Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-29

marry them- He .happened to be at the
Gazette Office; they followed him, and the
ceremony vas performed in the library.
A pickering pair OF Quakers we're heard in
controversy. the husband claiming: Il am
determined TO have one quiet week with
thee" But how wilt thou be able TO get
itf' said the haunting spouse, in that sort of
reiteration which married ladies so proyok-
ingiy indulge in 81 will keep thee a week
alter thou art dead" was the Qusker's re-
ioinder.
Ruskin was uuhatteringly truthful when
he said ave are all, and always asleep half
our lives, and il is only by Pinching our
selves hard that We ever learn to understand
anything. At least it is not always We who
pinch ourselves; sometimes other people
pinch Us, which, / suppose, is very good of
them; but il Is sad life, made up OF maps
and pinches.'
Aftsr stealing a barrel of flour from q,
Pittsburg store the other evening and taking
it home in 4 wagon, the thieves were much
surprised to find themselves arrested almost
as soon as they reached the barn In lifting
the barrel into the wagon they started the
hoops, which allowed so marked a trail of
white -four to track them the whole way that
even policeman could not err therein.
A curious scene was witnessed the other
day in the New York State Supreme Court
dying remarks with some members of the
bar. a remark made by one of them had
little sting, and the judge said; Look out,
counselor, or | will commit you for contempt
OF court" Il plead guilty, your Honor"
was the quick response. \ painfully intense
silence brooded over the court.
The Berlin elevated railway, constructed
partly upon a solid embankment and partly
upon stone arches, will be opened to the
public on the LIST of February The road
was devised primarily for military purposes,
and not for the convenience of the people.
II connects the eastern with the western rail-
way terminus, and is designed to prevent in
future the delays encountered during the
late war with France in transporting troops
across the city.
As part of the mourning Tor the empress
and co-regent who died in April, the Chi
nese were forbidden to shave for a month
At Foochow The mayor, finding that the
order was disregarded, made raid on the
barber-shops, and sixty eulprits found there
were fined, several bastinadoed and had
their shaver heads painted blue-the color
for mourning there-and nicely vanished.
They further had TO present themselves
weekly for fresh coats OF paint and varnish
while the mourning lasted.
This is a Norfolk, Virginia dog story:
The dog sleeps on the engine at night and is
always on time at the moment for leaving.
When the engineer boards the train the dog
prepares himself Tor q race, and keeps up
with the engine until the bridge is reached,
where he will stop until the last car passes
him, then, clearing six or eight ties at time
without looking down, and never making a
misstep. When he goes across he generally
has a fight with another dog, but alwas gets
in with the train, having often made the run,
a little over eight miles in sixteen minutes.
One OF the meanest men in existence is a
prosperous Kentucky farmer. 1t had long
been his custom, whenever he had letter to
write, to drop in at the bank where he kept
his account and borrow a sheet of paper.
Having finished the letter, he would ask the
cashier to put it in an envelope and direct it
for him, and then carry it te the postoffice
himself. The frequent repetition of this per-
Torrance seemed in itself trife small, but
the cashiers Indignation can be imagined
when he learned that the farmer never
stamped his letters, knowing that the post
master, recognizing the cashiers handwriting
and the banks name in the corner, would
courteously prepay them and se,d-the bill
to the bank.