Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-29
NEWS AND VIEWS.

THE definition Of the much. abused wcrG
infidelity, as given in Worcester aud Webster, j
strictly interpreted viii apply well TO many diff
feing bodies Of Christi ans, as to any others out
side the pale Of the seit.styled orthodox ranks.
THE American Society of Civil Beginners
viii meet at st. Paul, Mimi, on the Goth of June
and remain in session three days. The members
will then visit Minneapolis and Lake Minnetonka
where they viii listen TO addresses and be ban
quoted.
In JAY next an educational congress will
meet in Rio Janeiro under a call from the Brazil.
ian government The government OF the United
Stats has been requested 10 furnish the besi
specimens OF work done in Inc public schools oi
this country.
THE anonymous gift of $1,000, recently re.
cetved by the department OF political economy al
Harvard University, will be devoted to paying the
salary OF additional instructor for enc year
The endowment fund for tire HsrYsrd Annex now
amounts to more than s55, eco.
The Jacksonville (Fla) Times Union says
that the Florida season closed the 17th instant
when the winter hotels and boardinghouses shut
their doors The arrivals foot up Al 167, which is
a larger number than ever before. Twenty thou
sand of these visitors, it is estimated went up tne
river, and about 5000 tourists in the STATE did
not STOP at Jacksonville
THE military commission nov sitting al
Yer, allies is inclined to report favorably on the
adoption of the Wettcrh repeating nile for large
section of the French army. In the event OF this
plan being adopted, it wocid be recommended
that the Gras riaes with hich the troops are now
armed, should be converted TO that system. It is
claimed for the Wetteri rife that it eau be firsd
ten times III twenty seconds.
IL thoughtful article on the need Of a
national university the Utica Herald says; I'VE
want 4 nsti0nGi university, not TO teach men low
TO pile upwealth, but how TO make LIFE most noble,
and how 70 train scholars in ali branches, and 10
broaden Lhe pscites OF the human mind to gatht
all knowledge and 10 extend Its boundaries We
must grow uptO The ground upon witch such an
institution caA stand, and then not enc but several
such schools may arise 10 meet the demand in our
country"
The Chicago RqiiiUay Age, which stands at
the head OF the publications of its class in this
country, has been Obliged, by the increase OF its
business TO secure more commocicus uuartets
The publi,ners have leased new seven story
buildt 5 opposite the custOmh Ouse and postof
fee. ana Will lake possession of it on the 1T OF
May. The Rdiltgoy Az is 10 be consrStalated
upon the prosperity winch sttends its efforts to
wortbily represent the 'aiToSds of this great srd
glorious country. It's editors are Z. H.: abbot and
II. K. Hobart.
Some months ago iGF woikmeu demolish-
ing an old building in Rue Vieille du Temple in
PARIS came upon large gJtiere-shaped vase full
$50 caius OF Jean lie Bon, 5hO reigned from 1850
10 1894 Glg9 OF Charles ' his successor; sixty
three old and counterfeit PIECES; SD feudal. The
CEN Wsr1 aDOut the size Of silver quarter, but
extremely thin. They wefeiold at Hotel Drouet
There was one piece OF GuillAlne DC Beaureeard,
the abbot, which was sold fir 1870 francs An
other Gu1lsume Il, de Ia gard. brought lG5 francs.
AN orange peel reform does not draw
largely upon the imagination nor seem sensa.
lon9! enough 20 suit all tastes but IL Is CERTAINLY
noble fpiiit which Snimates Kew York citizens
peach skins. The Produce iExchnge INTENDS TO
punish lis members for caFelesslF throwing these
GsngeL9os articles Upon The For and die side
in the world is tGuuu1sy told ms il il fear tc ar
rest more dangerous cha Isoters, ii can al lesst
hurry to dungeon cell the hurlsrs ofthe irutskiEs
'HEREsY" is reported to be rife in Lsne
theological Seminar, where the PFesbyterian
orthodoxy used 70 be beyond reproeeh. Two OF
tse professors are accused Of teaching the students
that the Pentateuch was not, as whole, the work
OF Moses, that the Jewish ritual grew as process
Of e7oluti1n, snd hist the Penta;eGeh vas written
by many men at remote periods, and fnRllF com
piled into a body OF records. simtlar trouble eX-
isis, SO it is stated, at the Ohio Metedist Univer
sity, President Scott being charg with denying
the trinity the divinity OF snrIAt AID he res =
recion-oI the dead. -r-..
The New YORK Times says; an. Maspsro,
the eminent Archaeological, announces that he has
found COptic church OF the fifth cen tstry among
the ruins of The6es. He Issates that son1e tire
last year beneath tomb he came Upon sdPrso-
phagus of limestone covered with insrrirtions
ara N extending his researches By the aid Of two
soEkfnen be found the remains OF the church.
Ice way down into it was by FIVE brick walk sters.
He found the floor tiled and the calls covered win
pr1cks bearing insert ptious. Among the c1riosi
yes % the place V as stsiG covered with whit
nara s9hslzltcc, on which he found traced in red
In $50 lines in Theban dialect forming part of
sermon directed Fgaiust hereiies."
TIE idea of an adhesive stamp affixed 10
Ia letter as iDdleedve OF the Payment OF posts %
ouch older than has keen generally Supposed
IS known thst tje first suggestion OF srcsn ar.
Tangen ent in Hedera tines came fEapx Rowland
nm; the father Of the cheap 1ssfal system in
Ing and about the year lsafto- 1870 Is was
ssveral years however, tstofe his suggestion was
carried into effect. History, However tells US that
TIE ancient German cities Of l1iru and Taxiz had
such syxiem, which, for some inexp.ieable rea-
son, fell ire0 disure OF failed 70 become general
among nSiioia- The modern postage stamp then
vas nrst used IN England about the year Is41 or
lsS Va 1875 E. A. Mitchell, then postmaster Of
Ne.y Haven. taking advantage of the Engiish idea
Tnaoe use II postage stamp OF his own, whioe he
oontiDueu to use uuttl 1877, when the government
OF the United States issued the inst American
postage stamps.