Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-27

so utterly unmanageable that he had, 10 his
great modification, TO take his seat in a car
riage. A groom, since discharged from the
Emperor's service, now confesses that ne, by
cruelty hogging the horse on showing hiH
white plnmes such as the King wore, had
been The author of the difficulty.
A white man not long since sued a black
IAN in one of our courts, and while the trial
was before the Judge the litgants came to an
stated to the court. "a verbal settlement
will not answer" replied the judge; ait must
be in writing" Here is the agreement in
black and white" responded the counsel,
pointing to the reconciled parties, pray
what does your honor want more than this?"
Ex-Speaker Robert C.. Winthrop is re-
garded as the highest authority in all points
OF etiquette connected with the office OF
speaker. He received his instructions when
he became speaker from John Quincy
Adams. The latter and his father were al
ways particularly strong on those subjects.
For many years most of the speakers have
consulted Mr.. Winthrop, on assuming the
office, as 10 the rules of etiquette binding
upon them.
Judged by his photograph, Prince Krapot-
kline, the famous nihilist, isn't very i'm
presslye looking personage. His forehead
runs back from his eyebrows at about the
slant of the orthodox cellar door, while his
chin recedes in like manner from his lower
teeth. Big goggles are balanced over bot
tie shaped nose, and odd patches of thin,
grsy, 1nkempt hair and whiskers are pro-
mic !. usly scattered about over his head and
face
Som time since the bar of Philadelphia
subscribed fund for the erection of statue
to John Marshall, the great chief justice.
This fund has increased to about $4,000,
snd Gongress has added an equivalent sum.
mr.. w. w. Story, the celebrated sculptor,
Rone. etc, is to be the aftists==ffe-A---a deter
mined on sitting figure. Mr.. Story is now
In Washington, and Is receiving good deal
Of social attention.
- A Gao Francisco talior Dy the name o.
Felix Everasta lately committed suicide
with the aid of a revolver. So far the facts
were plain enough, but the police were
greatly puzzled TO decide with what the re-
volver was loaded. The entire crown OF the
mans skull was found fifty feet from the rest
OF the body, aud the mu,ilstion was such as
could not have been produced by ordinary
ammunition. The theory generally adopted
is that the suicide put in a heavy charge OF
powder and over that thick wad, and then
filled the barrel with water.
Lord Derby has doubtless many a time
chuckled over HE sagacity in selling his fine
Tipperary estates before the trouble there
began. His father left to his younger SON
Lord Derby's brother-Col. Stanley, Beaceus-
fields war secretary, the choice between
$500, 900 and the Irish property. BE took
the former. Lord Derby, on receiving the
latter, sold it for $500, 600 10 rich Dublin
merchant. The tenants sent deputation to
Knowsley entreating Lord Derby not to sell,
but he said he must do go, because he could
not live in Ireland and would not be an
absentee landlord.
The Duke of Caumont, who has just died
in Paris, was warm patron of racing, in
which, however, bis political and military
occupations prevented him from taking a
very active part. Up 10 the week of his
death, though nearly eighty years OF age, he
rode and drove regularly. The duke was a
member OF the French Senate during the
third empire. Old Parisians remember the
tragic fate of his wife, who was murdered in
her house on the Champs Elysees, which
afterward had to be taken down because no
Que would inhabit it on account of belief
that it was haunted by the unfortunate