Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-31
PERSONAL MENTION.

The hand that wins: "Does your mother
play cards?" inquired Billy of his chum
Il don't know" responded Jimnyskshpt she
often plays lone hand on me. Ah6n.
Prince Charles, the aged brother of the
emperor OF Germany, has recovered, in an al.
most marvellous manner, from his recent Sc
we're accident-a compound fracture of the
thigh.
As explained by the Atlanta Constitution:
"They don't have rains out West. A cloud
| just saunters up and examines town and
then collapses just over il. Nobody escapes
but the newspaper reporters and the book
| agents"
A pair of singers in New York are max
| ing bids for popularity. The Star says:
| ''The kissing scene between Golden and Miss
Wentworth in the Merry Var, was one of the
most disgustiDgly unprofessional things ever
seen on the stage"
Mr.. Damals, who married Sarah Bern
hardt, had, within year of the ceremony,
| written Ito love letters to another lady.
| When Sarah became devoted to him, as it
were, che just sailed right away with him
from the other woman, who is comforting
herself with lawsuit.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor and Ex-Congress-
| man A. j. Ransier, of South Carolina, COL
ored, died last Friday night in Charleston OF
country fever. Ransier was a native of that
State, and was probably the least objection
able of the colored men who attained high
positions during the reconstruction era. For
several years he has been in abieet poverty,
and had been common street laborer.
A gentleman who recently travelled in the
same car with the Hon. Benjamin Harris
Brewster, attorney general of the United
States, says he was puzzled by the fact that
Mr.. Brewster carried six hats with him, one
m, he cd nd Eve laI H. l.
his side. One of them was century old in
style, being OF light brown felt, very high
and furry. For it Mr.. Brewster manifested
a strong Partially, always wearing it when
he left the cars.
According to the London World, Victor
Hugo is rapidly declining, physically and
mentally. His journey to Guernsey, in COM
papy with the two ladies who have devoted
their lives to him, was undertaken for the
sake OF what is almost "native air" TO him.
There is now a constant silent struggle be-
tween the sightseers whe would push the old
man to write anything, and the family circle,
which endeavors to restrain his lyric over
flow.
Jay Gould is so great man in the eyes of
New York newspaper reporters that Herald
interviewer prefaces his account of a CONVEX
sation with the great man by telling what
Gould had for luncheon, and even chronic
luncheon table to the floor and was picked
up by "seryitor." The Herald man evil
IDENTIFY missed an opportunity. He should
have begged of the great mogul the honor of
being allowed to pick up the fork himself.
London Society has the following: "a good
story comes from Germany. A Yankee,
guiltless of any tongue but his own, was
Faranguing on platform porter who was
IN the same predicament. An Englishman
he -
corresponding result, offered his services as
an interpreter. No, thank you, stranger
said the gentleman hailing from the land OF
the Stars and Stripes; 4 guess English is
the language of the future, and he's got to
understand it
Sir Garnet Wolseley was remarkable as a
boy for an iron will and bulldog tenacity
of purpose. One day he climed tree to get
at an especially tempting apple, but, the
branch breaking, he fell and broke his arm.
Setting his teeth, he started up the tree again
with the broken limb dangling by his side;
he got the apple, and tainted from pain on
reaching the ground. Sir Garnet Wolseley
Is an Irishman. If Wolseley gets left, this
story can be amended to apply TO lArabi
Pasha instead.
Proctor Knott, in an interview at White
Sulphur Springs, pays the following compli-
ment 10 Mr. Colfax, of Indiana: "The Dem
ocrats have never done, and suppose will
never do, Justice to Speaker Colfax, l was
in Congress in the dark days when he was
Speaker. The minority was scarcely strong
enough to call for the yeas and nays, party
feeling was at white heat, and vet we were
always sure of justice from the Speaker; his
rulings were eminently wise and Just, and we
had no complaint Of him."
An excellent proof of the vitality of Yam
kee stock to increase and multiply is fur
nished by an aged couple in Geneva Center, |
Mich, within SIX miles South Haven and |
twelve miles of st. Joseph. Mr.. E. Eaton,
born in 1900, and his wife, born in |
1902, married in 1922; came to Michigan |
in 1913, where they bought twenty acres of |
forest land, and to-day their descendants |
consist of ten children, los grand and great |
grandchildren, and seven great-great-graud- |
who together are to-day in pos |
session of twenty highly-cultivated farms in |
the immediate vicinity Of each orher go as to |
form one great family, harmoniously work. |
ing together in the struggle for life.
There is nothing like having an eye to |
business in every event of life, even in duel. |
So at least thinks General "Abe" Buford, |
the apostle of the church and turf, who has |
started payer called Turf. Rod and Gun,
said the Rev. Green Clay Smith at Blue |
Lick Springs the other day: General,
want to challenge you" "Me, sir?" |
cried Buford; shat is not the proper way to
deliver such message, SIR" "Ah, you mis-
take. 1 want to challenge you to discussion
Of the Church and Turf" 'How?" "Choose |
your own weapons; but 1 prefer through |
'ome newspaper" "Ali right" rejoined the /
veteran sportsman; at shall be through |
Turf Rod and Gun. Have a card? Only 50 |
/ yearw