Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-29
Personal EsENTION.


! The higher classes of Egypt are fond of
the French, but the Feasantry prefer the
English.
| NJ. Talma, son of the great tragedian, and
an officer in the French army, has just died
in Paris. A deputation from the Theater
! Franeais attended his funeral.
Dr. Marion Sims has now the ability TO
wear upon his manly chest the order Of
Charles III, the king OF Spain having con-
! ferred that decoration upon him in recogni-
ton of his surgical career.
Mr.. Nillais is said TO have painted, in his
recantIy-fnished portrait of Cardinal New
man, the finest picture that he has yet given
to the world. 1t is life-size, and represents
the cardinal in his scarlet robes.
Prof. J. J. Sylvester, OF John Hopkins
| University, and grave man of science
whom the late Prof. PIERCE pronounced to be
the best mathematician in the country, is
now discovered to be poet of not little
! ability.
1t is rumored that NJ. Halevy has given
up writing for the stage altogether. La Belle
Helene, Ia We Pnrisienise, LoloHe, and all
! those other glitterlng and highly spiced con-
coctions with which, Tor the past twenty
years, he has, with his old friend Meilhac,
supplied the Paris market, have begun to
weigh upon his conscience.
The New Orleans PicalJunc says that by be-
coming an Old Fellow an old bachelor may
become Grand Sire. We may further add
that by becoming Free Mason a married
man may possess a secret which his wife
cannot fathom by rummaging in his coat
pockets.-New York Commercial AdrertiSeg
The venerable Zuni chief, who is visiting
Washington, is a gentlemanly person. He
always rises to speak to Il lady, and refuses
to smoke as often as usual, declaring that it
would injure the pretty things in his hosts
house. He has insisted on using finger
bowl and napkin at table ever since frat see
ing those civilized appliances in use.
We understand that Wagner, List and
Berlioz represent the most recent de velop-
ments in music, just as, on a smaller scale,
Rossetti and Swinburne do in poetry. The
point is not whether Swinburne or Tennyson
is the greater, or whether Wagner Is as con-
siderable as Beethoven, but whether We now,
having for many years heard the old, mean
advisedly to hear the new.-LOndon 1i'uh
The statue Of Washington by Mr.. J. Q. \.
Ward, which will be placed on the Steps of
the United States sub-treasury in New York,
is to present Washington in the civil cos
tune of his time, standing easily, with the
weight chiefly on the right foot. The right
hand is extended at the level of the, hips, as
ii in the act of laying the hand upon the
book to take the oath, as common grated by
the statue.
"The novelist who deals with escaped con-
victs, ticket of-leave men, adventurous aud
wicked mad doctors, requires far more skill
than one who is satisfied with such pc ople as
he has been in the habit of seeing and OBJ
serving all his life. But the mistake lis often
made of supposing that, with a pl entiful
array of horrors and blood curdlin,, incl
dents, nature may be left to take care OF it.
self."-LOndyr AthenGum.
Through the hands of Elk Governor
Mccormick, United States COMM 81 Toner
general to the Paris Universal Exhi billion of
1873, Mr.. =. S. Gilmore has received r medal
from the French government in recognition
of his services in conducting series of grand
concerts given by his band in the Troc1deTO
during the exposition. The Gilmore medal
is exquisitely wrought, and is mu' n larger
than the frst-class medal given to Exhibitors.
1t is inclosed in rich case, bearin the fol-
lowing inscription: "Erpssition Uni eerseiIe In
ternatiOnaIe, Paris, 1873. Me6aiHe @ samemora-
tire Oferte -Four .ergiees Rendus. Monsieur
Gilmore, Drecteur de "a uHsi9ue Dr-IBa7mon E
Americaine, Concerts du TrOcddero."
Mr.. Richard Jahr, young German chem
list and photographer, has accomplished a
great feat among photographers--he has sue
ceeded in taking the first picture by moon
light. a few photographers and scienti sts,
including the late Prof. Draper, have tax en-
photographs Of the moon, but never noon
light landscape. There reso called "moon-
light views" but they are taken at sunrise
and printed dark. The Philadelphia Pho
tographsr, of February, 1882, says moonlight
photographs never have been taken, and the
author gives it as his opinion that the feat is
impossible. Mr.. Jahr is a native of Berlin
and pupil of the eminent Ger man pro-
fessor. DIR. Nogel. He came to An lerica and
New York in August, 1881, and to Cleveland
about two months ago, and is no in New
York.-C2ereiald Lea3er.