Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-13
Personal MENTION.

Cetewayo visits Queen Victoria tomorrow.
The czsr OF Russia has dispensed with bis
escort while driving and walking.
The official returns Of the census of France
shows population of 37,672,04S.
General Sir Garnet Wolsely has arrived at
Malta, en- route to Alexandra. He is quite
well.
Henry Ward Beecher will lecture in LON
don next season, under the management of
Major Bond.
A Wisconsin pauper, eighty years OF age,
has just paralyzed the community by marry
iug giddy young female of twenty-five.
Next we shall have a coat-tail filtration
code. Having the tails covered with mud
will mean: Il don't like her father."-Bos-
ton Pot
Oscar Wilde is very sincere in bis admira-
ton for lovely women. He gave his photo
graph TO young lady in Montgomery. sd-
dressed in his own handwriting on the back /:
40 the most beautiful flower in the South D
He was struck the same way in Memphis.
where he met another most beautiful iady
he ever saw.
Strange 10 say, no memorial OF any Kind
has ever yet been erected TO Samuel Pepys
the famous diarisf, in the Church Of 81.
Olave's, London, with which he YVES SO init
mately connected, and in which he was
buried. But a committee has now been
formed TO raise funds for building a suitable
monument, and it is expected that a large
sum will be obtained.
A gentleman attached 10 the suite OF the
king of Greece had dog Of which be was
very fond. On voyaging 10 a steamer one
day, the animal, who was with him. fell
overheard. The captain, on being asked to
stop the vessel, declined 10 do so, being under
a penalty 10 complete the voyage by a GER
tam time, and not at liberty to arrest liz
Progress for any casualty short of that of
maR overheard. "You will stop then for me.
OF course" said the gentleman, and at once
plunged into the sea. A boat was lowered i'm
mediately, and the dog and Its adventurous
owner were both rescued
There is something 10 Dickens, when he
abandons his part Of humorist to play that
Of spiritual purifier, which il to our mind
beyond measure reoellaut. More than seIf-
confident, at once snowy and shabby in his
moral makeup, at once proud of his spirit-
ual functions and without even an incidental
fash of that self suspicion ana self-disirist
which could alone have enabled him to fulfil
them, Dickens always forces on our minds,
in these moods Of his, the memory of the
rebuke 10 those who were 20 anxious 10 take
the mote out of their brothers eve before
they had qualified themselves to see clearly
by taking the beam out of their own eve
London Spectator.
Probably a good many people, says the
Saturday Rerier, have asked for ''bavaroisen
in Psris, without troubling their heads about
the origin OF the term, with any more at
least, than a momeuiary wonder. From
Dickens Dictionary 4 Paris we learn that
when the Bayarisu princes came 10 Paris
in the early part of the last century. thew
went frequently to the Cafe Procope. and
asked that their coffee or their chocolate
might be brought 10 them in glass. and
til at maidenhair syrup might be used instead
of sugar This they did frequently, and in
duced others TO follow their example, 30
that coffee, chocolate, or tea go served came
20 be called q 'bavsroise,' because the Baya-
rian princes had invented the mode.D
George o. Barnes, the evangelist, concern
ing whom 90 much is being said at present,
held series of proiracted meetings in the
Third Presbyteriau church Of Elizabeth. n.
J., in the winter of 1876, after the Rev. Mr..
Read had resigned his position TO accept the
call of a church in Bennington, VT. Mr..
Barnes was at that time plymouth broth
en-" and succeeded in nearly dividing the
church. In fact, many OF It's members did
leave it, thinking that all organized churches
are "the work Of the Evil One" During the
psstorafe Of the Rev. e c. Ray, which be-
gan in the spring Of 1876, most of The fol-
lowers OF Nj. Barres's teaching returned 10
their old belief and place OF worship, bat
the bitter feeling then engendsred has not
fully disappeared.