Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-08
ALTTLE or EVERYTHING.


Pumpkin-seed necklaces are fash
ionabie among the rustic bellies Of
Connecticut.
The walls Of the London Colosseum
have been torn down, so that no call
ers see 'cm any more.
Cincinnati criminals are so dirty
that the police are supplied with tOng5
TO take hold Of them.
A st. Louis woman knocked her
husband down with a hot tea-kettle,
and he had 70 pay the hne.
Mr.. Percy B. Spear, OF Philadelphia,
has been appointed Indian agent frOn
the Episcopal denomination.
A Miss Todd, OF Chicago, whose
inches are fOrty-eight, adveTtises for a
couple Of yards Of husband.
Thomas Higgs drank three bottles
Of wine in Columbia, South Carolina,
on a wager. They buried him.
dropping a kind word into the
ear" OF the poor, q Chicago idea Of
charity. The poor don't TAT up Luch
on it.
An Indiana matrCn has added three
bouncing boys to the census, and her
husband thinks it must have been the
effect Of uipleX pills.
Miss Olive Logan rebuked a Bos-
ton committee that invited her to lee
ture on sunday night by returning q
copy Of the fourth commandment.
The Salem Register says A." General
Butler would rather settle the Ala
bama claims with cold steal" The
Register, no doubt, meant to say the
/ old steal.
The Rev. @. E. Cheney, Of Chicago,
is TO be hauled over EpiscOpalian
Goals for having preached In a Pres
byterian pulpit, while on a visit to
/ California.
People now are saying when they
rise, This is nice morning" Pretty
soon they viii change their opinion,
/ yet say the same thing, viz: "Ihis is
an ice morning"
Oregon invites proposals Of means
for elevatiug the Indians, and Indian
agents Of experience are divided in
/ opinion between hre-Water and stout
rope for that purpose.
The ladies Of color in Indiana have
/ formed g secret organization under
the title Of the 'DOves Of Perfection %
perhaps so named because they're
pIgeOn-toed and pOUters.
The Chicago Post thinks that if kid
/ gloves keep going up, they viii soon
reach the elbows. But they won't,
because with such rUinOUs prices, peO-
| pie will be out Of elbows.
A young gentleman who had lust
married q little beauty, says: s'She
would have been taller, but she is
made of such precious materials that
Nature couldn't afford it,"
A fashionable boarding house in
Gotham issues anOtiCe to each board
CT tOrbidding him to play the from
bone, make love to the servants OF
comb his Whi5ker5 at the table.
A Chicago husband came home .
d. 1nk the other day, W%hereupCn his
indignant wife soaked MS mead in a
tin pan full of scaldiug water. He
had no hair worth mentioning at last
accounts.
The pigeon mail from Paris suggests
to a COtempOrary the ulflIment Of
the scripture prophecy: ''F0r a bird
of the air shall carry the voice, and
that which hath wings shall tell the
matter"
1t is said that Mr.. Dana, the late
Assistant Secretary of Van, wears two
breast-plaJes, one in front and the |
other opposite. WITH all these war
ike preparations he may be poisoned,
unless he wears a stOnach-pUmp.
DR.. Davis, who recently died at
POnt NANCY, a victim to his exer-
tiOus in behalf of the sufferers by the
war, was of the cOlOred race, and
formerly house physician in st. Bar
tnOlOmeW's Hospital, London.
Laura Ream, in her Sun account Of
the late Hamilton murder, describes
David Brown, the distilleT, as "a tall,
pOrUiy man, with ~haIal-cOlOred hair
sOrrel gOatee and mu5tache, and a
mushy voice" Miss Ream had bet
ter keep out Of the way Of Mrs.
Brown.
Or. Newman tells this story in his
lecture on Utah and POIygamy: Gao
COrdiug to custom, when a man dies I
he appoints a husband to his wife by
proxy. One Of the saints went 70 a
woman one day and said that he was !
going to be, by revelation from
heaven, he husband by proxy, and
the reply OF the woman was, i guess
you WON'T
An Arkansas editor cOOIly apollo /
gizes for the lack of editorial in a re-
cent issue of his payer by saying that
the day had been consumed in answer
ing challenges and arranging prelim-
iuaries to fight. He says "a pressure
Of editorial duties had allowed those
matters to accumulate on MS hands
for several days, so that he had to de-
vote considerable time to settling them
all in q lump"
A new invention has been adopted
by the Paris Committee of Defense.
1t no longer sufiees TO drive a nail
into the vent Of a cannon to make it
useless. New instruments have been
invented by which the nails are
speedily extracted. The new inven-
ton is described as a small torpedo.
which is inserted in the mouth of the
cannon. It's explosion causes a lon I
gitUdiual assure and renders the