Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-17
PERSONAL MENTION.

II Is the 1atner oil Twins VINO Knows VIVA
it is to be up all night with the boys.
A Michigan applicant for teachers Ger
tificate defined man as a "Maskaline noun
II is reported that General Abe Buforc
will soon start "Christian Army" paper a
Louisville.
Mr.. Stephens, of Georgia, never brings The
day 10 a satisfactory close without an after.
dinner rubber OF whist.
It is little curious that the person who
sends in a question and signs il "Constsn
Reader" invariably asks about something
that has been published US times.
One Horace Shields was convicted at Chat
taDooga, Tenn, on Tuesday last of "borrow.
ing" an umbrella from an acquaintance and
refusing TO return it, and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year.
Fanny Kemble says that Disraeli told her
he thought Dublin should be burned down
He could see the use of London and Paris
but not OF Dublin. Disraeli never visited
Ireland, though he directed its government
for eight years, and it was within twelve
hours travel.
Slavery still exists in modified form in
Siam, but the youthful king, whose half
brother, Prince Prisdang, is soon to visit
this country, has shown a strong disposition
to abolish it as soon as he can do SO without
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English government is TO give him its moral
support.
Mr. Benn Pitmsn, OF Cincinnati, whose
wife died three or four years ago and was
cremated at Washington, Pa, and who is
nearly seventy years of age, is reported to be
about TO marry che of his pupils, young
lady of twenty years. The young lady is
said 10 be possessed of considerable property
inherited from her father.
Taylor said: "My best pun was that which
/ made to Sheridan, who married Miss
Ogle. We were supping together at the
Shakespeare, when, the conversation turning
on Gsrrick, L asked him which of his per-
form auces he thought the best. co. said he,
the Lear, the Lear No WONDER said /,
syou we're fond of Leer when you married
an Ogle.'
There is a pretty little touch of nature in
one of Emerson's letters TO Carlyle, just pub
lished in England. 81 have new reason
wrote the American, "why should not come
to England-a blessed babe, named Ellen,
almost three weeks old, little fair, soft
lump of contented humanity, necessarily
sleep ping, and with an air OF injurious secur-
ity that says she has come to stay, has come
to be loved-which has nothing mean and
quite piques me-"
George Francis Train, only a few days
ago, promised 10 keep still; but here he is
again: "How can people live who eat death?
Is not meat, fish, game, eggs, butter, milk
dead? Entailed diseases of all living things
in creation, added to entailed corruption OF
m ankind, kills off humanity at an average
of thirty three years. Corn, OATS, wheat,
barley, 5000 years old, taken from Egyptian
mummy in Thebes catacomb will sprout to-
day and produce life to man? But will
dead pig? calf? sheep? oyster? eggs? milk?
fish sprout if planted? Death in this case
only produces DEATH"
The persons in this country who claim to
be the heirs-at-law of the late John Burn
side, the millionsire sugar planter and spec
ulator of New Orleans, are encouraged by
the news which their attorney has Just
brought back from Ireland. The would-be
heirs, represented by Mr.. Drummer, are the
and great-grandchildren of
William Burnside, who came to this country
from County Tyrone in 1892. and died in
1919. William, according to their claim,
gas the brother of Johns father, and Mr.
Burners Investigations have convinced him
hat such was indeed the case. The estate
IS valued at from S5,000,000 to $4,000, 900.
The heirs will all be comfortably off-when
hey get the money.
Henry V. s. Seymour, venerable artist
IF Buffalo, considers himself in luck. He
vas about TO make picture wedges from a
block of wood which had been picked up
rom heap of rubbish when he discovered
IN the side of it certain dim outlines which
invited examination. What was his sur
prise when, having cleaned the panel, he be-
1eld the benign features of Peter Stuyvesant
looking forth from its vanished surface, at
.ested by an inscription in the corner and the
late 1643 The face is strong and hand
'ome the eyes are large and the mouth and
nose are finely cut. The ears are small and
lie close against a well-shaped head which Is
covered with closely cropped hair: A thick,
straight ihoustacbe and trim beard adorn the
ace, double ruff encircles the neck and the
BODY wears a blouse-like garment, with
carlet band running diagonally across the
,reast. Mr.. Seymour has no doubt that the
painting Is an authentic portrait, painted in
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