst
week or two ago we had some good oil
stock which we would dispose of at q
sacrifice, because the owner had no use
for il and h had to go to the country, where
be could not watch those indications
that we're perceptible six years ago. A
correspondent wants tC know what our
reasons are for considering this stock an
advantageous investment. In the first
place, the man who sold it let US in 'on.
the ground iOOr' as a personal favor; and,
further, we ind upon examining the GER
ti6oatss, that they have on them pic
ture representing the oil spouting out of
six wells at the rate of million gallops
minute, as nearly as We can calculate.
There are also twelve tanks brimIning
over with oil, and a railroad train loaded
with several hundred barrels is seen leav-
ing on an upgrade in the distance. This
picture ought to convince any man that
the stock is good. II any body wants it,
nOW is the time for bargains. This seems
to as to be a fine opening for young man
with few hundred dollars. II ought not
to be allowed TO slip. Schedules and dis
interested advice supplied upon receipt
of a ten dollar bill and postage stamp"
Our kilograms few days ago defined
the seaEdalous manner in which eiviiiza-
ton interferes Eith the innocent sport of
the poor red man. Out on the Pacific
railroad, the other day, Kickapoo In
dian saw a locomotive coming down tho
track toward him a. the rate of forty miles
an hour. lie thought it vas an imported
breed Of buffalo, aud he was an Vious to
secure it so as to take the prize at the an
nual exhibition Of the KickapOo Agricul-
tural Society. So he fastened one end Of
his lasso to his waist belt, and when the
engine got near enough he threw the
moose nicely over the snnoke-stack. Per-
haDs il is not necessary, out we may as
well relate that The locomotive did not
stop. The engineer and fireman wit
messed the most successful attempt to do
the flying trapeze made by any kickapoo
Indian upon the plains since the lst of
last January. There was an aboriginal
funeral at the next station when the en-
gine arrived. The grave was not large,
for they only EUried small piece of cop
per-colOred meat tied TO a string and
inclosed in a sardine box. Tse KiekapoO
tribe are satisfied that short route 10 the
felicitOus hunting grounds has st last
| been discovered. But they are bigOted
| conservatives, and il is feared they will
still travel by the old methods.
North Carolina has suffered at the hands
Of Radical thieves a2 terribly almost as
TaDnessee. The scallswag fIng Of Joe
Holden, peweese, Abbott, Jenkins and
/ q. w. SFepsGn have increased the debt
OF ;he state, since the peace. SIS, 900, 600.
The bonds Af the state 'haFe declined to
twenty-five cents on the dollar. Ths Su-
preme Court of the Stale has repudisted
Sl2. .OOO, 600 of this fraudulently- negotiated
debt-particularly the Chatham railroad
bonds. The debt OF the State IS upward
of $40, 600 O0U, ths new portion almost en-
tirely raised for railroads. of which not
more than one has ever been Dlfilt mile.
The bonds Of the road have been sold and
the money sunk amongst the legislators
and corpOrstors. Holden, the Governor
Of the State, was formerly Speaker Of the
| House. Deweese, who resigned from
Congress 10 avoid expulsion for selling
csdetships, was, under this ring" one
Of the most powerful men in the State.
e.. W. SwepsOn heaag the railroad ring.
jenkins, the Radical StsIe treasurer,
used To be professional slaye-trader. In
this state, as la several others, the same
class Of fellows--tbe Tom Lockers, Haleys
and other dealers in the bodies ot men,
women. and chiidrsu-constitute the ex-
treme Radical wing.
In the first instance when Chapman d
Hall were the publishers of Dickens, they
declined, just after the publication OF
9. Martin ChuZzlewit," !" to advance him
gl0OO which he wanted for his journey to
Italy. The result was that Dickens ap-
piled to and obtained the money of Brad
bury & Evans, the well known publish
ers Of Punch, TO whom be at once trans
ferred his business. subsequently he
had a difficulty with that firm, growing
out OF soma nlattars connected with bis
separation from Mrs. Dickens, and went
back 10 Chapman d Hall, who remained
his publishers TO the time of death. BY
declining to make that small advance of
elOOO-smal for a man Ike Dickens
Chapman & Hall must have lost at least
CSC. 600. The fact is that Martin Chuz
zlewit" didn't sell so well as the previous
works of Dickens, and they began TO lose
their confidence in him Moreover, the
great Tines had Just published an elabo-
rate comparison between Dickens and
Thackeray, in which the palm was given
TO Thackeray. Chapman q Hall looked
upon this as little short of coup de grace
for Dickens, and concluded they didn't
want much more stock In him. To be sure
the distinguished author had made two or
three fortunes for them, but what of thst2
Such is life.
Up in Wilkesbarre the people believe
in Campbell's Gertrude OF Wyoming"
with the same kind of faith which other
people have In Moses and Noah and Gen.
Wsshington--just AS we have in D@Yy