Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03

Centennial, and got 30 far back without
a penny 10 his pocket.
Sam Cary says that such a thing as
overproduction is not possible In human
beings. 1t IL quite likely that q man
with thirteen children and q salary OF
nine G0llsrs week might take differ.
ent view Of the matter.
II isn't enough thst Centennial hotel
keepers should have been already driven
TO the verge OF bankruptcy and suicide,
but right OF top Of II all comes the an
nouneement Of sn intended excursion
thlther by the Texas editors.
Six months Is the regulation period
prescribed before widow can ait 1T the
front parlor window and peep through
the stats at the gentlemen going and re-
turning from their business, but she gen.
orally does 1t the day after the funeral.
or al TeDnyson's ecceptricisies, none
has distinguished him more than his
aversion to q small. tooth .e1mb. He
broke off his engagement with one Of
the loveliest girls in England because, In
a moment Of unselfish affection, she adj
vised him to use one.
Sir George B wyer writes to the pa
peTs to say that h. does not care q rap
for being expelled from the Reform club.
81 cannot" he writes, ''regret expulsion
from club which has systematically
and persistently black.beaned every
Home. Rule candidate"
A daughter of the man who stood by
General Warren's side, when he fell,
now lives in Boston Highlands, at the
mature age Of ons hundred aud three
years. Her name Is Harriet Hswley.
She never attended a theatrical repre-
sentation, and never journeyed In the
cars.
Colonel Forney leotured In Philadel-
phia the other night on "JOkes." The
colonel is regarded as an authority on
jokes, and Is very fond of them. When
the sum Of twenty five Thousand dollars
was offered to him on certain occasion,
he treated it as joke, and "took" 1t
promptly.
William 3. Mercer, q prisoner In the
Nebraska penitentiary, has succeeded in
obtaining for that institution the best
library in the State. Many Of our best
writers have sent him complete sets of
their works, and he has received large
donations from some Of the principal
publishing houses.
Mics Mary Anderson, the young
actress OF Louisville, made only q mod
erately successful debut at San Fran
cisco. She appeared In EUddne The
Chronicle advises her to seek 8 position
in some good stock company. The Alta
judges that her geniuS Is 30 unmistaka.
ole that her faults are easily eondoned.
A few days since, the poor crszy
Empress Carlotta escaped from the
Chateau de LsckeD, where she Is still
under care. After finding her, 1t was
difficult to make her return, and she
was induced to do so st length by the
stratagem Of fiiDgiDg flowers before her,
as she Is very fond Of flowers.
Ex-Empress EIgenie still wear5 fine
clothes Sac recently wore, while lunch.
ing with Queen VictOris at Windsor
Castle, an exquisite costume of blac K
gros-grain, with overekirt and sleeveless
bodice OF Grape, and to the belt at her
waist che had pouch suspended, made
Of Grape and embroidered magnificently
in silK with her monogram, her arms
and her imperial crown.
A portrait bust of Governor Tilden In
plaster of Paris is to be made by Miss
Griffen, q young sculpress OF Bond
street, who has taken rooms in Albany
She has completed busts # President
Barnard, If Columbia college; Mayor
Havemeyer and Elk Police Com mission
rMatselI, aid has in progress head
and bust of DR.. Chaplin.
Anew explosive, known by the name
of tonite, Is now being used in Cornish
mines, and, according to the directions
issued with it, sit can only be exploded
Aoka
of tonile have, however, occurred at the
West Bassett mines without, 1t is said,
any detonator being fred; and in one Of
the explosions two men were severely
Injured, one Of them so badly that he
died shortly sfteTward.
Eaglish magazine: "Scattered about
the earth there are supposed to be ten or
eleven millions Of Jews alive. Thou
sands of these people are rich; some OF
them own colossal fortunes. Rothschild
could buy up the fee simple Of Palestine.
Goldschmid might rebuild the temple Of
Herod. Monefi0re has money enough
to cast golden statue Of King Solomon.
But OF theSs wealthy Hebrews, not one
is willing to go back"
The hair of a woman nearly ninety
years Of age, who died in Martha's Vine
yard, was wholly woven in with false
hair which had not been removed for
over thirty years, and was hello in place
by one hundred and eighty pins. One
article of her dress was held together by
three hundred and eight ping, although
her bureau contained ninety-eight new
dress patterns Of all kinds and qualities,
some Of them bought sixty.four years
ago, and one elegant brocade silk could
10 hon
A correspondent Of the Washington
Star, writing from the Glen honse, in
the White mountains, where Charles
Francis Adams is staying, speaks of
that gentleman and his ways, as fol-
lows: "He is quiet and unass umiDg,
but reserved and reticent to a degree.
Toe bOsrders here declare that he has
not uttered an audible word since he has
been In the house. There is Bostonian
here by the name of Gardner, who Is
also preternstuTally solemn and silent,
and the story goes that q we'll known
his bill in q hurry the other day, and de-
clared his purpose to leave by the next
conveyance. Said he t. the landlord,
'Miliken, 1 like you and 1 like your
mouse, but can't stand the internal
noise that Charles Francis Adams and
that man Gardner keep up any longer"
or Rufus Choate's wit a volume might
be compiled. Ola party in suit he said:
sEWhy doesn't he pay back the money
he has i'll got? He is go much of vii
lain that he wouldn't II he could, and so
much of bankrupt that be couldn't II
he would" OF very crooked flight of
stairs he said, "How drunk a man must
b. to climb those stairs |" or one OF bis
fecale clients he said, "She is 8 sinner
no, not sinner, for che is our client;
but she Is very dlssgreeable ssintn He
defined the lawyers vacation" ss "the
space between the question put to a wit
ness and his answer" or the homely
Chief Justice Shaw, ~ venerate him as
the Indian does his leg, curiously carved;
l acknowledge that he is ugly, but feel
that he is great" Ofthe constable who
repeated the word "haviDg" many
times in his return, ''He has greatly
overworked the principle"
Florence Nightingale has sent a con-
tribution of ten guineas to the eastern
sick and wounded relief fund, with the
following letter: "Good cheer to your
forts to help the sick and wounded Of
both sides, and bring them hospital and
medicSl necessaIies and comforts, too.