Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-18
VARIETIES.

The sound Of the new spring boot is
heard in the church aisle.
A number of communists have been
arrested at Geneva, in Switzerland.
Early garden stuff is coming up fine
", owing to a warm sun and the
hens next door.
Farmers are waiting for the weather
To moderate sufficiently to permit them
TO haug.up their winter suits in the corn
fields.
II is said that several Of the MOdOcs
who were shot in the late engagements
with our troops, died before their share
srs the government blankets and ammu
nilion could be got to them.
There is something interesting in OBJ
serving two women looking disdainfully
AT each other, but when two old ladies
whose front teeth are gone curl the lip
of scorn, the effect is very depressing.
AnIrish philosopher asks in his fa-
x,orite journal the following mOmentous
Question: "WOuld you rather go through
a piddv waltz with a pretty girl than
20 through pretty waltz with giddy
.glrl?"
The imports of iron OF al descriptions
in,Io France in the first two months of
this wear were forty thousand tons. In
fine corresponding period of 1877 the
inports did not exceed twenty three
thousand tons.
The editor of "literary" paper out
west saws that George Eliot is the psu-
donvrn of Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis.
let Buffalo Bill or Texas Jack draw
Rede on that fellow and let some day
light into his brain.
A new style Of rouge has made its sp-
N, .aranee. 1t consists of a tablet Cf what
so,,ks like a green tinsCl, which when
rDb bed with a damp cloth gives a red
.nien ,ent, which teens very natural
tty6er transferred to the cheek of a me-
tronoI'tan beauty. IL IL a Chinese in-
ventiOn.
The late John r. Thompson, the
x.outbern pOet, according to the Balti-
more Amer lean, was for several years
i'm fact. during the whole OF its existence
-the leading writer, if not the editor OF
fbe weII-known Confederate organ 10
T,ondon-the Iader. He wrote for II
actively and industnously.
At a concert recently given in Paris
lyy Messrs. Alard and franehoAeme e,
Noosieur PIante, who is called in French
fOliFRl ais int hAAE VI llAe@-AA9l-'i
PINT the center of attraction seemed 70
be Ambrose Thomas box, in which
acre seated Nile. Nilsson, Nine. Gar
oaiho, and Mime. Albani.
French Journals tell story about a
new instrument made by dron chap
named Delobel, and which he calls
Ie0ttf5lOphOne anglized Vegetable
,3h0ue. 1t is shaped like bassoOn; the
nouthpiece is a large carrot, and the
KEYS are made of onions, potatoes and
tIIrniDs. and the bell is crowned with q
bunch of radishes.
1t isclaimed by an authority on horse
b,re ading in a recent work, that the
|,reatest nutrition and the highest vital
ftg nroduce the female, while the want
of+hast, in the sire and dam gives char
sctar To the male. The theory is start
Iing Tfnutrition al a very early stage
IF 3evelopment decides the question ol
sax if is well enough for our breeders tC
understand the fact. But will the theo-
ry hold water?
AZ say, old fellow, what are your poll
ties?n said witty Aberdeen man. qulz'
zing another artisan. "ConserVatlxe-
Iny father was conservative" he replied
And what is your TeligiOnYf eontlLuee
the other. "PrOtestant-my father wa
Protestant was the answer. land
why are YOU a bachelOT?' said the other
tfBecause my father was a-Oh coniouno
IT, don't bother me with your stupid
questions"
There is one novelty which has been
introduced into the London streets
- lSieh can hardly be called an improve.
~.on, Some chemical is now dissolved
- a. 40, ter with which the streets are
..,rintIed ~ mi n object is to prevent evap-
---4i1,1 fatinq rlace SO quickly, and
sbTs 1'ta - rendeT Il Dos sible to do with les
f,-o1 fr.n,,ent - wsteTings. bTt at the same
tlnae this chemical renders the streets
terribly slippery, and IL il most mslan-
rholv fo see the numbers of horses which
lie hopelessly ON the ground in ah lee
principal thOIoughfares.