Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Many Russian Jews are settling in Missis
sippi.
: Twelve presidential aspirants have alread
been heard of from Ohio.
Albany, New York, young men Spend
S6540 weekly for cigarettes.
1t will require S., 900 to transport Jew
from Russia to this country.
Colored men edit one hundred and fourteen
papers in the United States.
There were seventy-seven free passes oil
the Spuyten Duyvil wrecked train.
Seven thousand five hundred dollars are
daily paid for drinks in Kansas City.
By the late riot in Warsaw. Russia, tel
thousand people were financially ruined
Louisiana has seventeen million five hun.
dred thousand acres OF virgin forest land.
There are eight hundred and forty-fve
thousand people employed in the Lyons silk
trade.
Covington, Kentucky, has one hundred
| and thirty-four saloons and thirty-four
churches.
During three months last fall thirty-one
million American bivalves disappeared down
English throats.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
| operates three hundred and fifty thousand
miles of wires.
The Oldest member OF the British house of
commons is eighty three, and the youngest
twenty-three.
Missouri promises to make seventy million
pounds Of butter and thirty million pounds
of cheese this year.
The cotton crop of Arkansas is claimed to
have greater money value than the wheat
crop OF Minnesota.
One mandatory of playing cards in st.
Petersburg is said to produce twenty-four
thousand packs daily.
The report of the commissioner of patents
shows that the receipts for the year exceeded
the expenditures by $24S, 1872 81.
A few years ago Columbus, Mississippi,
invested 100000 in q cotton factory, and
now the capital amounts to 81 100000.
The whole revenue of Bavaria from vari-
Gus sources for 1881 amounted to 1885,
3S1. 1t is half the size of the State of New
York.
Two miners found nugget of gold in the
bed of Kaugha creek, California, the other
day, which they sold at Sacramento for
$2S, 4SO.
1t is estimated that 81 100000 worth of
tobacco stamps will be sold at Durham,
North Carolina during the year ending June
l, 1882.
The largest printing establishment in the
world Is that at Washington. Between
twenty-five hundred and three thousand per-
sons are employed.
Portland Maine claims to have more tel
ephones in proportion to population than
any other city in the world. There is one to
every sixty persons.
Great Britain employs in underground
operations no fewer than 37S,l5l persons,
and the length of the galleries where mining
is carried on is 5S,744 miles.
Tia %
houses on January LIST was seventy-three
million eight hundred and six Thousand nine
hundred and fourteen taxable gallons.
A Vermont farmer yearly fattens thirty
five hundred turkeys, twentv-seven hundred
geese aud twenty-one hundred ducks. One
lot OF his poultry last year brought SIC 500.
At Christmas eve service in Uvarre,
in Spain, a pack Of wolves entered the
church, and did not quit it till they killed
three and seriously wounded FIVE of the con-
gregation.
OF ten children born in Norway a little
over seven reach their twentieth year; in
England and the United States somewhat
less than seven reach that age; in France
five, and in Ireland less than FIVE.
A couple were married near Pittsboro,
North Carolina, recently under peculiar cir
cumstances. The bride and groom sat In a
buggy, and the justice of the peace who Off
cated sal astride his mule during the mar.
riage ceremony.
An economical woman at Andover, Massa-
chusetts committed suicide by gnawing the |
phosphorus from matches and drinking |
pint OF ink. She not only saved money by
SO doing, but had the fun of seeing how the |
stuff worked on a human beings vitals.
The Japanese letter postage is txo cents a |
quarter ounce, which, owing to the thinness |
OF their paper, is equivalent as far as the |
amount of writing is concerned, to our one |
half ounce. On newspapers, the postage is |
one cent. The Japs are ahead of Us in cheap |
letter postage.