Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-10
PERSONAL.

Prince OHIO, Of Bavaria, the only
brother and heir of King Louis, is pro,
nounced hopelessly insane.
THERE Is A WOMAN in Washington
Territory who has shot and killed eight
Indians with her own hands.
GEORGE CRUIKsHANK is eighty-four
years old, and now engaged in writing
his autobiography. He has lived much
among books and authors.
The REV. FATHER GmMoUR, of St.
JOseph's church, at Dayton, Ohio, and
formerly a Protestant viii be ordained
Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland on
the l4th instant.
A GIRL at Council Bluffs, persisting in
permitting the attentions of a man
against the wishes Of her mother, was
tarred and feathered by that lady for
her unfilial conduct.
SIR CHARLES MORDAUNT has sued the
publisher of a work on the peerage, for
having credited him with a daughter
born in 1868, the said daughter being
the fruit of his wife's alleged inidelity.
COLONEL HODGES, proprietor of the
Frankfort Commonwealth, an Old-estab-
lished Kentucky newspaper of wide cir
culation, announces the suspension of its
publication because IL cannot c0nscien-
tiOusly support General Grant
MARIE VANNoRT, Of Patterson, New
Jersey, on the Sd instant, surpassed all
her playmates by jumping the rope four
hundred times in succession without
stopping for breath. She scored the four
hundred jumps, but died on the 4th.
THE DBcLdNATIoE of Queen Victoria
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time ago, orto have anything to do with
or say to the %contending rOyalist factions
in France, and the fact that Napoleon
and Eugene We're invited to participate
in the recent London celebration in hon
or of the recoveTyo of the Prineeof Wales,
are pointed 10 as rather significant straws
on the yea Of foreign politics.
A FEW WEEKS ago, died in a garnet at
Darmstadt in abjectpoverty, the young
est daughter Of NJ. Lux, the lawyer who
defended Charlotte Corday, the killer of
Marat, in 1898. M. Lux, a native of
Mayence, sacrificed bis life in defending
his fair client, as he was himself guillo-
tined shortly after her execution for hav-
ing defended the wOman who slew the
republican chief. Of the two daughters
whom he left, one drowned herself in the
hllQet because OF uci lONS
she felt for Jean Paul, and the younger
who died in Darmstadt-became
the wife of a merchant who died bank
rupt. For fifty years, tits said, abe lived
on an income cfless than fifty dollars a
year,
DR. LAMBERT, a very accomplished
physician Of Brooklyn, lie attracting 8
great deal Of attention by some lectures
on biometTy. The doctor contends that
large-nosed people We're short-lived. /
People who keep open their mouths
when asleep to breathe, are short-lived !
the OTihce Of the nose not being Ada.
Quate 10 the demands of the lunSs a /,
person whose head viii measure six
inches through above the ears viii be
to live ninety years; and one
measurement nom the bridge of
the nose to the ori6ce of the ear is five . !
inches is pretty sure to be long-ived. ]
One who possesses both Of these desira-
bic measurements is doubly fortified.
The doctor attaches great importance to
the physical qualifications of Inherit
anee, for long or short life, from anees-
tors. He asserts Ii has been ascertained