Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-02
CURRENT GOSSIP.

Eleven Strawberries to the pound I
the kind of fruit a Berlin gardene
r3ised last season.
A tombstone in a cemetery at Dux
bury, Massachusetts, is inscribed
"Chisel cannot help her any,"
An old woman of Wisconsin hal
missed only two meals in seventy
years,
In two Indiana counties four hun
dred and seventy-nine children havy
been named after Dan. VOORHEES,.
One of the girl graduates of tht
Princeton (Ill) High School is now
driving team, hauling brick for hel
brother.
Chemists Say linen can be converted
into SUGAR. A young bachelor says ht
has seen the sweetest kind OF sugar
in linen.
Kindness is the music of good will
TO men; and on this harp the smallest
fingers may pay heavens sweetest
tunes on earth.
Household words "after dinner" in
every well regulated household :
Husband. darling, don't stay out
late. l viii sit up for you"
An Ohio paper asserts that Mr..
Perry Culbertson died in Zanesville
on Saturday last, "irom the effects OF
over. .exertiOn at fire in that place ia
1874
When Mrs. Malsprop does take a
glass Of something at night, she likes
il pretty strong. She hates, she says,
to have her rum aud water too much
polluted.
A Cleveland youth, when placed in
the proper attitude for whipping, i'm
proved the advantages of his position
by whiting his parents leg with a
Jack kniie.
Five brothers, OF a family originally
numbering fifteen, are living In Ken
fucky, whose ages are seventy-fOur,
seventy-six, seveDty-eight, eighty and
eighty five years,
SIR. Reavis has lost faith in st.
L0uis IS q proposed site for the
psti0ns; capital, and now only asks
that Il be removed to any place in the
Mississippi Valley.
1t Is said that if tree is felled while
in leaf, and allowed to lie until the
foliage wfthers, the wood will be the
soonest seasoned, as the leaves Will
draw all the sap before they die.
Four brothers who went to the polls
together in North Castine, Maine, at
the late election, are aged eighty
shree, seventy five, seventy, and six
tv- ~eyen years. Hsppiiy they ere all
Democrats.
The Pr, ,Socess Louise is making her
saif T,or,,Isr 1T her Highland home.
At teDgntry ball recently she was
the PARTNER of = farmer, and "went
down the middle" between hundred
couples in a contra GSnce.
The B lstcn Journal says: "O0e fac
tory ia Stras5urg keeps fifteen hal-
dred employees busy making 2orsets
fOr consumption in the Onited
States" Ii what the doctors say IS
true, that Is just what they make them
for.
A new source Of profit in coal oil
refiueriss IS said TO be of spruce
gum" his is obtained from the
very last boilings down Of the REIN
sr's stills, and IN a crude state has all
the fragrance Of a barrel Of soap
grease.
A famous Judge came late to court
one day in busy season, whereat the
clerk, in great surprise, inquired OF
him the reason. "a child was bOrn,"
his honor said, land am the happy
sireT Gan ibtant judge?" ''Oh, ID"
: sid he, ''as yet he IS but crier."
There is q man at Omaha who has
tried to kill himself by harging,
drowning, and cutting his throat, and
tailed in each case. The Louisville
Courier Journal would like 70 bet him
. trifa tnat an attempt 20 kindle FIRE
with nun-tXplO5iYe cOsl oil viii do the
business for him.
A story i0!d out in Denver (Col.) is
that during he late tornado there a
gentleman lost his bran-new stove
pipe hat, and rushing to the next sta |
ton, asked 10 have his hat stopped on |
Ets c uyse, to which the operator "a
piled: "T0o late; already passed" !"
William Carroll and John Harring- |
ton the txo bows charged with placing |
ObstructiOns on she Erie railway track, |
have been gentenced to two years and |
six months Imprisonment, and 10 pay |
a fine Of SIO0 each and the costs OF The /
court.
Georgia promises 10 become as
noted for her number OF fairs as for |
her many miles Cf railroad and the
extent Of her manufactures. No
fewer than eight viii be held between
the close Of tue present month and
November 2lst.
Louis XIII, speaking TO BassOm-
Mere. his anbassador TO the court of
Soain. remarked: "YOu cannot imag-
inc kow l laughed when l heard that
YOU entered Madrid on a mule-jOst
70 thiuk-a i4ckass on q dOnkeyP
ssVery true, cir, bat you must remen-
ber 1 represented you at that time"
The Oonnersviile Tndiana) Times
tells of an old rail splitter in that
eou,,tV who put a qUietu3 upon a
vouur. man WaO chaffed him about his
hsld head, in these words: Young
man. when my head gets as soft as
YOURS, L can raise hair 10 SELL"
The East Indian papers are s0licitOus
for his Highness the NaWab Nszim OF
~ shedabad, whO has family of
lortv-tWO children, Including nineteen
unmarried prince5se5, who must be
married 20 royal per5Onages, else the
NaWab would smite himself with the
sword Of despair.
A well known English nObleman
Is said TO have given the following in
ssruetion to his steward: 1--WE are
con- ing down, a large party, in q day
az fyva. TO eat straw berries and cream.
We shau want plenty OF the latter, so
don't let ayiy of the cows be MIXED IN
the mesntim1"
Richmond (Virginia) merchants
complain because a vessel from Nova
Seotis. which had a freight list
amounting to only $3.50, was charged
sl75 for IilOtsge by the pilot OF
Hampton Roads. The captain em-
ployed a tug, and the pilot came on
board and went to sleep.
There is a war between the street
Arabs Of Charleston and the street
cars. The former steal rides, and the
conductors OF the latter snatch hats a5
collateral security for fare. At last
accounts the Arabs had the best Of 1t |
Dy making their raids bareheaded.
The Nashville Banner of Friday
,aVsf "a payment OF 100000 ia
state bonds viii be made to the comp
roller by the Louisville and Nash
yiIle railroad to-day, toward its pur-
.hsse OF the Memphis, Clarksville and
,T,Ijsville railroad, leaving a balance
+ s9Sa 600 in bonds to be paid hereaf
er."
Onr atte,StiOn has been called to the
.ct that yaastsrs and mates of all
team t,ss vessels are required by sections
q * and le of the aci of Congress APP
,roved February 3, 1871, tC be licensed ,
= the ITnitad States inspectors, and It ,
SonJd he well for them to note the ;