Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-25

oc;eace is q big thing. Il has ,dlscoVereo
lnst the cockroach antedated Adam Dy
great many centuries, and yet the cockrosen
has ztFer seemed like an arlstocratc ALI
NAL
Gsa Fitz Lee, Of Richmond, Va, mas
started On tour Of the South under engas
ment b deliver his lecture upon he "bstile
OF Chincellorsville" in many cities Tor the
benefit of the Southern Historical Society.
Mr. D. L. Moody has sent word by cable
10 his kieud, the Rev. George F. Pentecos',
oil Brook.yn, that there il no foundation Tor
the reports that he is sufferiog from nervous
Prostrs,ion- He is, he says, perfectly WELL
Mr.. Phoebus, who takes charge OF the
Hreenhrier White Sulphur Springs property,
u said to have made 100000 THE Eoni-
Lace al Old Point Comfort. A few years ago
mr. Phoebus was an expressman at salary
Of SO per MONTH
Another one OF the ''trHe stories" that has
oeen handed down from generation to gene
ration through school-books hiss come 10
sfitf. II is now given out that there were
10 spples in Sutherland in the days OF WI
liam Tell, and therefore he could not have
shot one of his sons head.
The Rev. Mr.. Talmsge, in one OF those
oursts OF poetic rhetoric which so sdorn his
chaste style of oratory, the other day likened
llnitiug the groom New York 10 the bride
bsookiyn." Il has certainly proved pretty
expensive piece OF symbolic jewelry.
.Dr. faimage having denounced the play
OF Rip Van Winkle as portrayed by joe JET
Ierson as having an immoral tendency, the
Rev. Mr.. Beecher attended the matinee on
Saturday. He was seen 10 weep during the
affecting portions of the play, and altogether
It was pretty good advertisement for Jei-
ferson.
Blind the library door of Tnurlow
We DIS residence hang two diplomas in
Latin comforting the title OF LII d. upon
him-homage rendered by two Distinguished
cslleges to the cabin-boy OF the Hudson, the
iourneyman," who never went to school nine
months Ii his life.
Sir Garnet Wolseley is fond, like Napoleon,
of addressing himself directly 10 the soldiers
under his command. "Now, my man." he
said, "ii you were told 20 Hghten your kit by
half pound, what would you throw away"
The Soldiers Pocket Companion" (Wolseley's
own work J, answered the man, IS he respect
fully saluted his commander.
Col. Ingersoll was advertised to lecture
IN st. Louis on Sunday evening. The papers
Of that morning printed the lecture in full,
hos anticipating the colonel. The lecture
Was an old one, &hich, had been frequently
delivered, and more than onoe printed in
full. III the papers would treat many of the
churches that way, the pulpit might be re-
formed.
The Century Magazine will print, 10 an
early number, a large part of Hawlhorne's
original notes Tor his bssthumous novel, DR..
Grimshow's Seeref. 1t is said that these hotes
constitute probably The most intimate and
most interesting revelation yet made not
merely Of Haxlhorne's method OF compost
ton, bat OF the principles KEEP. in view by
him In constructing his romances.
The death is announced at ffty-six OF Mr..
Birmingham; an Euglishmsn; who rose from
tie position of day laborer TO be the pos
eessor OF works tiitning out 10000 tons Of
rails year, and the employer of 1000 hande;
He was large real-estate owner in Eng and,
and had also a property and castle in Fl auce,
where hs had early in life been much en-
ployed uuder I.-s ste Thomas Brassey.
"Mr. Henry Irving" says London fr;;N,
recently gave 4 dinner party, at which he
invited many Professional takers and Mr..
Stanley, of Africa. The professionals each
arrived with copious assortment OF i'm
promptus Their suppressed feelings may
be imagined wheu Mr.. Stanley commenced
talking OF his travels with the soup, and
continued without ode single fash Of silence
until the party broke DIP.
Said the father of the bank cashier: "My
son caught stealing! My boy detected in
dishonesty He, the light of my life, on
VIII ose education have spen, so much care!
He has diegracea his f5mily. We are all
ruined And that my son should have done
thsl Why, old as l am, Phi bet I'd have
worked it so they'd never have found me
oull Too bad Too badn Aud, overcome
by emotion, the aged man wep'.-BostOn Post.
We're Foster, who has done so much for
the cause of Irish emigranis, and who now
in this country seeking TO do more, was in
the old days of steerage horrors most active
In trying 10 secure for the emigrants better
accommodations in the Transatlantic ships.
In order that he might learn exactly how
the steefage passei1gers we're treated he Sc
cured passage as an emigrant to this country.
He learned what life In the Storage was 10
his cost; Tor he caught the smallpox on the
voyage:
Lieut.. 4. NJ. d. Brown, of the navy, who
was so severely injured by having a whale
boat fall on him st Cadiz, while on his re-
turn home from duty with The Mediterranean
squadron, is at Washington. 10 much i'm
proved health. Twas al first thought that
if his life was saved he would never be caps-
BILE of active service sgain. His recovery
from the effects OF his injuries has, however,
been so cotsplete that be viii not SO upon
the retired list.
Mr.. Thurlow Weed, during late years, has
been milliouaire, ard he has sternly en-
forced rule that nobody should be turned
away from his doof in cant Of food or
money. The house was be sieged BY beggars
in every guise. Barrels OF sugar, potatoes
and -four were kept always open aud pack
ages generally put up; and there was a room
half full of hesps of calico, muslin, shoes
and underwear, Sometimes the handsome
house took on .he app 'srance OF country
store as line OF applicants came and went.
The.nesrest approach to the perfect style
of the Hellenic historians, says DR.. Crosby,
of New York, has been made by Gibbon,
CARLYLE and Macanlay, with whom, as his
torisns, America has vet produced no writer's
to compare. Whatever might hereafter be
written on the subject OF their study Their
great works would remain and endure for al
time. Prescott and Motley, Irving and
Hawthorne had prodpced work that America
would not willingly let die, and these cele-
brafed authors gave rich promise OF what
might be expected OF American lileraturein
future.
The death of Cardinal Sanguigni, folbw-
ing closely upon that Of Cardinal Llueh y
Garrigs, will, a. several Other members of
the Sacred College are IN very poor health,
go far toward convincing the supersttious
Romans that their proyerb about cardinals
always going in threes is not to be proved
false in this year OF grace. Ut may, however,
be questioned whether, when The deith-roll
of 1882 comes to be made Up. IL is mi found
that the mortality Of French "Imnortals"
has not been greater, absolutely and not
merely relatively, than that CT thu Roman
princes of the Church.
And now il is a Russian, Prof. Beketof,
whs is pleased TO disc1urse 10 u upon the
subject of alimentstiou. Beketef says that
Ill an is not, or ought not 10 Be, carnivorous
that meat does not tend 70 produce the
finest physical development He declares
that the finest men OF all coHntries are the
poorer peasantry, who rarely ear meat, be-
cause they cannot afford i. He also AYERS
that in those countries OF the far East where
civiIiz alton is most ancient, and popuaiion
greatest--s in India, China an1 Japan
little or no meat is eaten. Even the finest
negro races, he declares seldom eat meat,
and tne great meat-eatiag races, b. declares,
are The most savage
Cigarette smokers Rho have ben made
quite uneasy by the msny ststeuents That
have appeared in he public prisfs setting
forth the dreadful consequences alleged to
flow from the Practice, will glesa little
comfort from the very different opinlon adj
vsnced by DIR. Kissiing, of the Bremen
Board of .Healtk He says that cigarettes
are the lezsf Injurious of all tobano smok-
ing. The smoking of cigars be Believes TO
be worse from the fact that SO mucunl>oiIue
sccumulatssIn the stump and impFgnstIng
the smoke gets inhaled with il. To cigar
smokers hegives this sdvice: "To svoid all
danger, smoke . cigar not TOO thlek and
isng, dont chew the end, smoke OILY iWo-
thirds of every CIGAR and throw IL zE2y a.