Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-14
PERSONAL
Barry Cornwall is upward Of eighty
and in i'll health.

barry C0rnWaH IS upward OF eighty
and in i'll health.
The Emperor of Morocco is going to
arm his troops with the needle gun.
General Sherman will spend the
summer at Berkeley Springs, Virginia.
Faber's speaking machine, in Ger
many, not only talks, but laughs and
sings. ts.eq lrsw Al Ts-
The Sultan paid a Russian viOlinist
ten thousand francs for one evenings
playing.
DR.. N~eiaton, the great French sur
geon, earned four hundred Thousand
francs last year. ~
Isabella says she likes Paris much
better than Madrid, and wouldn't go
back If she could.
News from Australia says that Tom
Thumb was shaken by an earthquake
there, the I'D of May.
Miss Ingelow is contemplating a
story for children, the scene of which
is to be laid in Florida.
The Viceroy of Egypt has concluded
to make up with the Sultan, and is in
Constantinople to dose.
Enouye, a japanese youth, stands
at the head of the list of the scholars
of the Worcester, Mass, schools.
The little show Japs in st. Louis
were attacked by the newsboys the
other day, and thelittle Japs came out
victorious. R4r Hs 10 .arIfE r-f 81
The English papers insist that the
Marquis of Bnte is about to leave the
Roman Catholics, nOtwithstandinghis
own denial.
Revels having failed to make ar
rangements with the Burnett House,
Cincinnati, sojourns with Peter II.
Clark, principal of colored schools.
Sir John A. Mcdonald will spend
the summer in Prince Edward island.
We will soon hear that the island
wants to come into the Dominion.
General Butterfeld lost the most of
his property in the gold robbery in
Wall street, Black Friday, and has
gone to Europe to live on the wreck.
Bismarck won'tgo to England until
the "little unpleasantneSs" between
France and Prussia is settled; nor
will Napoleon spend the summer at
Ems.
j. N. having been interviewed, de-
clares that if it were not for throwing
too much prejudice upon the office,
he would rather be aIunatic than be
President.
Miss Lucy Forrest is ayoung Ameri-
can lady who has Just received her
diploma of NJ. D., and the right to
practice in any part of the French
dominions.
A st. Louis paper describes a
letter of Horace Greeley's as looking
Z" as if somebody had smashed a bottle
Of ink on it, and tried to wipe it off
with a curry-comb."
D. Lannessan, a French physician,
has just lost his life in consequence, il
is said, of his excessive exertiOn to re-
suseitate a young girl who was nearly
drowned in the Seine.
FilOmeno is only eighteen. The
ieWeled decoration she wears was
presented to her by Napoleon the
Third the evening she played SPY
Command at the Tuileries.
1t is not probable that the Lafayette
Courier really meant all it said when
it said Eleanor Kirk says Susan B.
Anthony is wOman's deliverer. From
such, good Lord, deliver u.s."
The latest crime of the Chinese, ac-
cording to Garrett Davis, is having "a
language without an alphabet" But
this Is still not as bad as Grant, who
has an alphabet without a language.
Olive Logan says she turned her
back on Mrs. Joseph Young, No. 8,
when introduced to her. With her
natural vanity, Olive turned her
handsOmest side toward Mrs. Young.
Notwithstanding the modern war
against the collegiate study of the
classics, the latter is gaining favOr-a
chair of Chinese and Japanese having
been established in Cornell Univer-
sity.
Victor Emmanuel got royalty indig-
nant at the theater the other evening,
when some females in the box near
him undertook to get up a Irritation
with him, and they were ordered out
of the house.
The Rev. Mr.. Goodwin, in a hashy
sermon on church music, attributes to.
DR.. Johnson the saying, 'Let me
make the songs of the people, and |
carr not who makes the laws" He
should try again.
Grants uncouth treatment of Gov.
English, during the formers adver-
Using trip to Woodstock, is easily ac-
counted for. English may be a can
didate for the Presidency. His crime
is the same IS Hancock's.
Among the pictures to be sold at
the Dickens sale is a portrait Of him
self in "Used Up" painted by A.
Egg, an artist Of the Royal Academy.
It was a pictorial ovation to the
dramatic excellence of the great nov
elist.
The first official act of Attorney
General Akerman, after he had as
sumed charge of the portfolio of the
Department of Justice, was to call all
the clerks and attaches of the Office
before him, and inform them that his
name was Akerman, not Alderman,
as he is generally designated. He is
annoyed that his fame has not gone so
far as to assure the correct spelling of
his name.
In various parts of England the
surface of the country has undergone
great changes in the last hundred
years. A new county is being re
claimed from the sea on the coast of
Norfolk and Lincolnshire. One con-
sequence of driving away the water
is, that the land shrinks. In Lynn
many of the houses are SETTLING"
the bridges are weakened, and the
Corn Exchange "is sliding away from
It's 'front.'"
Queen Isabella's abdicatiOn was
executed in triplicate at the Basi-
Iewski Palace. One copy was sent to
The Emperor, another TO the Duke de
sesto, and a third to the Marquis de
4irafiores, an intimate friend of the
Its condition is that Don AL
Dhonso, her son, shall be recognized
IS lawful king by the Constituent
if this is agreed to, Isabella
,osraac IN live x~yolunfarily in nyyf1p |