Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-06

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| rest Of the count is unaltered, they rat
I ing il in this order-high, low, Jack, Pc
/ dro, game. The last three count to the
! final winner, and if he be fortunate TO
have all five, he scores nine in game.
The manufacture of the new subma-
rine telegraph cable for the existing lines
is progressing rapidly. 1t is TO be laid
4 by the steamship Great Eastern during
| the summer of 1873. The route will be
1 from Lands End, in England, to Hall
fax, Nova Scotia, and thence by cable
direct to New York.
A curious case has Just been decided
by an English court, involving the legal
recognition of ghosts. A tenant who
was troubled with ghosts on his prem
ises, annulled the contract of lease be-
tween himself and his landlord. The
landlord took legal means to secure the
fulfillment of the contract, but the court
decided in favor Of the tenant.
A school has been established in Lon
don, England, where the blind are
trained to support themselves as tuners,
teachers of music aud organists. In
Paris, piano tuning has long been con-
sidered the best business which the
blind can follow. About thirty per
cent. of the male pupils obtain their di-
plOmas as tuners, and these average
about five hundred dollars a yeaT-quite
a respectable income in France.
Many a man has broken down under
the weight of great anxiety who might
have saved his life if he had only been
able TO laugh. Laughter lightens many
a heavy burden and smOoths many a
rough road. Other things being equal,
the merry man is the strongest man,
and the swiftest man, and the most en-
during man, and the bTavest man. The
man who can "tell a little story" can
stand more toll than the man who bears
his dignity stiffiy.
The neighbOrs living in the vicinity Of
Front street, below Brown, Philadel-
phia, about two o'clock Wednesday
morning, were startled by loud cries for
help. The strangest thing was where
the cries came from. A man, en- che
mise, was hanging high up among the
telegraph wires. When rescued, by the
aid of a feather bed upon which he
dropped-having reached the extreme
point of eXhaustion-his hands were
found TO have been severely cut by
holding on so tenaciously at the peril
Gus hight. 1t is supposed he was suf-
fering from an ATTACK of mdHiu-d-pOtU,
during which he must have sprung out
of the window and caught the wire.
The invasion Of France by the Prus-
slams has left behind it one singular ef-
feet. Wherever the camps of the diff
ferent armies were established there has
sprung up a new vegetation. Foreign
plants, before unknown in these regions,
have appeared in great quantities, and
the Algerian flora in many instances
has been observed. A learned botanist,
NJ. Nibrage, in a communication to the
Paris academy in reference to this
strange phenomena, says: at is not the
ephemeral appearance of a few plants
sparsely disseminated, raising the prob
lematical hope of fixing in the soil
useless vegetable-it is an exodus, the
migration Of flora, Independent and COM
plete. 1t is, in a word, a treasure which
the central districts in France are called
on to study and to appropriate. The
propagation of these plants should not
be left to chance, but human skill SHOULD
be brought TO bear on it,"
AS an idea of the revenue and expen-
diture Of the Roman Catholic establish
ment in Germany, the province en-
braces twelve bishOprics, and the total
annual revenue amounts to five hundred
aud eighty-four thousand five hundred
and eighty-nine thalers, four hundred
and six-thousand and fifty-nine thalers
of which are furnished by the State,
which is thus showed to holds a consider
able power of the purse over the EpiscO-
pate. The salaries of the Bishops absorb
thousand one hundred and
thalers out of a total balane-
ing the revenue, and there are six thou
sand three hundred and thirteen thalers
besides paid to suffrage Bishops, eight
thousand one hundred to Vicar Gen
erals, fifty-twO thousand nine hundred
and thirty-one to ecclesiastical council
lors, fourteen thousand eight hundred
and eighty to canons, seventeen thou
sand three hundred and lightweight to
Deacons, one hundred and thiTty-thOu-
sand nine hundred and seventy-two to
Wears and Priests.