Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-19
BRIEFS.

The Garibaldians are preparing to
make descent on Nice. italy must he
unit. Bravo.
A Western editor informs . cores
| pOndent that the words ono cards" ac-
cOmpanying a marriage notice signify
that the welded pair don't play whist.
There is plenty to do in the world for
every pair of hands placed upon it, and
we must so work that the world will be
richer because'of our having lived in it.
"In the absence of globes, how do you
illustrate the shape Of the earth to your
sehOlars"' asked a committee Ofa school
teacher. 81 show 'em my head" was
the reply.
Don Piatt says "there are two seasons
in which our administration seeks re-
pose from its Gigantic labors-one is that
which precedes the holidays, and the
other that which follows.n
A new and authentic life of WycliIfe,
! by Professor Sechler, a German scholar,
who has uneaTthed original papers re-
specting the English reformer's cOnnec-
ton with John Huss, will appear in the
fall.
4 society of water-color painters has
been established in Liverpool Its first
exhibition has Just been closed, and dur
ing its continuance drawings were sold
amounting to upward of one thousand
pounds
The editor of county contemporary
told an apprentice TO abreviate the name
Of Rev. James Dougherty in local no.
tice. The apprentice put it in GREY.
jim for short, and that editor had to
apologize.
In consequence of eating the green
fruit now exposed for sale. in many OF
our streets, our obituary columns viii be
filled with such paragraphs as eve had
little Charlie once,' 81 would not live
alway," etc.
A wit being asked by a seedy poet
whether he thought he had ever written
anything that would live, replied, "Be-
fore you trouble yourself on that score,
1 advise you to write something that
viii let you live"
The Detroit Free Press says if Grants
expenses are ten thousand dollars a year
more than his salary, and in three years
he manages to lay by over halfa million
dollars, what's the use of bringing out
anymore arithmetics?
Some years ago fat fellow asked old
Sir Francis Burdett, while in Parliament,
for some position, saying, "Don't YOU
remember me? l used to be a page"
"WelI," responded Sir Francis, "yOu
have grown into volume"
Thereading of novels is said to have
led boy named Smith to run away
from his home i'm Brooklyn. And the
moral is, Of course, that no parent hav-
ing a boy named ''Smith' should allow
him to read such stuff.
The Indian orators who have come
East, talk pretty big, but produce no
such Startling effects as they do out on
the frontier. Here they merely make
peoples hair stand on end; there they
take the hair off the head altogether.
The following ludicrous sentence is the
result of cOmpOsitor's erroneous pune
tuatiOn. Caesar entered upon his head,
his helmet upon his feet, armed sandals
upon his brow, a cloud in his right hand,
his faithful sword in his eye, an angry
glare"
In q small knicknack shop in Edin-
burgh, some wit has devised a clever ex-
pedient for announcing that business is
Oll lllG teAcAl clCnAs. AL bAh
clock, having neither hands nor works,
bears on the dial the inscription, "No
tick here.N
There was more exact scientific truth
than he could explain in the reply of an
Irish gardner to a question; why the
evergreens have been blasted through
out the country?p "Shure," said he,
aand they were burnt with the could
last winter~
Horace McAuley, aged six years, re-
Gently shot and killed Frank Cess Of the
same age, in Vernon county, Wisconsin.
OF course, every boy must sooner or later
be taught to kill his man, but we really
don't think he should be taught to begin
asearly as that.
Mamma" +" said five-yeaF-Old Nellie,
"they sung i Want to be an Angel in
Sunday-sehOol to-day, and sang with
them.n "Why, Nellie" exclaimed
mamma, 'coald you keep time with the
rest?p "Oh, yes; kept ahead Of them
most all the way"
One of our exchanges says that a dane
ing-naster in New York, has introduced
the "Kiss Cotillion," in which the gem
tleman always kisses the lady as they
''swing the corners" We are not much
on the dance, but would Ike 10 swing q
few corners most awful we'll