Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-16
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

A bill now pending in the Illinois
| Legislature requires all life insurance
/ companies to deposit with the State
/ officials not merely $500, 900, but a sui
ficIent amount of good securities an.
uually, to cover the estimated rein
surance reserve. ltalsO gives persons
unable or unwilling to pay their pre-
miums q right to a return OF the actual
value Of the paid-up premiums.
There is a society in Chicago COM
] posed Of ladies which maintains an
'Erring WOman's Refuge" AT a
! recent meeting a resolution was passed
! which protested strongly against
~elicensing the Social Evip' after the
| st. Louis fashion, and requested the
/ pulpit ''tO discuss the subject before
the people," Indeed, this project
seems to be viewed with great disgust
| everywhere except in st. Louis; and
| specially we notice that the clergy OF
! Cincinnati are against the licensing
bill pending at Columbus.
A little six-year old girl died in
Boston, Friday of last week, from the
effects of swallowing a little glass but
ton, and a few days before little girl
/ vi NLlC EhL44C dEb III DOLA4CL NAAAGs 4La-Eas
while coughing violently, elected from
| her nose a small bOOt-buttOn, cOnsid-
| erably cOrrOded. The mother of the
latter is credited with saying that she
| recOlleCts that three years ago several
boot buttons mysteriOusly disappeared
and the child was subsequently At
tackled with what was supposed to be
| catarrh, and has continued TO suffer
from it ever since.
a proposition is to be submitted
to Congress 10 put at rest the title
and ownership of the Arlington es-
tate, and to avoid litigation. IL isnOW
stated that General Lees widow,
through counsel, has prepared an APP
plicatiOn to Congress proposing TO sell
to the Government the Arlington es-
tate, containing eleven hundred acres
Of land. The memorial contains an
elaborate argument to show the I'M
cOnstitutiOnality of the act of Con-
gress under which the property was
sold, and the invalidity of the sale
upon other grounds, resting on the
recent decisions OF the United States
Supreme Court.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a lecture
in Detroit, said that Walt Whitman
gave great promise in his first effort,
but had not fulfilled it. FOrcythe
Wilson, he said, the young American
poet, who died not long since, had
written two poems which We're among
the first in American literature-''The
Old Sergeant" and Gin State''-but
no others of merit. Oliver Wendell
Holmes was so much struck with
them that he wrote everywhere in
curing for their author; learning that
he lived in Louisville, he inquired
there, and also at Chattanooga, and at
last vas informed that he lived next
door to himself, in Cambridge, Mass.
No one in Cambridge knew anything
Of him until that time.
We read of a gay deceiver of the
lager-drinkiDg variety in Philadel-
phia. lie bears the TeutOnic name Of
X. w. Pitch. He goes to the halls
c-Onsecrated TO Gambrinus, he drinks
a gallon or two of the harmless fluid;
then he picks out the prettiest of the
waiter girls; he makes love TO her;
he agrees to lead her to the altar; he
gives her 2 hundred dollar bill to
keep; and then, borrowing FIVE dollars
Of her, he disappears, fading into in
finite space, after the usual manner of
such enterprising gentlemen. But the
hundred dollar bin turns out to be
very bogus. The false imbiber, how
ever, didn't fade far enough; Tor the
police have him in custody, and retri-
button is at hand.
A war correspondent of the London
Wsaessays: yesterday i was watch
ing asoldier smashing the chessepots
ofthe captured prisoners against a
large stone. Stopping suddenly, and
CHANGING at the peculiar construction
Of rifle he held in his hand, he turned
TO me with q smile, and said: "Y0u
had better take this one-it belongs to
you.5' surprising it to be of English
manufacture. he was quite sur
prised to find that the letters n. Y,
u. S. A proved to have q different
origin, and that England Wassnot the
only country which exported arms to
France. There IS no idea more firm
ly rooted in the mind of the German
private soldier than that England is
a bitter enemy to Germany, because
il IS the only country that exports
arms to France"