Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The disease known as american pink
eye" is rapidly spreading among the horses
in Liverpool.
An English writer considers it necessary to
! warn American readers that in the old coun-
tries the old quarter of a town is not neces-
sarlly poor quarter.
| The Cook county Jail contains two hundred
and sixty three prisoners, of whom nearly
thirty are murderers. Hanging is played
out in Chicago, if the murderer has any
money.
Scarlet fever in a very malignant form is
prevailing in Eureka, California, and local
paper talks about one case in which, it is
gravely asserted, the patients pulse ran up
to two hundred and forty.
A California man, worth nearly $500, 900.
recently attended the funeral OF his son.
just before the coffin was lowered he I'M
screwed the silvered handles, and taking
them back to town sold them to an unde--
taker.
California man is said to have devised
application of weights and clockwork as
motive power for working pump. 1t is
claimed that a machine will not cost one
third as much as a windmill, is noiseless,
more durable, and always under control.
a Vallejo, California, youngster made her
self some rock candy" the other day by
pounding up a lump of granite, which she
cooked, after mixing it with molasses, sugar
and salt. She was preparing to eat the COM
pound with great gusto when discovered by
her mother.
Some idea of the demand for coral that
exists throughout the world NAV be formed
from the fact that from the bank near the
little town of Sciacca, Sicily, alone, within
the past four years more than eight million
eight hundred and seyenty-four thousand
pouds of coral have been fished
A San Francisco paper says that in Yava-
pal county, Arizona Territory, north of the
Little Colorado river, there is a valley some
ten miles in length, where potatoes are grow
ing wild. The valley Is north of the Moqui
villages, and west OF the Navajo reservation.
The Navajo Indians collect large quantities
of the root.
The Virginia Historical Society has pc
titioned Congress to publish the manuscripts
in the congressional library bearing upon
the colonial history of Virginia, and to dis
tribute the books among the historical So
cieties OF the several States. These societies
are asked by the Virginia society to Join in
this petition.
Great Britain paid Portugal $l5, O00,O 900
Tor renouncing the Brazilian slave trade, and
yet it was only the other day that the Portu-
guese consul at Rio affixed his official sigma
ture to a document offering for sale the slave
property of a deceased Portuguese resident
in Brazil. The little matter will bear the
investig alton OF the British government,
Some notion Of the cost OF land transfers
in England may be gathered from letter
recently written by law firm IN defense OF
their profession against the charge of high |
fees. The land in question was sold for |
So. 900. From the government it was nee
essary to obtain stamps which cost S265, |
and the agent of the vendor who merely |
sold the property, was paid S1165. The law |
firm, which acted in behalf of the purchaser, |
received $500.
Some miners in the English black country |
were seen on recent Sunday to be busily |
engaged in catching rats. When they had |
secured number OF them the hour OF din
ner approached, and one of the men calmly |
suggested that they go to public house and
cook the rats for their midday repast. Ac-
cordingly the whole company proceeded to
the house. skinned the rats, cooked them
over a gridiron in the kitchen, and then de-
voured them. "A good black country rel
ish" was the verdict on this meal.
From the Courier Journal of February 10th:
"a chemist of this city was showing to some
friends Yesterday a relic which he considers
precious. 1t was a lump OF what is known
as sugar. which had been kept in his family
for eighty years. Great quantities OF this
singular substance were once used in this
country, out Samples u IL uOh 70 De
found only in the richest museums. 1t is
said to be very sweet. The combination of
glucose and white earth now used for sweet
sniug purposes would have been rejected by
our forefathers, bat. the present generation
cares little for sweets"
A temporary stage occupied by four hun
1red little boys anu girls gave way in Pow
RS Operahouse, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
IN Friday evening last, just as the curtain
lad gone down. When the crash came, the
audience, which contained fathers, mothers,
md other relatives of the children, became
yreatly excited, but panic was averted by
5ome cool men. In a moment after tsle man
ger OF the show appeared before the curtain
.heers followed. Afterward it proved that
me boy had broken a leg and several other {
hildren had been quite badly injured, and
hat a number of girls had tainted.
At Kingston, New York, Justice West ]
,rook has Just made decision OF some i'm {
,ortance to the Masonic and other frateFni
les. The suit was brought BY John II.
'oultnay against lodge OF o ID Fellows for
8 a week from July, 1879, to the present i
ime, that being the sum he was entitled to :
y his sickness, and which was paid him up
> July l, 1879. Since then only 81 week l
las paid him, while he was entitled TO 81, 6
aving risen to a higher degree, and the de- {
snse was that the bylaws had been amended, c
flowing only 81 after the first year. The I
curt, however, decided that the lodge could 1
D no way abrogate Its contract or alter any '
art OF 1t.