Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-17

of any actors or dancers on the stages of the
theaters whose dresses have not previously
been rendered incombustible by means OF
chlorate OF lime, is forbidden by police
| orders.
| The people of the Black Hills intend to
| give bonds for 100000 to the first railroad
| which makes its advent at Deadwood.
The London Times announces on good au-
| thority that the government has decided to
| buy up the telephone companies in Great
Britain.
A decree OF the khedive forbids italian in
| official documents. French, therefore, will
remain the only current European Language
in Egypt.
About eighty thousand acres of land be-
| tween Jaffa and Jerusalem have been secured
| on which to form a colony for the prosecuted
Jews of Europe.
The ice at the base of the Yosemite Falls
/ has formed in a cone that extends upward
about two hundred feet, and with the falling
water forms an object of surprising bril-
liaucy. ...
| Among the many, and some of them excel
| lent, institutions in Cincinnati, there is none
for the care of the insane. The workhouse
has to give protection to unfortunate people
of this class.
A Baptist minister immersed eleven per-
sons in five minutes at Clarinda, Iowa, wad
! ing in and out OF the stream with each. 1t
was a freezing day, and no one blamed him
for working rapidly.
| A process for eondensing wine and selling
it in canisters, like condensed milk, is said
to have been discovered in Germany by DR..
! Null. To make wine, water is added, and
then is allowed to ferment.
| An old man in New York has been re-
| quired to furnished $500 bonds to keep the
~ IL.
| praying in the streets that God Will punish
a policeman who killed his son. By some
strange accident he escaped a metropolitan
| clubbing.
The remnants OF the Modoc Indians that
were transferred from the laya-beds TO the
| Indian Territory are now among the quietest
in the country. There are only one hundred
left, but they cultivate four hundred acres oil
land, have established schools, and are thriv.
ing generally. Scar-faced Charlie is a re-
spectacle and well-to-do farmer.
The late Lord Beaconsfeld paid "a, 900, 00O
for highlands one hundred and seventy seven
| shares in the SHez canal. Owing to the
recent wild speculative mania in France. the
price of the shares forced up to G140
and if her Majestys government had cleared
out at that figure, it would have realized
f24, 100000 or profit OF EGO, 10000.
| In a single school at Charleston, South
| Carolina, there are fourteen hundred negro
| children. The teachers are all white; the
principal is a man, all the other teachers are
| women, many of them ladies of great refine
| ment, themselves once mistresses, whom ne
cessity has compelled to seek employment.
| Jewish refugees from persecution in Russia
have arrived in the German empire in very
destitute condition. About two hundred re-
Gently reached Berlin entirely without
| means that they had to be fed and clothed at
| once. They were then sent to Hamburg,
where it was hoped the money would be sup
| piled by the International committee to pay
| the expenses of crossing to the United States.
Plans and surveys are soon to be made for
a railway which, if ever built,will be the first
road on the western coast of the African con-
tinent. 1t will extend from the seashore
| through the mining districts of Wassaw and
the country, besides being rich in gold, also
yields palm oil and india rubber. The sur
veys are to be made by the firm which is now
excavating the tunnel beneath the Mersey
from Liverpool to Birkenhead.
Statistics Of the average number of persons
who inhabit house in the various cities of
Europe give an excellent notion of the dis
tribution OF wealth. Among the larger cities
of Western Europe, where the system of fam
lily houses is dominant, the average is of
course small. Thus, the average for Bremen
is six and half; for London, eight; for Am
sterdam, nine; for Rome, twelve; for Cologne,
thirteen; and for Frankfort-on-t the Main
sixteen In other well-known cities the av-
erages are these: Paris, thirty five; Trieste.
| thirty-two; Buda-Pesth, thirty-three; Konigs-
| berg, Twenty-Five; Breslau, twenty-seven;
Leipsic, thirty-six and half; B.rlin, fifty
eight, and Vienna. ffty-seven.