Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-24
Personal.

John L. Raymond is In Paradise now
That is the name of new play brought out
by him last week al Louisville.
The Pcayune, in a burst of humor, an.
nounces: 1T is told that Orpbeus drew rocks
to him by the all-compellins power eff music
That is nothing. Opera artists have been
known to draw bad eggs"
The business failures for last week as re-
ported by Bradstreet, numbered 167, an in
crease over the previous week, and a decided
increase over the same week in 1881. Among
them were several of quite serious nature.
There is a tempest in teapot at one of the
fashionable clubs in Philadelphi occasioned
by member who actually brought his tailor
70 the club without permission. Such au-
daclty has never been heard of since the
landing OF Penn, and now a meeting has
been called to decide what shall be done to
the offending party.
The invitation sent 10 the Southern coy-
eruors that their States NAV be represented
at the third annual fair of the New Eugland
Manufacturers and Mechanics' Institute.
which will be held in Boston almost a year
from now, seems to meet with a cordial re-
ception, aud all the States of the South will
be represented at the Hub.
ali Prof. Verrill, of Yale College, derived
as much pleasure for himself as profit for
the nation from bis last summers vacation.
he ought 10 be invited by the United States
Fish Commission 10 spend several more vaca-
t1ens IN the same way. His paper before
the Academy of Sciences recently described
his discoveries while exploring the bottom
OF the sea from Labrador 10 Chesapeake bay.
The information he has obtained is highly
interesting to the public generally, and il
must be of much value 10 persons engaged
in the coast fisheries.
Scientific dabblers have had good deal 10
say of late about the footprints of prehis-
toric men which have been discovered ia Ne
vada. The track was about twenty-eight
inches long and could NOT have been made
by any creature smaller than a giant. All
the work that has been done in the way of
building up new Theories or knocking over
old ones now goes for nothing. Prof. Marsh,
of Yale College, at the meeting of the Ma
tional Academy OF Sciences Yesterday, gave
the result of his Investigations on this SUBJ
ject. He finds that the footprints are not
those Of men but of a gigantic species of
sloth now extinct.
The report that a cash boy in Jordan,
Marsh & Co.'s store in Boston had sud-
denly become a millionaire is corrobora-
ted. The lad in question is Thomas Loe-
man, fourteen years old. He has been
employed as cash boy for some time.
and is bright, interesting and promising
one. He is an orphan and, with a younger
brother and sister, lives with his aunt.
The parents were from New Brunswick.
but the children, il is understood, were
born in Portland. The parents left little
for the support of the children. The lads
uncle, Michael Loeman, died some time ago
in Melbourne, Australia. He was a broker.
and had amaseed very large fortune. His
will bequesthed the bulk OF his estate, 81
500, 900, to his brothers children, snd was
left il the care of trustees who live in st.
John, n. E., where the children will be sent
to be educated.
Surgeon-General Wales being represented
as enthusiastically in favor of another Arctic
expedition, a reporter of the Washington
fost called upon him on Monday with an
inquiry as to the matter. The surgeon-gen-
ersl reasoned has views from q scientific
standpoint. "We cannot learn definitely"
be said, "the origin of the storms, or the
cause OF the ocean currents, or the cause OF
many electrical phenomena, and many other
things that science ought 10 know, until we
have investigated this region. He could not
speak definitely as to future operations in
this direction so far IS the government wss
OF one thing he was positive,
however, and that was, that inves igsiion
would eaptinue az long as the human mind
= constituted as it is and the mystery of the
Earth remaipa a mystery" He closed with
he remark that he would like to take a
hand In the next expedition himself"
II is the swell thing in Paris now TO pass
the hours after midnight at Gruber's Ger
man beer saloon, drinking beer and eating
cheese. Inc fastest men Of society are TO be
zen there nightly. This beer of Gruber's