Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-20

skin the Aforesaid snobs.
The sublimity of impotence has been OBJ
| tanned by Mr.. Oscar Wilde in writing or saw
| ing 10 the New York Sun that in his opinion
| "a most serious problem for the American
| people TO consider is the cultivation of better
manners OF its people," This isn't very
| good English 10 be written by an Euglish-
men who sets himself up for critic
Boys in town and country, learn trade.
| 1t will be your eurett and best friend through
life Parents in whatever else you come
short, don't fail to see to this matter. You
| will be insuring the happiness and comfort
OF your sons, the welfare of those who come
after them, and dIscharging a solemn duty
you owe 10 society and the country.
John Schinsky, OF Kentucky, is steady
| knitter. From dawn until bedtime he
knits- He frequently gets up in the night
10 kni: for an hour 50. AS he passes
along the street bis knitting-needles are in
| rapid motion and while he is shopping their
| work does not cease. There is a good deal
| OF yarn about this knitting, but the story is
true.
Henry james, j., has written for the
Century Magazine, TO be published early in
the coming volume, a sketch called "The
| Point oil View" series of eight letters con-
corning America, its people, society, manners,
| politics, railways, ETC., chiefly IN contrast
with the same features of European life. the
| whole lightly strung on thread OF fictitious
Characterization.
The Rev. Mr.. Lausdell, an English
| clergyman who started several weeks ago
from st. Petersburg on a missionary tour
in Siberia, was arrssed and brought back,
the police having taken the Bibles he dis
| tributed for nihiiist literature. After some
considerable difficulty, however, the reverend
| gentleman freed himself.
Mr.. Lot, who accompanies Herbert Spen-
Ger on his visit to this country, told Buffalo
| Courier reporter on Saturday that instead of
| getting better Mr.. Spencer has grown worse
| His trouble is in the nature of insomnia
He is not able 10 sleep, except by fts and
starts. Night alter night he losses about
and the day comes only to fnd him more ia
| tgued than whom he retired.
| Elk Postmaster General james was asked
about the Starroute affair, and he would not
| talk; said he was out of politics, wss not
candidate for governor, and 81 would rather
remain president of the Lincoln Bank than
be governor of the State. am content where
| / am" Mr.. lanes evidently confounds steal
ing with politics. Should the Lincoln Bank
be robbed, he will be expected TO say nothing
] about il, because he is out of politics.
The Rev. Granville Moody, of Ohio, popu-
| larry known as "ihe fighting parson, has re-
| quested the Methodist Episcopal Conference
to place him on the superannuated list He
| takes this step because of failing health and
strength, caused by disease contracted in
the army, from which he has never recovered
! fully. He has been engaged in active minis.
| terial work for more than half century, and
| proposes 10 spend the rest Of his life in re-
| tirement in Iowa.
| Colonel Henry Clayton, who was last week
| appointed major and paymaster of the
United States army, is native of Delaware,
but resident of Maryland. He served in a
Maryland regiment during the rebellion, and
| after the war was appointed captain in the
Nineteenth United States Infantry to date
July %, 1866. He was transferred to the
Seventeenth Infantry in 1869, and resigned
| from the army on December 81, 1873. He is
married to a daughter of Ex-Attorney-Gen-
eral Jere S. Black.
Moutrose Pallep, long the surgeon-in. chief
of Earl Van Dorn's army, came back from
Europe last week, being one of the nu-
merous Southern men who have Dsde-1
professional footholds for themselves in New
York. Another 10 DIR. Ooldth waite, nephew
| OF the late Alabama senator OF that name,
The family originating in Boston, who has the
Fifth Avenue Hotel practice. These and
other young Southern men possess an exec
| utive manner that is half of faith, which is
| three-iourths of medicine
Mr.. Swinburne contemplates tour in the
United States. Mr.. Swinburne is poet OF
the feshiest OF the fesby schools. His
poetry breaihes OF passion and his breath
reeks of gin. As he gets drunk with becom-
ing regularity, be is a rather more interest
ing il not more amusing figure than the lack
adaisical Wilde. American whisky drunk
on its native heath will doubtless inspire his
muse TO new flights of sensuous verse. He
will, of course, be we'll received in this coun.
try, where his poetry has many admirers,
and where conyiyiaIity is not altogether I'M
known.
"a young, staggering, highly dressed,
drinking, Boosting, sassy, brassy, impudent,
swindling, lying, daredevil, insinuating,
palavering, swearing, cheeky, mean, loud
appearing, hypocritical, defiant sneak, hail
ing from Boston," is New Hampshire
papers comprehensive characterization of a
man who tried to run away from Granite
State summer resort without settling his
bills. II is evident that New England
journalists do not propose to yield to the
West without struggle the palm Of ability
in exhaustius vocabularies; bst what has
Boston to say about the last clause of the
indictment?
The cable announces the death of Sir
James Anderson, MD, DEL, FRS, ply
stefan extraordinary TO the queen. Sir James
was born in Hull, and was graduated at
Cambridge in 1922 He was afterward made
fellow of Pembroke College. and finished
his medical studies at Oxford in 1929. He
sOOu dCQuIcU very 4tcuslfc pTdCtlCt III
London, and was elected president OF the
Royal College OF Physicians in 1867, posi-
ton which he held for four years. He was
knighted in 1869, and received the honorary
degree of Del. from Oxford in 1870. In |
August, 1875, he received his appointment as
physician extraordinary to the queen.
DR.. Norvin Green. retirement from the |
presidency of the Western Union SUCCESS |
that several other doctors have been eminent |
ralv III 10 H. h.
vented the Metropolitan Elevated structure;
DIR. Durani, who projected the Union Pacific |
Railroad; Dr. Hilbert, who invented vulcan |
lied pavements and Or. Miller, who sits on |
the Supreme bench at Washington. Norvin |
Green. one OF the early enthusiasts for tele- |
graphy, retained the genial ways of the
country doctor in his increasing interests and |
responsibilities, and he was one of the few
men down town who could laugh like an old |
boy, rejoicingly-
In this time OF anti-Jewish agitation In
Germany and Russia, The students al the
University OF Berlin have been much taken
aback 10 learn, at a distribution of univer-
sity prizes, that the only answer TO diff
cult question submitted BY the medical
faculty as a subject for an essay has been
written by young Russian Jew, a native of
Odessa and son Of the editor of journal |
published in Hebrew in 81. Petersburg. The
oddly OF the fact that while the Jews of
Germany and Russia were being abused on
every hand, and the deprivation of their
civil rights demanded, the medical essay
prize at the leading university of Germany
should go to Jew by default created some
laughter in the German capital
Under monument in Westminster Abbey
is inscribed: This marble perpetu ates the
memory of Lieutenant-General John Guest,
who closed a service ofsixty years by faith
fully defending Edinburgh Castle against
the rebels ia I745" General Guest COM
menccd life as hostler TO the postmaster of Il
Borough Bridge, Yorkshire, but SO far from
being ashamed of his antecedents or being
anxious to conceal them, it was his kindly
custom TO send the first slice of meat from
his table to the sentinels at his gate, be-
cause he remembered the day when he was
himself sentinel, and how his mouth wa
tered at the savory odors which reached him
when on guard. How much envy and ill.,
feeling would be avoided in thousands Of |
cases were the sentiments which inspired
this kind-hearted soldier more common.
Certainly there is an air of romance and
of tragedy about the story of Dhuleep Singh,
who, 1t is announced, intends now to seek
election to the British House OF Commons.
He began life as the maharsjah of the pun
jab, possessor of he kohinoor and other al
most boundiess wealth. After ruinous wars
and equally ruinous treaties, he now bids
fair 10 close his career in the position of
squire of Eiveden, quiet English country |
gentleman, without the kohinoor, or any of
of his former vast possessions, save an an
nuity from the government of $125,000,
which, by his luxurious habits, he has al |
ready reduced to 900 per annum. True, ,
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