Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-30
Wells in the Desert.

French enterprise is stesduy perseyering
| In the work Of redeemir2 the desert of Ss-
hara by means of artesiau wells A large
number OF wells have been sunk along The
northern border, more than $50 in the prov
| lDce OF Constantine alone and the work Is
| advancing into the interior. One of The Gu
rious phenomena which the digging of these
wells hss brought TO notice is the existence
OF hsh and crabs at great depths. The
learned engineer N. Jus, who for twenty
years has directed the work. AYERS that lie
once boiled and ate a crab which had been
drawn up from depth OF 250 feet, and that,
moreover, 1t was of an excellent flavor
Labor Wanted I'm Australia,
Never since the discovery of gold in Aus
traiIs, writes Melbourne correspondent to
the London Times, has there been greater
demand for all classes of labor, skilled ard
unskilled, than that which prevails at the
present time. From the building trades and
the goldhelds, from the farms and from the
squatters' runs, from factories, warehouses
and foundTies, the cry is for fresh hands.
And "a few thousand domestic servants
poured into the colony from Eogland and
Scotland at the present time would be in
stanuy absorbed BY town AID country at
wages which would ssionish themselves and
the friends they would leave bshiad them"
Victor II ugo and Paul Meariee.
Victor Hugo hss gone to visit NJ. Paul
Aeurice. his honorary honame dgfaires, at
Veules, France. A few days age If. Hngu-
made some apoeaIfpfic utterances 10 an
Italian journalist relative to the future course
of civilization. France, Italy and Spain, he
said, are destined to be the representatives
Of civilization. The Turks are to be driven
out OF Europe. The twentieth century will
see all Africa civilized by means OF the
Mediterranean powers, including England,
OWING 10 her possessions at Gibraltar. AS
for the English campaign in Egypt, that,
said Victor Hugo, is "only q transitory incl
dent, repugnant episode of modern history"
Latest Excavations at POmpeii.
A correspondent of the London Daiiy
Nt'cs, writing from Naples says the last
house excavated in Isola Y, Regione VIII
at Pompeii, yielded many vases, shells in
bronze, several gold rings with engraved
stoues, and amphore Six skeletons were
found likewise. Wall painting represented
heads OF Meduss, and fantastic birds. At
The entrance OF one room were two figures, |
one OF an infant alarmed at the sight of |
large rat coming out of trap, and the other |
OF the same infant trying to catch the rat |
There was also medallion showing two |
cupids and two flying geniuses, one with |
pastoral ei aft in his left hand and bunch Of |
grapes in the right, and the other with the |
staff in the right hand and the left holding i
a basket on the shoulder.
Death OF WOehler.
The death of Friedrich Woehler, the emf
nent chemist and director of the Chemical (
Institute al Gottingeu, is announced to-day I
by the cable. Woehler was born at Escher-
sheim, nesr Frankfort, in Hesse, July 81,
1900. When twenty four years old, having
received his certificate a physician, be
TO devote himself TO the study
Of chemistry, for which purpose he went 10
Sweden and studied under the cele-
brated Berzellus. Among other discov-
cries he found method of obtaining nickel
in q pure state and founded factory for
supplying the metal. In 1886 he accepted
he chair of medicine at Gottingen and sub
undertook the direction of the
Chemical Institute in the same town. He
vas the first to separate aluminium, for
which discovery in 1927 he was made
hevalier of the Legion of Honor. Since
hen he has been made an officer of the
legion and has been decorated with many
'ther orders. He was an associate in the
french Academy and a member of the
academy OF GottiDgen and of that of Venice.
lis publications on chemistry were uumer-
us.
The New Monument to France.
Tne scaffolding which for several months
as hidden the top of the Arc de Triomphe
nd provoked the curiosity of visitors in |
Paris will soon be removed, disclosing the
ilcSoilCai group WHICH W. T dlRulefc OD- |
aimed permission to erect on the triumphal
rch. The design consists of female figure
4 France standing erect in a Roman chariot
nd holding a half.furled flag in her hand.
rgs toward the front oorners OF The arc.
rev the car, each outside pair being led
y female fgure of Progress. In the fore
round is group representing Liberty
overcoming official Tyranny, the back of the
platform facing the Avenue de la Grsnde
Armee being occupied by Two allegorical
,roups of figures illustrating the defense Of
he country. The latter are not yet COM
nenced. The figures now erected are of
;ourse only models serving to show the gen.
.ral design of the artist, which, if accepted,
will be definitely carried out in bronze.
Horses, figures and chariot are, in fact, sim
,ly made of old planks of wood nailed to-
.ether, the intervening spaces being filed in
With wire netting, and the whole covered
With coarse canvas stepped in liquid plaster
md subsequently, painted brown TO represent
lew bronze. Anything cheaper than this it
7ould be impossible TO devise; but the effect
s very good, and the model will fully an
wer lis purpose.