Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-20
Personal MENTION.

In the National Portral
Salvigi, the actor, 6Dds tne Lpsnsn IAN
gusge too difficult to mss'ef' anu nAS gwen
up in despair.
Senator Joseph E. Brosn, OIL Heoigs, VII
leave Atlanta next week ioi
trip to Mexico.
Prof. Blsckie has resigned Inc Sreek cnaiI
in Edinburgh University, WHICH lac nAs He'u
for thirty years.
The new premier of Nova Sco.is Is Nv, twenty
six years old. He wss sdnii''eo 10 Tue OAR
seven years ago.
A stout, aristocratic g.;.a Ia 40. .J =
Branch disciplines his sPPeue y tHAn5 MS
meals while seated in ues
Ex-Secretary Dick Thompson, nov en-
gagged in Panama canal AFFAIRS, Is IN excel
fsnt health and ia taking great interest IN
the nolitical afT.;rs OF Indiana, where he Is
popular.
An Edinburgh professor, being driven to
church was asksd a double price. and
he demanded tn. reason. The cabmsn told
him II was 10 discourage travelling on the
| Sabbath.
Ina New York bsr-roon, the other night,
a series of athletic sports was 1i'Srsineu py
| a butting match between two hackmen. 1t
was Montaigne who wisely remarked that
at is good to rub and poiisn our Drain
| against that of others.
The closing events ir the career Oh the
late Fun Chew, a laundryman IN fass2lc, n.
J., passed with noteworthy eeieriy. ne was
seized in the forenoon with core; before
noon he had shot himself. he died early In
| the afternoon, and at O'CLOCK ne was ouiieo
with Chinese ceremonies.
A good-sized soldier Is seldom seen In
France. The ranks OF the army show why,
enduring men, but they do not LOOK so sPien-
| did as the German soldiers or the heavy dra-
qoons of Queen Vicioria's service. There
are many peasant soldiers In Paris, and they
are particularly small men.
| M. Camille FIammarien, the eminent
French astronomer, predicts the prooaoie
end of the world by its coming IN contact
with a comet which he says wall MAKE iis
appearance in September. The comet will
nsss 40 near tbe earth, he declares, that the
planet will have great difficulty in escaping
destruction.
The wife of resident of Cambridge, Mass.
duriue the past week bought some chicken;
of man that had knocked at the kitchen
door. "How can let you know ii l wan
| snv more?n she said as the vendor was
| about to depart. "Oh," he replied, lust ad
dress letter to Elmwood TO Prof. Lowell
minister to England, and shall get 1t. Ihs
man was Mr.. Lowell's gardener.
The evening before the first periormanc.
of ParsJal supper wss given In BAyreutt
to Wagner by his friends. The composer
| took advantage of the occasion to express
his deem thanks for the unselfsh assistance
rendered him throughout his life by his
| friends. Franz Liszt, who sat by bis side a
the banquet table, he said, had called hin
back from solitude in former years, and hac
reconciled him with the world when he wa
quite respondent and abandoning himself tt
melancholy and despair.
A correspondent of the Atlanta C5nstitu
ton writes: Il find an unusually large mum
Der of rich men in North Carolina. There
| are several men that can be called million
aires. Mr.. Paul Cameron, OF Hillsboro, Ii
worth quite million, and lost 1000 slaves
| by the war. Mr.. r. S. Tucker, OF Raleigh
the great dry goods merchant, is worth prob
| ABLY as MUCK Besides those L have men
toned there are TO be found two or three mel
worth from a quarter to half million II
almost every town in the State"
Shelley, Trelawny Gays, was not good III
| recitiug poetry (this, however, have seer
| stated contrariwise in some other authority
| nor yet Byron, whose voice was full and me-
lodious. but he had an affected twapg in re-
citing, probably acquired at Harrow. Ire.
Iawny possesses the velvet cap-blue, now
| much faded-which Byron wore for about
the last three years OF his life, he making
| little use of hat. Byron's head is known
to have been small, Shelley's still more So
| Byron's went up sloping TO the apex. The
shape of Shelley's could not be discerned
owing to the thick growth OF his hair.
The latest eccentric feat of King Ludwig,
of Bavaria, was manifested in his sttend-
ance at the performance of Parsifai at Bay
| reuth. 1t was officially announced that he
| would leave Castle Berg ON July 26th at
O'Clock in the afternoon. Instead, however,
he stole away, to avoid the much-hated pub
lie demonstrations on July 18th at $3.50
O'Clock in the morning. Travelling by special
train, he did not go direct to Bayreuth, but
stopped in an open field, some distanc, from
the town, and alighted at the little cabin of
a trsck-walker, from which, hastily and all
unnoticed by the public, he made his way 10
his lodge, 6tly termed "The Hermitage
From letter picked up by an army lieu
tenant while on a scout in Texas with the
rangers in quest of murderer, it is believed
that Frank, survivor of the pair of Missouri
despersdoes, "the james boys" is heading
across the country for San Francisco. An
uncle of this villain is respectable queens
ware merchant in Kansas City, Mo. In an
swer TO the statement that Jesse was the
smarter of the two brothers, the old gentle
man is reported to have said: at is Just the
other way. Frank was shrewder thas Jesse.
He Is credited, and no doubt justly, with
doing the brain work, while Jesse's special
ability was in another line. Jesse's mother
is still living on the old homestead in Clay
county, and his wife is there, too, l believe"
President Arthur, it is stated on the
authority OF Ex-Governor Smith, of Wiscon-
sin, has accepted an invitation to vist Mil
waukee in September and inspect the State
fair. Postmaster-Genersl Howe upon in
Producing the President to Mr.. Smith said in
reference to the proposed Western journey:
"Of course he will come. / know he will"
''No, you don't know I'll come" tartly re-
piled the President. "You don't know any
more about what / intend to do than you
did before L vetoed the river and harbor
bill" This retort created quite a laugh.
Just before the delegation withdrew the
President said: "Laiyng all joking aside,
have fully made up my mind to go to Mil
waukee, and will in all probability reach
your city about the middle of September"