Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-16
CURRENT NEWS.

Stories for children used to begin: "Onc'
| upon a time there lived" Now they be
gin: Vengeance, blood, death, shouted Rat
| tlesnake JIM" or words to that effect-Ne,
York Mercury.
Miss Belle Braden is said to be The only
| feminine railroad officer in the country
She has just been elected treasurer of the
Waynesburg and Washington railroad in
| Pennsylvania, and is acting psymaster.
The American violinist Nellie Carpenter
is awakening very much interest in Paris
1t is extraordinary to see little girl only
twelve years of age rendering classical
| music in SO satisfactory q manner as this
| child does.
The little villa I1fsiysee,n near the baths Of
| Ems, which is now occupied by the ex-Em.
press Eugenie, seems to be favorite with
| dethroned queens. Queen Csrlotta, of Spain
and the Princess Dolgorouki have both re.
| sided there.
! A Western woman named her girl baby
after a noted lady, and wrote TO her about it.
The lady sent a thick, heavily-sealed envel-
ope "not to be opened until the babes thir.
tieth birthday" 1t was terrible revenge to
Philadelphia Netrs.
London World: al can see no reason why
lady should not adopt a certain cut and
color, and (if it really suits her, and cannot
be improved upon) stick to it forever after.
She would be at all events original and ac-
quire an accentuated personality"
Chicago's 1900 lawyers are deploring the
decline in legal business in the past few
years. For instance, in 1875 there were
almost II, 200 suits begun in the courts Of
law, while in 1881 there were 6738. This
may be bad for the lawyers, but it is un-
doubtedly good for the community at large
and the great West ia absolutely suffering
| from a scarcity of attorneys
1t has been well known in England. as well
as in America, for some time, that the imme-
| diate descendants Of the soap boiler who has
grown rich cannot abide the smell of soap.
while the grandchildren of the iunk-dealer,
who left a million of dollars. set their dogs
on the fellows who now cry "Old ragsp 1t
is not peculiarly of American nature, but
an infrmity of conscious vulgarity every
wherever in Edinburgh and London.
The Magyar population of Hungary, ac-
cording to tie latest census, ia 6,l65, ,08S.
This gives an increase in ten years Of only
1857. 1t includes, moreover, over half the
100000 Jewish population of the country,
which is well known 10 increase numerically
with rapidsty. Nor has the loss by emigra-
tion been as large proportionately as in Ger
many, which nevertheless shows a large
increase in population. 1t is evident that
the Magyar race is losing ground.
Wool growing has become so much of an
interest in Texas that new paper has been
started at Fort Worth to represent it. The
paper is called the Ieras Wool Grouer, and is
so well filed with interesting matter strictly
pertaining to the business that it is evident
the field is amply broad TO sustain the new
enterprise. Among the Items Of interest
noted is one to the effect that two clips, one
of 100000 pounds and the other of $4,000,
have just been marketed at Abilene.
The preliminary surveys for the proposed
reclamation Of the Zuyder Zee have been fin
ished, and the work of building the walls
will SON begin. A dixie about twenty four
and half miles in length will be constructed
of sand and faced with clay, reaching sixteen
feet above the level Of the sea, which will
make il about Elk and a half feet above the
highest tide. The thickness of the dixie will
hs such a1 70 enable II to resist IIae heevs4sf
seas. Operations viii begin at four different
points, and the calculation is to have il COM
pleted in from seven to ten years, at a cost of
S46,000,000.
This interesting bit about Ruskin: He is
said to have sold Meissonier's picture of Ma
poleon for $4,000, tor which he had given
$1,000 a few years ago: Referring to this, the
Herdtfs cable correspondent says ''the pro-
fessor used to speak OF it in his Oxford lee
lures as a consummate example of consum-
mate bad art magnificent only as a techniqlte.D y
The London World remarks on his good for
tune, saying: $50 it happens that the man
whose whole life has been a protest against
bargains and business in art has, by freak
of fortune, made almost the largest profit
known to have been realized on any picture
of modern times"
The city Of New York -EiA-have large
bill TO meet II a Beseny decision Of the Court
of Apps~fsfs not modified. The judges de-
eide that the police commissioners have no
right to withhold pay from policemen who
are absent on sick leave. The amount held
back last year by the board was $4,000. 1t
Is announced that on the strength Of this de- |
cision many suits will be tegun BY police |
men against the city treasury. Commenting /
IN this decision, the Tribune ssys: "a police 1
nan who is truly i'll ought not to be allowed 4
o suffer, but if the commissioners cannot go 1
1ehind the returns of the family physician
he city will have TO pay for no small
mount of shamming"
The tolls collected on the Erie canal for
he month of May aggregated $4,000. In
day, 1881, they Wers S33 900. The boats
leared this year were $50. In May of last
ear they were only Sol. The tolls collected
D June 1st, this year, were S65,424, as
gainst $50, ,996 70 June /, 1881. There have
cen 1851 bosts cleared this year, or $50
lore than were cleared in the same period
.st year. The New York Herald pronouncts I
1is exhibit gratifying one, "for it proves
nat the canal, when made free, as it will be
v the peoples ratification OF the pending .
mendment 70 the constitution, will be able
hold its own against all the competing
mes OF land and water transportation"