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

The Saturday Review says that all the bet
ter American writers of fiction work with 3
careful conscientiousness which is all but
unknown at present to British romance.
There is only one Waterloo man now
among the Inn-pensioners at Chelsea Hos
pital. He is ninety-seven years old. The
prince and princess of Wales lately visited
him..
General Meredith Read, formerly Ameri-
can minister at Athens, is engaged upon a
book describing the life of the men of letters
of the eighteenth century On the Lake of
Geneva.
General Songer, the editor of the Key
West Democrat, is twenty years old, weighs
|thirty-five pounds, and is forty inches high.
BE was born in st. Domingo and raised in
Florida.
1t is denied that the Rev. Patrick A. Fee
han, Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago,
ILL.,, is to be promoted by the pspe, at the
next consistory in Rome, to the dignity of a
cardinal.
The Norfolk [Va.) Landmark, whose editor
has responded to several calls to the field of
honor, advocates the passage of an act of the
Assembly commanding the sheriff to conduct
each duel at short range, and to keep it up
until there is a funeral.
1t is said that Arab Pasha is not an Egyp-
tian, but a Greek, and used to be an Office
boy, or clerk for a firm of Greek merchants
in liverpool. His name should be spelled
Oorabi. He was quite a dandy, spoke Ger
man, French and English well, and was fond
OF shooting.
Etiquette in Germany forbids the carrying
of parcels. no matter how small, by a gem
tleman. Under an immense pressure of ne
cessity a lady may take home in ner own
hands a small purchase or carry a boob or
roll of music to the house of a friend,
though she takes also, in doing 30, a terrible
social risk. And when a dressmaker comes
to try on a little w~alking.jacket a small boy
must needs walk behind bearing the garment
or his arm. An officer cannot, undo any
circumstances, carry anything when in uni
form.
Tits an odd anomaly in the character OF
the French that, though usually very cruel
10 horses, they are almost invariably kind
and gentle to dogs. You never see a street
boy strike, or kick or throw a stone at a
stray cur, while the pet dogs of the Parisians
are as well cared for as they are numerous,
and are almost invariably gentle and we'll
behaved. This latter fact arises from the
constant c~aresses which they receive, and also,
too. from the fact that. owing to the restricted
more e con atf1tSafS R RE2sf me fatn,s ige sl pets !. are
case in Eogland or America. /
The methods OF living OF some of these |
backwoods Down-Easters,n save a writer in |
the Boston Pos, "were yet more old-fashioned. |
l visited a couple, distant relatives of the |
friend who went with me, who married in |
1858, and'neither of them has been five miles |
from home since their marriage. They have
no children, and no carriage of any kind; |
they have a library, and 1 was allowed
examine it. 1t consists of a family Bible, |
md a file of the weekly Portland argus for
1859, 80 neatly preserved that one would sup
pose it had been locked away every minute
VI the twenty-five years. They had never
'ought a paper during this long time"