Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-10
Personal MENTION.

"A L. M ~
General Grant has transferred his Long
Branch property, worth $4,000, to his wife,
A married dentist has eloped from East
| Saginaw with young woman whose teeth
he had plugged.
| Mr.. John B. Cough has lost his voice and
has been obliged to cancel his lecture en-
gagements.
The Rev Robert Collyer says that the peo-
| pie who go to hear Ingersoll are neither tools
nor knaves.
clergyman preached last Sunday on Chi
cago crime. The sermon occupies three wide
columns of fine type.
| OF Daniel Webster's family only two are
now iiving-children OF his daughter Julia
| Samuel Appleton and Mrs. Jerome Bona
parte.
Mr.. F. Max Muller says that Dean STAN
| ley all his lifetime had a sort OF rheumatism
| of the fingers, and this made his handwrit-
ing wretched.
| In southern Kentucky there is not ma
| jor" But if any one shouts colonel" the
| very mules on the turnpikes stop, wondering
| what the driver has TO communicate to them.
The heaviest senator in the legislature of
Iowa weighs 250 pounds, and the average
weight of the senators is 1873 pounds. The
| average weight OF the representatives is 10
pounds.
Conundrum by President Arthur: "Why
is my friend Mr. Conkling the most un-
puuctual person of my acquaintance" The
cabinet all say they give it up Because
he won't keep his appointment. "-LouisuiUe
Co,trier-JoaTnal.
The young men of Boston who attend con-
certs, applaud at the waking-up places, and
are fondIy regarded as great critics of music,
affect long, straight hair, which IL combed
far back from the forehead and which falls
in bunch behind.
A Rev. DIR. Patterson, of Philadelphia,
has been saying: eff charity balls do not
wear the livery OF heaven to serve the devil
in, they at least put on the livery OF the
world, and carry it into what ought to be
the service of Christ"
One Plat is suing the State Register at Des
Moines Ia for $4,000 damages for calling
him a masher. This will be but a gloomy
world if language is to become that costly.
How much would Mr.. Plat ask for being
denominated blooming jay, now, for in
stance?
E V. SmalIey, long connected with the
New York Tribune as travelling CORE
spondent IN this country and editorial
writer, has resigned from the staff Of that
paper and begun special magazine work, to-
ward which he has been more and more tend
ing OF ldte.
AS to Prof. Swings sheer at me for receiv-
ing fee for lecturing, / can assure him that
he is not the first clergyman who has thus
, condemned me. But this shaft loses its sting
when consider that it comes from body OF
| men, most of whom preach for a salary
| Oscar Wide.
: The editor Of the New York Sun says of
Tennyson's "Heavy Brigade" that sit is dull +,
, labored, clumsy and destitute of imagina-
| ton. No poem can be great that is dragged
out of the authors brain by main strength
and awkwardness. Still Shakespeare wrote
nearly all his plays to order.
Sergeant Mason must have once edited a
Republican newspaper. He says: "If this
court wishes to send me out of the army dis
honorable, l can only cay that il was for
striking terror and fright to the heart OF the
cowardly, sneaking, cast-iron-j awed, pro-
jected-eyebrow assassin"
In the life of man there are two critical
periods. The first is toward his twentieth
year, when he anxiously inspects his upper
lip TO see il the hair is coming out And
the second ia toward his fortieth, when he as
| anxiously inspects the top of his head 10 see
if his hair is coming out.-Frerch pdpeF.
Poetry is very aged in New England now
Its Emerson, Whittier and Oliver Wendell
Holmes have all long passed their three score
and ten. Longfellow is about the youngest
of them. There are no young poets in an
kee-land now fit TO strike the harp that the
aged bards could once awake to immortal
strains.
The R-v. Joseph Cook got excited and
angry while speaking before an English au-
dience in Poona, India, recently, because his
hearers dissented with cries OF mo! now
Mr. Cook at last exclaimed that "it is no Use
casting pearls before swine" and started off,
followed by cries OF "who are the swiue?" as
well as by groans and Kisses.
Count Won Moltke, Gsrmany's greatest
military strategist, thinks the invasion of
England through the proposed channel tun-
mel a sheer impossibility. "You might as
we'll" he exclaimed to distinguished Prus-
sian officer who had mentioned The subject,
pointing to his library door-"you might as
well talk of invading her through that door
way"
Rev. Arthur Anniceseed, of Utah, is dis
ciple of Wilde, and pronounced by his lady
parishioners very zephyr OF poetic piety.
Last Sunday he read portion of sacred writ
detailing rehearsal of Jopsh's submarine
adventures. eve come now to Jonah, I" said
Arthur, ''who passed three days and three
nights in the le's-ahem-society."-
WdteTtoWa Times.
The latest thing in evening dress for men
of fashion in England is TO have their dress
coats slashed with satin. White waistcoats
are also much worn. 1t is true that some
distinction should be made between the cos
tune OF the guests and that of the walters,
for not long ago hostess, making up a set
OF quadrilles, asked one of the walters TO
choose a partner, thinking he was guest
who had not been introduced.
Congressman S. S. Cox lectured one evening
last week in Lincoln Hall Washington, on the
humor of the negro race. He told the follow
ing story as an illustration: while in
Georgia some time ago / happened to be
passing along the street. 'Hullo, SAM said
particularly black colored man on the other
side of the street. 'HullorI promptly replied,
whereupen the African aforesaid retorted:
''Cuse, me, sab, Use dressing another cullud
man.