Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Clara Louise Kellogg has refused the
hand of Russian nObleman. So says
a foreign letter.
1t is stated that the voyage of the
Grand Duke Alexis has thus far cost his
father upward of half a million.
A horse in Wisconsin, badly famed,
hobbled to a blacksmith's shop of his
own accord, lately, and was found
upon examination to have run n rusty
nail into his foot.
A gentleman at Minekaune, Wiscon-
sin, left the calf of his leg in the path of
the conQuering buzz-saw, and where is
it! Goask the morning winds, the sky,
the mists, the murmuring sea; go ask
the fish, the coroner, the CLAIMS, but
don't ask me.
In many cities in Texas corn sells at
something more than one dollar a BUSH
ell, and sweet potatoes at double that.
Yet there are vast sections in the State
in which the necessities of life are being
sold at from one-third to one-fourth
their real value.
An immense bed Of mari underlies a
considerable portion of South Carolina.
It contains over IS parts of phosphate
of lime, 5 phosphate of iron and alum
MIA, s of carbonate Of lime and mag
nesia, $50 of organic matter, and 10
parts of sand. 1t is an excellent fertil-
izing compound.
A Boston paper sets out in a labored
article to prove that "the average light
ming rod is a delusiOn and a nuisance
We don't know how that is, but q good
many people stand ready to swear that
the average lightning rod man is no
delusion, though Jan abominable nui-
sance.
Kissing in the dark is not a safe prac-
tice, especially ii the object practiced
upon is a widow. A man was engaged
in hat kind of practice in Nebraska
lately, when an impertineEt flash of
lightning revealed the performance to a
select party of spectators, and the man
was obliged to marry the widow TO get
out of a scrape.
One ofthe features of q London theatre
is a woman styling herselfthe Mexican
athlete. She holds suspended by a cord
from her teeth two one hundred and
eighty pounds balls, and at the same
time zone hundred pound ball in each
hand. She also shoulders a five hundred
pound cannon, and holds it while a
round is being fired.
Judge Bowling, of New York, said in
a recent case, that a great mistake per-
vades the public mind in regard to dogs;
that, by law, they are as much a mans
property as his horse, or anything else
he owns; and moreover, that in case of
a dog, unless in self-protection,
the party could be made to pay the value
of the dog, the same as though it were a
A number of women in San Francisco
have just started the Woman's Pacific
Publishing Company, and had it duly
Incorporated, with a capital of twenty
five thousand dollars, all of which is con-
bributed by the gentler sex. Its officers,
superintendent and business agents are
all women, its type setting is done by
women and in fact all the work of the
establishment, with a few necessary ex-
,eptions, is performed by lovely women.
A Newport correspondent gives the
allowing touching bit: while stand
ng on the extremity Of the side piazza,
which was flooded with the moonlight,
heard a slightly amusing, but no doubt
important, conversation between a young
She was hanging on his arm
lalf lovingly, and they were both look
up at the queen Of night. He said
enderly, bending down his head, do
Tou love the moon?' She answered in a
voice, Yes He replied, with deep
enderness and feeling in his voice,
Would l were the mOon.' They passed
N, while L momentarily exclaimed,
70 cards." I;