Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-21
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According 10 It's annual report 10 the
stOckholders, the net profits of the Paris
FToq1o Tor the wear were $4,000 TIE csta-
logue OF expenditures contains the following
items: Type, $4,000; paper, printing,
stamps, etc, 1927 600; editorship, Sill, 600;
carriage, S7l GOO; administration, $500
Germans and English swear by God, the
Lstin race by the Virgin, Danes by the
vi For the Swede one devil is not
Ugh. a thousand devils take NE" is
49, i.5 Al oath, or, if the emergency demand,
tea thousand In moments Of great excite
ment he rises to the occasion and swears,
" Ten thousand tons OF devils take me-"
Thomas Hardy, in DespTa'e Remedies, says:
SrCvinical towns are like little children
IN this respect, that they interest most
when they are enscting native peculiarities
unconscious Of beholders. Discovering them
selves to be watched they attempt TO be en-
tertaining by putting on an sntio, and produce
disagreeabie caricatures which spoil them
To the enormous mass of artillery already
in her possession Germany Is constantly
adding more Since 1871 Prussia alone has
added 1000 guns TO her stock. Many OF them
are of the heaviest csliber. The destination
of large portion OF the new guns is the
fortresses on the Russian frontier. In each
of these strongholds there are great parts OF
field and siege guns ready Tor immediate
action in case OF war.
a gypsy funeral recently held in an Asa
tian village, shows how tenaciously the
tribes still cling to pagan customs. The
corpse was shrouded in a garment with two
pockets, each containing a twenty franc
piece, bottle OF wine was laid on the right
side OF deceased, and package of beans on
the left bean also being placed in his
mouth. Wax tapers were burnt round the
coffin, which was subseq uenty carried round
the graveyard in solemn procession.
The Journal Z Eyectricite, of Paris, announces
that premature burial can be rendered abso-
lutely impossible by applying, in cases where
certain signs of death are wanting, an cleo
trio current to the body. Such test being
applied FIVE or six hours after presumed
death, non-contraction of the muscles wall
prove beyond doubt that life is extinct.
This discovery is received with much salts
faction in France and Germany, where the
laws requiring prompt burial admit the pos
sibility of horrible mistakes.
A Russian naval officer has invented a
very ingenious apparatus for ascertaining
the depth of the sea without the use of a
costly and heavy line. Indeed, no line at
all is used. The instrument consists of a
lead, a small wheel with conirivance for
registering the number of revolutions, and a
float. While the apparatus sinks The wheel
revolves, and the registered revolutions indi-
cate the depth. When the bottom is reached
the lead becomes detached, the float begins
to act, and the machine shoots up to the
surface, where it can be easily ished up by
a net and the register read off.
Great Paul, the new monster bell for st.
PAufs cathedral, in London, was successfully
rupg two weeks ago at the foundry in Lough-
borough. II was swung at the time on Its
own head-stock, being supported two feet
from the ground on temporary timbering.
1t was lifted by ffty-ton iron crane, and
nineteen men were required to ring it prop
erly, though four could make it speak.
While shut in by walls and houses, the bell
was heard seven miles away. 1t is said that
this is the first case OF bell of anything like
the weight of Great Paul being swung. All
the large bells of Russia are struck-they
are never swung-while the great bell in
Notre Dame at Paris is worked by treadle
or some other mechanical arrangement.