Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-14
PERSONAL.


ship of pretty things goes sometimes too far.
Just SO, George. A man with a family ought
not to adore burlesque drtiste.-Bos Post
London Truth says that in some of the
smaller Western cities of America there are
more telephones than there are at present In
England. Now we know why we call 1t
merry Englaud.-Boston Transcript.
Two brothers in Omaha have been ar
rested for stealing house and It's furniture.
1t Ia charged that they carried the house
away while it's owner was absent. They also
attempted 10 carry away the owners wife.
Mr.. Justus A. Rathbone, the founder OF
the order OF Knights of Pythias, is an act
I've citizen of Detroit. He was school
teacher in Michigan when the idea of the
order, which now has membership OF
about 100000, occurred to HIM.
Scene in the school-room: Teacher
"Now, John, how many kinds of 'g's' are
there?" John-"Three, sir" Teacher
"Threel Why, explain yourself" John
"Well, there's the hard 'g,' the soft g and
the fugee"-Philadelphi Bulletin
SAYS an English writer: "Christianity won
in the early ages because, under the most
trying and difficult circumstances, 1t diffused
Joy, reused enthusiasm and set people act
now too often couspire to make 1t simply dis
NAL, unsympsthetic and ugly"
The discussion whether Bunyan was a
tinker gypsy or tinker Scotch an has been
interfered with by Welshman, who tries to
prove that the original OF the name was APP
Eynon. No one has stepped forward to say
that the foot-weary man probably derived
his name from his bunion.
Chip Smith, who was hung at New II ayen
a week ago. was buried at Ausonia, Conn.,,
with more pomp and ado than any he 70 or
benefactor of his race for long time. More
than 10000 people assembled TO show their
respect 10 the departed, and the procession
was over half mile long.
Philadelphia Record: "The preach ers
have nearly all returned to their pulpits.
The war against Satan will now proceed
with renewed vigor. The devil, no doubt,
takes advantage Of the summer vacation OF
the clergy, and deserves all the reproach
that will be heaped upon him."
There is not little poppycock in Bob In
gersolPs oratory. For example, he demanded
the acquittal of Dorsey because che has an
intellectual horizon and mental sky" The
Baltimore American calls this bosh, aud adds
that he "might as well speak of his intel
lectual equator or his mental zodiac"
William II. Vanderbilt, w. w. Corcoran
and Leander J. Mccormick have just had
new scholarships in the University of Vir-
der the scholarships are to be nominated by
Messrs. Vanderbilt, Corcoran and McCor-
mick, whose gifts to the university have
been considerable.
Mr.. Labouchere says: sit is only by cor
poral punishment, literally administered,
that the horrible brutality of modern roughs,
both old and young, can be checked. The
efficacy of the cat in REFRESHING tendency
to crime was proved by the remarkable effect
il had in putting down garroting. A honeo-
pathic remedy is not a bad thing in cases of
this kind"
Inventor Edison tells a reporter that he
does not believe submarine telephone comes
within the region of possibilities. He says:
"The present condition of the art will not
permit sound to be audible by submarine or
underground conveyance more than few
miles. 1t is all they can do to talk across
the English channel, and that with the very
best instrument yet constructed"
The miserable scamp Major Reno, who
was sometime ago dismissed from the regu-
lar army for insulting an officers wife, has
come to the surface again in similar dis
reputable affair. II there is any kind of
villain who is worthy of bullet on sight it
is the professional "masher," and the wonder
is that 30 graceless reprobate as this Major
Reno has escaped his just deserts so long.
The operator at the Mobile Office of the
Mobile and Gulph Telegraph Company was
recently surprised by hearing over his wire
through messages from New Orleans to New
York. An Investigation showed that an I'M
fortunate frog had found its way into cable
box, and its body, burned almost 10 crisp,
formed q sufficient connection between the
w esternUnion and Mobile and Gull wires.
And now the merry Modesto mosquito
makes the midnight melodious with his
L 1r,SI he lali ntso
of his maddened martyrs who murmur
meaningly their muttered malisons. Mean
while morpheus makes mortal man misera-
bly, melancholy by marehaling mysteriously
his manifold messengers, and Doodily
m marching into the mists of the morning.
Modesto (Cai) Journal
General J. w. Denver, formerly terrific
rial governor of Kansas, and the pioneer
after whom the city of Denver, COL, wss
named, is now re visiting his namesake, which
has grown beyond his recollection. AS is so
lied any pecuniary benefit from being the
patriarch of the thriving young metropolis,
and is now living quietly in Ohio.
Two countrymen from Onion creek came
to an Austin lawyer to consult about bring
ing Joint suit against a neighbor. The first
granger began to tell the LAWYER the cause of
the trouble, embelIishing it rather literally.
"Don't tell him any lies, Rill," interrupted
the other. sit is his business to put in the
lies. You win get him confused if you go TO
mixing your lies with his."-Te1ds SyttHgs.
Henry James is engaged in writing play.
Max Muller is about to publish volume
containing the lectures which he lately de-
Iivered at Cambridge. Arsene Houssaye's
recollectious of literature and art in France
during the last thirty years will shortly be
published in Paris. Disgusted by r. II.
Shepard's announced intention to reprint
Thaekeray's earlier uncolIected writings,