Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-08
PERSONALITIES.

FEhSUN LIlES.
For soma OF the English hunting estates
Russian foxes are being imported.
1t was a Connecticut minister whose salary
was SIS year and half the fish he caught.
Mr.. Tennyson is not disposed to accept
the newspaper verdict on his Promise Of
Nay.
The income of the Archbishop OF Canter-
bury is SIS, 900 year, and he has $50 bene-
fits in his diocese.
Capt Paul Boyton, the great swimmer,
announces that be will in a very short time
undertake 10 swim down the Colorado river.
Simon Morse has announced that no act
ors or actresses will be engaged iu the forth
coming production of The Passion Poy in
New York City.
Col. Emil Frey, the Swiss minister, intro
duced himself to Gen. Longstreet in WASH
ington restaurant the other evening, explain
ing that, as a prisoner, he had met Gen.
Longstreet at Gettysburg nineteen years ago.
George Gay, who died poor near Wheat
land, Ore, recently, was once the richest ian
in the Northwest. His herds of cattle
roamed over what are now the populous
counties of Yamhll and Polk, and in 1913
he built the first brick house in Oregon.
The New York World says: "Mr. Emory
Speer is an intensely disappointed man in
not being returned TO the Forty -eighth Con-
gress. He is as handsome, as bland, as
smoothly shaver and as faultlessly dressed
as ever, but he is the young Napoleon no
longer"
The pigeon that Mr.. ThurloW Weed was
so fond of, aud constantly petted until he
became too i'll TO permit its presence to the
sick chamber, grew very discensolate alter
ar1s daafh NJ Gauard uaid Ia
bird could hardly be quieted. 1t seems to
be aware OF its loss.
Herbert Gladstone, the son of the English
prime minister, and a member OF Parliament,
recently presented petition TO the House of
Commons from the city OF Leeds, which IT
refused 10 heed, signed by more than 10000
persons, asking that the public houses in
Yorkshire be closed on Sundays. Yorkshire
contains about 5000, 900 people.
Gen. Grant is not at all pleased with Sem
ator Logan's criticism of his article in the
North American RevieW on the Porter case.
He wants 10 know where Logan gets his facts
and his military knowledge, to criticise him.
Grant thinks very little OF Logan as a srares-
man aud less of him as a military man, and
he does not hesitate TO express his opinion.
The Hon. Lionel Sackville West, British
minister TO the United States, went to Mary
land on Tuesday to fish in the placid waters
of that State. He caught few fish, but was
in turn caught and arrested BY an unsympa-
thetic officer for violating the fab laws of
the State. He was, however, Immediately
released by order of the State Department.
The engagement is announced OF ex.Sscre-
tary Hunts SOD, VINO is an ensign in the
navy, to his COUSIN. Miss ScAott. He was
cruelty ordered 10 Japan Immediately after
the announcement. All manner of influence
was brought TO bear on Secretary Chandler,
but a soft place nearer home WAS sternly
denied the son of the former ruler of the
naVee.
Dean Bradley's formal consent to the
placing of bust of Longfellow in Weslmin-
ster Abbey is pied with the extraordinary
suggestion to inscribe Irving's name on its
base or adjacent tablet. The Daily Neps
justly ridicules the proposal; ridicuing also,
as usual, American literature generally, and
announcing that Irving and Poe were the
best pross and poetical writers.
Generation after generation of schoolboys
have laughed over the fantastic names 10
vogue among the extreme Puritans of Crom-
wells time. After two centuries the old
fashion seems likely to be revived by the
Salvation Army, body in many respects
strikiugly dissimilar 10 the Puritans. Capt.
Glory Matthews and Lieut.. HallelUjah
Abbie suggest the old days of Praise God
Barcelona.
Senator Malone denies that he is to be-
come a railroad magnate, and says that he
knows as little about Richmond and Dam
vile az the reporter who questioned him en-
the subject in New York on Saturday. "May
ask the object OF your visit here% ths re-
porter ventured to ask. "To secure recrea- |
lion and buy Christmas presents" when
are you going back?" Gas soon as my money
gives OUT" the Virginia sphinx replied.
Justice Field, of the United States Su-
prsme Court, on the. authority of Senator
Grover, OF Oregon, is stated 10 be candi-
date for President. The San Francisco
Chronicle, commenting on this statement,
says that with Field as the Democratic can
didate for president in 1884, there would be
Stale against the Democracy than that of
this wear in its favor. He could not com.
maud 10000 votes in California for any
elective Office, though he is intriguing for
The nomination, and probably ambitious
enough to accept it,"
There were three Times in a mans life, |
said DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes IN his fare !
well address on retiring from Harvard Med |
ical College, when he might consider him. |
self the center of atiraction-ai his chIisten- |
ing, at bis marriage, and at his own funeral. |
Tnis is singular slip for the brilliant DIR. |
Holmes. III there ia one place 10 the world |
where a man is secondary and inferior, is is |
at his own wedding, where, as matter of |
course, the bride is the center Of attraction,
and the groom only q SORT Of necessary nui-
sance, who is only tolerated because no way |
has yet been discovered of getting along with
out him.
An English paper refers 10 the attentions
bestowed on Herbert Spencer in this coun-
try, and says i; Is impossible TO conceive of |
a foreign thinker, with no claim 10 honors
beyond those Of a thinker, having the same
kind of reception in England. A mans
social position and the number and quality
Of his private iBtroductious would determine
The manner of his reception there. These
cause the paper in question to
wonder whether Americans are naturally |
more given to lionizing than EnglishmeD, or
whether sit is possible, after ali, that there
are sections oil A uerican society where rank
in the world Of light counts for more than
even the possession of the almighty dollar"