Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-27
NEWS AND VIEWS.

THE brewers of this country represent
business capital of $40 100000 They are solid on
the beer question.
The Mail and Express insists that The
cities of New York and Brooklyn must now be
married and united under the name Of Manhattan.
SPEAKING of the spread of the opium
habit Georgia contemporary recalls the fact that
the British government, TO foster il in China en-
couraged the production of opium in Hindoostan,
and mpelled the Chinese, AT the caunon's
mouth, TO purchase il from British merchants.
II Is estimated that nine-tenths of the
population of San Francisco are addicted TO opium
smoking. The vice among white people is be-
scale of moral character. In Chinatown there are
sold.
liz Paris the Postoffice Department is at
work laying pneumatic tubes which are to be util-
lied for the prompt delivery OF letters from one part
of Paris another. All letters will be sent from the
stations to their designation within an hour of
their being posted and in some localities ten min
utes viii be SUFFICIENT.
IT il a striking fact that 10 all the EErope-
an States the expenditure for is vastly greater
than that for education In France it is about if
teen to one; in England, six to one; in Prussis,
four TO one; in Russia eighty to one; in DenmArE,
two 10 one. In switzerland alone almost as much
is spent for education as for W6r.
PASS which makes a short cut across the
mountains in South America has been discovered
which Is represented likely to lead 70 important
results. The curious part of the story IS that the
a half ago, yet during all that time the Indians
kept its location hidden from the whites.
THE numDe Of wa;chmen at the docks Of
Hull has been doubled in consequence Of rumored
intention on the part of the dynamiters 10 blow
up HuIl's valuable marine facilities. In 1874 Hull
had eighty-s-Ven shd half acres Of docks, 50 that
it viii take more than one or q half dozen exolo-
sions to cripple her commerce, even ten porarly.
IT is reported that some French capitalists
have obtained permission from the Turki.h gov
eminent 10 construct a railway across Asia Minor
No. aMaHNF
Is 10 be known as the Euphrates Valley road. This
scheme has been frequently preached by English
and other engineers, but without practical results
The municipal authorities Of Whining
ton, Del. have formally notified the Western
Union Telegraph Company that unless The TAX OF
dollar each its poles within the city Il paid
the city OFFICIALS are evidently in earnest they
have made all necessary preparations tor carrying
out their threat.
Is making excavations for building ia
New Orleans the remains Of boat eighty feet
long were found shout eight feet below the SUI
face of toe ground. Within is null lay irabedded
e number Of human bones The place where II
Eippi nyeT; but there Is hing known about the
loss Of such . boat.
OBSERVERS OF earthquakes in Colombis,
South America, have remarked that Immediately
After e1ck movement the water in the wells and
springs Acquires milky color which il retains fol
some days This color is not acquired from the
surrounding SOIL Or from dirt which is shaken IL tc
1t. Il must. therefore, result from some deeper
and up 10 the present, unknown cause.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Baltimore Amer
lean gives an interesting account Of the rise and
fail Of club there. II called The AllEton.
and protested primarily % be devoted 10 ar
Very soon AIT degenerat.d into astronomy. MUSIC
ceased and profanity began Drunkenness fol
lowed, with cheating a. cards The. -Ailston,
which began IN glory, ended in disgrace.
liz France there is an established system
Of pensions for railroad employees curious
tnct deyeloped By statistics Of the pension service
Is thai TIE Once york o. he rzirOad com PEnlez