Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-05
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III LAaAAp AnA HB4AAuAl
Iofteu has 'um;
NOOraigy, too, and tic.
And roomatic in style
Which rubs in lie
With Op-pod-delly-dOck!
The Dahoman language is easy
enough to learn. The word Jug is eX-
pressed by simply saying See-HOO-ee
| UOO-tOnq. The moon Is hath &c hing
| Fah-dO lCee. Should one wish to COM
| pliment q DahOman belle, 10 express
the sense Of the single word beautiful
he must pronounce &c min dag bee.d0g
BE-. Sixteen is ah Kindergarten moo
Deb pOh.
A yOdug stOnemasOn by the name
Of Simmons has Just returned to this
country with "a colossal bust Of Gen
eral Grant, which he says he hewed
out OF a block OF marble at Rome.
This thing Of making colossal bUsts
OF pigmies is a waste of the crusta-
ceOus deposits Of Italy which Victor
Emmanuel should nc longer tolerate.
Rabbit-breeding is carried on upon
a large scale in Canada. In London
there Is a warren of five acres, sur
rounded by a board fence ten feet
high, and containing at present two
| thousand rabbits. The cost of feeding
and caring for these is twenty-five
cents apiece annually, and the net
profits from the whole warren 5000 a
year. The annual increase is an aver
age brood of twenty-five to each pair.
A Cincinnatian recently informed a
newspaper reporter that his neighbOr,
| Daniel Jacobs, had committed suicide.
The reporter of course published this,
and Daniel Jacobs believing it to be
untrue, sued, not the newspaper, but
the reporters informant, for libel.
The plaintiff recovered damages. This
is the first case of the kind we ever
heard of and we are glad to see the
precedent established.
Lastsummera Boston establishment
tanned fifty anaconda skins for boot
leather. The boots are valued at $50
a pair. The largest of these skins was
forty feet in length. The tanning
processes We're similar to those OBJ
served in the manufacture OF alligator
leather, the product beings very beau
tiful and highly finished quality of
leather, glossy, notified, pliable, and,
from the appearance Of the grain, eX-
ceedingly durable.
For the fabrication of an article
called sponge paper, lately patented
in France, evenly and finely divided
sponge is added to ordinary paper
pulp, and this is worked as in the
common papermaking apparatus, into
sheets of different thicknesses. 1t is
said to have all the peculiaritie5 of
sponge, absorbing water readily, and
remaining moist a long time. It has
been used as a dressing for wounds
with considerable advantage, and is
capable of several important techni-
cal applications.
The sum total Of the receipts at the
late Vienna Beethoven Centenary
Festival, amounted to 81, 600 forms,
exclusive of 5000 forms contributed
by the municipal corporation. The
net profits are to be devoted to the
erection of a Beethoven monument
and to the institution Of a fund for
young composers of promise. These
net profits, however, amount at the
most to 1000 forms. 20 that neither
the monument nOr the fund of prom
Use can be looked forward to with
much expectation.
A little town in Alsace supports a
paper, one side of which is printed in
German and the other in French.
The German commander knows no
French, but assumes the censorship of
the press. So he reads every other
morning the German part Of the pa
per, is perfectly satisfied with the
German tendencies of the paper,
but is not aware of the fact that the
French part Of the journal is just the
very reverse of the German, advOcat-
ing the cause Of France W~ithsintense
enthusiasm.
The new King Of Spain, il is repOr-
ted, is a young mar of very regular
habits, retiring to rest about ten
O'Clock, and requiring the palace
gates to be locked and the lights to be
eXtinguished at midnight. These
habits, its stated, have caused great
establishment among the Spaniards,
who generally 90 to bed at sunrise
and take breakfast at midday. The
King has had one or two receptions,
and has abolished the royal system of
extending his hand to be kissed, and
has introduced the more democratic
plan OF shaking hands.
Natal papers devote large space to
news from the diamond fields of South
Africa, recording the names of lucky
finders, with the weights of the dia-
mOnds that have fallen to their share.
Numbers of the advertisements in
these papers refer to the diamond en-
terprise. One nan announces that
his omnibus, the diamond Drag"
will start on a certain day for ''the
fields" Another offers for sale "tWO
spans of bastard Zulu oxen, ~inOculated
and in tirst-Tate condition" ARGENT
English writer states that of the
workers in these fields about five in a
hundred make a good deal Of money.
Five more in a hundred make their
expenses, while the remaining ninety
do not. The same writer says that to
have any chance of success in the en-
terprise one must learn to drive oxen
and speak the Zulu tongue.
The manufacture of artificial ebony
from sCaWeed promises to become an
important industry in some of the
smaller sea coast cities south of here.
The process consists in first treating
the plants for two hours with dilute
sulphuric acid, then drying and grind
ing them up. To sixty parts of this
product, five parts of liquid glue, five
parts Of gutta percha and two and a
half parts of India rubber are to be
added, the latter two being first dis
in naptha. AfterWard ten
parts of coal tar, five parts of pulver-
lied sulphur, and five parts o. puIver-
lied rOsin are added, and the whole
heated to about 500 degrees Fahren-
heit. When cool a mass is obtained,
in color, hardness and capac-
for receiving a polish, resembles
ebony, and is much cheaper. This
material is now actually made on a
scale, and used for nearly all the
purposes to which genuine ebony can
be applied. {
The growth of journalism on this
continent, secular and religious, is
among the astonishing things that
characterize many departments of our
history. Its beginnings, modest and
unp~reteutiOus, did not give promise of
it's later atlainments, value and Ell {
In 1928 the periodicals pub !
lished in the United States were pub
lished as numbering eight hundred !
and fifty-tWO; in 1910 sixteen hundred
and thirty-one; in 1850 twenty-eight {
hundred, with an annual circulation Of I
over four hundred and seventy-six =
inSlS70 fifty-tve hundred, :
with an annual circulation of about !
seven hundred and twenty-five mill
lions. Four hundred and seVenty-tive :
Of these are dailies, circulating nearly !
two millions of copies each day; enc l
hundred and sixty are devoted tn co. {