Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-09
GENERAL ITEMS.


An Australian has a false eye made of
an emerald and a diamond.
Kansas farmers are troubled by 'grub
worms with side whiskefs-
The first street-railroad in Florida viii
shortly be opened at Cedar Keys
South Carolina has a Free Mason
whose membership dates back to 1872.
The ruins Of Fort Sumter viii shortly
be removed, and q new fort constructed
ON the site.
The judiciary of Iowa consists Of forty
Judges, and of these only one-Brannan
lis a Democrat.
Boston papers chronicle the arrival Of
the big drum which is 20 split 50 many
little drums at the jubilee.
Here we are!p is the brief salutatory
of q new paper called the RepoTtor, just
started at Kansas City.
There is a cat in Westport, Connecti-
cut, which takes delight in catching
snakes three or four feet long.
A monster hotel, ON the European
plan. is to be erected at Milwaukee, TO
| accommodate tourists from other cities.
The number of paupers in Ohio i'm 1871
was five thousand five hundred and
seventeen-a gradual increase sineelS59.
A new style of china for dinner sets is
of a bright crimson color, with large gilt
monogram in the centre, and border to
match.
There are no less than four thousand
seamen,s Libraries afioat, and they con-
tain about two hundred thousand vol
umes in all.
Wendell Phillips says that the Massa-
chusetts society for aiding discharged
convicts is the best normal school the
State has got.
An Illinois farmer, who employs one
hundred and seventy-five men, requires
them all to be unmarried, sober and in
dustrious."
A retail grocer announces in the Phil
adelphia Ledger: "Dolly Warden eggs,
laid to order.0 Whenever suspected that
of Dolly.
George Macdonald says: at know of
a man so sensitive that he shuts his ears
to his sisters griefs, because it spoils his
digestion to think of them"
A young gentleman recently created
quite a sensation, while reading toa cir
Gle of young ladies a poetic effusion ''Io
a Beautiful Belle by p~ronouncing the
last word ii two syllables.
The CatskiIl New York; Mountain
House stands three Thousand feet above
the Hudson, and from the front balcony
a view extending over about ten thou
sand square miles al be had ON a clear
day.
IN Peru, i is asserted, half a million Of
people annually celebrate fifty-feast-
49, -, 4. .1lsAsual aDnnnrrigf Hrr-
ures that the country is rendered poorer
by the loss of twenty-five million days
of labor.
1t is considered much cheaper for a
large family to spend the summer in
Europe, where.they can live at the rate
of a dollar a piece a day, while at Sara
toga or Newport il would cost them five
times that amount.
The Northwest Territory and British
Columbia have twenty-eight thousand
miles of waterway, the greater part of
which is navigable, and running through
a country that has been found to be
adapted to the growth of wheat.
A g~entlenAan of Terre Haute, well
posted in block coal, says Developments
seem to show that the valuable second
Strata underlies all the Brazil coal
fields. The coal of this second strata is
much more tree from sulphur than the
upper strata.
In the fourth century glazed windows
were introduced into houses, and justly
considered a luxury; before the inven-
ton of glass mirrors, plates of highly
polished metal were used, specimens of
which are still preserved in many FAM
lilies as heirlOoms.
A gentleman in New York, who has
recently returned from Arabia, created
quite a sensationby riding u the avenue
mounted on a full-blOoded Arab horse,
while an Arab servant, dressed in the
full costume of his country; rode behind
a second richly-caparisoned horse.
The question of building iron barges
for canal transit is again attracting at
tention at Buffalo. The experiment was
tried years ago, and abandoned on ac-
count of the increased cost and the lack
of facilities which now exist for repair
ing the iron hulls.
y clerk in the English admiralty Of
fee lately had his pay suspended for
twenty-eight days, for addressing to the
first Lord of that august board some sug-
gestions in regard to iron shipbuilding.
suggestions were admitted to be
valuable and original; nevertheless a
Clerk hadn no business to know mt than
aLOrd.