Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-25
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of either sex guilty of cruelty to animals and
children. But few applications of the remedy
would be necessary to permanently cheek the evil
which is so prevalent in the larger cities
The 2577 buildings erected in New York
in 1882 cost s4479S ls6. increase of about ST.
100000 over 1881. Twenty dwellings cost over
$50 900 EACH eighty-eight cost between s5OOO1 ana
$4,000, 477 cost less than 10000, -5T apartment
houses cost over $4,000 each, twenty nve office
buildings cost 81 65i, seventeen churches cost
s562, 900, and twelve thealers cost sil9,77o
THE penal code of New York contains a
provision making it crime TO attempt suicide.
and punishing a person guilty of that offensc by
tence under this law was imposed Thursday last
by the judge of the Court OF General sessions,
VINO sentenced the accused, one Lawrence Bull
lard to one years imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary.
The New York Court of Appeals has rem
dered decision recently that will have the effect
of making hremen and policemen more active
doubtless in their efforts TO do effective service IN
cases of fire Such men who are hurt under snen
circumstances, the Court of Appeals say, are en-
titled to full pay during the illness resu ting rom
such Injuries as they may have received. The de-
cision is Just one as well as one calculated TO
arouse greater effort in case OF hre.
A PSEUDO philanthropy has abolished the
| Traditional whipping post in Virginia. and the
first effect of it, as Danville paper says, is to I'LL
| the jail OF that town with offenders, VINO are
boarded at the public expense. In Illinois, where
this law was abolished, they are laboTing 10 have
| IL re-enacted And So as the Baltimore American
| saws: Common sense seems to be gradually gain
ing victory over the sckly sentimentalism which
thinks the lash too for the brutes who beat
| their wives within an inch OF their lives"
! A WRITER in the Galveston Mems, speaking
| of the proposed State University. expresses the
| hope that the study of art will fad place in IT'S
eouaed by the largeness of his State, he utters a
glowing prophecy concerning the future art posi-
| bihties in the Lone Star State All OF which may
/ haf TINA lint need
other new States is that they give to all their cit
Gems an opportunity 70 acquire gooq common on
/ good time.
1T has been objected to the theory OF
| vaccination, for hydrophobia, that no human
being would be willing to take the great risk o.
having the virus of dog bite introduced into HI;
not dhe bat is Peur the
great experimenter in protection by the transfe
and attenuation of diseasep oison,"it says, sin
Div proposes that all dogs should be thus inocu
| lated. II the dogs are protected against hydro
phobia, This will end The disease and there VIII b
| no danger to man, woman or child from oog Dlte
Such is the scientific deduction"
The reasons given by the trustees OF John
Hopkins Uoiversity for not building at Clifton,
suburb of Baltimore, as the founder was though
to have directed follows: The site at Ciftol
thought 10 be 80 PGt I Ine B
| sides. they say, Mr. Hopkins did not recommend
site, but left the choice to the discretion OF tn
| trustees. They say, therefore, in conclusion, tina
their trusts have been executed with thorough
understanding OF their legal and personal eb-igs
| lions. and with the single desire 20 promote tn
| great objects which Johns Hopkins had in view.
TIE curious suit brought By Lorerzo
| Nigh lingale. who claims TO have been libelled il
the book Cape Cod Folks is about to be tried befor
4 Jury. The plaintiffs declaration, which wa
aetain isrns snd e4n1esSions Were sed win In
tent to Willy plaintiff and bring him into hatred
contempt and ridicule, and scandalize him, an
cause il to be believed that he did and said certai
| Ridiculous scandalous and contemplate thing
in q certain book, the title of which was Cape Co
ard,' Rem Kenny THE Nightingale occu
plaintiff was intended, and thereby has bee
greatly scandalized," etc.
: DR.. DANA has been trying experiment
with oysters, and he says: 81 have kept oyster
previously crushed between the teeth, in wate
| tlOeo Fahrenheitl, calculated and neutral, Il
hours, with no resulting digestion whatever.
have even disseeted out the liver, and given it ii
best possible chance to eat itself but neither III
! mystic diastase nor any other ferment at a
, | affected its succulent anatomy. The oyster do'
not and cannot digest itself. DR.. Dana also e.
perimented 10 test the effect OF fermented liquo
| upon oysters. He placed raw oysters, cut opel
IN glass of beer and allowed them to remain FOL
hours at 1l0o Fahrenheit. the result being that u
oyster hardened. but the liver was not appreciab
| affected.
: IT ia seriously proposed TO duplicate I'll
Suez canal. IT is SEQ feet wide the surface bl
r | the banks slope gradually that the channel
the bottom is only 100 feet wide. The earth take
. | out Of this ditch left the banks OF courz
: | SO that the removal of one OF these banks
2 | widen the channel would be more expensive tins
: the opening of new channel parallel. The CO
4 of this would be considerably less than that OF
e first when terminal docks had to be constructs
and provision dePo5s al along The new S;Ts can
: the old for those passing in The opposlee. ~
q plan has not been definitely adopted but is und
/ discussion, owing TO tine fact that the increase
traffic necessitates constant outlay fer the exile
; sion of sidings where vessels can pass.