Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-23

temperate, frugal and industrious, and
are doing a great deal toward develop
) ing the agricultural resources Of the
State.
The. color of clothing is by no mean a
matter ofindifference. White andlight-
colored clothes reflect the heat, while
black and dark-colOred ones absorb 1t.
White is the comfortable and fashiona-
Bile color for clothing in summer. 1t re-
fleets heat well, and prevents the suns
rays from passing through and heating
the body.
In the Royal Library at Brussels there
has recently been discovered the origi-
nal manuscript account of the discovery
of Australia by Manuel GOdinhO, a
Portuguese explorer, who landed on the
island in 1901, three or four years earlier
than Van Dieman, the Dutch captain,
to whom the discovery has been hereto
fore credited.
All have heard of poisoned sugar
plums, but the German newspapers are
now discussing the various cases of
poisoning by vanilla ices, which have 90
CURED of late years in Paris, Altoona,
Munich, Vienna, and other places. Ac-
cording to one doctor the poison is in the
vanilla, andit is produced by the use of
eashew-nut oil to besmear the vanilla
pods.
It is a significant fact that while the
recent negro convention al New Orleans
Endorsed the present administration, ii
did not recommend the denomination of
Grant, but INDUCED in the most fulsome
praise of Senator Sumner. And, while
its members viii support the Philadel-
phia nominees, it is certain that they do
not desire President Grant to be that
nominee.
A prestidigitateur gave an exhibition
in a Texas town the other day, in which
he introduced the familiar feature of
pretending to load a pistol and allow
one of the audience TO fire it point
blank at him, he catching the bullet
The spectator selected dropped a bona
tide ball into the pistol and fired, killing
the exhibitor immediately. The muir
deTer was arrested.
A Philadelphia thief who was carried
to photograph gallery to have his like
ness taken, on Saturday, was 50 much =
averse to the operation that when the
first landing was reached he burst
through the glass door, falling upon a !
roof, and then jumped to the ground, a !
distance of twenty feet. To his surprise !
the intrepid officer in charge followed !
by the same perilous route and after a :
brief chase %recaptured him. !
From a recent official retu1nit appears !
that the number of registered voters dis I
qualified TO vote for members of Parlia- /
ment in the cities and boroughs of Great
Britain amounts to i 40, $50. The num-
Der Of voters in the counties amounts TO
l ,055, 467. The total number of voters
for members of Parliament, therefore,
amounts TO 2,526, 423 persons, distributed
2,051, lbs in England and Wales, 250,93l
in Scotland, and %, +64 in Ireland.
The Orientals still carry on the trade
in Circassian beauties to a large extent
The LeUdaf Herald speaks of a party
which recently arrived at Trehizond, :
among whom was a young houri of IF j
teen years, of such unusual beauty oil
form and face that she was readily {
bought for n hundred piasters by a
rich merchant, The young beauty was ;
entirely resigned to her lot, and cheer 4
fully embarked to find a home in Con- v
stantinople. II,
Among the many beautiful works of {
art TO be seen at the Odd Fellows fair, :
Cincinnati, is a miniature garden, the T
work Of Mr.. Casper Richie. The gar \
den contains living, growing plants and Z
flowers from the conservatory of Mr.. I
Richie, and is further beautifed by a il
fountain Of sparkling water. Around /
the whole isa wall Of tiny bricks, com d
posed Of plaster of Paris, the result of n
many hours of patient labor. This gar d
len alone would justify a visit to the Z
air. t
Many methods for disposing of Shere r
Ali, the assassin of Lord Mayo, were=
proposed, but the Delhi Gazette marked a
)ut pains and penalties which are not
1nly original, but positively grotesque ]
n their horrors. It would have Shere :
Ali branded with an NJ, deprived of
both arms above the elbows, transported
% England in an iron cage land ria the 70
for twenty-one years, whipped II
)nee a month, exhibited with the wild
beasts in the Tower, and, if alive after
he twenty-hrst year, decapitated, dis
,ected and burnt.
Though only a few years ago Califors :
MA drew her entire supply of dairy COM E
nodit1es from New York, the butter
.rade has been for the past week eagerly
IN the lookout for an arrival of a mar
Set quantity of butter from San Francis
%. Last week a carload of nineteen
thousand, two hundred and eighty pT
arrived to MessIs. T. S. Dore- d.
nus d Co., a leading New York butter ~
irm that has opened the enterprise of p1
moving that the Golden State diaries
an now give New York, in CONNER
'ial quantities, rich, rosy, yellow butter.
for which the Atlantic VI
consumers have heretofore had to wait CO
Until June pasture gave tint and flavor j
o churning. ap
The logging operations in Maine
turing the past winter were more *
ensiye than ever before known. The
otal product of the State, as heal as can B"
x estimated of the cut of the logs. is
lsng seven hundred million feet. OIL
his amount the Kennebec lumbermen n
ave cut n hundred and ten million =
eet, the largest ever cut. The Penob-
iumbermen have cut at least two
hundred and twenty-five million feet
lost OF the lumber product Is spruce.
IA intelligent lum6erman a V that n
within five years the supply of pine will ~
9 exhausted. In the operations Of the "
asst winter at the head-watSFs Of the
Aennebec there were cut some twenty
MILLION feet OF pine, while the Penob- ,
lumbermen cut some thirty to forty !
feet.
There has been a miracle in France
he Bishop of Laval asserts that on
he night of the seventeenth of Janua-
=, 1871, the blessed Virgin Mary an Il
cared IN very truth to four persons IN
ne little hamlet of Pontmain, and has
l~erefore, founded a church for the wor- q
1lp OF the blessed and immaculate me
'dy of hope of POrtmain.n All the cir
instances of the vision are reeited with
le utmost fidelity, and are religiousIv
eileyea by many millions of the French g
1pulation. The Bishop has ordered
le miracle to be recorded, and has q
essed the new church with his p~artic-
ar favor. The Paris papers have made
eat sport of the miracle, and have NE
.%erefore, excited the ire Of the President AVE
the Republic, who is the most Cath
ic of Catholics.
A correspondent of the CountyqJ Gen.. r.
gives the following remedy for
nnful wounds: Take a pan OF shovel n
18th burning Goals, and sprinkle upon En-
-em common brown sugar, and hold -
-e wounded part in the smoke. IN q OHhl
W minutes the pain will be aIIavad
I'd recovery proceed rapidly. In NV WI
yn case a rusty nail had made . ha5 69
ound in the bottom of my foot i
in and nervous irritation We're sever 70
bis was all removed by holdino X ~ "
e smoke for fifteen minutes and WI
As able 70 resume my reading in COM IN
We have often recommended N 10
hers, with like results. Last week one
my men had a finger-naf torn ont nv -,
pair OF lce-tongs, IL became very UI
inful as was 10 have been expected.
ED in sugar-smoke for twenty min II
fhr ratn .anaa.I - n