Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-22
CURRENT NEWS.

! The Louisville LedgCT calls the
COurier-Journal the hyphenated con-
cern.
A select series of dog-fgbts is an
nOunced among other allurements for
the beau-monde at Saratoga this sum-
mer.
A western paper speaks of a duel
between two 'jackasperated individ-
uals."
1t is proposed in Bedford, Indiana to
bidder.
A comic paper, in the interest of the
/ temperance cause, is announced in
! London.
A circus in an old graveyard made
West Chester, Pennsylvania, sad the
other day.
A Wisconsin man was fined five dol
lars for cutting off a eats ears with a
/ iack-knife.
A San Francisco paper recently head
ed its leading editorial: 1.-THE truth for
a change"
A circus company lately used four
barrels of flour in adOrning Pittsburgh
with posters.
Mimic balls and exploded shells are
still picked up in the precincts of At
lanta, Georgia.
A Wisconsin woman planted potatoes
! in the graveyard, and the law had to be
invoked to Oust her.
But one cabin remains Of the Norman
settlement of "MOunt Pisgah, " in Iowa.
1t was large settlement once.
Attention may be called to any article
in a newspaper by simple mark with
out subjecting it to letter postage.
An imbecile paupeT in Northampton
county, Pennsylvania, almshOuse has in
herited fortune Of quarter of mil
lion.
An affectiOnate father at Peoria had
his nine years old boy arrested for steal
ing ten cents worth of tobacco from
him.
If words imply anything, the family
motto OF President MacMahOn is GER
tainly a reassuring one. 1t is-J'y SujS
lJy reSterdi.
The latest instance of mOdesty,' ac-
c0Tding to the Arcddidn, is that of a
young lady who mentioned a friends
receiving what she called limbacy.
Popkins writes to a religious paper
that he will not take his children to the
theater. This is a dreadful blow; all
the managers will now shut up shop.
Several ineendiary attempts have
been made within the past week to
destroy the Omaha (Nebraska) Bee
office, with no clue to the guilty parties.
a cat in Springfield, Illinois, noticing
a kerosene lamp blazing up in DANCE
rous manner in the night walked the
master of the house and got him TO
fix it.
Yuma, Arizona Territory, has a
lively little eight-page paper called the
ATizOaa Sentinel. 1t is now in its
second volume, and is published weekly
by G. L. Minor.
Fast presses are the order of the day
Even the book publishers are beginning
to think that they must print both sides
at once, and get out sixty books a
minute, to be up with the times.
A fine art exhibition has been opened
in Turkey, so that those who fly to
Istomboul can find something to remind
them of their art and Athens even
among the followers of MahOmet.
The Morgan envelope company, of
Springfield, Massachusetts, are TO deliver
one million of the new postal-cards on
the first of May. The law calls for
one hundred million for the first year.
The Lakeside Monthly will shortly
remove to the new Lakeside building,
corner Of Adams and Clark streets,
Chicago. This building will be the
interests in the city.
A Columbus, Ohio, man lately learned
what it was 10 have insult added to in
Jury, in being first scared out of his wits
by his horse running away with him,
and then arrested and fined for driving
at an illegal rate Of speed.
The F6uille de 81. Psters6ouTy says
there are in that capital ninety-nine
printing offices, thirteen OF which be-
long to the crown, and two TO benefit
societies. Moscow has fifty-seven print
ing offices, six of which belong to the
crown.
With that hazy idea Of the length and
breadth of this country which charac-
terizes most English journals one of
them calls the jubilee singers from Ten
pessee, Yankees. This is about as alb
surd as it would be to call a Yorkshire
man a COckney.
Encouraged with its success, the Land
Gunner, Chicago, intends in a few
motnhs TO increase its pretentiOns as
well as the frequency Of its publication.
The paper will be issued weekly, under
the name of The Land Ol07ler and
Illustrated Weekly.
They have been having a beer show at
the North WoOlwich gardens, England.
Each visitor who pays a tasting fee is
allowed to sample the whole OF the eX-
hibits and to record his vote in favor of
the liquor he prefers. He is expected
to hit an ale on the head, whether it be
the right one OF no.
Russia must now be added to the list
OF nations actively engaged in Arctic
discovery. The imperial geographical
society has made use Of its special ad-
vantages 10 send out an experienced
Siberian traveller, M. Tschekanowski,
on an expedition, which is well suppli-
ed and equipped for two years.
German newspapers announce that
the dictionary Of the German language
in course of compilation by the Brothers
Grimm will contain more words than
any other publication on record. 1t has
already reached the number of about
one hundred and fifty thousand, and by
the time il is complete it will comprise
at least five hundred thousand.
The circulation of the London news
papsrs is stated upon good authority to
he as follows: The Dali Teleqrdph
one hundred and seventy thousand
COPIES: the Standard, one hundred and
forty thousand; Daily Nei0s, ninety
thousand; Echo, eighty thousand; Times,
seventy thousand. lie morning and
evening papers together give sum total
daily OF five hundred and siXty-nine
thousand copies.
A London paper states that the Japa-
nese in that city have commenced the
publieation Of new illustrated journal,
10 be called Tai Sci iShjnabua, Great
Western Neaos. The object Of the paDer
Is TO disseminate among the millions of
Janansse 'adesiTous of learning all they
can of foreign nations knowledge of
western arts and policy, as observed by
their own peOpss.
Thirty years ago London had only
fifteen Iheaters; there are now more
fIaau twice the number, and Others are
stiii springing up, among which is the
R0yal Alexandra theateri recently open
ed IN Park street, Regent Park, thor
oughfare which abuts on High street.
Camden town. The stage is thirty-hve
feet deep, and the proscenium is thirty
sever feet high by thirty-two feet wide,
tie auditorium being sixty-six feet by
sixty feet. Mr.. Thorpe Pede is the man
ager.