Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-19
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General Banks says the United States and
Russia will eventually be the great powers.
| Vanderbilt will use Maud s. as a road
| horse, and she will never again trot against
| time.
Theodore Whitelaw Reed, it is said, has
been rendered a cripple for life by an attack
OF rheumatism.
John Sherman may not suffer the torments
OF hell, hut he knows something OF the bot
tomless Pitney.
General Tom Thumb celebrated the inc
tenth anniversary of his marriage by
dinner in St. Louis on Friday evening | asst.
At sa loon fight IN Milwaukee the other
evening three ex-district attorneys and an
alderman participated, besides some "promi-
nent citizens"
The Rev. Seah Merrill is to be sent to Je-
rusalem as United States consul. His prin-
cipal duties will be 10 aid American tourists
who fall among local thieves.
Barnum has lived seventy-two years, and
wants 10 live seventy-two years longer The
fact that there will be no circuses in the next
world appears to have discouraged the vet
eran Snowman.
Patience is dangerous. a young gentleman
sung "Grosvenor's" proposal to the milk
maid; there were several witnesses as the fair
damsel fell into his arms. He, now has a
The San Francisco hoodlum still exists.
But he has given up the yellow peg-top
trousers and pulled back hair. The stiff
brimmed hat rem aims with his swagger; but
he now wears short coat with wide braid
and wide trousers with great hange at the
bottoms.
w. Clark Russell, the sea novelist, is an
American by birth. His father was Henry
Russell, the inimitable singer and composer
If
Eliza Cooks 81 Love the Free" Epes Sar-
gents "a Life on the Ocean Wave" Dick
ens's ivy Green" and Morris's "Woodman,
Spare that Tree"
DIR. A. G. Burnell, the eminent Sanskrit
scholar, has decided to retire from the
Madras civil service. His health will not
permit him TO return to India, even for the
three years that would qualify him for a
full pension.
"Organize, then, you horny listed sons of
toll, for self-protection," is still the burden
of Denis Kearney's Sunday sermons at the
San Francisco saudlot. But the horny-fsted
don't organize worth cent, and "lecherous
bondholders" still flourish.
One of the recalled Chinese students, in
letter to an American friend, says: "The !
first two weeks we had pretty tough time |
of it. The officials thought We all had our |
cues cut off and had Yankee wives and all |
were perfect barbarians."
Major Ben Perley Poore is thus impre ssed:
The chief magistrate is restoring some of
the traditional decorum and dignity which |
appertain to the office of president. He |
does not, when an acquaintance enters the
room, rush up to him, throw his arms around
him and exclaim: my dear fellow, what can
do for you?" but when he makes promise
it is religiously performed, and not forgotten
the next moment afterward.
Ex-senator Thurman, who has been in
New York City several days a member of
the railway advisory commission, is very
careful OF his health, and takes a nap each
afternoon. Like his friend, Ex-senator
Conkling, he says he has retired from pol
itics and is industriousy attending to his
law practice. lie thinks it would be hard
work to make correct guess as to the next
Democratic candidate for the presidency He
is not, he says, a candidate
Dear Oscar writes to his London friends
in terms of positive satisfaction with his
American trip. His disappointment with
the Atlantic ocean seems not to have ex-
tended to the New World beyond it, for he
is "overpowertd with invitations to enter
tainments specially got up in his behalf"
These entertainme nts are "Of a magnificent
and difference is paid to his
delicate tastes by rare profusion of flowers"
which is touchingly too too.
The backbter Of the Boston SATURDAY. Ga
zette ia re sponsible for the following: Oscar,
the Widely Bea Itiful, Is accused of carving |
about other marks of genius besides his long
and bushy cteUeiJ,re Certain fastidious OBJ
servers who have done this unhappy se,thete
On both sides, apparently, have discovered
these dark and unpleasant indications in his
inger-nails and else here, and, what is worse,
do not hesitate to chill their gushing friends
by telling of what they saw"
William p. Ridgeway, of San Francisco.
fell in love with the Widow Forbes, and en- .
gagged to marry her. He was about seventy
years old, and had an affection Of the heart, |
besides being a sufferer from paralysis His
physicians assured him that marriage would ;
De speedily followed by death. Unwilling to {
AXE the RISK, he broke his promise. These :
acts were presented in his defense to a suit
or damages, bat the jury did not deem them .
material, and gave the widow a verdict OF |
5000. :
The Brooklyn Eag'e perpetrates this out ]
rage: This man Is a temperance lecturer
He seems sleepy. 1t is l o'clock in the
nerning. Why doesn't he take off his clothes I
and go to bed? Perhaps he il paralyzed. :
Two friends have just left him. One OF them '
: sitting on the front stoop and the other is
.liDging to a tree box. They belong to the :
Teetotal Brotherhood of E5enez=r. Will the c
land that fed Elijah be stretched forth to c
protect them from the night air? Very c
likely, policeman is coming round the cor c
Ter, and the stationhouse Is not far off," L
Kaiser WilheluI has been prompt in re- |
urning the compliment which was conferred
lpon him few months ago by the sultan {
II Turkey. The fultan invested him with T
he distinguished order of the Nichani- v
mtiaz, and in return i 10 receive the Black 7
eagle, an order which ranks with the British :
J arter. Special ENJOYS left Berlin fort z
light ago to present this honor, their rank c
,eing the same as that of the ENJOYS whom
he sultan dispatched 10 Berlin. Each is a =
arge man, Of fine, soldierly bearing and i'm L
'ressive appearance-qualitie which appear
0 have been desired in the ENJOYS in order I
hat the oriental mind might thus be made t
uly conscious OF the power and splendor OF y