Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-05
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Women are turning their stteu ton tC
the insurance agency business. AfteI
this there is nothing left for their energy
to cut its teeth on but peddling lightning.
rods.
Prof. SillimaD, OF Yale college, has
discovered 8 chemical process by which
the ringing sound of gold and silver may
be impaired to German silver and bri-
tannia.
A merchant at Charlestown has just
discovered that for fourteen years he
has been paying for his neighbours gas
light, 8 connection having been formed
with his supply pipe.
In the time of Charles II tobacco was
supposed to be mighty antidOte to the
plague, aud HearDe says, when at Eton,
the worst hoggipgs the students ever
received were because they refused to
smoke.
At a recent sale of CTemOna violinsin
London, tWenty-siX instruments and
three bows fetched the sum OF ell97 81.
3d., the highest being q StTadusrius of
1894, ELI Us, and NicOlaus Amati,
Sl20 15s.
Two old ladies of Ssugus, Msssachu-
sets, will send to the Centennial a SAM
pie of the tea pitched into the Boston
harbor. Their grandfather received it
from one OF the patriots who took part
in the demonstration.
The telegraph to-day states that q
movement is making in New York to
induce employers to sdOpt Monday in
stead OF Saturday as q payday. The
innovation Is desirable one. Too much
money is wasted on Sunday.
The Molly Maguires have been desc
Grating the Presbyterian cemetery at
Summit Hill, Carbon county, Pennsyl-
vania, where Jones, the mine boss, was
killed, by b:eakiug several Of the tomb
stones AID tearing down the enclosures.
The British house of peers comprises
four hundred and seventy mem bers, to
which Mr.. DisIasli proposes to add
eight. The house of commons number
six hundred aud fifty eight, altogether
eleven hundred and thirty.six. And
yet they make laws that stick.
A young American lady who has en-
ioyed the rare privilege Of taking stroll
with the poet Tennysou, incidentally
mentions in letter to friend that 1T
seriously affected the romance OF the
situstiOn when he paused during the
walk to scratch his back against gate
post"
A fashion journal states that a girl
with downward eyebrows is generally
willful, but neglects to state what the
girl with upward eyebrows is. These
fashion jourr ais, although not very COM
prehensive, have evidently determined
to control cur caprices as well as our
pockets.
The editor OF q western journal has
discovered that il everyone of the eight
million families in the American Union
would only SKIM the sOap-grease off
their dishwster and Invest its proceeds
in sinkiDg-fund at four per aeRt. COM
pound interest, the proceeds in one hum
dred and sixiy-nine years, two months
and eleven days would pay off the ma
tional debt.
At the suggestion Of Mr.. Furnival,
Dr. Brinsley Nicholson is editing q col
lection OF the doubtful plays formerly at
tributed to Shakespeare. The edition
will include The HlDO Noble RjRs.
men, in which another hand than
Fietcher's is visible, and EdIUGTd III,
in one act Of which some authorities
hold that Shakespeare took part, though
it is doubtful if he had anything to do
with either Of these plays.
We sometimes look at the cuts of ad- |
vertisers in the papers and become in
sPired. There is cut OF parlOr stove,
and on it are the words Evening Star"
In front sits a beautiful brunette, whose |
dainty skirts are drawn Just sufficiently |
hinh n raync1 q an or oil a. b
the little foot points to the words on the |
stove. We never sse it without |
Mica, mica, parva stella,
Twinkle, twinkle all the night,
sweet are the uses of advertising.
Having disposed OF Don Carlos, the |
Spanish government is said to be turn |
Ing its attention seriously to Cuba. |
Those six PrUssian KTupp guns Of i'm
mense calibe-, with six thousand charges /
Of ammunition, have been sent to Hsv-
ana. But this heavy armament is not |
for the scattered bands Of ill.,
surgent raiders. 1t obviously looks to |
the defense Of Havana from an assault /
Of "outside barbarisns"
A traveller by lake and ocean truth.
IulIy says: "fhe surly, insOlent and
brutal sea-csptain OF quarter Of Gen.
fury ago is almost extinct now. He has
been superseded by genial, courteous
and agreeable gentleman, who consider
stely allows himself TO be used by in
luisitive passe ayers as q sort OF nautical
during the voysge. His
society il pleasant, his manners attract
we, and his knowledge of navigation
An Englishmsn predicted twenty
years ago that If gutts- peTcha be used
.or submarine Geographic purposes, an
animal with special appetite for that
substance would be found or created.
The Popular Science Monthly now Gays
hat the anticipated destroyer has APP
DeaIed, and that he is about quarter of
N inch In length. TIE frequent inter-
uptiOns Of cable communications are
Iscnbed by the writer to the propensity
# this diminutive creature to take his
meals out Of gutts-percha.
The Chicago Tribune says the Emma
nine investigation unfolds q chapter of :
raud, bribery au1 corruption In high
llaces lees startling and enormous than !
he credit mobilier disclosures, implicat-
ng United States senators, United ,
states judges, learned scientists, bank .
rs, etc. What an inspiring theme for ,
he sarcastic pencil Of Mast, il the inn :
'licated parties were only Democrats or
x. COnfederates. And these are the
worthless that would have impesched ;
Ionest old Andrew Johnson.
Admiral Semmes chAracterzes the /
spauese as the Yankees OF Asia. Ger |
ainly the notion go generally entertain {
d few years ago, that they were very '
imilsr to the Chinese, has been dissf- /
sted on better acquaintance. While {
be Celestial resists every advance Of |
the children of the Tycoon q
Welcome all innovations. Recently the |
overnment has adopted a singular but {
Elective method for extending a knowI- /
dge Of the Arabic numerals with their .