Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-14

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eyes they are very particular. The.
pencil them with sulphuret of antimony
Maggie Mitchell is forty years old, AN,
has been on the stage eve since shl
walk. She married Mr.. Padded
in 1888, after a fourteen years courtship
and bias two children.
A lady equestrian of Burlington
Iowa, while out riding, undertook Z
play Absalom, but her hair wasn't hum
like Absalom's. The woman went OF
and the jute hung on the limb for ribal'
jaybirds to dart at.
Benlklln, Of st. Louis, who shot hi
wife twice a few weeks since, and theI
shot himself in the head, is getting bet
ter. So is the wife, who has just entered
a suit for divorce. They ere a hard
headed couple; they won't die, anC
won't live at peace.
A lady in Lyon countydKentucky, by
the name of Oliver, recently gave birth
to four children-two boys and two
girls-al Of whom are alive and doing
well. Thirteen years ago this same lady
brought forth three children atone birth
two of whom are still living.
The Danbury Nea1s tells of a lady
stranger who aceOsted a little shabbily
dressed lad in that town, and said.
"Where Is your home, my little son?'
81 haint got no home, he answered
"GOt no home?n she repeated, the tears
standing in her eyes. "No marin, y said
he, equally affected, II board"
A fashionable lady Of Cincinnati, thu:
winds up her last Paris letter: "Tel
your lady friends in the Commercial that
deBli-tOaet hats in Paris are as high as
sugar loaves-the veriest steeples; tel
them that dress hats have the highest
and jauntiest high crowns with Ione
plumes, streamers behind, and little
veils.u
There Is one part of the world where
all the bellies are diving-bells. The girl:
of the island of Hirnia, opposite Rhodes
are not permitted to marry till they have
brought up from the sea a certain guam.
tity of sponges, which abound on that
part of the coast of Asia Minor, or ever
before they can give proof of their agili.
ty by taking them from a certain depth
Divers couples are made happy every
year.
An Arkansas paper says that in Law
l6ntG EOullL1 3 d5 EOA1G nClDOuo ntIt
clearing some land, they set fire TO q
large OAK log lying on the ground, when
they noticed a rattlesnake crawling out
from the log. They turned it over when
they noticed a den of seventy-two rat
tlesnakes, two green snakes, and one
king snake. Twenty-Five of the rattle
snakes had from fourteen to eighteen
and measured from even to
nine feet in length.
Admirers Of Luther feared that the
only copy of his Bible was really de-
at Erfurt, but it appears there
are still five Bibles with his autograph
and Photograph extract preceding the
title page. One of theseisin the Queens
at Windsor, another in the Ber-
lin library, another in the library of Mu-
mich, q fourth in the British Museum,
and a fifth is owned by a private Eng
lish gentleman, Nh. W, G. Thorpe, OF
The New York Tribune, speaking Of
the appearance of Miss Leclercq at
Booths Eheater in that city, says: aFor
one thing, among others, Miss Carlotta
Leclercq is a refreshing actress to be-
hold; she embodies health and the en-
joyment of life, possessing warmth, col
or and natural buOyanoy; and she is thus
a graceful contrast to the everlasting
skin-and-bones and carroty hair in
Of late years SO much of the
feminine intellect Of the stage has been
enveloped."
Miss Amelia Hamel, of New Orleans,
the daughter of ]. B. Hamel, at present
commission merchant of Havana, who
was married to Prince Luis de Bourbon,
In New York, In 1868, at the Jefferson
Market Police Court, and whose marri-
age had not been recognized by the
groom's family, hasnow been recognized
BY the Count and Countess de Aquilla
the parents Of the Prince), and also by
II, ex-King Of Naples and
chief of the family. The ex-Kiug has
also bestowed on them the title of Count
and Countess de Roca Guliegma.
A party of gentlemen in a saloon dis
owe the question whether the
American system of treating or the
European system of not treating was
preferable, could not settle the matter
by talking, so they went to work testing
t by practice. First, each man took a
drink by himself. Then each mar in
vited n single friend to drink. After
that, each single friend returned the
And finally, each man in
he party-there were six of them
asked all the rest to drink. When all
hat was accomplished not O soul in the
room could tell where the discussion
originated or what it was about.
1t has been computed that over fifteen
hundred dollars has been paid during
The past thirty years for printing the
word " laughter" in the Congress
Globe. 1t is presumed that If the
computation also covered the word zap
the amount would be tripled or
luadTupled. The most curious part of
he business is the fact that a considera-
Die portion of the amount paid for
applause y and Laughter" was inter-
arded in speeches that were never de-
ivered, but which were printed by on
Ient, their authors being allowed to in
'ert the applause etc, where, in
heir opinion, 1t would have been given
lad the speech really been delivered.
Once upon a time, so the legend runs,
IN editor in a western city was induced
oy his evil genius to indite a description
fan evening party, wherein he referred
~ name 70 the fascinating Miss Blank
Is Hthe prettiest girl in this town"
the succeeding twenty-four
hours be received visits from sixteen big
)rothers of young ladies other than Miss
Blank, followed by two and thirty adj
of the said big brothers sisters,
md their collected expressions of dis
Ient, in the form Of cOwhide switches
md boots Of like material, were so forci-
impressed upon him that for many
and nights he was forced to write
lis editorials standing, and to sleep in
he attitude ina which the serpent was
condemned to crawl on account of q
omewhat similar connection with Ewes
full fign for the Fall season.
A correspondent writing from Flor
nee, Italy, of the grand display during
he late Carnival in that city, tells this
tory +" With one exception, there was
10 accident or d~isagreeable feature of
my kind; and this exception, though
quite unpleasant in itself, vas such that
he consequences were not of a lasting
,haracter. The mechanism by which
d~Ome-ahanAd cOvar of thFfiOral car