Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-17
VARIETIES.

The Shreveport EUeniHg Telegram has
bought the old Southwestern out, and
consolidated the two papers: The
Southeastern telegram made its first
appearance on the sixth instant.
An accident of type quite unknown
to residents of New York recently hap
pened at Rossville, AIlamakee county,
Iowa. A boy fell from a sleigh, which
passed over him, cutting him nearly in
twain, aud producing almost instant
death.
A negro nurseof Lebanon, Tennessee,
has been arrested, charged with feeding
child committed to her care with pins
and needles. The Herald, giving an
account Of it, says the child had passed
twenty-seven pins, one needle, and an
agate button.
French soldiers are being taught to do
their killing in a more scientific man
ner. At the recent execution of cOm-
munists in SatOry the order to fire was
given ciUG gOce, and not as usual by
signal. The prisoners were shot dead
instantly; whereas, in former execu-
tions, when the soldiers were watching
the adIutant's sword their aim became
unsteady and they fired wildly. The
result was that sergeants had to finish
the condemned with pistol bullets.
Imprisonment for debt is by no means
80 generally abolished as people sup
pose. The Hartford (COnnecticut)
Courant mentions that ten or twelve
debtors have been lodged in the Jail Of
that city during the past winter; and
three are confined there now. Consid-
ering what fuss was made some years
ago about the injustice of this method
Of collecting debts, ii is not encouraging
to consider that the world is going on
very much in the old way.
The most extraordinary frog story that
we have seen for a long time comes
from Colorado. The Greeley Tribune
tells US thusi "Mr. Graham recently
found a petrified frog IN excavating his
well. Its features were wonderfully
preserved. and the owner had intended
to present it to the Greeley geological
cabinet, but one day the boys shattered
it with a hatehet, and, to their utter
surprise, an old Aztec coin dropped out.
The date cannot be deciphered, but the
figure of head is plainly visible"
The standing industrial problem Of
English CAPITALISTS, how much availa-
bic coal has Great Britain2 The commits
sioners estimate the quantity yet to
draw from at one hundred and forty-six
thousand four hundred and eighty mill
ion tons. But Mr.. F. Hull, who has
written valuable and exhaustive work
on the English coal fields, thinks the
deposit smaller by at least one-half, and
calculates that the stock on hand will
last one hundred and seventy-two years.
If the facts correspond with his figures,
the industrial prospects of England are
less brilliant than some statesmen and
capitalists try to make themselves and
the rest of mankind believe.
A very old inhabitant of France
perished last autumn at Chantilly. This
was an exceedingly ancient chap, per-
feet patriarch among fishes, his age be-
ing no less than three hundred and
seventy-five years. He was young
fish in the reign of Francis l, and hav-
ing been, we may presume, one of those
privileged fishes that pass their lives in
marble basins, his inexpensive eyes
must have witnessed not few changes
in the costumes and manners of his sue
cessive human contemporaries. His last
owner purchased him in 1871 for one
thusand and seven hundred francs. He
met his fate from the jaws of an enor-
NOUS pike, which attacked him, with
what intent Ii is difficult to understand,
seeing that the carp was over three feet
in length and about two and half feet
round the thickest, part OF his body.