Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-06
ALL SORTS.

Rents are declining in Cincinnati.
Stores that commanded five and six
thousand dollars during the war are
now renting at eighteen hundred and
three thousand dollars a year. At
these reduced rates many fine stores
on Pearl, Vine and Walnut streets are
lying idle.
"Mark that text" said Richard Ad-
kins to his grandson Abel, who was
reading to him the thi-rty-second
Psalm. "Mark that text: He that
trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall COM
pass him about L read it in my
youth, and believed; and now I read
it in nay old age, thank God. know
it to be true. o, it is a blessed thing,
in the midst Of sorrows Of the world,
Abel, to trust in the LOrd?"
The Bridgeport Conn., FdrUersays
Of Wendell Phillips: He is an inor-
dinatelY vain, conceited, arrogant, su-
percili0us, bigoted, dOgmaticaI, dicta-
torial, traitOrous old reprobate, but
never had sufficient courage to stand
forth and expose himself to any of the
penalties of treason by a single overt
act in exemplificatiOn of his teach
ings." People who have seen Phil
lips say this likeness is a very strik-
ing one
Customer Ito a clerk in a hardware
stOre)-" Show me a small, lOW-priced
shears" Clerk (facetioUsly)-"Pe Per-
haps you mean a pair of shears" Gus
toner (severely)-"I mean precisely
what l said" Clerk (defiantly, open
ing a specimen article)-'A Are there
not two blades here? and don't two
make a pair?' Customer triumph
antly)-" You have two legs; does
that make you q pair of man?" The
shears were done up in profound 81
lence.
The Piferari music by the peasant
Ministries at Rome is described as pc
cuLarly hideOUs, "First, there is the
bag-pipe with its sustained chords,
and then suddenly commencing on
the sixth, the fearful zltnlpog7aG, with
a tone resembling the shrek of a tor
tured ape, hurrying down, with GER
tain quick c~rOss-fgures, to the tonic;
stopping there for a while, and then
beginning the horrible process from
the commencement again.
In Marseilles, France, recently a
lady vas returning from church,
when she heard steps behind her, and
felt some n take hex hand and draw
it under his arm. TNning round, she
saw a gentleman Elegantly dressed,
who was quite a stranger to her. She
tried to draw away her arm, but the
unknown held it firmly, and said with
an air of the greatest p~Oliteness,
" Madame, l am a thief, and am
closely pursued by the police. They
know that ana stranger in the town,
and will never suspect me if they see
me in the company of a lady so re-
specially connected as you must be-"
L have known men, and women,
too, who from various causes, had be-
come so affected with nervousness
that when they stretched forth their
hands they shook like aspen leaves on
a windy day, but by adaily moderate
use of the blanched foot stalks of
celery leaves as a salad, they became
As strong and steady in limbs as other
people. l have known others so very
nervous that the least annoyance put
them in a state of agitation, and they
were in almost constant perplexity
and fear, who were also effectually-
cured by a daily moderate use of
blanched celery as a salad at meal
times. l have known others cured by
using celery for palpitation of the
heart. Everybody engaged in labor
weakening to the nerves should use
celery daily in season, and onions in
its stead when not in season..
The following curious story is the
town talk in the city of Christiana,
Norway: "a lady in that city, by
dint of various s-upplications and
strategems, had succeeded in Wrestling
the secret of Freemasonry from her
husband. No sooner had she done so
than in her excitement she hurried to
the Grand Master, told him that the
brother had revealed it all to her, and
closed by imploring him, give my
husband back to me- The Grand
Master, who had received her in the
hall hung in black, piercing the por-
trait of the recent brother with a
pOniard, he said to her: Your hus-
band is no longer a Freemason.' When
the poor lady returned to her house
she found her husband dead. He had
been stabbed with a poniard at the
same place where. the portrait had
been pierced with it,"
Medical men advise that salt should
be taken with nuts, especially when
eaten at night. One time, a writer,
while enjoying a visit from an Eng
lishman, hickory nuts were served in
the evening, when my English friend
called for salt, stating that he knew a
case of a woman eating heartily of
nuts in the evening, who was taken
violently i'll. The celebrated DR..
Abernethy was sent for, but it was
after he had become fond of his cup,
and was not in a condition to go. He
muttered, "Salt, salt,o of which no
notice was taken. Next morning he
went to this place, and she was a
corpse. He said that had they given
her salt it would have relieved her ;
If they would allow him to make an
examination he would convince them.
On opening the stomach the nuts were
found in a mass. He sprinkled salt
on this and Immediately it dissolved.
Edmund About thus gives some of
the popular characteristics of men at
twenty-five: At this age an Ameri-
can has learned six trades, made four
fortunes, one failure, two eompaigns,
pleaded a lawsuit, preached q reli-
gion, killed six men with a revolver,
and conquered an island. An Eng
lishman has written two theses, ac-
companied an embassy, established a
counting-house, converted a Catholic,
made a tour of the world, and read
the complete works of Walter Scott.
A Frenchman has composed a TRACE
dy, written for two newspapers, re-
three sword thrusts, attempted
two suicides, provoked fourteen hus-
bands, and changed his political opin-
ions nineteen times. A German has
disfigured fourteen of his intimate
friends, swallowed sixteen barrels of
beer and Hegaps philosophy, chanted
thousand couplets, compromiz-
ed a servant, smoked a million pipes.
and dipped into two revolutions.