Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mr.. w. NJ. SINCERELY, of the Philadelphia
Record, is building a 100000 country house
at Elktou, Md.
TIE PRINCE OF WALES is industriously
coloring a meerschaum given him by the
Crown Prince OF Sweden.
A NEW bus. of Lincoln, said to be unusu.
ally litelike, is on exhibition in Chicago. 1t
is the work of Mr.. &. II. Park.
JAMES CAREY's houpe in Dublin is CON-
pletely coated with mud, thrown at ii by
psssers-by. He must feel almost as miser-
able as an American who is running fer
offics.
IF Mr.. Arthur expects to preserve his
reputation in the matter of trousers, ne is
advised by the Philadelphia Times to keep
of the back of the Western mustang on his
trip to the Yellowstone.
cit is g%rAvely stated by the Telegraph, of
Harrisburg, Pa, that those who see Gov.
Pat,ison taking his daily equestrian exercise
are 10 doubt whether his m amer of occupy
ing the saddle is the result of an attempt 10
initiate the posture of a sack of meal to effect
a junction between his chin and his kuees, or
TO copy the English huntsman's attitude.
GIUSEPPE VERDI is probably one of the
richest musical composers in the world. He
il also one of the most benevolent. Tn poor
Of Busseto call him biz ssed, for his gold
filed hand is ever open and outstretched to
alleviate their sufferings. He is now build
ing aud will fully furnish and fiberaiiy en-
dow, a fine hospital for the poor of that town,
which will soon be opened for use.
LIE PERE MoNsABRE, who succeeded Pere
Hyscinthe at Noire Dame, Paris, was cnce
condemned to silence by his superior in the
Dominican Order, because his celebrity as a
pulpit orator threatened to turn his brain.
So he spent a year doing scullion's work in
the monastery. He is a controversial
preacher and has a genius for special plead
ing. He reads everything Darwin, Zols,
and Thomas Aquinss. His style of oratory
resembles that Of Daniel OConnelI, but be
has not the Irish Liberator's appearance
being short, square-shouldered and rubicund
CAPT. WEBB's proposition to undertake the
shooting of Niagara Falls on a wager of
$4,000 calls to mind an incident of the reign
of Gar Nicholas, half a century ago, OF
Whereabouts. Looking out of his window one
day, that monarch saw a large and interested
crowd on the bank of the Neva. He sent an
officer to iud out the cause, and learned that
q 10 an had bet five roubles-about s. 75-thal
he could run across the river on the ice
which wss then in that treacherous, half.
liquid state caused by the commencement Of
the spring thaw. The man performed the
p~erilous feat, received his Eve roublep, and
then Nicholas had him arrested and aogged
with 100 stripes; 'for," said the Gar, "a mar
who will risk his life for such a sum is caps-
BILE of committing any act of baseness for 9
similar consideration"
A BRETON by birth and education, M. Gle.
meneesu possesses many of the best charac
teristics of his race, including taciturnity
patience and energy. He is a slight, wiry
man, with close-cropped hair and a military
mustache. He walks with soldierly bearing
dresses with fdultless taste, and has the gen.
ersl air Of a martinez. His ora'ory, though
powerful and convincing, is devoid ol
warmth, and he mases no secret of his con.
tempt for the imaginativeaess and "gush" -
the Southern orators. Once, after one o.
Gambetta's most impassioned speeches, Gle
merceau wss seen 10 wear a seornful expires
sion. "Why, you must admit that it was g
magnificent oratiop," expostulated NJ. Ma.
quet. at was incomplete" replied Clemen'
ceau, drily; an. Gambetta should have &C.
companied himself on the guitar"