Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-26
FOREIGN PERSONALS.

FOREIGN PERSONALS.
Iolanthe, Sullivan & Gilbert's new opera.
will be produced tomorrow at the SAVOY
Theater.
new play at the Princess Theater, Silrer
King, by Henry Jones Herman, proves 10
be among the most skillful and successful of
modern dramas.
Mr.. Trollope gains slowly, the trouble
some symptoms of the brain continuing.
His physicians expect that he will be able to
be moved from the hotel on Monday.
At Highland gathering the company
were scandalized at the impertinence of
gentleman" in trying to kiss a married lady
OF rank at the beginning Of public ball.
Herbert Spencsr's voyage inthe Germsnia
seems to have had favorable effect upon
him, as he telegraphs back to his friends
from Queenstown that he is much better.
Lord Marlborough, who recently registered
his colors, is geing into racing in a quiet
way, having purchased the steeplechaser
Montaukan and couple of yearlings, which
are in training at Newmarket.
American gall antry is greatly praised here
just now. London did much for Mrs. Lang
| try, but did not think of burning a theater
| to celebrate her debut. Englishmen own
themselves overmatched and sadly wanting
in Imagination.
More copyright letters appear in the
AnfhcnGum. One is from Clark Russell
evadipg explanation; another is from Samp-
son Low, defending the Harpers for reprint
| ing the Caroline Fox letters and alleging
that they were authorized by Lippincott,
who had paid the English publishers.
Sarah Bsrnhsrdt has changed since her
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her o'clock teas of ante-nuptial days. It
is droll to hear some of those old magistrates
| and martial veterans lamening their altered
LOT. "Dandta," they say, "Damad est tres
bien mdis tres bien! II a une teaue iyreproach-
able. Mas, uous sarez, &c a'es plus notre
SarahP'
Everybody is happy to know that "Fredn
Archer is completely above the world, and
has, from his own investments, or rather
those which Lord Falmouth has oounseled
him to make, an independent income which
would enable him to retire tomorrow and
live handsomely ever after. The famous
jockeys marriage with pretty Miss Nellie
Dawson will take place about Christma as The
new house for the happy pair is nearly in
ished.
Few successful generals have enjoyed the
penetr rating pleasure which was given 10 Sir
Garnet Wolseley the other day at Balmoral,
or OF proposing his health, at her own dinner
table, in kind and warm and charminsly
chosen words. Sir GArnet's return for the
queeniy compliment was to couple with his
thanks the proposal of the Duke of Con-
naught's health. This added to the delight
OF the queen, who has the name of her sol
der son very near at heart.
A royal trip to Balmoral and back by
special trains, pilot engines, etc, included,
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| family have saloon carriages provided and
travel by an ordinary train at first.class
| fares. From Aberdeen to Ballater there is
| special train, known as "the queens train"
| during her majesty's residence at BalmoraI
Queen's messengers and cabinet ministers on
duty travel by this train. The intervening
distance from Ballstsr 10 Balmoral is posted,
as the rail, BY special desire, goes no fur
| ther.
No respecters OF persons, not even Of the
| sovereign pontiff, are the fuuctionaries OF the
Italian government. Not long ago the ten
| ssts on a certain estate refused to pay 10 the
state certain extraordinary taxes, wherein pom
execution was issued sgainst the property
and notice thereof was addressed to the
owner. Now the owner was the Pope him.
self, and so the notice was m ade out in strict
legal form +" To Citizen Joachim Pecci; by
trade or profession, pope; conducting bust
Rome" His holiness atonce paid the taxes
aud obtained therefor receipt, reading:
Received of Citizen Joachim Pecci," etc.
A hidden treasure recently brought 10
light in the demolition of an old house
in the Rue Vielle du Temple, Paris,
turns out 10 be of great value. No
fewer than 1922 gold pieces, intrinsically
worth more than, $4,000, were found in a
copper jar. The coins bear The superscrip-
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laume de Beauregard, Guillaume de la
Gsrde, Raymond III, and several other local
rulers, aud some of them are exceedingly
rare. The two workmen who unearthed the
vase were, according 10 the French law of
treasure trove, entitled to half the value of
the coins, which was st once paid them by
the proprietors of the house.
A New Mexico correspondent of the New
York World asksi "Have you ever smoked
Chinese tobacco? II not, be careful how you
do. A single pipe of it-and Chinese pipes
smoker. For myself, csn hardly believe it
is tobacco, for it feels in the hand of silky
texture, utterly unlike any tobacco 1 ever
sswswhile the smell of it and The taste on
the tongue are as different 10 the bueha
ya6d as possible. 1t is imported by the
Chinese into America for their own consump-
ton, and in spite of duties is exceedingly
cheap. A single saif of it, by the way,
completely explains that heavy, Supplying
odor which hangs about Chinese quarters
and Chinese persons"
Sugar" who has gone to Egypt is a de-
scendant OF family or firm not appertain-
ing exactly to the noblesse fnaacieye, but
rather to the "Will Watch" genus 1t was
great smuggling house in the old days be-
fore free trade, perfectly respectable in the
city, but with a wonderful organization down
the river and around the coast for running
cargoes of silk, lace and other things then
worth smuggling. The firm was found out
once and fined f40, 600. On being asked if
he would like any reasonable time to pay
the enormous fine in, the head of the firm
said, proudly, The firm of Candy & Co. re-
quire no credit" and paid up at once. He
retired from the concern with an immense
fortune, and the firm, after going on into
into liquidation.
Tney say Lord Fife is going to get mar
ried, and TO a charming and accomplished
young lady, an excellent draughtswomsn
and sculptures, and grandniece to the queen,
the Countess Fsodor Gleichen. 1t will be
recollected that the queens mother was q
widow when she married, and that the Ho-
henlohe Langenburger and Leininger are
thus connections of the British royal family.
Count Gleichen, the father of Princess Fe-
odor, is an admiral in the English navy.
Lord Fife Is one of the richest men in Scot
land in real available cash. His rests, duly
paid, amount to $4,000 or $4,000 per an
mum. He is Of royal blood in the indirect
line, his mother having been a descendant of
William " and Mrs. Jordan, the famous
actress, whose "Rosalind" in As You Like Il
was celebrated impersonation. He is also
descended on his fathers side, and at longer
range, fem Macduf, the Thane of Fife, is
the head of the Dufs, and great favorite of
the queen and all her children, W ho visit him
at Mar Lodge. So great favorite is he that
although he is single man the Princess of
Wales danced at his ball at his house in