Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-26
NEWS AND VIEWS.

The government has spent 50 500, 900 in
improving the rivers and harbors in the State of
New York.
The eight telegraph cables between the
900 600 for all.
THE government actuary has discovered
that 900 900 in gold weighs nearly 5000 pounds
structed steam yacht could not convey much of
this kind OF freight across the river Styx.
ENGLAND is tsrmented just now with
plague of Continental currency. Mr. Labouehere
that the bronze two-sous pieces of the Continent
seem to lie regularly put into circulation in Lon
dou.
THOUGHTFUL person committed suicide
the other day in Connecticut by shooting himself
in the head with pistol placed in his mouth
Before doing this ne removed his false teeth, evil
deully that they might not be injured, and they
were found in good order, lying on his breast
The Hayden revolution is said to arise
cut OF color prejudices. The pure-blopded negroes
have been persecuting the mulattoes to such
own defense. Reports do not state the exact
shade OF backness which is necessary to safety in
that realm. Probably 1t Goes not matter, as the
progress of the revolution is such that even a
ally.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF twenty.oEe tele.
graph, telenhone and electric lighting companies
OF New York City on Friday last adopted resolu-
lions in favor of pacing their wires underground.
II was stated that no satisfactory system OF doing
20 had yet been devised. Hasty and compulsory
legislative action was deprecated. A committee is
to be appointed, including the governor ana
mayor, TO consider the best method of securing
the desired object.
1HE Suez canal has become iuad- quate to
the demands of commerce, and shipping has of
iste suffered severely from getting blocked in pass
channel between the Mediterranean ana the Red
sea, and several eminent engineers have started
for the purpose of finding whether it is przcti
ca pie 10 cut a sweeI-water canal between AIexsn-
drta and suez- SUCH canal would not only re-
neVe congestion OF trafic but could be used for
the purposes Of irTi CATION.
The birth of an eccentric child in Turkish
Kurdistan is announced by the Disrbekir news
paper. The infant, VINO is an object of interest
not unminged with alarm to all in the neighbor-
hood, born with q beard and mustache a
perfect set OF thirty-two teeth and with no fewer
tnsn forty distinctly formed fingers It's behavior
satisfactory. II is excessively noisy and violent,
and, owing TO the cruel oites il infcts all who
come within reach OF its mouth, it has been found
necessary 10 extract all its front teeth.
PkoMINENCE is given in cable dispatches
to the annexation of Papua. or New Guinea,
70 the British Empire. Commissioner has been
sent to the Island from Austraii ia to take pos
session OF 1t as dependency of Queensland. By
this action Of tue colonial authon les one of the
largest islands in the world, with an area of
thing less than oOJO0O square miles, viii be ineor.
porsted with the British possessions Holland is
The oniy government that has colonial settlements
in New Guinea, but these of small extent
The island is almost the only terra incooa tia in tne
south seas, and being inhabited By mixed rsces
will not be easily governed.
The lrish language is reported TO be re-
cuperaung. under q treatment like the operation
o. g&lvauic battery There is in Ireland = socl-
ETY. iOr toe pres rystion of the irish language,
which makes an annual report. II is stated that
at the BEGINNING OF this century only about 40t per-
could read and write Irish, while the socieN
has disposed of 81 600 elementary irish books The
number OF people In Ireland who speak Irish II
put down at $50 oO0, while 1871 the number wet
SIS ,0oo and the population diminished 80 CO.
made some progress ana the Celtic tongue IS In no
immediate danger OF dying.
TIE ship chapnei al the Mississippi ietties
has fully thirty feet of depth. But owing to the
small widts of the South Pass ana lis tortuons
course, the commanders OF shipping have to be
very cautious in entering or leaving the Missis-
slppl river Capt E2ds The father OF the ietties Is
now of opinion that II might have bsen better to
improve the wider southwest Pass. rather than the
success OF the south Pass jettieS is go marked and
improves the channel 10 New Orleans so decidedly
as 10 be Immensely preferable 70 the past. II the
trade til New Orleans demands IL, there Is no
reason why in the future the Southwest Pass
should not be treated as is the ietied South Pass
TIE VierpS correspondent Of the Dahl
Telegraph says: The expedition which Dr. Holu5
il about 10 undertake into the interior of Area
will IL he carries out his present. inten tons prove
only second IN importance 70 LIviugsIone'S and
Stanleyis out of those hitherto aeesInDiiEhed IA
that continent He hopes TO cross AfrfcS from
south - north-from Port Elizabeth 10 the Hedl-
terranean. This gigantic enterprise, as conceived
by the Austrian explorer, will not be a mere yoy-
sge OF geographical discovery, but, if successful
viii prove of immense benefit 70 science al large
Contributing valuable additisns TO ethnology
botany geology and natural history. The results