Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-02
PERSONAL MENTION.

Skobeleff has been called the Phil Sheri-
dan of the Russian army, reference being
had. OF course, TO his drinking capacity.
Ex-Governor Shepherd, of the District of
Columbia, is enjoying excellent health and
great prosperity among the Batohllas mines.
He intends soon to revisit Washington, where
his three daughters are now staying.
jerome Smith, a Boston dry goods clerk,
has begun suit against a young lady TO re-
cover several valuable presents which he
gave her during the time of their engage
ment. A dry-goods clerk and his girl are
soon parted.
Ruffied-shirt-front Oscar Wilde, who had
"the refusal" of berths on steamers of the
Guion and White Star Lines for dates in
July, has given them up, and, awful as it is
to contemplate, he is not going home this
year.
The Hon. Hamilton Griffin, Miss Mary
Anderson's step-pa, is enjoying himself at the
seaside. There is nothing more arduous in
any showmsn's repertory than dispensing
1900 10 atinee tickets to the various news
paper men of the Union.
-Bsrtholdi, designer of the statue OF
"Liberty Enlightening the World" to be
placed in New York harbor, Is a man OF
great wealth, and has given SIC, 600 of his
own fortune to defray the expenses of con-
structing the huge monument.
John Bell, founder of the London Bells
Weekly Messenger, which has just changed
hands, was, according to Leigh Hunt (once
its editor), the frat printer who confined the
letter IS" to its present shape, and rejected
altogether the f-:ike form.
A London swell hit waiter at his club
with a plate for fancied insult, and was
arrested and fined s10. Then he was ex-
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in the streets by the waiter, who in turn has
been eliminated from the club.
The greatest devourers of novels in En-
gland are factory workers, who fly TO them
from the dull, ugly routine OF their daily
toll, and persons of leisure, of moderate
means, who cannot afford society, travel,
theaters, etc. Such persons abound 10 En-
glish watering places.
In twenty years there has been but one
"long session" of Congress extending beyond
the fourth week in July, that being in 1876,
when proceedings were stopped during the
sessions of the national conventions, and
much time lost. The present session seems
likely to reach some distance into August.
The pastor of Congregational church at
Mancelona, Mich, cautioned his people
sgninst the excitement likely to be caused by
Revivalist Burns, WHO was about TO begin
work in that place. But it was not long be-
fore he was himself wrought up to high
pitch of feeling, and now he has become
hopeless maniac.
A Russian Jew who reached Atlanta, Ga,
eight months ago with 81 in his pocket, is
now reported 10 be -kuildips txo- p..s-evf.-
tages on city lots that he has paid for. The
secret of his success lies in the fact that his
family, wife and five children, all work, as
well as himself, and contribute something to
the general income. He averages $50 week
as a tailor.
At the outset of his career, Mr.. Irving, the
English actor, was not considered good
after-dinner talker, but there are few now
reader or more effective speakers. At a
recent dinner at which he was chief orator,
"his quiet sentences" Quoting a report)
iswere delivered in a half-dreamy fashion,
pregnant with truth and common sense, and
spiced with quaint illustration and real fun"
Tom Hughes's English colony at Rugby,
Tenn, seems to be picking up again. New
settlers, some Germans among them, are be-
ing drawn there, and the older ones are
probably buckling down to work more MOI close
ly. The cornerstone of $500 public
library building was laid the other day in
the presence of Mr.. Hughes's venerable
mother, for which 10000 volumes are as
sured.
The life of Lord Spencer at the Viceregal
Lodge, Dublin, forms almost a parallel to
that OF the emperor Of Russia. All visitors
are closely watched by armed constables
from the moment they enter the gates of the
park. Mounted policemen patrol the roads
Of the park, detectives Turk in the bushes,
and British soldiers guard the approaches
When Lord Spencer goes to Dublin Castle |
he always chooses different path from that |
followed on the previous visit. When he |
goes out for drive he is accompanied by |
1rsgoons, and the friends who may ride With |
him are warned not to start without their |
-evolvers.
Admiral Nicholson. who commands the |
American feet at Alexandria, is a man |
rather below the medium hight and of spare |
and wiry frame. He wears long sandy |
beard and his bright sharp eyes look from |
under busby eyebrows. His face has that
appearance frequently seen in men |
have lived most of their lives on the |
water, being scanned and crossed all over by |
minute wrinkles, as If the tracings of the |
charts ne has SO often studied had been /
transferred to his countenance. The admi-
rsl has the faculty of preserving his imper-
under all circumstances. At |
Inner on his flagship, the Lancaster, one
lay, Just previous to his departure for the
last fall, waiter, newly /
,hipped, went to uncork champagne bottle. |
BE cut the strings, holding the head OF the
,ottle toward the admiral. The cork few
,ut with loud "pop" and fountain of
vine spurted over the dignifed commander
# the Mediterranean fleet. The waiter was
Verified with dismay and stood holding the
,ottIe turned full upon his victim till one of
he admiral's staff told the man to turn
round, which he did, distributing what was
eft of the wine impsrtially over the rest OF
he company. The admiral did not move
MUSCLE.
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