Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Six healthy Baptist churches have grown
out of one at Minneapolis, which was Oh
ganized in 1858.
An astrologer in Nevada prophesies that
some one of the European monarchs will die
during the month of March.
The latest official report of the Ring The
alter disaster fixed the number of victims at
1888. The bodies OF only 166 have been
identified.
Congress should treat the life-saving SER
vice with the wisest liberality. OF 12,259
persons in peril by sea ii ,S64 were saved by
this service.
Troy boy who was crippled for life last
summer by a pile of boards behind which he
was dressing after taking, swim in the Erie
canal, falling upon him, has sued the owners
of the lumber for $4,000 damages.
A Chicago prison-Seeper says: 81 have
met with boys here under twelve years old
who have travelled over this land alone, and
gave me accurate descriptions of Philadel-
phia, Cincinnati, San Francisco and New
Mexico"
The opera festival Melted the managers
that is, the Cincinnati College of Music
about $4,000 and paid Mr.. Mapleson twice
that amount. Abbey's share, including
Patti's, was $4,000, and other expenses were
about $4,000.
The remains Of mastodon, estimated to
measure thirty six feet from the tips of its
tusks to the tip of its tail, have been found
IN a bayou two miles and hall east of
Richmond, Ind, by workmen in excavating
for fish POND.
In the first decade of the Methodist Epis-
copal church there was one minister to every
100 members; in the fifth decade the proper
ton was one to 2S4; the present proportion
is one minister to 147 members, against 142
in the ninth and tenth decades.
Manitoba has a real live peripatetic town.
1t is called "Boomtown," and moves as the
Pacific railroad advances. A camp is made
at the end of the line and building lots bring
fancy prices, and with another advance the
place is deserted and another locality is
called "Boomtown."
William Hughes, OF Baltimore, has three
brothers whose birthdays fall on February
10th. Each OF the four brothers was married
on his twenty sixth birthday, at the same
church and by the same minister, the bride
in each case being Miss Burroughs. Three
OF the ladies attained the age OF twenty-one
on their weddiDg-day.
The originator of the postal card was a
German State official, DIR. Stephen. 1t was
first adopted by Austria in 1869. The great
est proportional consumption of cards &C.
ours in the United States. The whole of
100000, while the consumption in the United
States will probably not fall short Of 23O.-
100000.
One of the Russian refugees in Phiiadel-
phia is barber, dentist and doctor all in one;
but upon his skill in drawing teeth he chiefly
brides himself. He has already extracted
several molars, thereby making himself al
once the hope and terror of all his oompa-
triots as he walks about the refugees quar-
tiers in the old depot, with the forceps in his
hand.
Twenty bronzas coated with vivid green
and in excellent preservation have been
found far below the surface near Liege.
They are supposed to belong to the third CEN
tury Some OF them are admirable speci-
mems of the best Italian work of that period,
and were doubtless brought from Italy; others
are apparently the rude efforts OF native
skill, and all of them are supposed 10 have
formed part of an ornamental fountain.
The ice-bridge at Niagara Falls Is now the
largest ever seen there. The gorge Is packed
with huge masses OF ice from close up 10 the
Horse Shoe falls TO point below the swift
drift, making the bridge over a mile long.
Owing to the action OF the swift current, the
ice has been crowded together with such
force that it assumes most peculiar forms.
Constant streams Of people, old and young,
from far and near, have been crossing the
ice-bridge daily.