Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-23
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

horses start al Two OCloSh p-oAAPuy
The one thousand dollar race may q
run between the heats. 1t will be The
eraudest spectacle the Shelby County
Fair ever offered 10 their trends. Ih'
excitement over this race Is intense.
Visitors to the Exposition last nigh
were very much interested IN the butla'
10 head-it is a grand specimen. The
noble animal, whose headless trunE
whitens on the plains Of the West, re
ceived his coup a. grace at the hands o.
Jimmy Speed. Asa Hill, Esq, placed
il on exhibition as a center piece TO hi:
two beautiful bulletin boards. He may
well feel grstified at the interest excited
On Thursday night last, says til,
Bolivar Bulletin, q sneak-thief entered
the sleeping apartment OF Z. NJ Wei
Ions, ESQ, and robbed him OF a fine
watch and chain. An attempt was alsc
made to enter the residence Of Mr.. Ed
Durrett, but the providers could not IN.
lock the front door, as the key was IL
the lock. The rObber or robbers are IN
known.
Not far from the entrance gate, oul
at the Fair Grounds, Uncle 1OmSano
Aunt Mary have established their cele-
brated restaurant. first celebrated down
in Georgia, afterward achieving i'm
mense fame in Virginia, and still more
recently at Raleigh. Every revolving
year beholds the plentiful cOuntenances
Of this worthy couple at the Fair. They
20 to the ground and fix up a cOok-shop-
from q pure spirit Of human kindness,
for they hate TO see the good people
wander about uncontrolled by the inner
consciousness Of a full stomach. They
-et forth excellent meals, and guarantee
prompt and polite attendance.
The reserve dividend plan gives op-
Dortunity to secure the best endowment
policy known, for policy-hoIders in this
class have the option, at the end OF ten,
fifteen or twentyyears, as may be chosen.
not only Of Withdrawing their share OF
The surplus in cash, but Of Withdrawing,
also, their full equity or share in the
funds Of the company, in this way secur-
ing an endowment, payable in limited
number Of years, at the ordinary life
rates Of premium. This valuable plan
IF life assurance is one OF the chief
features Of the Globe Mutual Life, OF
which Nj. NJ. 5. Judah, No. Al Madison
street, is agent.
An important question arising out
/ # the money-Order system has recently
been before the Department Of Justice.
Ii grew out OF a controversy between
the remitter and payee Of q mOney-or-
! der, the latter demanding payment OF
the same, and the former fOrbidding it.
| The AttOrney-Genera decides that after
! the remitter of an order delivered it to
the payee he cannot stop payment Of it;
/ that the latter is entitled to have the
amount paid TO him on proper demand.
This decision is based upon the peculiar
! provisions Of the act Of Congress estab-
fishing the money-Order system, which
differ, in this respect, from the English
system.
Talking about Expeditions seems to
be q common amusement now. In order
that the conversation may have a wider
range, we will merely state that the
great show in Paris, in 1867, covered the
whole Champ de Mars. The building
1 stood on a hundred acres. The Expozi-
ion building in Dublin this year, built
# iron aud glass, stands i'm an eighty
xCTe lot, all Of which is walled in with
cut granite, and decorated with SHRUB
berry and flower beds. The Worlds
Fair, which will open in Vienna next
year Will be immense. The exhibition
palace Will be three thousand feet lOrg.
There is a spsce Of n million five hun
ired thousand square feet on tie floor.
The area OF the dome Is double that OF
st. Peters: il has two hundred and fifty
feet Of clear rise from the floor. The
grounds cover nine hundred acres. The
machinery building is twenty-six hun
ired by one hundred and fifty feet. One
hundred and fifty thousand people are
expected 10 visit the place each day.
Our learned Faculty and School
Board do not seem to notice much, il nj
al, the condition Of our schools in re-
gard to health. Some OF them are real
bad. In view OF the fact that one per
cent. OF carbOnic acid in the air is dan
gerous, il must be alarming to know
that not unfrequently it is found IN
Quantities as high as nine or ten per
cent. An investigation was recently
instituted for the purpose Of ascertaiuing
facts. We give below some Of the re-
suits of this investigation for a room
# eight thousand five hundred and
forty-two cubic feet capacity and a sur
lace Of one hundred and eleven square
feet for doors and windows. During the
trial it contsined sixty-four children:
Amount OF
Time. Carbonic acid.
$50 O m, al The beginn'n. Of test24s per cent
800 am, al the close OF test-.---4ls per cent
WNg IN, before rece>S-9s per cent
n 90 am, at close OF recitatOn-Su per cent
la5 pm, before ecture--------5s% per cent
500 pm. before cess---.....-.7.6 per cent
$50 pm. close OF school -.-..---9& per cent
The New York Tribune says that it
IS curious that 50 many confessions Of
ignorance should come from intelligent
physicians. Already We had DR.. o. w.
Holmes, who is a great way from being
an orthodox NJ. ID. Then, as to a spe-
eial branch Of practice, we find DR.. J. K.
Allen testifying in a murder case in
Memphis with a frankness perfectly
charming. DR.. Allen said that he had
been for thirty years q physician, and
for ten years Medical Superintendent Of
,he Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, and that
ne had during that over two thousand
srazy people under his charge. THE
more I studied, " he welt OF 10 say, "the
question Of insanity, the less / under
-toOd II; and II you ask me where il be
gins and where ii ends, neither | nor
any other physician in the world can
ell yOu,n This was DR.. Aliens scien-
tic opinion OF science; but he warmed
up as he went on, and added: A" On Oc-
asiOns like this, lawyers make fools OF
themselves 10 trying to make asses OF
be Doctors which, considering the cir
cumstanees, was rather a rough thing 70
say.
"A number Of gentlemen, OF every
profession, business and mechanical
pursuit, are very busy getting members
FOR the Memphis Library Association.
Il is the most laudsble enterprise ever
undertaken. Many young men, who
are employed entirely during the day
and often nights, have no resorts, and
consequently loaf around the hotels and
billiard and keno-roOms, whereas, had
the city q public library, they would be
better, wiser and happier men. The
intention, Rtpresent, Is to procure rooms,
70 have many Of the best newspapers
and periodicals, and in future, when
money matters ease up, 70 call upon the
citizens for books OF money TO make a
library. Nashville, not long since,
formed q library In a very few weeks,
every one either donating books or
money. Shall the Bluff City be eclipsed
by her sister Rock City, in so praise
worthy an object? Would il not be well
FOR parties interested to combine and
their reading-rOOms in the Cham
Der Of Commerce? The same expenses
now incurred would do for both, and
not conflict with each other, and would
be o. mutual benefit TO both.
The Water Company have their en-
CINE house and pumping works nearly
finished on Wolf river, at the end u
Second street. Very soon the cOmpa-
nv viii Re in q condition 10 send water
through the pipes, and drench the thirs-
ty citizens, and wash cut the dirty
and dirty passages Of the city.
In a week after water shall have been
on" we will expect TO see a
marked Improvement in he facial
cleanliness and garments ofthe citizens.
Baths must be multiplied IN number
aud reduced in price. We have amid
all this hope and joyful anticipation, a
warning rising up nom our
smarting shin, reminding US Of q act
Of stupidity Of which the Water Com
pany has been guiity-a most gorgeous
an unciviiized piece Of TOM
We-our shin-cOmplains BIT
terly Of an outrage from which 1t has
The Water Company have
a plug-a plrg-ugly it E-nght
In the middle Of the sidewalk at the cor
ner Of Main and Union streets. A pas
intent ON reaching Beale street.
with his head up, in passing along the
sidewalk al MOseby's corner, would III
evitably break his leg against that plug
ugly, which stands right IN his way.
Why not place It on the corner, or at
some point along the sidewalk, where
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