Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-24
PERSONAL MENTION.

Senator Window is fond of neat watch
chains and nicely brushed silk hats.
Mr.. Gladstone appears in gray suit and
a white hat. The pantaloons are so shrunken
that they reveal his cotton socks above the
highlows. He wears a carnation in his but
tonhole, and is proud of it.
Mr.. w. S. Gilbert, the composer, being
proposed by rear-admiral II. r. H. the duke
OF Edinburgh, K. G., and seconded by the
marquis OF Londonderry, K. P, as a member
of the Royal Yatch Club on the 3lst of July,
at Cowes, was overwhelmingly black-balled.
1t has been discovered that Sir Edward
Watkin, one of the promoters of the channel
tunnel, has driven the heading seventy yards
seaward, in spite of the order of the Court of
Chancery. The Board of Trade will take
legal proceedings against Sir Edward to in
sure obedience to the court.
voluntary contribution: ssHow did you
come to get into jail?" asked gentleman of
a negro he saw behind the bars. "Dey put
me in heah for borryin' money from a
friend" "Why, they can't do that; it's no
crime TO borrow money" Eyes, boss, but yer
see / had ter knock him down wild a club
several times before he would loan it ter me;
an den j had ter take il outen his pocket
myself" That was what Hubbell would call
voluntary contribution.-TerdsS ytings.
The Mennouites are thriving we'll in Kan
sae. About $4,000 of these Russians are in
the State, chiefly in Marion and Mcpherson
counties. They own nearly 10000 acres of
land. This property was purchased equally
from the railway companies and from the
government. The industry and economy Of
the Mennonites are proverbial. 1t is said
that some of them are worth from $4,000 TO
$4,000, though few years ago they could
c aim only a few hundreds. The wheat farms
hrtn To-
Speaking of General Wolseley's departure
for Egypt, the London World says: s'Sir
Garnet will be greatly missed at the Horse
Guards. He has done that somewhat effste
establishment world OF good since he has
been there, and has made his influence felt
through pretty nearly all branches of the
department. Sir Garnet has great powers of
work and a knack of going straight to the
pith of question. His decisions are short,
practical, and are easily obtained. This
must be great boon in a busy office, where
most things, by long habit, are ultimately
referred to the chief of the staff and where
verbiage and circumlocHtion have had ii all
their own way"
Saws Saratoga correspondent: "Governor
Cornell and Ex-Secretaries of State Blaine
and Evarts may sometimes be seen in
group together--a strangely sorted trio, rep
reseuting widely divergent lines of thought
within the Republican party, and each pur-
suing methods of politics widely differing,
and all succeeding as few men succeed in
life. Evarts has worked out The problem
through great intellect, high motives, and
severe purity of life-a great man; Blaine,
through ready adaptability to circumstances,
activity of mind, if not profundity, unbur-
dened by embarrassing scrUples of conscience;
and Cornell by slow, Flooding, careful work,
unrelieved by a single touch of genius in all
his eventful life"
A correspondent writes of David Dudley
Field: He owns some Il, 600 acres in Stock
bridge, Mass, much of which was acquired
in order to keep modern improvements from
desolsting the quiet old town. He bought
$4,000 of the stock OF a new railroad COM
pany TO keep the road from coming there;
bought fifty acres around tine rapids IN the
Housatonic TO keep paper-mill from going
up there; bought 800 acres around Ice Glen
TO keep vandals from cutting off the wood
and destroying the grandeur of that famous
frigid gorge, where l cut good slip OF Ice
from the surface OF the cavern-pool only
yesterday. And he bought mile square of
the swamp to keep that cool retreat from
being improved opt OF sight"
Sir Theodore Martin, who is to write about
Lord Lyndhurst, has quite recovered from
the fit of depression caused by hard WORK on
the Life of the Prince Coasort, Every body
wonders at his undertaking fresh work when
he is full of years and honors- He Is one OF
the most agreeable men in London, and with
Aytoun wrote Bon Gunther's Book Of Ballads,
including The alabama Due, The AmeTIcdz's
Apostrophe to Boz, and the famous parody on
LoeksLey Hall Alfred Tennyson, who is an
intimate friend of HE, often eongratulates
him on the line
Worship Mighty Mumbo Jumbo in the Mountains
of the Mosn.
Sir Theodore, however, is not what is called
funny man. in conversation, but serious,
political, critical and artistic. His wife, az
as everybody knows, wac Helen FAueii, and
ia charming a woman a. che was an
actress.