Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-23
personal MENTION.

Some of Gladstone's unpopularity arises
from the fact that his pantaloons are too
short.
King Cetewayo eats three pounds of beef
daily, and conducts himself says the London
World, like ''gormandiziug black savage"
The sting OF the bee is only one-thirty-
second of an inch long. 1t is your imag-
ination that makes it seem long as hoe
handle.
"The brightest intellects suffer mos" says
the heading of patent medicine advertise
ment. This will bring on a big alarm
among the paragrsphers.
Mr.. Walter, the proprietor of the London
Times, has suppressed the life of the great
editor of the paper, Delane, which Sir George
parent has been preparing.
John T. Raymond, when asked by New
York reporter why he looked so sad, replied
that he was sorrowing because he must leave
his wife and part with his mustache to strut
the September stage.
At Virginia watering place gentleman
asked another who was sitting near him
three questions concerning sulphur water,
and he discovered that he had been consult
ing the resident physician when The received
a bill for SIS.
The Southern Young man has frequently
and unjustIy been criticised for not having
the gumpiion OF his forefsthers. Bot here
is an Augusta youth who, having had twenty
five cents left AFTER purchasing ball tickets,
took his lady love TO an ice-cream saloon and
said to the waiter, "One plate; I've had
mine"
General Spinner is fishing in Florida with
great success. He bats his signature, and
the fish that can Distinguish it from the
writhingest kind OF a worm has to be an ex-
pert of many years standing. AT Mayport the
other day the general rushed into the sea and
beat off a number of fharks that were at
lacking a saw. fish. The latter, which was
caught, was fifteen feet long.
Isaih Rynders, veteran New York Demo
crat, is quoted as saying: 81 an an old
man, and shall be in my grave before many
years. But if Pm dead in 1884, aud a
Democrat is elected president of the United
States, want you to come TO my grave and
beat big bass drum. Ii you will do that
I'll kick off the lid of my coffin and give
three cheers for the Democratic party"
An eccentric old gentlem an who had mar
ried his second wife, a hoydenish young
creature, entertained party of gentlemen
one afternoon, and was much chagrined by
the uou-appearance of his girlish spouse.
Upon ipquiring he ascertzined that she was
in the garden, and thereupon invited his
guests out to be introduced TO her. AS they
rose to accept the invitation his son, a lad OF
fourteen, exclaimed: "Don't do it, dad"
"Why not?" he asked angrily. because"
returned the boy, half spologetically, "she's
up cherry tree"
The extravaganza of the Russian Grand
Duke Nikolai Nikolayevitcb, commander OF
the army of the Danube in the late Russo
Turkish war, is such that the car, his
nephew, has adopted strenuous measures 10 1
keep him from occurring further debts. The
nd duka can only disposa nf his salary
field marshal, the 10000 r. due him an |
nually as Russian grand duke being con- |
fscated by The emperor, who employs. the |
money in deiraying his uncle's household |
expenses and satisfying his creditors. The |
ear himself is extremely economical