Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
Personal MENTION.

Personal MENTION.
Mr.. Matthew Arnold has written a poem
upon the late Dean Stanley, and intends to
print it in the next number of The NiHetoeHtk
Century.
Edison, the inventor, suggests that electric
lights be placed under the water from the
battery to Sandy Hook in New York harbor
so as to define the channel in the darkest
night.
NJ. Sully -Prudhomme is the youngest
member of the French Academy; he is less
than forty years old. The novelist Cherbu-
liez is the first to be admitted who is not q
native Frenchman.
After nearly a century, the heirs of Paul
Jones are about to get their rights from the
government. This tardy justice is on par
with the treatment of the suffering and starv-
ing veterans of 1872.
Boucieault says that Oscar Wilde is a
clever man, and not the ass which his ridic-
ulous posing in London society makes him
appear. His devotion to the aesthetic craze
is three-fourths assumed.
MIR. Anthony Trollope is writing new
story called kept in the Dark" Mrs. Oil
phant who, like Mr.. Trollope, seems TO have
an endless store of fiction to draw upon, is
about to print story called "Lady Jane"
Some of our esteemed contemporaries seem
to have been impressed by Mr.. Talmage's
recital of alleged instances of men being
struck dead for taking the name OF the Lord
in vain. They forget that so long as a sim
| liar fate does not overtake Mr.. Talmage those
instances count for nothing.
One of the most exquisite books an En-
glish press has ever issued is a recently pub
iished volume by Mr.. A. Tuer on BartolozzI,
the engraver. 1t not only gives an exhaust
i've history OF Bartolozzi, but also countless
/ do nj aho inf oall
ing and print sales. The illustrations
| charming copies from some OF the Italians
| most characteristics works
Ex-senator Gwin, of California, is said 10
have discovered his wife in Kentucky at the
wash-tub, as he rode up to get his dinner on
his way to Tennessee and Mississippi. She
| had splendid pair of bare arms and other
bodily charms so exasperating to Gwin that,
after he had ridden a whole day on his way
toward home, he drove back again, intro
| duced himself and proposed to marry her
| then and there.
Mr.. Julius Hawthornes new novel-which
bears the curious title of DHat-has for
motto tho couplet:
| Only the actions of the Just
Smell sweet and blossom in the Dust.
1t opens in the England of 1916, in the
days of Ranelagh and VauxhalI of small
clothes and tight breeches, of short waists
| and turbans-of the First Gentleman and
Lord Lorne, who as to children is all for
lorn, calls for wives for the Canadians. The
New York World says il is to be feared that
the governor-general, however much of an
authority he may be in point of wives, is not
an expert in children, otherwise he would
content himself in advising Euglishwomen TO
emigrate to Canada, and would leave the
matter of children to regulate itself, as it
doubtless would do in course of time.
In 1871 "Monsier Gregorie," claiming to
be seventy-one years old, nightly astonished
the good folks at Hereford by carrying seven
hundred weight with the greatest of ease and
by performing certain other extraordinary
feats. For all that he was one OF the quiet
est men and simple a child, living in
constant dread lest he should be provoked
into using his strength unprofessionally, and
afraid TO nurse his own baby lest he should
give it q fatal squeeze.
The Emperor Francis Joseph recently
visited the exhibitioa.of the Russian painter,
Vereschagin, at Vienna, who is a Nihilist
dyed in the WOOL Vereschagin not once
addressed the emperor as "Your Majesty"
but always with asimple Monsieur" Nay,
morei Twice or thrice the artist took the
eDperor's hand, and leading him up one or
the other painting pointed out certain
details, saying, "Regardez bien, Monsieur
The emperor merely smiled.
Mr.. John Anderson, weIl-knowS and
North Carolina, has gone TO Lowell, Masss-
chusetts, where he proposes TO thoroughly
learn the business OF manufacturing cotton.
Mr.. Anderson is the right road. Every
young man from the South who acquires
thorough mastership in the mechanical arts
will be worth Thousands of dollars to the
section he labors, for and will exercise more
or less influence on lis destiny.
An EDglishman named Robert Robson,
formerly a policeman and recently a day
laborer, has been declared BY the Court of
Chancery the rightful heir OF an estate
valued at 81 100000, which has remained in
the hands of the ecclesiastical commissioners
since the murder of his grandfather in 1742-
The heir, who is seventy-two years old, Is
staying at an inn in Newcastle, where he has
been driven almost 10 distraction by the
Establishments OF visitors claiming blood re-
lationship Of every degree.
Mr.. Robert Buchanan has dedicated his
strange and powerful new novel, God and The
Man. to one whose identity will probably be
easily recognized by those who remember his
bitter controversy with Mr.. Swinburne con-
corning the Ftehly School. Thus runs the
dedication:
TO Az OLD FEiEND.
would have snatch d a bay-leaf from thy brow,
Wronging the chaplet on an honored head,
In peace and charity bring thee now
A bly-hower instead
Pure as thy purpose blameless a. thy song.
r swse; t Ss ny max this ia 91 1a Se
And take the gift from me-
Mr.. Oscar Wilde, after his lecture in New
York, is going to Boston and Cambridge,
where he Is to be entertained by Mrs. J. r
Sargent. The London World pays Mr..
Wilde the compliment of carieaturing him
and printing beneath this verse:
Albeit nurtured in democracy,
And liking best that state bohemian
Where each man borrows stzpenee, and no man
Has aught but paper collars; yet see
Exactly when take liberty
Better 10 be thought one whom most abuse
Than that the world should pass in silence By.
WheIsiors Tear snnn NOV Ia my e9at'
Iie yeId 1 i sup r9und nd ny open SEo@
A nd seedy critics overflow with bile.
While with my prince, long Sykes's meal share.
President Garfield, who had a real love for
Latin letters, is 10 be mourned BY the English
University, of Cambridge, in a manner which
should placste his ghost vexed BY the brutal
tiles of the coarse farce which il going on in
J Judge Cox's court. Earl Powif, steward Of
the university, has offered The Fowls gold
medal for the best exercise in Latin bexame-
ter verse not 10 exceed one hundred lines in
length, to be open TO all undergraduates who
shall have resided not less than two terms or
be in the course of their second term OF resi-
dence On March 81, 1882, the subject being
'loys Pr0sidis GGrfeld EpioediO LugctHr."
What a pity that the proceedings Of the court
at Washington could not have been carried
on IN i1atln IN Inc GOOD olo way
Senator Bayard, as the younger generation
may not know. il akin to that dead and gone
worthy Sir Philip Francis the author OF
Juaias. Among the Senator's possessions has
been found letter addressed by Sir Philip
10 his American kinsman, Colonel tTurbott
Francis, Mr.. Bayard's great granduncle. The
Englishmsn writes 70 the Philadelphia col
onel concerning some property 10 Maryland,
Il am determined 10 keep a little freehold in
A A.
to the GaDges, but who knows whether ] may
not end my days on the banks If the OhiOg
IL gives me great comfort to reflect that L
have relatives who are honest fellows in al
most every part Of the world. In America
the name of Francis iiourishes. don't like
to think Of the quantity Of salt water be
tween Us. If IL were ciaret i would drink
my way 10 America
Yet few weeks months and the great
est military sirategist Of bis time will pass
from public life. Count Walcersee's APP
poiniment a. aliiafHs OF Count Won Moltke
was gazetted on Sunday, and IL is expected
that he viii soUn exchange the command Of
the general staff for that OF the German
army. May have regarded this high Office
a. the NATURAL inheritance OF General Blu
menihal, and there are several German
officers who are better known to fame than
Count Wzldersee. But who Of them is
strong enough to lift the sword that is fall
ing from Moltke's hands, Moitke has set
up a new standard Of gensralship. He Is,
before all things a scholar. Sixty years ago
he vaa "eloquently silent in seven languages"
In his boyhood he was known as the "com-
pendulum of military science" His lighter
attachments musical, artistic
have all been used 70 complete his education
a. leader OF men Through ms example
and influence the old school Of strategy has
passed entirely out OF view. Julius Cesar
said sha; he owed his success 20 his minor
qualities, and ii Hellmuth Won Moitke
should write his autobiography, he would