Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-16


street. in a hack He never became conscious,
and died at half-past four o'clock that after
noon. He leaves wife and child in very des-
titute circumstances-ln fact, without a cent
TO pay the necessary expenses of burial, or
for other purposes. The deceased was thirty
six years Of age, and was native of Ireland.
The people of Searcy, Arkansas, purpose
building a horse tramway or railroad from
that town to Reilly Landing. but will build it
to West Point, if the merchants Of that town
viii raise the necessary funds-two hundred
thousand dollars. The Searcy people want
an outlet to the river for their cotton and
other products.
The horse and mule watering -troughs
placed by the Fountain company on Main
and North Court streets are blessings to
quadrupeds, and not in disguise either. The
thirsty animals check up when passing these
watering-troughs by way of suggesting to
their thoughtless drivers that they wish to
slake their thirst. Memphis ought to have
City such watering-troughs for quadrupeds
located throughout the city.
"A correspondent detecting an error in
the APPEAL became overheated end wrote as
follows: IN your paper of yesterday | find
a 'squib, which for glazing misrepresenta-
ton of facts, eXcels anything have ever seen
IN a newspaper or elsewhere All this Is ex
ceedlngiy amusing to newspaper man, lett
come from here or elsewhere. The weight or
-Gghtness OF the atmosphere affects many
newspaper correspondents just as it does bar
ometers.
How % get down to the fg-leaf wrapper
the Paradise style of summer wear, without
offending modern society or violating the
laws Of the State or city, is the puzzle at pres
ent. The women of the household, when no
men are about, can solve the problem, but
men, who have to work cut Of doors or in
business houses, cannot do SO. Poor, unfor
tunate man of civilization, you would be
more comfortable in summer time were you
a resident of some heather or semi-civilized
land.
1t will pay to be careful about keeping
Mexican dollars on hand The New York
correspondent of the New Orleans Piuaytne
gives the following information: Mexican
dollars are lower-fror their own weight,
caused by absence Of demand; they are offered
at 9O58-payabe IN gold but without sales
to any extent. To buy them at that price
and pass them at dollar is a good profit for
the man that does not receive them himself,
but passes them away to those who don't
know TIE ropes"
When a horse or mule gets sunstruck,
treat the horse or mule ga you would a hu-
man being when found under the same pre-
dIcament, only increase the doses for the
quadruped. Instead of throwing cold water
or the head and body of the mule or horse,
put Ice on the top of Its head, and give it
half pint of brandy mixed with little am
monia. That is the way to treat sun struck
mules. By taking the precaution TO place
wet sponge on top of the mules head and
keep it wet, there is no danger Of sunstroke.
The street-car mules for a few DAYS past
have not been permitted to go out of walk,
even on a down grade. Half an Eour was
the recorded time OF a stceetcar mule on
Sunday night made in coming from Estival
park to the Peabody hotel 1t is not alto
gether the pace Of mules that brings on sun
stroke. It is the terrible weight they have to
pull. A driver will not only permit all seat
ing room to be occupied, but he will allow
the car aisle, the front platform and the
back step to be packed with people. 1t is a
cruelty to animals that ought to be pre-
vented.
The truth is that the best way of fight
ing the heat IS by avoiding it. If we wish to
escape sunstroke, even III its mitigated form
Of languor, lassitude and drowsiness,w we must
keep ourselves COOL and to do this as it ought
to be done, we must take precautions against
the heat before it bursts upon Those who
wish to know how this can best be Effected
have only to pay short visit to Paris during
the sultriest weeks of August. AS soon as
the weather demands the change, French
man apparels himself in low shoes and trous-
expands; his recktie dwindes to an apology:
waistcoat he altogether discards; his coat is
of thin al paca OR the lightest Tussore silk; his
hat of white felt or of straw; nor is heashamed
to boldly carry an umbrella.
The Frenchman of Paris, during The
summer months, keeps his house cool The
carpets are taken up; the heavy .jatOasies are
shut before sunrise, and kept closed through
cut the day; the courtyard is hourly watered;
md .lntd dc rTrloa
matters of little moment, large bowl Of ice
and water, or Il pyramid OF solid ice, sur
rounded by flowers, foms the center orna-
ment Of the table. What the individual citi-
zen does for himself the municipality of Paris
does for the entire city. Long before the
Parislans are astir the streets have been we'll
watered with hose, and the tr'Ottoir thorough
" washed down. Along the bouievards and
In most of the principal avenues large trees
gratefully cool the atmosphere, and suggest
pleasant sort of lotus eating dream of wood
and field.
Saloon keepers state that the demand
during the past few days for cooling drinks
emonades, claret punches, sherry and light
wine cobblers, SO la cocktails, etc has been
enormous. Many citzans, however, stick to
the old custom of drinking milk punches,
whisky toddies, and mint jnleps as cooling
beverages, they saying that such produce
then evaporation, which brings
about the desired result, a cooler feeling
The demand for ice-cold lager. beer has also
increased, its advocates insisting that, al |
though beer is heating to the system, yet, |
when ice cold, in hot weather, it brings about |
a cool result. The soda-fountains squirt and |
sizzle all over town, from early In the morn
ng to late at night. The lce-cold water |
drinkers have not sent in their report, but |
our investigator has 10 doubt but that much |
arger quantities than ever before of well, |
,lstern, Wolf and Mississippi river waters |
lave been swallowed by the thirsty temper |
lnce reformers. The milk stands report a |
arge increase of the sale of drinks of ice-cold |
mix and buttermilk.