Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-05
CURRENT GOSSIP.

real hatbands, scarfs and gloves.
American oysters are selling in Lon
, don for thirty-six cents q dozen.
English oysters cost seventy-two cents
a dozen.
Wedding-rings are now made
double-that is, severed but still
united-which style Of ring is surely
apropos to marriage.
The leading astronomers of the
world are now busy in preparing to
observe the forthcoming transit OF
Venus across the sun.
The subscription opened for the pur-
pose Of erecting q monument to the
late Alexandra Dumas, amounts now
to q considerable sum.
A new theater in Rome, built en-
tirely OF wood, viii contain fifteen
/ thousand spectators. AdeIina Patti is
to sing there in March.
A tree was cut down last week In
Kansas containing two bushels Of bees
and three hundred pounds of beauti-
full transparent honey.
The New York Sun brings grave
charges against the management OF
the mint in Philadelphia, and calls on
congress to investigate them.
George i. ParlOW, Of New Bedford,
has recently succeed in Matching 996
trout from 1000 eggs, which is said TO
be the greatest yield ever known.
The last years pecan crop in Texas
is estimated at over one million OF
bushels for export, which will realize
to that State several millions Of dol
lars.
For engagement rings the sapphire
and the ruby are now ~contesting the
popularity of the diamond. The sap
phire signifies love, and the ruby Fl.
deity.
Harry Dickens, a son Of the great
novelist, has graduated at Cambridge
with high honOrs, and Mrs. Collins,
his sister, has made her debut as an
artist in water collors.
Europe, which at the outbreak of
the Italian war OF 1859 contained six
ty-six independent States, nov con
tains only eighteen, with a population
OF three hundred millions.
1t is rumOred that one of the beau
tiful country seats at NOrWalk, Con-
necticut has been taken by the ex-
Emperor and Empress, ard will be
occupied by them next summer.
"Giovanina A~viglians" is the name
under which Miss jeanne Armstrong,
of Wiscssset, Maine, is now singing
in Italy. The Milan Gi7zettd del
ZsGtri predicts a brilliant future for
her.
Somebody tells the Scientific Amer
lean Of a way to clear a well of car
bOnic acid gas. 1t is to lower a red.
hot iron to the water so as TO produce
a little steam. The vapor instantly
absOrbs the gas.
The New York Herald's latest dis
cOvery is that the United States gov
eminent has authorized an American
banking house in England to offer to
settle all Alabama claims for ten mil
lions Of pounds sterling.
At Graz, a city in Austria, there
have been serious disturbances, arts.
ing from the brewers increasing the
price of beer. The mob beBieged the
breWeries, and the military were
obliged to interfere to restore order.
During a recent gale in New York
the wind filed the skirts Of a lady
who was standing on the platform OF
2 railroad car crossing Harlem bridge
and carried her of. She was afterWard
found in an insensible condition thirty
feet from the track.
A great astronomer in Switzerland,
N. PlantamoUr by name, predicts a
comet more gigantic than any hereto
fore observed, which, with ~indescriba-
BILE velocity, is heading for this unior-
I inmate r-Orl1 ord 9fV nrwsvto ~ AhA
18th day Of next August.
A hotel keeper at MiIlerton, Ouch
ess county, New York, was going to
a masquerade ball, and made an I'M
announced call on his aged mother to
see if his disguise was q good one. It
was. She gave one scream, broke a
blood vessel, and died in five minutes.
The submarine telegraph cables in
China are suffering from the attacks
OF some minute erustacean so small as
to be scarcely ~perceptible to the naked
eye. Various breaks have been traced
to the agency Of these animals, who
imbed themselves in the guttstpercha.
The singular appearances known as
''ghOst windows" are described as pre-
sentiDg themselves In half a dozen
Western villages and cities. A face
appears in one of the windoW-panes, |
~cOlorless like the rest of the glass, but
distinct, and scrubbing does not erase
it.
The Massachusetts commissioners
Of prisons in their annual report say:
"a man who by crime puts the State
TO an expense for his arrest and con-
inement, may justly be, ought fairly
be, kept long enough in confinement
to make his labor balance at least his
cost.
Aprivate of the Signal Corps, named
VIM. Stevens, stationed at the OBJ
servatory on the summit of Mount
WASHINGTON, died recently of psraIy.
sis. The temperature at the ObserVa-
tOryaverages forty degrees below zero,
the degree at which mercury becomes
solid.
Judge DWinelle, of California, has
opinion on record that there are Wo-
men who cry before they are hurt.
In a case recently tried before him he
decided that the fact Of a woman
being seen frequently in tears is not
sufficient proof of her husbands cru.
city to her to entitle her to a divorce.
Mr. Samuel's review of the Phila.
delphia iron market for the past week
reports it quiet, and likely to remain
so for some time to come, most all of
the larger consumers having secured
their supply for some months ahead.
Prices rule firm, and wrought scrap
and old rails are reported extremely
The legislature OF Virginia is petit
toned to form a new county, to be
composed of that portion of Giles
lying east of New river, a part of
Montgomery, and a portion of Craig.
That part Of Montgomery proposed to
be added to the new county is the Sec !
lion lying west Of Brush Mountain,
and known as Poverty Valley.
Since the authorities of Louisville
nave determined to arrest all persons
using profane language on the streets,
he question which naturally arises is,
after the first half of the inhabitants
arrested and imprisoned the
lecOnd half who will arrest and inn.
prison the first half? The Mammoth
ave will doubtless be engaged as
ock-up.
The total amount Of the oyster tax
objected in Virginia during the
iscal years Of 1869 20, and 1901, and
o February 1, 1872, was $I51, $50 SO.
me total expenses OF collecting for ]
he same period, including salaries,
commissions and steamboat A
ervice amounted to $70,7 95 81. The
ct tax on oysters, therefore, was
S0,86I 81. q
A test Ease came before the circuit
Ourt in Washington last week, based
pom the refusal Of a street car con-