Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-04
PERSONAL MENTION,


the interior, discharged Walt Whitman fror
a profitable clerkship in that department.
ITO blush is human; to have cheek di
vine," is the way the new Chicago conf
| paper, Cheek, fixes on the old saying for it
own uses as a motto.
james G. Blaine, Ulysses S. Grant, Jane
| Donald Cameron and Winfield s. Hsncocl
have rooms engaged for this month at tn
White Sulphur Springs of Virginia.
| 1t is becoming common in Philadelphia
| to prosecute policemen for unnecessasil,
using their clubs, and the manners of tn,
force are said to be improving as conse
| quence.
Ismail, the predecessor of the presen
khedive of Egypt, is living in Rome and hal
an income Of 1,000,0OOf per aunum. TIL,
chances are that when Mrs Ismail wants :,
go to the matinee she comes pretty neal
getting there.
1t will be fifty years, next December, sine,
Mr.. Gladstone entered Parliament, and hi
friends propose to celebrate the event as I
jubilee; he was first returned to Parliamen
December IL, 1886. and has been a member
of every House of Commons since that time
A Mr.. Gotch has started as rival to Oscal
Wilde, and is drawing crowds to his aesthetic
lectures in London. He pronounces the
present male attire idiotic, condemns hat
coat and vest, and reserves special bitterness
for trousers. He goes in for knickerbockers
and stockings-no shirt-fronts, no coat-tails,
no pockets.
The President will make a visit to New
York after the adjournment of Congress. He
will remain there about ten days. He has
made no further arrangements for the sum-
mer 1t is probable, however, that he will
make trip along the seacoast in the United
States ship Despatch, which is now under
going repairs and improvements.
Jack Lincoln, son OF Secretary Lincoln, is
a very bright and interesting little fellow,
and affords a considerable amount of enter
tainment to the clerks and visitors to his
fathers Office. The other day he was anus
ing himself by copying the names of the
prs zn nna and Pausing, lPoked up from his
sWhy, ever 80 many OF the presidents were
named after streets in Chicago"
DIR. William J. Savage owns lot in the
burial ground of a Methodist church in Phil
adelphia, and he buried the body of pet
dog in 1t. The sexton made no objection,
but Pastor Rittenhouse declared that the act
was dissertation. The trustees have rebuked
the sexton, but have not taken any measures
to remove the canine remains. DIR. Savage
says that if he loved the dog enough to bury
him beside wife and son, nobody ought to
question his right.
There are two cemeteries in Brussels in
which are buried the ashes of many of the
English soldiers who died on the field of
Waterloo. These cemeteries are St. Joneten-
Noodle and st. Giles. The desire for street
and house improvements has induced the
municipal authorities TO close these ceme-
teries, with a view to their division and sale
for dwellings. This action has stirred up
no little excitement in England, and the
subject is likely TO become one of diplomatic
correspondence.
Among the many vile and disgusting
things that Hicks has said of the assassin
there is one which for ignorance and folly is
worthy OF no one 80 much as the assassin
himself. "The only man with whom / can
compare him." says Hicks, sis Swedenborg.
Swedenborg may have been the greater phil
osopher, but Guiteau had more eloquence."
Alter such an utterance the only man with
whom MIR. Hicks can be compared is Gui-
teau; Guiteau may have had more villainy,
but he is the greater fool.
From some memoranda lately pu blished by
the earl of Belmore it appears that in Ire
land in 1877 mans daily wages were
seven cents. But then COW cost from 81 so
to $40, and meal was 81 IS per hundred
weight, while in 17l9 a quarter Of mutton
cost thirty-one cents, and twenty-eight
day untraveled Americans are often amazed
at what seem such low salaries abroad, but
then in Brussels, for instance, much better
room can be had for 81 so week than in
New York for 81.
King Louis, of Bavaria's favorite secre-
tary, Herr Zeigler, struck work the other
day. He struck, it must be confessed, under
both exasperating and anus
ing. The king, it appears, trsnsacts all his
business during the night. He rises at sum
set and goes to bed at sunrise. As all the
state business passed through Zeigler's
hands, and as he was forced by the eccentric
habits of his monarch to give up the natural
night sleep, he objected finally to the discom-
tort imposed upon him and refused to labor
Tor his owlish majesty.
Some spiteful American who ran across
Bret Harte in London writes about him as
follows: "One of the most intense and I'M
,peakable Englishmen have seen since
struck London is Mr.. Bret Harte. His hair
is white, and his face red enough to enrage
he tamest bull in the world. He wears
section of a window-pane in one eye, and
tly amuse the friends of the Harte we used
o know. This one trains with My Lord
This and the Earl That, and talks big things
II magazines he is going to START