Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-18
PERSONAL MENTION.

fEhSUNAL MENI1ON.
Acting Viee-President Davis is in Mort
Carolina.
General Auguste Alexandra Ducrat,
well-known French general, died at Pari
yesterday.
Oscar Wilde is at Saratoga testing tn
utility of Hathorne water as applied to in
terror decorations.
Captain Shaw, chief of the London fir
brigade, sailed Saturday for America to at
tend the convention of the fire engineers a
| Cincinnati.
The German tour of Mr.. Edwin Boot
will begin in January next. He will spesI
in English, and be supported in German b,
a German troupe.
| The Hon. Mark Alexander, the Oldest ex
| member Of Congress-he was born in 1892
| is in destitute circumstances at his home il
| Mecklenburg county, Va.
Secretary Folger says that his resemblance,
to Benjamin Franklin has more than once
been noted, and he accounts for it by the fact
| that Franklin's mother was Folger.
The toothpick boot is going out of fashion
tits said. But the broad, easy, swinging booi
| worn By vigorous men of about fifty, with
| manageable daughters, will never go out oil
fashion, young man, never. Keep out of its
reach.
At Goodwood the duke of Norfolk came
over with his duchess and large party from
Arundel castle in the old-fashioned ducal
style. The dukes cortege consisted of four
carriages, each drawn by four splendid grays
with outriders on steeds of the same color.
Colonel Arthur, OF Bolivar county, Miss,
father-in-law of General Chalmers, has been
appointed superintendent. of the government
hn in hn vanI Il
Arthur is said to be the only man in Missis-
sippi who voted for Lincoln for president in
1860.
A heart broken widower in Iowa erected a
pine slab over his wiie's grave and presented
a handsome piano to the young lady who as
so very kind to him during his sad affection.
1t seems to be the custom In Iowa to pine for
a dead wife and piano for a new ONE
Louisville C0ttrier-Journai.
Byron was in marked and extreme de-
gree Indifferent to ruins. He said on one
occasion of an Introduction proposed by Ire
lawny, that he wished to know no men under
thirty nor women beyond it. Was to some
extent Jealous of Shelley's genius; had been
startled at the evidence of dramatic power in
"The Cenci."
Philadelphia Times: ave encounter
thoughtless persons everywhere, but from
majority of them there is some escape. There
is none from loud talker. He interferes
with thought, renders it impossible to read.
and often occupies the attention of a car
load p ssengers lwith~tsividf notnIngs.
Next to an international affront these hog
isms are the most unbearable incidents Of
life"
Acting on the theory that in every house
there is skeleton in the closet, Paris swim
dler sent out number of duplicate notes to
this effect: 81 will reveal all unless you send
100f. to J. L., Poste Restante, Paris" II was
evidently good day for skeletons. At least
ten persons promptly sent the sum dem anded,
and the swindler was congratulating himself
upon having secured temporary affiuence and
prospective fortune when the police swooped
down upon him.
Shelley, when he was alone, or supposed
himself SO, would sometimes recite passages
of his own poetry; would, especially, when
out in the country, recite poems then in
course OF composition, SO as to try on his own
ear the effect of the meter and diction; was
extremely fastidious as 10 diction, thinking
that there would be always some best word
or phrase of all discoverable for any par
ticular passage, and that the fashioning of
the verse ought not to be given up until this
was attained.
Sir Garnet Wolseley, who has just gone
out to take command in Egypt, is very quick
and brisk in his ways, with trim military
appearance and great readiness of adapta-
ton to change of circumstances. He pos
sesses Napoleon's faculty of taking at
glance the measure of a man, and knowing
how best to use his ability. He has sue
ceeded in every position in which he has
been placed. Like Sir Frederick Roberts,
highlands other great general, he Is an
Irishman from near Dublin.
Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto. who has
ust returned from Rome, had formal Off
,isl presentation to the prince of Wales at a
evee in London held in behalf OF the queen
The significance of this lies in the fact that
or over 200 years no Roman Catholic pre-
ate had been presented as such at court. |
Since the days of Queen Elizabeth the court |
iress prescribed for ecclssiastics has been |
trictly black, owing to her strong aversion |
o the Roman purple, 30 it was something |
lew to see the Canadian bishop in so,tta-
eue, purple stockings, and wearing on his |
rown a purple zucchettd, and around his |
eck golden chain with cross pendant.
The late William J. Mullen, of Philadel-
his, who had long been prison agent, took
reat pride in his own good works and dis
layed it in a fantastic and ostentatious
manner. His house was filled with busts,
aintings and photographs of himself, and
ddresses Enclosed in long gilt frames. Bible
s1t5 dprOpOS OF MS WOrks, dnQ allegOrlcal |
ictures in which the old gentleman himself
lways occupies the foreground, almost con-
called the walls from view. One of these
ictures represented Apollo and Aurora ere
ealing the portrait of William J. Mullen,
le prison agent, to Fame" in the language |
the irsr-irtioc P~--ss-e -S%l--s~-.sa 1
here his body now rests covers one side OF
lie psrlor wall, and one corner of the room
occupied with a plaster cast of the tomb,
eneath which are the words: "The resting
lace of one who tried to do his duty to his
llow-men."
"Scribblers, said hotel clerk, "are among
lie many nuisances we have 10 encounter.
hey infest the resding-room and waste our
atIonery; they write all over the blotters;
lev fill waste baskets with scratched envel-
pes; they write on the walls, the door, the
ivertising books, the bills of fare and even
the bibles. The young married couples
e fond of scrawling their names. The
'ide plays with her new name as with toy
ne likes to write it and to see it written; |
Id the bridegroom, having little else to do,
lmors her. could show you fifty window
mes with names and initials scratched in
is way with diamond rings. The idiots | :
I'd vandals often leave their addresses in |
is way, and if we could prove that they
rote them we could sue for damages. /
i've seen a costly plate-glass mirror marred |
some needless scribbler's diamond ring. {
takes at least one day of each week for a | ,
rvant to scrub off as much as can be re- .
owed OF the pencilings which idle travellers | ,
scribe in various parts of the house,
szo York Sun. :