Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-30

The muse OF history, rising TO heaven, writes
of the stone, History is a Resurrection "
From the pedestal of the monument is TO
spring the fountain which is to keep ever
fresh the flowers with which Michelet asked
his tomb to be covered.
Mr.. Austen Henry Layard, the British am
bassador at Constanhnople, has become SIR
Austen Layard as a Grand Cross of the Bath
He used to be called in parliament lord
Palmerston's liar, as being always put for
ward to tell graceful or emphatic ibs when
ever 1t was necessary to protect some rash
act of the ministry. Perhape this was the
reason why Lord Beaconsfeld sent him to the
stamping ground of General Ignatieff In the
east.
1t is SAID of Prof. Fawcett, the blind mem
Der of parliament, that no sooner had he rec
ognized that he was hopelessly blind for life
he was shot in the eyes by companion
while out partridge shooting-than he de-
termined that sit should make no difference"
except perhaps that his career shold be po-
litical rather than legal. Already entered at
Lincoln's inn, ne reIinuuished, after some
thought, legal career entirely, and to the
amazement of his friends, proceeded TO active
political work.
tutor of one of the Oxford colleges, who
limped in his walk, was some years after az
costed by a well-known politician, who asked
him if he was not the chaplain of the college
at such time, naming the year. The doctor
replied that he was. The interrogation OBJ
served:i'l knew you by your limp. "Well,
replied the doctor, ''it seems my limping
made deeper impression than my preach
ing" 'Ah, DOCTOR" was the reply, with
ready wit, sit is the highest compliment we
can pay minister to say that he is known
by his walk rather than by his conversation"
Of Lord Beaconsfeld innumerable mOts are
just now current. Here is one: "a conserv-
anxiety with which he looked forward to his
prolonged absence from England. 1t won't
be long business, was the reassuring reply;
and, after a pause, Lord Beaconsfeld added,
I'VE mean to carry the position by koo di
mang coup de main). The peer in question
moved away, muttering as he went, They
may say what they like about his being a
foreigner, about his character being I'M
English; but, at any rate, there is one thing
that is Enthusiastically British, aud that is-his
French
Prof. Alexander Winchell declares, IN the
Nashville american, that the abolition of the
lectureship recently filled by him is practi-
cally "a dismissal from Office on account of
heresy.' He goes on to say: "This heresy
consists IN holding, with the great body of
scientific men, that method of evolution has
obtained In the history of the world, but not
In holding that man is the product of evolu-
ton. The overt act on which the accusation
is based is the publication of my recent
pamphlet entitled Adamites and Py'e-Adanl-
ties, though as a fact, belief in the doctrine
of evolution is not there avowed nor taught,
and the only position to which strict 'ortho
doxy' could object, is the opinion that per-
haps the black races existed on the earth
previously to the white and brown races"
A curious duel case has just been decided
at Nuremberg. A law student. during his
compulsory one-year's service in the army,
deemed himself insulted by the treatment he
received from a lieutenant. On concluding
his term duel was fought and the ieuten-
ant was killed. The questions before the jury
were, whether duel had been fought,
whether 1t had had a fatal result and was it
t the accused who was guilty of that resultP
The jury gave verdict of mot guilty. on
all these charges. Some say the reason of
the verdict was pity for a promising young
man who had done an act which custom de-
mands and the law half sanctions; others
that it was the dislike in which Prussian Of
ficers are held, and, lastly, the difficulty that
If the officer had been in the students place
the law. after compelling him to fight, would
have punished him according to its result.