Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-26
Personal MENTION.

The Prince Of Wales has bought tricycle.
for his own use.
Mr.. Sullivan and Mr.. Talmage put up at
the same hotel in Cleveland.
Senator George F. E Imunds, OF Vermont,
has continuously held his Office since 1866.
Gustave Dore is at work upon the statue
OF Alexander Dumas, which is intended for
the Place Malesherbes, in Paris.
Joaquin Miller lives hermit's lie in New
rk city, occupying rooms at the top of a
house and doing his own cooking.
Stephen A. Douglas has Just been released
from the St. Louis workhouse, and John
Smith has also been set at liberty.
Frank Moulton, the friend of Mr.. Beecher
and Mr.. Triton, has gone to fighting oleomar-
garine as the friend OF country butter.
Generals Sheridan, Hancock, Howard and
Terry have been invited to be present at the
Garfield obsequies ii Washington tomorrow.
The brain OF Hawthorne was as great as
that Of Daniel Webster, and his compre-
hension OF nature was much more true
CollyeT.
David a. Wells, the free-trader, is men
toned a spry, wiry-lookiDg old gentle
man, with high, clear voice and pleasant
manner.
President Arthur has made over five hun
dred nominations since the beginning of his
administration, thirty-fve of them from
New York.
NJ. Roustan, lately French consul at
Tunis, who is to replace NJ Outrey as min
lister of France at Washington, is like Mr..
West, widOwer.
For fifty years Clement Bates has rung the
town bell in Plymouth, Massachusetts,, from
three to FIVE times daily. He is now over
ninety years old.
Shipherd, who has been making all this
fuss about the Peruvian Company, is de-
scrlbed as stout, middle-aged man, with a
ruddy face, framed by light hair and bearj,
and the look of shrewd speculator not
easily abashed by rebufs.
The death OF Napoleonic veteran is re-
ported from Vigo at the age of one hundred
and seven years. Napoleon III had on
several occasions offered.him a fat pension
with a snug corner at the Iuvalides but ne
persisted in refusing both.
The Vienna managers are still cursing and
crashing their teeth over the barbarity of the
, theatrical inspection committee, which has
been reforming their houses so radically that
they are likely to be converted into churches
ere long, or closed altogether.
Judge Davis boards at the National Hotel
in Washington, whore his sitting-room re-
minds one of an Illinois law office. There
is no carpet on the floor, large wood fire
crackles and blazes on the hearth, the chairs
are capacious, with rush seats, and at night
candles supply the light.
An insurance man says Of the thirteen
at-table superstition: I'll the party average
thirty years there is only chance for one
eighth a man to die; even il they average
fifty years there is only one-seventh of a
chance for one, and the average must be
above seventy before statistics call for the
m nf q ha
year."
Il ola, according TO the Paris writer of the
London World. goes noWhere, sees nobody,
knows nobody, never has known any BODY
and has no society, and the question is:
When does he observe? He makes one visit
to scene or person that he wishes to
describe and finds every thing in prim order.
The worst idea he receives at second hand
from his disciples.
1t has been arranged that Cetywsyo shall
be taken to England by Mr.. H. Shepstone
the son of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, out OF
whose South African policy the troubles in
Zululand largely grew. Some fears have
been expressed at the wisdom of the selec-
ton, sin, Mr.. Shepstone viii be called upon
to interpret speeches by the fallen king de-
nouncing the policy OF his own father.
Alexander Mitchell, president OF the St.
Paul railroad, owns a new private "palace"
car that is said to be one of the finest in the
world. 1t is painted a deep brown and is
finished in gold, with silver-plated railiRgs,
handles and corners. 1t contains parlors, a
library for writing, sitting room, sleeping
rooms, kitchen, dining room, and ali i'm
proyements known to modern car builders
Stilson Hutchens, editor OF the Washing
ton Post, was talking recently with party,
of which Gail Hamilton was one, about the
Mormons. Hutchins took a decided stand
sg inst them, while Gail broke in, saying
'The only difference, Mr.. Hutchins, between
you and the Mormon men is that they drive
their team all abreast and you drive them
tandem" The result can be better imagined
than described.
The late Chinese professor, Ko Kun Hua,
was not without a sense of humor. He was
riding on the horse-cars from Boston to Cam
bridge one day, when an Irishman took a
seat next to him and entered into conversa-
ton, intending to ridicule the good profess
sor. Touching his silk garment, the Irish
man said: "Nery nice-make money wash
ing~ "No," replied the professor. "All
the Chinese are washers, amt they?" he
continued. mo-" he replied. "Tbree classes
in China-nobiemen, educated men. l be-
long to the second-the washers-what you
call them?-like many Irish in United
States?'
MI. AalnldSe sdlu 10 reporter Oh lhe
Cleveland Press: ~ am inclined to the belief,
entertained by many, of Christ's second oom-
ing. Mind you, have not quite accepted
the theory yet. / have map given me by
9th, OF the Western Union Telegraph Com
paDy, showing the electric system of the
world. | was surprised to find that the teIe-
graph goes everywhere almost Now the
world will make rapid strides during the
life Of the present generation, and a man will
laa rnt Ia 10 .rn 81,
and speak to all nations. If Christ should
come it could be telegraphed al over the
world, and in ten minutes every soul would
know and believe. Then all these doubts and
fears would be dispelled and whole nations
would be converted in day"