Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-31
Personal MENTION,

The Gdalois has had to ask lola to tone
down several passages in his latest novel,
Fot-Bottille. The realism was getting too
strong for even the readers of that not very
puritaical paper. lola having refused to
make any alterations in his book, the editor
OF the GattLois has, it is said, expunged sew
eral exceptionally nauseous paragraphs HIM
self.
"Now, tell me, y said the Sunday school
teacher, "did you ever, in going along the
Streets notice the drunkards lounging around
the saloon doors waiting for somebody to
treat them?" Eyes, sir, lots of them" "Well,
where will they be IN twenty years from
now" Dead" exclaimed the boys. "And
who will be the drunkards then?" "Us boysl"
shouted the unabashed. youngsters.-Lnter-
Ocean.
Auerbach was painfully affected by the
anti-Semitic agitation, and could not stop
talking about it. Paul Lindau, not long be-
fore Auerbach's death, urged him not to
make it SO much of a personal matter, but
the Hebrew novelist replied: "You cannot
really understand how it does affect US. Here
we have toiled all our life in the service of
the German spirit, only to be told at the end
by the first vagabond, Pack up your bundle
and clear out; you are not one of u.s."
To console himself for the reverses he has
lately sustained in Parliament, Gambetta is
nalism. Besides resuming the direction of
the Repubkqus Franchise, it is reported he has
bought the France and the Petit Journal. The
latter is one of the most widely circulated
papers in the world. The France has, ever
since the death of Emile de Girardin, been
one of Gambetta's bitter assailants.
Judge J. G. Knapp, OF Florida, has been
invite to prepare and read paper upon
the "Forests OF Florida" before the Ameri-
can Foresty Association, which meets in
Cincinnati on the 18th Of April. In 1867
Judge Knapp, in company with the distin-
guished botanist, Mr.. Lapham, made a re-
port to the Wisconsin Legislature on For
estry," which attracted general attention,
and which is the probable cause of this invi-
tation to the Judge, who years since became
a resident of South Florida and who is fully
competent to do the subject justice.
Mr.. Charles Macgregor, who is himself alb
sent in India, has intrusted the manuscript
of his forthcoming work on Beluchistan to
Mr.. A. n. Wollaston, for publication by
Messrs. Allen Il Co. 1t is, perhaps, not gem
orally known, the AbtenGum says, that the
gallant and distinguished quartermaster-
general of the Indian army, when returning
from Europe few years ago, took the op-
psrtunity Of exploring a route from the
Mekran coast through BeluchistaH to Sindh,
and in so doing traversed terra incoqnita to
Europeans since tue uays Oh Alexander. Inc
appearance OF his book will, therefore, be
aW aited with considerable interest.
Mr.. John Wanamaker, OF Philadelphia,
president of the Presbyterian Sunday-school
Association, has given no.
tice that he viii supply gratuitously Except
the cost Of mailing) 100 packets containing
four varieties of flower seeds to every SuH-
day-school which viii agree to make mid
summer display of flowers, with prizes, and
send a report of the results to the commit
tee. The proposition was suggested by an
experiment successfully tried last summer in
In England the cultivation
Of flowers has been recognized for several
years as a valuable ally of the Sunday-school
work, since it stimulates a pure taste, de-
velops a refining influence, and makes the
meanest homes less unattractive.