Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-08
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Dr.. McCosH has prepared for the Man.
haitian a striking article on the influence of
Carlyle upon the English language.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT estimates the
value of the New York Herald at 100000
900, and says it is paying six per cent. per
snnum interest on that amount.
The dudine, the female dude. has ap-
peared in New York. The dudine wears a
mashed gooseberry. colored hat aud a high
collar; her clothes are a tight fit from neck
and hand to bottom; she carries a sharp
pointed parasol in lieu Of the dude cane, and
ia often accompanied by an English pug ter
rier.
Mr.. RUFUS HATCH, of New York, who
recently made a trip abroad, writes to the
| New York Sun that he would like to be the
editor al all the papers in the land, 80 that
he might advise servant girls upon no ac-
count TO subscribe to dynamite schemes, but
10 send what contributions they can spare
direct to Ireland, to help their relatives 10
find, as they have done, prosperity and hap
piness in this great land.
ONE Of the most extensive bands OF horse
thieves in the West has just been broken up
by the conviction of several of its leaders at
Lafayette, Ind. 1t is estimated that during
t0e past SIX years ne IN yes tIOl6 uOTSES
valued in the aggregate at $500, 900. Ex-
Congressman Stephen o. Taylor, now sheriff,
is credited with breaking up the band. A
number of so-called respectable citizens are
said to have been in collision with the
thieves.
THE time OF holding the. Indianapolis mill
itary enc.mpmsnt has been changed from
July to August. The first prizs in the free
for-all infantry drill is $1,000, and the second
800; State infantry drill, 800 first, and
5000 second; best ~infantry company organ
lied in the State since the last encampment,
500; free-for-all cavalry drill, $500; State
cavalry drill, $500 frat, and $3.50 second;
free.fOr-all artillery drill, $500; State artil-
lery drill, $500 first, and $3.50 second.
The two-volume memoir of Gen. Dix, pre-
pared by bis son, DR.. Morgan Dix, is nearly
ready for publication by the Harpers. The
work will contain five steel-plate portraits.
DR.. Dix says in his preface: "We Only, who
were OF his house and blood, can fully appre-
ciate that personality, thst strong incivid-
uslity, which constitutes the chief treasure
of our recollections, and has left the impress.
sion of a sweet, simple.hearted, tender soul,
which loved its own devoledly and revered
God, aud won from men a deeper affection az,
drawing nearer, they saw what he was"
CHARLES READR,s contribution to the
forthcoming number of Harper's Magazine, is
a sketch of rural character communicated to
him by mis- sailor brother, William Barring
ton Reade. The novelist notes that this
dear dead brother furnished him several It'd
bits that figure in his books; for instance, in
Hard Cash the character and fate of MAY
ley" and those never-io be-forgotten ma
neuyers OF the square-rigged vessel attacked
by the schooner; also The mad y~achtsmau
and his imitation of piracy in The jill
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self-that pen in hand, he is fond of hot pas
sions and pictorial incidents, and, like the
historians, cares too little for the middle Of
Humanity"
JOAQUIN MILLER declares that Gen. Joseph
Lane taught him to read Putarch and Mar
Gus Aurelius and a dozen other well-thumbed
classics. Gen. Lane knew them all 80 we'll,
adds Mr.. Miller, shat if / misread a single
word as we lay under the oaks-I reading,
he lying on his back looking up at the birds
h would correct me. l know there il a
vague impression that Gen. Lane was an
ignorant man. Well, 1 am not learned
enough 10 be good authority, but / have
mixed with many educated men since and /
am bound TO say, 80 far as 1 can Judge, he
was the best read man / have ever yet met
with. His letters are the most perfect in all
respects l have ever received. He wrote in
the old-fashisned, full, round style, every
letter like print, not even a comma missing
in letters OF the greatest length. Using the
simplest Saxon, he always said much in lit
tle-a duty OF every writer OF everything"
The New York Herald thinks it will please
Americans 10 know that in the opinion of
Mrs. Langtry our women sustain themselves
Handsomely when contrasted with their for
eign sisters. "One sees many more pretty
faces here than in England" says the ac-
complished debutante; "they have beautiful
hair and very pretty hands and fest" 1t will
astobish most OF them to hear that they are
too plump, for the current belief ia that full
nets of figure is the rule in England. As for
the manners Of our women, they are pro-
nounced Charming; so free and open;
such lack of elf-consciousness, and more to
the sam effect. What the English beauty
says about American dress is exactly in the
line OF nome criticism; she finds that ladies
here dress too well when going into the street
and not we'll enough when going to the thea
Ter. Taken altogether, Mrs. Lsngtry's opinions
will satisfy American women that there is
one competent Judge who entirely appreciates
them.
The Central Labor Unions of New York
and Brooklyn are discrediting their more
worthy lsbors by attempting TO change the
day fixed for the opening of the big bridge
because it happens to be the Queens birth
day. That the aldermen should put them
selves in an attitude Of such a~sininity is not
a matter Of surprise TO those who are at all
acquaintsd with them, but better judgment
is expected from the leaders of the labor
unions. No sensible man supposes that the
bridge trustees selected the Oath instant for |
the opening because it is the Queens birth |
day. Indeed Americans are not supposed 10
know that the Queen has a birthday although
it is something which no good woman ought
to be without. 1t is probably too late 10
change the date fixed, and 1t would, the Her.
aid thinks, be an act of unpardonable weak
mesa on the part OF the trustees to alter il
now. Given a clear sky and plenty Of sum
shine and the Americans of these two cities
will celebrate the birthday of its majesty, the
Brooklyn bridge, quite as heartily as En- |
glishmen will celebrate that of the Queen.
The Boston Advertiser admits that evidence |
comes in profusiou that Massachusetts, civil |
ization is suffering q change into something |
rare, strange, and barbaric. While patriots
and the press outside of New England and
within are holding up in horror holy hands
and headlines over Tewksbury, Boston is
found with an inceneiary at work whose in
fancy was but recently q source Of Joy and |
wonder. The Hotel Glendon experience with |
a childish inmate ben: on burning the build
ing to the ground must be regarded as q fresh
illustration of the degraded and ingenious
type OF depravity which Massachusetts pre-
serves, enjoys and transmits. What is called !
in Scotland wiIful fre-raising, and the crime. |
known to Es as arson, is another variety of
fruit produced by the social and neral sur
~roundings Of the men and women, and their
offspring, of the Old Bay State. 1t appears
that q large part of the adult population ia
engaged in tanning human skins, and that
most Of the children begin 10 set fire to
hotels when they are twelve years old. At
Tewksbury the inmates receive pea soup in
which they can see no peas, and in Boston
all the hotels are in conztant danger Of de-
s~truciion By child ineendiaries. Plainly the
tendency OF the State is downward, and
arson is to be the ~fsvorite spring style OF
enormity.
NEW BERN, n. C.-ReE.G G. W. Ofiey ssys:
Il have taken Browns Iron Bitters and con-