Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-15
Personal MENTION.

Mr.. Blaine wears seven and three-eighth
hat.
John B. Coughs health is now much i'm
proved, and he says he is again ready to
continue his work.
Englishmen upon entering house take of
their glasses when they take off their hats.
In Paris, gentlemen as we'll as ladies cling to
them.
receptions in s.: Petersburg the champagne
and claret were ladled out of immense hol-
low blocks Of Neva ice.
Theodore Tilton's house, in Livingston
street. Brooklyn, has been sold for $4,000.
The deed bears his own signature and that
of his wife, Elizabeth NJ. Tilton.
Congressman McCoid. of Iowa, plain
granger-looking sort of man, but better
learned than many of his more polished
colleagues, is taking lessons in French.
Senator Logan was taken suddenly i'll in
the Senate on Friday, and was carried home
in suffering condition. His physician
diets his speedy recovery.
Bishop Colenso's name has been struck
from the list OF the English clergy, and thus
he is no longer officially recognized as bishop
of Natal. A singular feature OF the case is
that his salary goes on as OF old.
Berthold Auerbach, the Jewish novelist,
oil Wurtemberg, whose On The Heights
secures him high rank among writers OF ic-
ton, is reported to be dying. lie would be
seventy on the last day Of this month.
a white Polar bear skin, eight by four,
made into a lap robe, has been forwarded to
Secretary Hunt. 1t is sent by the officers of
the Alliance. The bear was shot August Q,
1881, on Danes Island, Spitzbergen.
between Count Camille Pecci, a nephew Of
the pope and the daughter of the Marchese
Giulio Merighi, an Italian financier, who
will give his daughter large dowry.
Poor Fortuuy's sketches in oil bring prices
out OF all proportion to the labor bestowed
upon them, but not to the genius in them.
Three slight ones were sold in London re-
Gently for $500, So and sos respectively.
In the preface to the new edition of his
standard work on criminal law Mr. Bishop
suggests that literary piracy should be made
a crime, though he does not indicate what
punishment should be melted out to the
offender.
The Italian census was taken the other
filed up as follows: "Humbert of Savoy,
Margaret of Savoy, Victor Emmanuel OF
Savoy. Professions-king of Italy, queen
OF Italy, hereditary prince Domicile-
Rome
Mr.. Boucicault thinks there are few thea
tiers in this country which can be described
safe from fire. He suggests that instead
OF the iron curtain it is simply necessary to
wash the back Of the ordinary drop-curtain
with tungstate of soda, WHICH will stay the
progress of the fire.
The Hon. Charles Mclean, a Greenback
member of the Massachusetts legislature,
who was formerly a gardener on the estate
OF the duke OF Argyll, was recently ar
raigned in the Municipal Court at Boston as
a common drunkard, and sentenced to i'm
prisonment for three months.
General C. A. Whittier's new residence, at
272 Beacon street, Boston, will cost 81, 000,-
600. 1t will have walls ninety-hve feet high
and twenty inches thick, and from fifty to
ffty-fve rooms; also the Largest wine eel
lar in the country" On the fourth floor is a
great music room, ceiled and paneled in hard
wood.
The limpest and saddest of aesthetics ever
seen were the Harvard freshmen wading
home through the deep snow from Oscar
Wilde's lecture in their ulsters and knee
breeches, their unprotected calves shivering
in the cold.-Bostoa Transcript If you think
they didn't feel jolly you have forgotten all
about boys.
Wilde varied his lecture at Baltimore by
telling the people that what they needed las
a school of design to give them some good
architecture. "You don't want any more
bronze generals careeniug at every corner OF
your streets, as | saw them in Washington"
He also advised them 10 dance the minuet
and not the polka.
At a dinner party given by Thomas Fow-
ler of New York. TO President Gowau, of
the Reading railroad, the sorbets were served
in wheelbarrows of the pattern of those used
by the Pennsylvania coal mines, and one fea-
ture OF the dessert was a locomotive in ice
cream, with the letters X. Il r. on its sides
in candied fruits.
General Grant when asked the other even
ing where was the sword which he wore at
Lees surrender, answered, the New York cor
respondent OF the Boston TrorcilcT SAYS: Il
1idn't have any on. l seldom wore sword. /
[ did wear one at the battle of Shiloh, and il |
saved my life. A ball struck it and broke |
he scabbard, which dropped on the field. | |
believe Mrs. Grant has the blade. She il |
better at saving things than | am"
Minister MOrton's new residence is upon |
he Place des Flats Unis. 1t was until re- |
emily the place de la Biiche" NJ. Herold, !
he project oil the Seine, wished to pay a |
pretty compliment to Mr.. and Mrs. Morton |
md this country, and changed the name. 81
I'm glad OF the opportunity" said he, ito
OF the people OF Paris for the Peo-
lie OF the great American republic" Since
his note was written NJ. Herold has died
The Ahen0ltm says: cit is astonishing how |
inc and at the same time how few are Words
Torth's really precious poems. Coleridge's
anne, too, rests upon about dozen pieces.
mall as Is the actual quantity of his work, !
ven he suffers from the weight Of over
PRODUCTION. keais's fame, again, would seem |
t present TO depend almost entirely upon
he contents OF the little Hyperion volume,
or II Is the fashion just now 10 Upderesti-
nate his 'Endymion.'
A newspaper man planned story in
which lady, unbappily married, was TO sue
Dr. divorce, and, to make sure of being
orrect, wrote TO lawyer friend, stating the
ase as he meant to describe it. Back came
postal card "You could not get divorce
n the grounds you mention in England II
GU might in the United States" This card,
anded in by the postman to Mrs. Newspa-
erman one afternoon, when her husband
las away on business, raised breeze in the
ousehold which was not allayed for some
avs.
The letter Of Judge Nathan Webb, '''of
ortland, declining public dinner rendered
Y enc hundred lawyers, is worth printing:
Ny tastes and my judgment are averse to
8 acceptance, md l most respectfully de-
line it. cannot forget the recent sad event
lat has made possible my promotion to the
osition to which have been appointed, and |
shrink from everything that may have the
ppearance OF rejoicing under such circum-
ances. Moreover, with all the Partially
~ professional brethren have manifested
,Ward me, it becomes me to remember that
approach duties and responsibilities in
hich | am yet untried, and to enter upon
lem quiet and simply"