Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Too-Too is the name of a postofice just
established in Madison county, Ala.
A United States cent OF 1898, of beauti
! ful dark olive color, and almost uncirculated
sold at auction in Baltimore, last week, fol
$40.
Applications for tickets to the Guiteau
| hanging are arriving in Washington from
all parts OF the country, but the exhibition
| is likely to be private
! A colored boy of Tallahassee cut off the
| fingers of playfellow. When he was asked
about it he said he could not tell lie, and
| that he did it with his little Ratchet.
The Adams Express Company has put all
| its men in New York in uniform. The coat
has two broad paits on the back and two on
the breast, and is girt with three-inch belt
| The entire French coast is about to be
| lighted by electricity, with steam trumpets
for fog signals, at a first cost of about
| 81 100000 and an annual maintenance of
| about $4,000.
The London Times expresses the belief
that before the end of twenty years the ex-
port of coal from the United States to
Europe, and elsewhere abroad, will form as
important feature of shipment bread
stuffs are now.
A disconnected member OF the Greek
Church in Strumnitza, Turkey, became an
apostate. Before doing SO he roundly cursed
the hat aud beard of the bishop under whose
ecclesiastical jurisdiction he had lived. For
this scandalous sin he is to undergo trial.
The fastest passage ever made between
Queenstown and Cape Henlopen was made
by the American line steamship Illinois, in
October, 1880, in eight days, fifteen hours
and thirty-fou minutes. Until some other
vessel can do better than this the Illinois is
entitled to the championship in the matter
OF speed.
4 recent examination of the physical
causes which may produce the shortsighted-
ness so common among students and others
who work by artificial light tends to show
that it is not the light go much as the heat
which produces that abnermal condition of
the eye This fact, if it be a fact, furnishes
an argument for the electric light.
Artificial mother Of pearl has been made
by an ingenious Swiss, after several years.
experiments 1t is 80 accurately manufac-
tured that the false cannot be distinguished
from the real substance, while, further, the
imitation mother of pearl can be produced
in any color or nodded in any shape, and
is, besides, impervious to weather.
The children of the blacklist Africans are
born white. In month they become pale
yellow; in year, brown; at four years, dirty
black, and at thirty, glossy black. The
color. The coloring matter OF blacks Id sup
posed to be due to bilious secretions in the
mucous membranes underneath the cuticle.
Sir r. Philips.
The mikado Of Japan, il is reported, has
decided to resign his present absolute au-
thority, and constitutional government is
to be established, to go into effect in 1890,
with an executive and two houses. Ninety
graduates of the Mobiles school at Tokia are
to be sent to reside in England, France and
America for number OF years, SO as to fit
themselves to sit in the upper house.
The city of Philadelphia alone has more
Jews than the six New England States COM
bined. OF these Massachusetts has the
largest, $500, and Vermont the SIN allest
share, viz, 40. Maine has 500, New Hamp-
shire $50, Connecticut 1892 and Rhode
Island 1000. The Maine Jewish colony is
said to be poorer than any Of those inhabit-
ing the other five New England States
malaria" "malarial fever" and "nerv-
GUS prostration" have become unpopular
term ms Washington, because people have
cynically come to believe that they indicate
that the patient, ii a man, Is only suffering
from the effects OF much wine at dinner. So
that when Washington person has an at
tack of honest chills and fever he prefers
that it should be believed that he has pneu-
monia, smallpox or some other innocent dis
ease; but he shudders at malaria"
This country is not alone in an unusual
winter season. While we are surprised at
the mildness OF the climate in this neighber-
hood, New England has had bitter cold, and
from California comes the alarming story
that their balmy climate Is gradually van
iships. each winter being colder than the one
before; from Russia we hear OF snow till
February 9th; from Hammerfest, Norway,
within the Arctic circle, come reports OF two
Atlantic hurricanes, from which the high
northern points are generally exempt In
England the barometer has ranged unusual
ly high.
The new EneycGopcdiG Britannica says that
the belief in the appearance OF ghosts us
now more widely spread and more hrmiy
held among the educated classes than 1t has
been for centuries" 1t quotes also from the
late Augustus de Morgan, one OF the most
eminent -.stsa physicians and mathematlei ans
of msSf /2mes, who wrote: 81 am perfectly
conviHc in a manner which should make
unbelief Impossible, that | have seen things
called spiritual which cannot be taken by
rational being 10 be capable OF explanation
by imposture, coincidence or mistake. In
regard to the whole question OF ghosts, says
the Encyclopedia BritGnRied, 1--WE must leave
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