Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-27
PERSONAL MENTION.

Pedestrian Weston is temperance lecturins
in England.
Mr.. Conkling says that lawyers are tn,
honestest class OF people.
| For five months past Senator Ben ii. Hill
of Georgia, has subsisted on liquid fooe
| alone.
There is one thing certain. We get hear
of fun out of the old junk fleet Robesor
created by calling it navy and guying it.
| ayes, sir" said the Chicago man, 81 was
| immensely popular in England. Why when
| / and the prince of Wales were travelling
aboard the same train, they gave us perfee'
ovation"
An excellent water-color portrait OF Mr.
| Alexander II. Stephens has Just been painted
from life by Mr.. Horace Bradley, of Atlanta
| Ga. 1t is OF two-thirds length, and is said to
| be vivid, vigorous and life-like in tone.
A Washington county (Pa) man jumped
| in front OF moving train TO rescue 81 bill
that he had dropped. His funeral expenses
were thereby reduced by 81, the bill being
found tightly grasped in his mutilated hand.
The London press men have determined to
establish a club TO be exclusively composed
of members of the press. Mr.. G. A. Sala is
to be president, DR.. W. III. Russell and other
well-known journalists have promised their
adhesion.
First John Bull: "Hadmiral Seymour's
the boy! Hi wouldn't give much for Harabi
wen the hadmiraps done with imp Second
]. B.: "Them's the very words Hi said me-
self this hevening. Hi 'ope the hadmiral
will bring 'ome the 'arem"
Paris paper: A father scolds his SON for
his numerous youthful errors: "Really,
father, you were once young. Did you never
frolic" "Never,n said the father, with a
Il ILL .nb 7 bod
no money, and when 1 became rich it was
too late"
Rather a funny bull was that made re-
Gently by a member of Parliament in dis
cussing the question Of trial by jury IN Ire
land. Becoming excited, he exclaimed:
"With trial by jury have / lived, and, by
the blessing of God, with trial by jury / will
die.n-London Punch.
Carlyle's "reminiscences of his Irish jour-
ney have been welcomed by a universal note
of Indignation. The most lenient critics
cannot forbear to express disgust at the dys-
peptic Scoichman's invariable sueers at
everybody who was kind and hospitable 10
him during that journey.
Colonel Charles II. Crane, assistant sur
geon- general of the army, who has been
nominated by President Arthur for the pro-
motion to which his rank entitled him, has
served more than thirty -four years in the
regular military establishment. His promo
ton puts stop 10 the rapid ascent of the
chief medical purveyor, Colonel Jedediah III.
Baxter, whom fortune has lifted over the
heads of about forty of his seniors in service
and about ninety OF his seniors in the regular
establishment.
Very few people know what narrow
escape Sir Besucham Seymour had at Alex
dria when the Europeans were massacred
there the other day, but from his own lips
the fact is correct. Both he and the French
admiral were returning to their ships, when
they found themselves stopped by a riot of
some sort. They had to leave their car
riages, and going on foot were much hustled,
and really had a very close shave of being
among the number of those who were killed.
An English and French admiral hors de
combat would have reused both nations to
some rather determined line Of action.
Lord Dufferin, who is very fond of yacht
ing, has had ihree-ton yawl sent out to him
for cruising about the upper Eosphorus. He
meditates a course of adventurous cruises
also in the Marmora, and would have COM
menced with visit TO the Princes Islands a
fortnight ago, but for the Egyptian business.
His lordship, 10 his more youthful days, paid
q yachting visit 10 the Arctic regions, and
being clever with his pencil, brought away
few sketches. His contribution 10 the Art
Society, founded this year under his presi-
dency, was one of those small pictures en-
titled the "R. Y. S. Foam at Spiizsergen."