Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-26
PERSONALS.

| death by sin he turns around and embraces
religion.
Take one quart of dried apples and a gall
Ion OF warm water if you ant to be swell
young man.
| Nothing shocks the man who regularly at
tends his lodge more than to receive a tenn
perance tract.
The cost to the British government of set
ling down full-srmed British soldier in
| Alexandria is about 5000.
The Turkish minister at Washington has
| seven wives but left them all in Turkey.
Diplomacy begins at home.
Mark Twain remarks that all we need to.
/ possess the finest nsvy in the world is ships
for We have plenty of water.
An old Philadelphis druggist says that no
soda-water dealer can use genuine syrups and
charge less than ten cents glass.
! Gladstone is said to be not more eloq uent
Than Lord-Chief.J ustice Coleride, who will
visit the United States in the autumn.
Arab must be cobbler. He says he will
stick to the last.-New York Neus. With the
possibility of being waxed. That's awl.
Heaven" said the preacher, "pever helps
man who will not act" And then he won
dered why 50 many of his congregation were
stage struck.
"What inspires love?" inquiries a poet.
| is very little affection in this world. A
| hungry kiss is a hollow mockery.
The Whitehall RepieD finds that the sue
| cessfui business genius of to-day Is man of
good education, when contras.ed with the
| self-made man of a past generation.
Sculptor Valentines recumbent figure of
General r. E. Lee has been placed in the
Lee mausoleum at Lexington, Va. The
figure will not be unveiled until next June.
The two British princes, ALDER Victor and
George of Wales, who have been making the
tour of the world, have Just been confirmed
at Whippingham church, Newport, Isle OF
Wight.
Boston Post: philadelphia manufactured
S10000,000 worth of umbrellas last year, and
yet there were lots of politicians there who
didn't know enoug to get under cover when
it rained."
Take man who would steal the pennies
from his grandmother's eyes, and you will
find chap capable of the most virtpous in
dlgnation over the most trifing misconduct
of others.
A bogus duke of Richmond has been vic
umlZlDg New York hotel-keepers in small |
way. Men with handles to their names ind |
gullible admirers, even in this republican |
country of ours.
Ex-Governor Smith, of Virginia, who is |
known to fame as Extra Billy" has reached |
his eighty fifth year. He says that he is |
still blessed with sound head, whole heart |
and faithful stomach.
Mr.. F. h Underwood is writing biogra-
ply OF Whittier at the request of the poet. |
The same writer will also prepare biogra-
oily of DR.. Holmes, the latter having given |
his assent to the project.
There is a Cninaman in San Francisco |
with red hair. His countrymen treat him /
with superstitious respect. At the table he
mas the best of everything, and at all cere-
monials he takes precedence.
The retention of several Austrians who Wis
tied the forts at A boukir under the mistaken
impression that they had been captured by
the English, appears to show that the Hyp-
tan insurgents are not fighting against
Britain alone.
Herbert Spencer not only went into retire.
ment when he landed in this great country,
cate. He is sleepless, and therefore he must
be projected against the inclemency of the
weather and the importantly of the inter-
viewer.
Now that the Baltimore Oriole has been
denounced from the pulpit, we expect to
hear that it will be a creditable affair, COM
pared with the pageant OF last year. Free
advertising of this sort does the Oriole no
harm and the pulpit no good.
A wise, able and timely speech was that
delivered at the bankers convention at Sara
toga by Mr. John Thompson of New York.
be believes that while incorporating is we'll
enough, any system is dangerous that does
not look ahead and consider the effect on
the political elements of the country.
The latest addition to the catalogue of
criminals is a six-year-old Kentucky boy
who has cut his eight-year-old sister, prob
ably fatally, because she picked up aud kept
an apple that he dropped. His youth may
be pleaded in extenuation, but if he is so
vindlctive at SIX, what would be be at twenty
sixf
White troops are better than black, even
in the tropics, if the statistics of the British
army medical department are to be trusted. |
The mortality of white soldiers in the West
Indies last year was a little over eight and
one-half in 1000, while the deaths amopg
their black comrades was more than nineteen
in 1000.
James E. Cooley, who recently died in
Italy, as a member of the book-pub lishing
firm of Cooley, Reese & Hill, and subse-
quently as an auctioneer Tor the book trade
in New York city, became widely known in
this country many years ago. He acquired
8 fortune in business and devoted much time
to foreign travel.
The Lee Memorial Association, after many
years work. have at last made final arrange
ments Tor Inc completlon OF tne maueoleum
OF General Robert E. Lee, at Lexington, in
Virginia, and the statute Of Lee will be I'M
yelled on Thursday, June %, 1888. Soon
afterward, on day yet to be appointed, the
of Washington and Lee University,
of which General Lee was president when
died, will be celebrated.
Judge Edward A. Thomas discusses, in the
North American Rerieg the value of oaths in
courts. In his judgment, the oath should be
dispensed with, as doing more harm
than good. He declares that the conscien-
tious man will tell the truth, when legally
called upon to do so, as thoroughly without
the oath as with it, and that dishonest per-
sons are seldom restrained by the utmost
of form. In short, he believes that
he oath has lost It's force as a restraint, and
is merely the formula of an exploded super
stition.
AYERS AoUF CURE has saved thousands