Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-17
Personal MENTION,

A Minnesota man, aged ffty-seven, recent
iy married the seventeen-year-old daughter
of his second wife.
Colonel George Ward Nichols is danger
ously ill, and can take no further part in thu
management of the Cincinnati operate fes-
tival.
The new Chinese minister brought with
him, among other delicacies lot of sharks
fins, birds nest, rice brandy and kind o.
cake never seen by American bakers.
A California man worth nearly 100000
recently attended the funeral of his son
Just before the coffin was lowered he I'M
screwed the silver handles, and, taking them
back to town, sold them TO an undertaken.
Since the Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, OF Brook
lyu, was elected to Congress, his old church
has been sold under the foreclosure of a
mortgage, and it is to be transformed into a
theaier, despite the bad luck which stage
traditions attach to such change.
The pope is about to present the French
Catholic church in Boston with a fac si'niL
reproduction OF the famous statue of St
Peter that stands against pier, near the
space upon which looks down the interior oil
the dome, in St. Peters church at Rome.
Mezzofanti, the wonderful Italian linguist
who knew sixty-four and talked forty-eight
languages turned his attention to language
because, when young priest, he found a
foreign sailor dying, who wanted to confess,
but could find no priest who could under
stand him.
Ferdinand Danger, the professional in
ventor of popular games, has just died in
Paris. 1t was he who first devised the con-
science album-that ingenious method OF
torture which consisted in obliging unhappy
victims to act down in black and white their
favorite likings and aversions.
The hero of William Blacks new novel,
iShandon Bells, is a shy but clever young Irish
man, a writer who at the opening of the
story is about to become the editor OF Lon
don journal. The capitalist who provides
the money for this undertaking is to be
sketched with good deal of force.
Two little brothers broke through the ice
on which they were skating in Cincinnati.
While they were clinging desperately to the
edge OF the ice and efforts were being made
to reach them, the elder one cried out, BE
sure and take Willie out first" But both
Willie and his generous brother were
drowned
Emir Pasha. the vail of Smyrna, has un-
dertaken to put down brigandage within the
territorial limits OF his rIi1yet. He has al
ready forwarded about sixty bandits heads
10 Stsmboul. For some time past small con-
signmeuts OF this nature have been dispatched
from Smyrna to the capital twice week,
with unbroken regularity.
The duke of Norfolk is q stsunch and de-
voted son of the Vatican. He has Just petit
toned the pope to allow him to divide the
large diocese Of Southwark, and TO allow
him to cree. new see at Arundel. In all
probability Leo will grant the request OF his
moneyed servant, and his grace will con
agnore erect a cathedral for the new diocese.
He Is now erecting enc at Norwich
The Hon. A. II. Stephens takes as hearty
and active an interest in the affairs of his
own farm-yard as in national questions. He
maintains personal Acquaintance with his
chickens, ducks and pigr, and having lately
lost a venerable and beloved mule at The
great age Of thirty-seven wears, he Is deeply
concerned about another named @Old Beck,
an interesting animal that has become an
invalid