Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Partington says she gets UP every
morning at the shrill carrion Of the
chandelier.
A Davenport Iowa girl repeated the
oft tried experiment of building a fire
with kerosene. She succeeded. Aged
twenty years.
A boy writing q composition on Tex
tremes" remarked that we should en-
deavor to avoid extremes, especially
those Of wasps and bees.
Josh Billings says: "Whenyou strike
lie, stop borin'; menny a man has bored
clean thru and let all the lie run out at
the bottOm.n
a Hartford three-year old consoled
his mother, watching by the death-bed
of his little sister, by remarking, MA
ma, don't cry! If Nellie wants to die,
let her diev
"A yard Of hannel'' may be seen
swallowed in American hotels. 1t Is
not a fabricated article, but, like "black
stripe" is a much-favored Yankee al
.eohOlie infusion.
"In the absence of globes, how do you
illustrate the shape of the earth to your
seholars?'' asked a committee of a
school teacher. ~ shows EN- my head
was the reply.
Dumas peFe, having noticed that in
the English language there are q good
many words Of French aspect, wrote
this characteristic phrase: English is
only French badly pronounced"
An Irish paper publishes the follow
ing: "a deaf man named Taft was u
down by a passenger train and killed on
Wednesday morning. He was injured
in a similar way about a year ago."
IN Savannah the eOlOred folks adver-
tise that at a coming entertainment,
''Rebecca S~paulding, late Of Boston,
viii dance n jig with a glass of water on
her head and n in either hand"
Judge Bacon onee tried a man, Hog
by name, who made his lOrdship of
a claim. "HOld!" said the
Judge, you're a little mistaken, Hog
must be hung first before it is good ba-
CON-
4 negro preacher observed to his
hearers at the close of his services, as
"My obstinacious borden, l
find it no more use to preach to you dan
it am for a grasshOpper TO wear knee
buckles"
An Irish editor got Ofa railroad car
TO take some refreshments, and the train
without him. "StOp there" he !
shouted, "stop, ye old stame wagin, |
got a passenger aboard that's left
Jehind."
A Yankee farmer recently advertised
or a runaway wife, and called particu-
ar attention to the meanness Of her de-
.ertiOn just as the spring work was COM
ng on, after he had the expense of win
ering her.
Missouri editors do not indulge in
.oarse epithets. They merely remark Of
} contemporary, in the spirit of quiet
arcasm, that {" his ears would do for a
en-story wholesale hog-paeking estab-
ishment."
Walter, q h~ve-year-Old, was surprised
It breakfast by the presence Of a dimin-
tive egg, served for his special d~electa-
ion. He thus accounted for the eggs
mallness: mamma, l think the
hicken was learning TO lay"
A Kentucky paper says that a mem
er Of the Legislature Of that State sent
? the following TO the clerk: "Leeve
asked to bring in A Bill to altar the
ime for the Legislator to meet. Re-
aired to the Gently on Religen."
The Earl of Aberdeen, the Premier,
ppears TO have been rather awkward in
ball room. When obliged on one oc-
aston to stand upwith an a-mbassadress,
amuel Rogers said, 1.-The Earl danced
5 if he was hired for the purpose and
as not sure of being paid"
The Tichborne claimant Is continuing
is triumphaE procession through Eng
md, daily gaining not only prOselytes
ut considerable sums Of money. Onj
ne evening of the twenty-fOurth ultmo,
ccOmpanied by his steadfast friend, Mr.,
Member of Parliament, he adj
ressed another meeting at SOutham.
he claimant spoke for twenty minutes.
nd demanded an early trial. ResOlu-
Ons in his favor were passed as usual,
nd with an entrance fee of two shilliDgs
nd six-pence there were some eight
undred people present. 1t seems Curl
Is that in an important legal case yet
ending, one of the principals should go :
the country not only manufacture |
lg public opinion but collecting funds I
the tune Of five hundred dollars per !
Ight for the purpose of defending him |
III. But some queer things are done in
d England in the present day.
In spite Of all opposition the Pope re-
aims frmt to his convictions Of temporal &
'vereignty. A correspondent of the :
]Uy1Gt des Debdts, writing from Rome,
Inc 2lst, says: Tie Pope yesterday I
ceived delegations of his government, c
hich, although having ceased to act, :
e still in existence, and addressed them
follows: Il hope l ana able to see and g
say with the psalmist-Suspendinlas I
CANA nOstrG. 1t viii be a suspension =
ter which You will recover your au-
ority in the manner most pleasing to c
cd. Let US hope that administra- a
IN VIII o recover. How and by b
hat means the Almighty may be r
eased to permit it to do so I cannot !,
u you, because l am not aware of the Il
Ivineswill. But this ignorance cannot z
adicate hope from my heart, from Il
,urs, rom the hearts Of all those who a
TO see al end to this suspension, I.
d would see religion regain her former Il
Let us patiently wait for the n
oment most pleasing to God. L anx- =
lsly hope that God viii grant it; if not ]
me, at least to my successor. But at a
y rate the hour viii come. Porte in =
Z non prRUdIe6uHt, in spite Of all the Al
lacks of the wicked, and in spite of y
e despotic actions of a government =
itch processes to be driven on by cir /
instances, but which nevertheless =
res daily proof Of its bad faith" &C