Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-06
PERSONAL MENTION.
ere are los lawyers in Boston.

There are los lawyers in Boston.
Philadelphia has temperance editor who
went 10 a restaurant and ordered "two ponies
of cream" fa
Artemus Hale, the Oldest ex-member OF
Congress, died last night at Brockton, Mass,
aged ninety-eight years.
Mayor Grace, of New York, granted per-
mission on Monday 10 twenty -seven children
under fourteen years of age to perform at
Wallack's Theater.
The Pail Mall Gazette says of Congress
man S. s. Cox as a writer that he likes TO
make correct classical illusions and that
his style is loo jerky.
"In order to make a good bottle of cham
payne, at least two years of constant work
and care is necessary" writes John /. Fisher,
United States consul at Rheims, France.
A citizen OF Tennessee has been sent to the
penitentiary for failing TO return an um-
brella. If this be justice, and justice were
ministered TO all, who should escape the
peniteniiary?
Caught in passing her home: He-"How
gorgeous the moon is tonight! II is quite
fulll" She-"How does that happen? II
wasn't at the barbecue, was it?" The moon
beamed, but she didn't Silence reigned su-
preme.
Two hundred refugees were saved during
the bombardment of Alexandria in the Cath
olic chapel by the ingenuity of the Arab
doorkeeper, who told the soldiers that the
place was empty and there was nothing to
steal or he would have taken it himself
The Boston Traveller thinks the government
of the United States should establish penal
colony where obnoxious citizens could be
sent for their country's good. That would
be the proper way to dispose of Parson Hicks
if he dares to write book about Guiteau.
Merrill Hanson, of Rollinsford, N. H.,
farmer, burned his barn last week, thinking
his wife had taken refuge therein from the
drunken beating. The flames extended to
the house, and both buildings were con-
sumed. The wife, however, had exercised
due caution and vacated the premises alto
gether.
brought to New York two interesting hu m an
packagss-nameiy, George and Henry Grid
ley, the former being eight years old, and
the latter six. Each bore on his back a
placard, reading as follows: Forwarded
from the National Steamship Company for
Mrs. Julie GridIey, 5 Mcdonald court,
Fifteenth street, Philadelphia" The little
fellows have been at an industrial school in
Manchester, Eng, and were left there by
y,
three years ago.
1 am not personal acquaintance of Presi-
dent Arthur and know nothing whatever of
bis private outcomings or ingoings; but do
know that, while / have read in various
public Journals that President Arthur spends
his Sundays in heavy sleep, getting over his
Saturday orgies, every Sunday morning
see him walk into st. Johns church, leading
his little daughter, quiet and gentle-looking
gentleman who might have been drunk the
night before for all 1 can prove 10 the con-
trary, only he does not look like it and / do
not believe it.-Mrs. Mary Cemmer.
In the Fortnighay critic says: "One of
the most unwholesome-because unreal
tendencies of the present day is to force an
interest in art beyond its natural limits" II
is, il is; when a man has been led through a
friends new house and seen painted pea
cocks on deor-panels, landscapes on coal
scuttles and embroidered battle scenes on
spIttoon-covers; been compelled 10 admire
Ping dogs done in blue china and drink ice
water from a pitcher faithfully modelled
after an Africans head, he is apt to be
blamed for feeling that the influence of art
is almost as unwholesome as that of small
pox.
Edwin Lippincott, of Philadelphia, is de-
scribed as forty, lean, partially bald, and
horribly ugly. But he is a book agent and
fascinating talker. In peddling
from house 10 house he meets a great many
girls, and it seems to be his way whenever he
gets acquainted with one he likes to try to
marry her. Those who accept his offer are
taken without delay TO some clergyman or
magistrate and formally united to him. A
detective, whose sister had married Lippin-
colt, was able at two hours notice TO assemble
three of his wives in court, and it Is believed
hat canvass of the city would discover
many more.
A statue in clay Of Oliver Cromwell has
been placed in the private corridor behind
he House of Lords, with what object no one
seems to know. 1t is all the more surprising
that there is no statue of the protector in |
London, as his features might be exactly |
reproduced. At Mr.. Wilkinson's near Seven |
,aks, is divers head. 1t is supposed to have |
,een blown down from the top OF Westmin- |
ter Hall, where it had been placed, picked |
I'D, and sold to an ancestor of Mr.. Wilkinson. |
The head has been embalmed, and the hair |
md the features are in excellent preserva-
ion. There is the hole in the skull made |
" the spike on which it was impaled, also a
lole where large wart has been cut out.
George Foulty, of BelIefontaine, O., had
'een married two months, and life was to
i'm already desert in anticipation. So he
rank to intoxication, lay down on his bed, |
nd shot himself exactly through the center
( his forehead. This was on July 9th, and /
zhen the doctors two weeks later heard him
escribe the sensation as he felt the bullet |
'enetrate his skull, pass through the brain
nd strike the bone at The back of the head,
hey were persuaded that Foulty had an ex-
optional brain cavity. At the present time, |
espite the oozing of brain from the wound,
Thich has been probed three times, Foulty is
and devotes mach time to smok-
ng cigars and promenading around the
ouse.
Colonel "Fred" Burnaby, the English
oldier and author, almost drives to despair
he type-setters who have his manuscript to
cal with. Six feet four inches tall, he cam
OF well stoop over an ordinary table, 50 he
nprovises writing-tablet out of the side of
q old portm anteau, places ii on his knee,
nd then whirls off sheet after sheet with
Iartling rapidity. The unique hieroglypbs
18th which he tells of his ride to Khiva, his
alloon adventure, or the events Of his pc
tical novel, are sometimes formed with
en-, sometimes with pencil, and sometimes
18th a wooden stylet, only few sentences
cling written with one before it Is discarded
Dr. another implement of torture-io COM
the color OF his ink is changed |
lmost as frequently.
Charles A. Dana. ex-secretary Of war, and
ditor of the New York Sun, Who is bitter
nemy of General Grant, pays the following
-ibute to one trait of his character: "Gen-
raj Grant never swezrs. In all our ac-
uaintance with him We never heard him
tier proiane word. His example in this
aspect was az consistent as il was con-
picuous Most army officers will swear
hen they are excited. General Scott used
, swear. General Sherman will put in an
/, th now snd then 70 give emr,hasis tn his |
ieas, and General Sheridan can make the
ir lurid with his cursing. Not SO with Gen.
ral Grant. We have been with him in
,me of the most trying circumstances of his
lilitary career, and can testify that no
suse of anxiety or of anger has ever drawn |
ny sort of an oath from his lipsn
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