Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-07
PERSONALITIES.

London policemen may hereafter wea
| mustaches.
Certain enthusiasts in Paris 90 into mourn
ing for dead dogs.
More than 13, 900 children have sH bscribet
for the Longfellow memorial cards.
An interesting bead OF Apollo has beer
| discovered in q shed at Ventnor, in England
1t is supposed TO have belonged 10 collec
| ton of a nobleman who once owned the estate
on which it was found.
Death has robbed Richmond of all lis
chief editors within year-Alexander II.
Mosely of the Wing; Captain John Hamp-
den Chamberlsyne, of the State, and James
A. Cowardiu, OF The DiPatUh
A Baptist minister of Marysville, Tenn,
declared that he had been restored TO life
after being dead three days, his return to
the world being for the purpose of evangel-
izing it. His work, however, was stopped
because he undertook it naked, and he is now
in an insane asylum.
The preposterous fable that Baltimore
nabob has bequeaihed So, 600, 900 to the de.
faulting cashier who shall justify the largest
amount of stealings by him from his EN-
ployers without their knowledge is travel
ing through the European press, and had
reached Rome at last advices.
A clay model of a statue of the late Sens-
tor Morton has been foished at Rome, and
the statue will be cast in bronze at Munich,
and unveiled at Indianapolis next Decora-
ton day. Mrs. Morton is said 10 be very
much pleased with the figure; but if the
sculptor has contrived to put any nobility
into it he has spoiled the likeness.
A boarder al one of New York's big ho-
tells discovered big tank of water up IN
the garnet and had a nice swim in il every
day for a week. At the end OF that time
he let two other guests into the secret, and
they at once realized that he had been
swimming in the water that he, they and all
the other guests had been drinking.
An undertaken in Australia exhibits
coffin in the window OF his shop, on the sides
OF which, in gold letters, is the Inscription,
"Let me hide myself in thee" Many mis-
took this for a trademark until they dis
covered that it was the second line OF verse,
the first of which, "Rock OF ages cleft for
me,o was on the other side of he cofhu.
II is said there is living in Cumberland,
Md, soldier who was wounded in the bat
tie of Gettysburg, and the wound, in healing
up, shortened his right leg so that he became
permanently lame. Recently he had his
left leg shattered at the thigh, and when he
recovered ii was found that his left leg was
also shortened so as to be on par with the
other, and he now walks without limping.
Au old colored man, with his legs twisted
about like corkscrews from rheumatism and
also partly paralyzed, sets on the steps of
the Austin courthouse and solicits aims.
'You must have pretty hard time of 1t,
uncle" remarked a sympathetlc stranger,
handing him a nickel. Eyes, boss, OATS a
fact. Oars elk OBJ us in de family, and Pse
the only one able to get about and earn a
biD."-Isras Settings.
Though the Marquis of II arlington during
the last TWO or three years has attended rather
to politics than 10 horse racing, still be rare
ly misses race, and is always to be seen at
Ascot, Epson and Goodwood when any ex-
citing race Is TO be run. During the season
of 1880 he won thirteen races of the vslne OF
2495 sovereigns, bat last year he sank much
lower in the scale, his four winning races
ECO sovereigns. In addition 10 his
love for racing the marquis has fondness
for agricultural pursuits.
According 10 the Hartford Post Mr.. Waller |
Is not exactly the "boy governor" of Con- |
necticut after sill. He is forty-three years |
I'D. But TON" Seymour WIS only forty |
me when he was elected in 1850. Before |
,im was c. F. Cleveland, elected at thirty
i've, the youngest governor the Stale ever
lad. On the Republican side, Gen. Hawley
vas elected at thirty-nine, and Mr.. Jewell
vas candidate at forty one and was elected
It forty -three. Conuecticut's oldest governor
vas Charles H. Pond, who at the age of sew
MY filed out the unexpired term of Mr..
ey mour when The latter went 10 Russia.
The slave market appears 10 have been
rick in Egypt. Some little time ago
Iatement WAS forwarded BY Sir Edward
faIet to The foreign Office, London, of the
versge price of black slaves sold in 1870
0. The price seems to have steadily in
reased. Ia 1870 Nubian boys fetched e8 10
II; girls, 60 to els; adults, eI0 TO e22. In
$3.50 the prices were for boysel0 to e16;
iris, e16 to s20; adults, els to s25. Abys-
mans are always rather dearer than Nu-
ians. These in 1870 were: Boys, s10 TO
Is; girla, s16 to ESQ; adults, el8 to s40.
, IS79-S0 the prices were: For boys, el2 ,
e24; girls, e2O TO ESQ, and adults, e20 to
30