Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-13
PERSONAL.

'1s there such thing Lucky" asks a
correspondent. There is. For instance, ii
you go home at O'CLOCK in the morning,
after promising your wife to be in early, and
find her asleep, that's luck, but it isn't TO be
dept nded on.
DIR. Frank H. Hamilton, who attended the
late President Garfield during his LAST illness,
ia lying ill at his residence 10 New York city.
He was Frustrated Friday with hemor-
rhage, and fears are entertained that he will
not recover, though he is ssnguine that he
will get gu. again.
Wagner, 1.-The composer, has taken up his
residence for the winter at Venice, where he
is said to be engaged upon great work on the
Arts and Civilization. Meanwhile Neum ann
is touring the chief cities and towns OF Ger
many with troupe OF Wagnerisn artists.
He carries his stage scenery and decorations
with him.
Congressman Black is steadily improv-
ing. He is not only out of bed, but he is at
timss on his feet. If he continues TO i'm
prove, he may be able 10 take his seat before
the present session expires. No man in
Georgia exceeds him in devotion TO the pub
lie interests, and it is to be hoped that he
has many years of activity ahead.
Miss rnrTy ratpnfutt, of h1udUu, mo- IN
this country lecturing, takes the ground tn at
women should do work as well as men, and
declares that the idea of woman unsexing
herself by striving 10 earn her living was
not only erroneous but ridiculous. There
seems to be no reason in the world why
Emily should go home unmarried. That il,
if she means what she says, and We presume
she does
If the Garfield Monumental Fair at Wash
ington had only been Republican national
convention, james G. Blaine, of Maine,
nj he for IL.
without any handicapping. The mansgers
ran various public men for something or
other as a test of their popularity, when the
voting proved mostly for Jeems, with here
and there 81 cop to Cerebus" in the shape OF
a remembrance for Grant and Fred Douglas
One vote had been cast for r. B. Hayes, of
Fremont, o.
A Paris actress AYERS that each perfume
has its special moral and physical quslities
which-so far as her observations have gone
she states as follows: Musk predisposts
10 sensibility and amiabilits; rose 10 andac-
ity, avarice and pride; geranium 10 tender
ness; violet 10 mysticism and piety; bsnzoin
10 dreams, poetry and inconstancy; mint and
verbena TO taste for the beautiful arts;
czmphor to stupidity and brutality; Russia
leather 10 indolence; while ylang-ylang is
the most dangerous of all.
John Chinaman seems TO have a full ap-
probation oil lls laws which now illustrate
the postulate that the United States is a land
of refuge for the oppressed of all nations.
During the three months of the existence OF
the exclusion law, SS49 Chinese passengers
have left San Francisco for home and 1859
arrived. Some people think il very hard
We should exclude the almon-eyed sons of
the sun. but the fact is the slime must be
drawn somewhere" and doubtless this was
the best place TO draw, and they drew it as
"mild" as possible.
The general passenger agent Of the Louis |
vile, Nashville and Chattanooga railroad |
says he never saw sueh rush South as at |
preseat. More people, he says, have emf |
grated to the Southern States snd especially |
to Florida, in the past few months than for |
wear previously. A number Of them are |
Eastern people, though the majority come |
from Chicsgo and The Northwest. The |
Southern country il gradually drawing the |
emigranss away from the West, as they are |
to realizs the fact that they can
gel better and more profitable land in the |
South for less money.