Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-11
ersw's, Aberdeen, and had resided in Paterson

| thfrty-tve years.
TEE drst instance where physicians are
mentioned IN The Bible is Second Chronicles xvi.
reign, was diseased in his feet un::l the disease
i WAS exceedingly great; get, in his els sse, he
sought not the Lord. but the physicians And
Asa slept with his fathers"
AN ab.nrd item i published to the effect
that the Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston. could
not iud at an Italian bsthing-plsee a suit large
enough TO At hin. This il news with vengeance.
The facts are that Mr.. Brooks wanted to take =
dip in the Gulf of Spezia and tha the coast guard
ordered him of for fear the tidal-waye sure 10 be
caused BY his immersion might abolish tuscany.
Mr. ANDREW SHuMAs says in MS Chicago
Journal: "Mr. Robert W. Patterson succeeds to
sam kedill's position as managing editor Of the
Irtoxre Mr.. Patterson is q son o. Rev. Robert
and a on-in.law of Nj Joseph NediIl He has
been reporter, Washington correspondent and
editorial writer on the paper, and has both ability
and experience.
FRANZ LIszT has announced his permanent
retirement from public performances. He was
asked 70 play in Paris for the benefit of tie inun-
dated Inhabitants of Alsace Lorraine, but replied
pianist. he had not practced for years, and was
sure any effort OF his to play in public would be
attended with failure. He added that he had de-
tsrmined not to appear in concert playing again.
THE following is told of one of the Roths-
childs-he Of Frankfort: Came the Baron Won G.
into the ofice of the great banker. Take = seat,
sir" said he, not even raising his head from his
yourself baron of the empire, and / think
should be addressed as sueh' "A thousand par
dons. replied Rothschild; "a baron of the en-
pire1 Then take two chairs until can attend to
you"
"YEs, Harry, my colored bo1y-servaot, is
good boy" the late Alexander q. stephens said
to . gentleman soon. after the war. He used to
belong to q neighbor of mine down in Georgia,
and some years ago took it into his head to fall in
love with Lucy, one OF my best girls Well Harry
and she got married, of cour g. aud one day Lucy
asked me If wouldn't buy Harry, SO they could
Harry"
SPEAKING the other day OF "Hickory"
Jackson, Gen Sherman said: "when first came
70 Washington City boy went up TO a sort of
piling and hedge in the rear of the White House.
zee Gen. Jackson taking his walk, with e staf in
bis hand, In the grounds, and can recall yet his
lace and big, bread brimMed hat as he walked u .
and down"
DANTE's INFERNO revised: Sitan-"Who
Ty are yori ~ "A bank Z, cashier "DefaHlteLf, !,
Felix give him a top seat, away from, the IRE,
where it Is nice and cool. Never mind thanking
me, MI. Cashier. You're welcome But who IS
Yes "aow muc65" Eight thousand doilSrr:'
Here Felix, take this fellow and give him seat
night on top of the stove. bohemian
A RELIGIOUS weekly discusses "How to
bring young people into the church" One pretty
efectual way il to hold lotte-thst is hold a
fair in the building Another plan is to employ
DOp 70 give Itee lecture,
the surest scheme would be TO remove the pews
and hold a grand ball TO raise funos to liquidate
the mortgage on the church. The editor who
don't know how to bring young people into the
church should decentralization Herald.
Mr. ODoNovAH, the scilpior, of New
York, has just completed a colossal statue of
Washington for the government of Venezuela, two
bos rettevos for monument now ing erected at
Utica in honor of Gen. Herkimer. of the revolu-
ton, aud two bronze lecturns for the cathedral
recently erected at Garden City by Mrs Alexander
Stewart, relict Of the great merchant prince. Mr.
, ODonoyan is one Of the most noted OF the sculp-
tors Of New York, and ranks among the best
Am erican artists At home or abroad