Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Vanderbilt pays s2Ol ,246 annually ior
taxes.
We pay s2e, ,7s2, 900 annually for news.
papers.
The Church OF England gives S7ss, 300 in
charity annually.
The Messiah is expected by the Mohsm-
meians this year. DO
England lost s.nuslly by the last three
crop fsiInres $3.50 01000O.
The debt Of lhe United States il less than
one-haif OF that oil Great Britain.
There are eight hundred and seveniv-f lur
Baptist churches in the State OF New York.
In Bengal ten thousand and sixty four
dsaths were caused hy snake bites last wear.
The tobacco monopoly Of Frarce yielded
lsst year to the State total OF over $50, ,000-
600
During the asst forty years the Appletons
have sold forty millions ef Webster's spell
ing books
The taxable property Of New Jer'ey is
valued at S527, ,45l ,222, an Increase OF s9 545,
y47 during the past year.
Presents for the ssvages ndispens able.
The Jeanette took out eight thousand can
dies Tor the gentle E-quimauX.
Thirteen editors, forty-six lawyers and two
hundred and forty-three printers rested in
>
The total Jewish population of the world
is seven million one hundred and eighty-nine
thousand four hundred and eighty-two.
England's imports exceed the exports more
than $500 100000. During the last three
years England has lost over s., 200, 100000.
Newfane Center, Vermont, was county
seat in 1910, with courthouse. jail, churches
and schools. Not vestige OF the town now
remains.
Ia 1881 the worlds production of iron
was twenty-one million three hundred and
eighty four thousand tons, or enough to
girdle the world six times about with rail-
road tracks.
A workman was examining hole which he
had just bored in a factory floor at New
Britain, Counectcut, when his eye was de-
stroyed by a red hot iron thrust through
from the other side.
Prof Mason says that in Edinburgh prob
ably Que soul in two thousand knows that De
Quincy lived there or is buried there, ami
tina. Of the one hundred who are acquainted
with the fact ninety-nin. are Indifferent TO it.
The laborers living in the small town OF
Pennomene, near Panama, and working on
the De Lssseps canal, refused to be vac
cinstel. During the pas: three months up
ward OF one thousand d. aths have taken
place there from smallpox.
Subscriptions to the Carlyle memorial fund
have reached about $500, and it is hoped
that this sum will yet be increased to $500,
in order that the committee may carry out its
design of placing on the Chelsea embank-
nient a bronze statue OF the Chelsea sage by
Mr.. Boebm.
In 1776 there were thirty seven periodicals
published in this country; now there are
nine Thousand seven hundred and twenty
three, Of which seven thousand five hundred
aud ninety are weeklies, eight hundred and
sixty-eight monthly and eight hundred and
forty three daily.
Speaking of something connected with
funerals which ought 10 be reformed, Bishop
Clark, of Rhode Island says: 81 think the
exhibition OF the worn and pallid features of
the dead to the gaze of the curious aud I'M
sympathizing crowd is another custom that
is decided out OF place"
In small grove which adjoins the Schen-
berger residence near Cincinnati, an army of
crows take shelter every night. They as
sembIe by thousands an hour before dark,
and an old man living near the place says
that TO his personal knowledge the same
grove has been their dormitory for sixty
years.
In San Francisco men OF science and the
gaping thropg have been alike interested of
late in examining an angel fish caught by
Italian fishermen twenty miles outside of
the Farallone islands II is the first of the
species ever seen in San Francisco, and a
bandsome specimen, its wing-like fms, from
which its name is taken, measuring two feet
from tip TO tip.