Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

Bad-the Anchor life insurance COM
pany of New Jersey has huplessly
failed.
Millions of Wild pigeons are breaking
down the branches Of the trees IN III
diana.
Motto for the entrance to the Lava
beds: Who enters here leaves his scalp
behind.
A new Welsh paper ( Y Wdsg-Tbe
! Press has just been started at Pittsburg.
1t is said to be very creditable journal.
A Cincinnati school-ma'am is being
| investigated for furnishing her pupils by
filling their mouths with black pepper.
i A heron was shot in Woodbury., Mas
i sachusetts, recently, which stood four
/ feet and half on its toes, and was OF
beautiful plumage.
Il Small boys in Bangor, Maine, supply
themselves with pOcket-money by leav-
ing parcels of their own devising at peo-
pies doors, marked, |" Pay the boy ten
: cents"
: mWho dat hit me?n "Where's dat
lantern?" were the eXclamations of an
astonished darkey, after being thrown
something like hundred feet by To-
comotive.
How difficult it is, with the very best
intentions, for woman who lives in
the world to steer entirely clear of sus-
: picion or misrepresentation, unless there
exist between her and her husband q
q frank and cordial understanding.
: In Washington, the other day, g
= 50 oil hag Q0lnFpn nnaTQff(
: troupe went into a dry goods store and
! called for some flesh-coiored hose. The
{ clerk placed before her a box of blacl
: stockings, and she went away highly
indignant.
q At the recent wedding of q Ba
+ varian army officer, one hundred anC
: eighty-one of his brother officer
claimed the right to kiss the bride. Sh,
q responded to each smack, and WASH
v tired the least bit. How different from
y this are the pale, siclkly American girls
e A young clerk in Dubuque fame!
b store, who bad been requested by a lad!
IS customer to send home a spool of threat
II which she had purchased, hired an ex
3 press wagon, in which he placed tn
!. snool. and so drove to the lady's resi-
q denee, where he deposited the spool il
/; the hall, endwise, like barrel.
is The Boston Globe remarks: at is
u significant, yet sad fact, that the steam
le ship Pennsylvania, recently complete
ID at Philadelphia, is the first America
ID ocean steamship owned and manned b
ID American citizens since the war. Phi
as adelphia may well be proud Of havin
L. accomplished so magnificent result.
~ Nashville young lady (U. and A.,
~ " She has some hesitation at remainln
at dinner long enough to satisfy the d'
mand of her very healthy appetite, e.
sh pecially when the hotel at which sh
I'D boards is full of guests. She has pu
~ chased magpie, good, strong feede
IL and she sends to the steward for trif
e. for her bird"
ut A Kansas man allows his wife fiy
ST dollars a week for pin-mOney, with th
" understanding that she shall forfeit te
sn cents for each absent button, and I'll
I'd same amount for each cup of poor cDffe
~ This arrangement has been going O
y. for two years, and the day has not y,
az come when be could claim ten cents.
= II ladies were a subject of science
ii regard TO dress alone, and il, like ii
a. stars, shells, flowers and minerals, the
= were to be characterized and describe
,io by their appearance, and not the essel
II tial traits OF soul and nature, what
80 complicated and perplexing problem
~ natural history wOmankind would b
w. The international congress of OrieI
nv talists has announced special meetin
M or rather series of meetings, to be he
ID in Paris in July next, of persons inte
ole ested in the study of the japanese la
We guage and literature. The circular
Ely signed by Prof Leon de ROsny,. Il
IRE well-knOwn Japanese scholar, by PrC
.ns Jules Oppert and Others. ..-....
in Never marry a man until you ha'
est seen him eat. Let the candidate
Of your hand, ladies, pass through the {
Or deal of eating soft-boiled eggs. If he CT
all do it and leave the tahle-cloth, the lia
to kin and his shirt unspotted, take hi
Try him next with spare-rib. If
acoompIishes this feat without putt
ol out one of mis- own eyes or pitching t
So bones into your lap, name the weddiI
Ia1 day at once-he will do to tie to.
Az The practice of sending floral offerir
g tn nlace over the remains of deceas
of friend or acquaintance is touching a
ow beautiful mark of respect but 1t is mu
new more touching and much more heaL
d il fuI when you append card, indicat
and that the gift is yours, for thereby
.ni- world is apprised OF what thought
,eo- and synpatbetic creature you are