Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-14
PERSONAL MENTION.

JAY GOULD is said to he one of the beet
botanis.s in America.
JAY GoULDIs new sepnlcher at Greenwood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, cost $4,000.
THE Presidents son occasionally drives a
four hand from the White House to the
Soldiers Home.
JUSTICE B~LATCHFoRD, of the United States
Supreme Courl, has the curious hobby Of
collecting calendars Of all kinds.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES is a bitter op-
pom mt of superstition, but he carries a horse
hestnut in his pocket as a protection from
rheumatiem.
Mr.. JOHN A. CccKERILL, of the st. Leuis
Post Dispatch, has returned from New York
and resumed his position as managing editor
of that paper.
GEN. CROOK is a much stared at visitor in
Washington. he is about elk feet tall, weighs
about IT'S pounds, and his hair, somewhat
sandy, is hinged with grey.
II is noted in his messages to his wife that
King Alfonso kisses the partner of his joys
by telegraph, but it is feared that he doesn't
do all OF his kissing at long range.
LORD KENsINGroN, member of Parlia-
ment, the junior Liberal whip, is an Irish
peer with an Euglish title and a Scotch wife,
and he represents a Welsh constituency.
LORD BEAcoNsFrELD once said thai he
could have no quarrel with Christianity, Tor
one-half of the Christian world vorshiped a
man and the other half a woman of his race.
THE Emperor Of Germany has offered to
give $50, 900 marks to found a large German
hospital on the Island of Norderney in the
German Ocean, provided an equal amount be
raised by private subscription.
WHEN President Grevy wants a cup of
coffee he goes out TO a country village, buys
up all the chicory there is in the place and
keeps the whole pile under his own eye while
the landlord is making his coffee.
The late William Chambers, of Edin-
burg left a personal estate of col ,316. The
sum of EGO, 900 lie devised for ehe restoration
of ST. CHESS cathedral, and the remainder
is divided among numerous relatives and
friends.
SMAs Fl. BUTTRICK, who, twenty five years
ago, was a wealthy merchant in New York,
has Just died in the Charity Hospital on
BlacEwelIs Island. He invested in some
mining enterprises with Gen. Fremont in
1859, and lost $50, 900, aud that was the be-
2 inning of his downward career.
The statistics of the sale OF Bishop Colen.
SOS works throw into the shade those of any
other English writer in the same line of au-
rhorship. OF the Elements Of Algebra nearly
0 5000 copies have been sold, and in forty
years more than twice that number has been
Issued OF its parallel and succeeding volume,
the arithmetic Designed for the Use Of Schools.
IT Ia related by the New York PSst that
Prof. Agassiz was once invited by tue noted
Spiritualist Home to attesd one of his
seances. "Well," said Agsssiz, what shall
1 see at your sesnce?" "Y0n will see" re-
piled Home, "legs and arms moving about
the room, and some of them will touch you"
"Mr. Home" answered Agassiz, II will at
tend your meeting, and / will aid you to
clear up the mystery OF these floating limbs.
/ nave a sword; it so Happens thst it was re-
Gently sharpen d. That sword l will bring
with me, and L will cut at the legs and arms"
Home thanked him and withdrew. The next
day Agsssiz drove up to the hall where the
seance was 10 he held. The doors were shut,
but on them was a placard announcing In
large letters that no ssance would take place,
as Mr.. Home had Unexpectedly been recalled
TO New York.