Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-01
PERSONAL.

The Philadelphia ladies, determined 10
kill smoking if they can, pledge themselves
not TO kiss any man, young or old, who is
given TO the habit. They will be forced to
get pretty close 10 4 mans mouth, though,
to Ind out whether or not he is smoker.
Mrs. McCreary, a California lady, repre-
senting the Big Bonanza element, appeared
in her box at the opera in New York the
other night without gloves, and straig htway
tale was started that "no gloves" would he
henceforth the fashion. But Mrs. Grundy
says that the Murrsy Hill people cried out
altogether TOO soon.
John !. Grown, druggist in Boston, has
just died at the age of ninety-two, having
been IN the drug business since 1907, being
hfty-two years at one stand. He was one OF
four brothers, who had drug stores in differ
ent parts oil Boston. Many of the most
successful druggists in Boston began as
CLERKS with the Browns.
Mr.. Oscar Wilde visited the contest of
beauty in a New York museum on Tuesday
evening. He was distracted by the railing
incloslng the candidates being bright red,
and the last summers fly hangiugs, orange
and blue, and declined acting as Paris in
giving the golden apple ''to the fairest." He
retired without voting.
Prince Bismarck having been thwarted in
some OF his schemes BY the Berlin town
council, the dissolution of that body has
been resolved upon and sanctioned by the
Emperor. The Prince Imperial gave the
but this will not avert the blow aimed
against them BY the chancellor.
Mr.. Sylvsnus Miller, a we'll known manu-.
facturer of Urbsns, o., who has all his life
been an avowed infidel and atheist. died on
Monday last. When on his desthbed he
reRounced 1ngersoll and his teachings ard
professed the Christian faith. He said that
lngersolPs religion was good enough TO live
by, but not good enough 10 die with.
Pinofore, translated into PENNSYLVANIA
Dutch, has been given 10 crowded audiences
in Allenton, Pa. The new version sounds
queer 10 English esrs, and is even funnier
than the original. ".SeiR doch steH. e. arar
die hdfz," stands for 'Silent be, it was the
cat and the interminable "What, never2"
is converted into VAS, gar netf''
A Western city doctor favors the general
adoption oil two. wheeled vehicle instead of
ihe buggy now in use. He says it is easier
TO turn found, Ia lighter en- the horse, and
superior In other respects. But one must
know now to ride TO avoid the rocking mo-
ton complained of, and that is TO place the
seat In such way that the shsfs will have
no weight on them
One oil the latest female celebrities in the
art oi vlolin-playiDg in Europe is a young
ltalian lady, Slguora Tua, oil whose sccom-
plishments the Berlin and Vienna critics re-
late extraordinary things Another young
lady yIollnist Is Fraulein Soldat, who has
su.t won The great Mendelssohn prize OF
ioOOm. at the Berlin Academy. She is
pupil of Herr Joachim.
The Prnssisns are criticising the British
army In Egypt. The conclusion is that the
British soldiers did yell enough against
"retehed, uneivilized Egyptian army, but as
against German, American or Russian
army, yon know, ii might be different. Well,
the British fellows fought pretty well, for
all thAt- Perhaps the guns would not have
sone so wei though, against civilized iorti-
MI D Z. Hale, veteran name in litera-
lure, announces for publication in March
next 4 h;trosPeet Of a Long Life, in which he
promises to give especial prominence to his
IecoHeetious OF Ireland sixty years ago,
Snen ne says he Frequently bought eggs
eisat lor penay aud chickens for eight
pence couple. There was no markets ex-
cSpt IN large towns, and there was no mode
oil locomotiolG
Gen. Nicolss de Pierola. ex-president of
Peru, who is in New York. is described as a
eappeI little nan, about i've feet FIVE inches
III nlgni, win clear complexion, laughing
HioNn eye', dark wayy hair, mustache with
iong euried ends and an imperisl. His foot
as small and as neatly booted as wo-
man man Z; and he has the grace of manner OF .
: F'ehcnman' A high, broad forehead alous