Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-30
PERSONAL MENTION.

Senator Ben Hill finished writing his viii
on Friday.
. The London Court Journal calls on tn,
Salvation Army to go out and convert MOODY
and Sankey.
The announcement ic made of the engage
nent in marriage of William Henry Hurl
bert, the editor of the New York World, anc
Mrs. Mary Neal Sherwood, of Portland, Me
They have found himi The E1reks
Leader, of Eureka, Eureka county, New, j;
published by the auburn-haired James E
Anderson, who is we'll remembered in New
Orleans for his little Ratchet principles and
habits and his brilliant complexion.
1 The following saying of the late Sir Henry
Turk, is good: "When the Turk does any,
thing, consider what is the reasonable,
straightforward Interpretation TO place on
| that act. Then eliminate absolutely til It
conclusion. Any other may be possible; but
that certainly will not be-"
Sir Michael Costa has recovered partially
from his illness. He will be able to conduct
| the orchestra at the Birmingham Festival,
which will begin on Tuesday, August 10Th,
and last four days. The works. to be pro-
duced at The festival are Mendelssohn's
Elijah, Gounod's Redemption, The Messiah, and
Gounod's new oratorio, The Mount Of Olives.
Mr.. CoIliss, of Wade Plantation, Me-, an
old gentleman seventy-fiye years of age,
hunted down and shot bear recently in
Perham, whose skin measured seven and
half feet from snout to hip, and five and
half feet across the narrowest part, and whose
carcass WAS larger than 4 good-sized two
year-old heller. Mr.. Corliss has hunted
bears ever since he was seventeen years old,
and has killed over 100.
Dervish Pasha, who represents the sultan
in Egypt. is at once the most vigorous and
inscriptions of all the generals of the Otto
man army. Although he is now seventy
years old, he is quite as capable Of ordering
a massacre of the Mamelukes as was Mo-
hemet Ali himself. He speaks nothing but
Turkish, and brought two drsgomans with
him TO Egypt, one Arab and one French.
NJ. Gihard, the well-known Partisan in
ventor, lately deceased, left to the French |
government a generous legacy, under most |
singular conditions. 1t is to be devoted 10 |
the establishment of suicidaria, or public /
institutions in which persons suffering from
paInfuis ana incHrabfe diseases may bring I
their own lives to an end, under the direc-
ton of medical experts, and-with the con-
sent OF their immediate relatives.
Some years ago the prince of Wales went
night after night to the same small boulevard
theater in Paris. In the course of the piece |
Dupuis, the inimitable Belgian comic actor,
propounded a riddle. The prince of Wales
got in the habit of giving the answer TO it in
an audible whisper, snd The actor of address
ing the question to him. On one occasion
The princely box was vacant, and at the usual
Dupuis, gravely turning away from
IT, observed to the public, "As my royal
,omrade lie not here tonight / must give you |
he answer myself"
Mr.. Belt, the sculptor whose libel suit has
'Icited such sensation in London, is declared ,
o be the beau ideal of the modern type of {
lrtiHt. He wears his hair floating in grace
ul curves over his cost-collar. His waist
oat is of checolaie-colored velvet, and his
cart OF crimson silk. He stated himself to
e thirty-one years old, put looks older, and
as an honest face He had been, he said, i,
Messenger TO Spottiswood, the printer, and
lille he occupied that microscopic position
e had carved with nail a mans head upon
stone he had picked up near the Houses of
arliament. This head attracted the atten-
on of gentleman who induced the great o
.ulptor Foley to take him as assistant. q