Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-01

|. Is sitting at your side,
s The other sometimes leaves me.
But linked with Love tbs living;
, Her name is Hope, she said,
l Be not afraid, nor tremble-
Il happy man is he
There come the Sisters Three"
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!, NEWS AND VIEWS.
, Holland produces the best Ilish potatoe
in the world, and they are just as cheap a
this time as the American article.
The no-fence law in North Carolina i
causing CONSERVATION among colored people
There may be no reason for this panic.
For;y-two counties of Kansas raised owe
one million bushels of corn each, and eigh
counties harvested each over five hundred
thousand bushels OF wheat.
Land commands a high price at WInni
peg, Manitoba. Lieutenant Governor eau
chon recently sold farm of five hundred
acres in the suburbs to a syndicate for 500,
600.
1t is said there are two hundred thousand
acres of unimproved land in Massachusetts
which could be planted with larch to advan.
tage. The net yield from these trees in fifty
| years would be over 81 ,000,0 900.
The amount of money expended ia build
ing operations in Chicago this year was
81 100000, and, according to the Inter
Ocean, The prospects are that next year will
see an equal amount expended, if not more.
| New York real estate is the best thing to
| hold nowadays. A piece of property on
Broadway, which was last year on the mar
ket for $2S0,000, has jumped to 1875 900.
| The demand for property is enormous and
the rise in prices fabulous.
The Russian government has made a
| grant of IA 900 roubles for next year for two
Polar observing stations-one at the mouth
of the Lena, and the other, of second rank,
but also for meteorological and magnetic
observations, on one of the islands of New
Siberia.
1t is stated on good authority that not less
than three million two hundred thousand
pounds of glycerine are produced in the can
die factories of the United States and utilized
every year in this country, and yet SO late as
the year 1854 it was run off into the sewers
waste product.
matchmaker is sitting in his shop, sur
rounded by clocks and watches all going, and
no two alike. He perceives that it is getting
late in the afternoon, and anxiety PUSHES
upon him. He rushes out of the shop and
stops the first passer-by. "Sir, what o'clock
is it, ?"-Fiynch Paper.
The academy (London) says that the
Pathological Society's new English diction-
airy is to be enlarged from between six thou
sand and seven thousand quarto pages to
eighty-four hundred. This enlargement is |
even less than the necessities of the work,
with the closest packing, require.
The restoration of the mosaics in the ca |
81 - 10 Ehanalla ic |
pleted. Care, it is stated, has been taken to |
restore the original where it was possible, |
and to make the new correspond with the |
older work. The plans were made by Baron
Bethune and the work carried out by
The number of failures throughout the
United States last week footed up III, which
is very large number compared with the
early part of the year. They we're distrib-
uted as follows. In the Southern States, So;
in the Eastern States, "a; in the Western
States, AZ; in the Middle States, "a; in the
Pacific, 9; and in New York city, 10.
The growth of the sorghum industry in
Kansas is really extraordinary. In the past
two years the acreage planted in this cane
has doubled, and it now amounts TO forty
Eve thousand six hundred and twenty eight
acres. The crop last year was partially a
yet Tic pEOuuCl WAS HOfln u, fot,l 10, 1
an average of nearly $50 an acre-much bet
ter than most of the other crops did.
Colored emigration to Liberia, which has
received an impetus within the last two years,
will be discouraged by The news that the ma
i've tribes have shown signs of hostility
against the colonists. The State Department
proposes to dispatch the Essex for their pro-
ection. Secretary Hunt should not fail to
include plentiful supply of razors in the
.argo.
The Executive Committee of Fine Arts at
Rome have addressed a manifesto to the art
SITS of Italy, calling upon them to contribute
o an international exhibition OF painting
md sculpture. to be held in the grand new
PlIdzzo dstLe Belle Arti, now building in the
Tia Rationale at Rome. A similar circular
las been issued to foreign artists in their re- |
pective languaues. The exhibition is to be |
pened in December, 1882
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch says that
he Virginia Historical Society's collection
{ original manuscript materials for history !.
important and extensive, and that the first
I a series OF papers of essential value in the
lucidation of American history is 10 process
f preparation for the press. This Is the
etter-book of Governor Alexander Spots
God, covering the term of his colonial sd-
linistration in Virginia, 1710-1712.
The Danish Society for the protection of
nimals offers two prizes-one of two thou {
and francs and one of one thousand francs
for the best scientific treatise upon that
ranch of the questions of vivisection which s
ould enable examinations to be made upon &
nimals recently dead, rather than living,
nd also upon the means of avoiding the
ainful experiments which are now made.
he treatise may be written in Danish,
rench, English or German.
II Is officially stated that one hundred and Q
inety-eight million one hundred and sixty I
re thousand seven hundred and ninety-four r
cres of land have been granted by the G
nited States for rail and wagon roads. IL
ould make one million two hundred and 4
lirty-eight thousand five hundred and | b
lirty -six farms of one hundred and sixty
res each, and its area Is greater then that I 2
the FIVE States of lrdiana, Iowa, Illinois, 5
ansss and Minnesota. Its value AZ 81 per
re would be S396, 1881 ,5ss. :
Literature Is not a paying profession in
ally, and this fact may account for the COM &
aratively limited number of good authors | ,
I'D the necessity OF performing French | q
ays upon the Italian stage Young su- +
lors without means cannot afford to spend
oney in order 10 have their productions | !
presented, and, after single trial, which
ten proves great genius, they are found .
'Pying law papers, or serving as clerks in I,
-oceriss. ,