Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Shrimp canning has been added to the list
| of industries in New Orleans.
The City of Mexico is full of Americans,
nearly every hotel being full of them.
Experience is a trophy composed of all the
| weapons that we have been wounded with.
The Hoosac tunnel cost 200 lives. In
| comparison, its money expense was baga-
| telIe.
A Mr.. Pickens, OF Colorado, has become
| the father of triplets, and has named them
Grant, Hayes and Garfield.
There is said to be farm in Worcester
| shire, England, which stands in twelve par
ishes and pays fifty different rates.
The increasing shallowness of the sea of
Azov is attributed to the habit OF casting
ballast into the sea instead of unloading it
| ashore.
A bill has passed the Iowa Senate exempt
| ing from attachment the sewing-machine of
any seamstress who makes a livelihood
Herewith.
An ambitious man whom you can serve
will often aid you to rise, but not higher than
| his knee; otherwise you might be standing
in his light.
The city OF Boston contains Al ,926 dwell
ing houses valued at 81, 0I3,0O0. There are,
besides, seventy EIGHT hotels and 147 family
hotels in the city.
The parliament house in Dublin is held on
lease by the Bank of Ireland, and clause
in the lease provides that the tenure shall
cease il ever parliament meets in Dublin:
The shovel. makers in the United States
manufacture about 1900 shovels every
week About one-half of them are used at
home, and most of the others 60 to South
America.
The Denver (Col) Nelrs says that diph-
al -.
Mexico and Southern Colorado, in some cases
whole families among the Mexican popula-
ton becoming its victims.
A Toronto man was arrested for whipping
his grown-up daughter. His plea was that,
being a pious man, he desired the girl to
keep Lent, and only struck her dozen times
with a cane for punishment.
A horse which was being shipped from
Boston to Chicopee, Mass, slipped its halter,
managed to open the car door, and jumped
off the train. The buyer has learned that
the animal returned to Boston.
A Georgia planter hires negroes who play
| the banjo. He says that a negro riding the
| pillow, while playing and smoking will do
more work with two mules than three men
who do not play, but who have three mules.
1t is said that there is colored boy in
Aecomac county, Va, who is six feet eight
inches high, weighs 234 pounds, and wears a
| sixteen-inch shoe, and whose principal diet
is sweet potatoes, of which he can eat a peck
at a meal.
The English medical writer, DR.. Goldie,
thinks that epidemics are often spread by
milk, which, before its delivery to consumers,
| has been kept in vile places where 1t has
clicked up" infection from the surrounding
atmosphere.
| The English life insurance companies have
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| last three years; notably when the duke of
Newcastle, Lord Anglesey, and Mr.. Savile
died; and now again they are hard hit by
| the early decease of Lord Lonsdale.
Half the silver half-dollars circulated in
Montana are alleged to be counterfeits made
by the Chinese in San Francisco. They are
described of exactly the weight OF the
| genuine ones, and one thirty-second part OF
an inch larger in diameter. They contain
only sixteen cents worth of silver, which is
all on the surface.
| The question of licensing the sale of in
| toxicating liquors served to give special in
| terest to the late Massachusetts, town meet
4 iHgs, and ID some places the issue was holly
i contested. In seventy-one towns the total
| vote in favor of license was 1901, and
| against it IA, $50; majority against license
1929. Only eighteen towns out Of the sew
enty-one voted in favor of license.
Germany did much last year for the pres
ervation of her reputation as a country de-
voted TO the horse Races were held on 122
| days of the 365, and OF these eighteen were
| held in Berlin. Some $3.50 horses took part
in SO single heats, and the aggregate of S14,
222m, with an addition Of 299, 352m for
stakes and forfeits, total of 1,21S, 604m.
One-fourth of this sum was paid out at Ber-
lin. Hamburg ranked next, paying out
| I42, 1S0m. The total sum allowed by the
| government was 2lOO00m.