Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-26
PERSONAL MENTION.

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Jay A. Hubbell has an annual income O
$4,000 from Lake Superior copper mines.
Judge Tourgee is said to have cleared the
comfortable sum of $4,000 from the sale o.
| The Fools Errand.
marck is plotting the overthrow of republi.
canism in France.
Meissonier, who was quite i'll recently, has
presented his physician with portrait Of
himself, the giyer, finely executed in water
colors, and estimsted to be worth $4,000.
| A young man who graduated in Iowa the
| other day, said in his Grafton: Journalism
| is the grave of genius" He is now engaged
| as picnic reporter on a village weekly. He
| is not afraid.
| Lord Waterford has determined to return
to Curraghmore, his noble Irish home, to
which he is deeply attached. The cellar at
| Curraghmore is probably as well arranged Al
| any other in Ireland.
The Rev. Charles E. Stowe, son of Mrs
| Harriet Beecher Stowe, does not get along
we'll with the members of his flock at Saco,
Ne. His views are thought 10 be too liberal,
and some of the congregation object to his
evolution notions.
Preston Powers, the son OF Hiram Powers,
| the great sculptor, has just completed the
cast for a marble bust of Garfield. 1t has
been pronounced perfect by the wife and
mother OF the dead president. The bust will
be scuiptered in Rome.
M. d. Bikolas, of Athens, has resumed his
enterprise of translating Shakespeare into
modern Greek. Three plays, Romeo and
juliet, OLheHo and King Lear, appeared in
1876. He has now issued Macbeth and Ham,
lei, and more are TO follow.
Rufus Hatch says: 81 was one of a corps
of engineers that did the first days work that
was ever done on a railroad in Wisconsin, I
held onto the hind end of the chain and
stopped it at the 100-foot stroke. That is
the way commenced engineering"
Ex-Governor Addison C. Gibbs, c: Ore
gon, one of the few surviving "war govern
ora" has Just been admitted to the bar of
the United States Supreme Court. This
honor he was entitled to thirty years ago,
but he has never awaited himself of it until
now.
George William Curtis thirty years ago
asked Bancroft how far he proposed to con-
tinue his history of the United States, and
his reply was: "If were an artist painting
picture of this ocean my work would stop
at the horizon. / can see no further. Ny
work will end with the adoption of the con-
stitution. All beyond that is experiment"
A Western reporter recently asked Gen.
eral Harvey, the veteran of the Florida and
Mexican wars, what his actual rank on the
retired lit was: "Why," said he, "Pm -.
save me, whether I am Encouragement or a
acknowledgement. Let's zee; guess it's
brevet; but 1 don't know. But il makes
no difference-rank is for younger men,"
The statre of Sir Rowland Hill, author of
the penny post, which has been erected by
public subscriptions, and was recently un-
yelled by the Prince of Wales, is a fiue
work of bronze on a granite pedestal. The
whole is fifteen feet high, and cost about
$4,000. The sculptor was Mr.. Onslow Ford.
Upon the pedestal is carved the date 1910,
the year in which the penny post was estab-
lished.
While the pope was taking his usual
drive in the Vatican garden tome days ago
the report of a gun was heard close at hand.
The coachman took fright, whipped his
horses, cried out "Helpi Assasinsp and
drove at full speed into the courtyard of
the papal palace, causing great consterna-
ton. On investigation by q squad of we'll.
armed guards dead cat was found-shot
by the keeper of a neighboring vineyard
Since the downfall of the Southern Con-
federacy, Mr.. Judah P. Benjamin, 'sthe
brains of the rebel government" has en-
joyed great prosperity as a lawyer in En-
gland. Recently, on looking over his list of
Cases, ne IOuuQ tndt u 1uciuueu JUST nail oil
all the suits for the entire realm that we're
before the House of Lords on appeal. His
wife and daughter now live in Paris, the
latter having married French army officer
The face OF Richard Wagner, as pictured
in the frontispiece of the forthcoming Cen
tary shows an eItraor binary combination Of
strength and weakness. The accompanying
paper on the composer, How Wagner Makes
Operas," is the work of Mr.. John r. G. Has
sard. Among other articles in this number
is one on the studios of the chief London
artists, the illustrations of which show that
these gentlemen do not lack for beauty and
luxury in their homes.
His royal highness the duke of Edinburgh |
is rather fond of wearing much iewelry, par
finger rings. One day he met on |
gentleman named Armstrong,
who is a privileged character" and whose |
.ccentricities consist in a horror of jewelry |
and love of calling himself by name. See |
ing the dukes fingers covered with jewels,
his singularly candid person waved him off |
With his umbrella, and fairly screamed: |
go awayi Armstrong can't be seen speak,
ing with you'll Too many ringsp.
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