Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-11
PERSONALS.

The New York Graphic expects TO see the
Tribune and Sun consolidated, with Dana as
managing editor and Reid as Washington
correspondent.
SAYS Mr.. Labouchere: "a statesman may
have many talents, but there ia one sbso-
lutely indispensable to the effective applica-
ton OF the rest, and if decision ia lacking he
will never attain to greatness"
DE VIvo is back from Australia, after
three years absence, looking not day older
than when he left, and as spry as ever. De
Vivo claims to have found the elixir OF life
in macaroni, CT which he eats daily, in
whatever cline he Il, a certsin amount.
TIE Richmond (va.) State says: "Mr. Leo
Wheat, of Berryville, formerly the organist
al Monumental church, is in Baltimore fer
the purpose Of witnessing the performance
OF grand opera at the Academy of Music.
Mr.. Wheat Is as great musical enthusiast
as ever"
The millionaire gas company president,
says Music and Drama, who, dying lately,
made will allowing his divorced wife $4,000
a year, conditional upon her "not marrying
again and not going upon the stage" may
be said to have had unusual consideration for
the public.
Miss CLARA BARToN recently gave a read
ing in New Haven, during which she related
the following of an old lady who could not
comprehend how the war should increase the
price of candles: "Candles higher." the old
lady exclaimed. "Why, bless mel Do they
fight by csndle-light?"
ACURIoUsLY assorted pair called on :he
President the other day-the Rev. DIR. Tai
mage and the Rev. Congressman j. Hyatt
Smily. 1t is universally conceded among
the entire House habitaes that these two
worthy gentlemen are the ugliest looking
pair of clericals that have visited the blue
room in decade.
ONE Of The unsettled points of etiquette in
Washington is the relative status of the dip
lomatic corps and the Supreme Court. On
New Years day, at inauguratious and other
state occasions, here is much rivalry and
hearlburning over which shall take prece-
dence of the other. 1t ia generally the first
in the field which carries off the honors.
VIM. II. VANDERBILT is said to have said
off l can gel from the city of New York
the square of ground on which stands the
Catholic orphan asylum, nearly opposite my
house, will spend 100000 in building
and buying pictures for New York gallery
of the best paintings to be had, and make a
gilt OF it, in effect, 10 the people OF New
York"
The preparations making at Booths, the
Union Square and Wallack's for the revival
OF the COrsican Brothers, and the production
of A Pai isidn Romance and The Siiuer King,
are on a scale not hitherto surpassed in the
atrical managers ut in this city. These pro-
ductions, as we'll as that OF Virginia at the
Bijou, are 10 be the chief events OF a single
week in New Pork.
RUSSELL STUReIs, the recently retired
head OF the famous house of Earrings, be-
came connected with the firm by Boston
expressman taking his luggage to the wrong
wharf. This caused him TO be detained in
London awaiting it-for his destination was
some other poiut-and while there the Bar
ings took such a fancy to him that they
offered him place in their house.
New ORLEANS Pcayune: an the lsst
division of labor there was no place at all
allowed for the phrasemaker. We have at
tanned a new ide al of style in writing and in
speech. The very writer's of fiction have
found this out, and we have blue books
turned into novels, and statistics worked up
into sensations. We repeat that the change
is due to wider range of thought, for as
mankind is led more and more to deal with
reality 1t becomes proportionally impatient
OF talk for talks sake"
JOHN EDWARDS, colored mar; employed
as farm laborer by Charles Martin, al
Rochester, VT, ran away on Thursday with
Kitty Marsh, thirteen years old, daughte of
well-to-do farmer of the same town.
Search has since been vigorously prosecuted
all over the northern part of the State by
citizens and The police. II is not believed
that the flight was prearrsnged on the part
of the girl, although her subsequent move
ments may have been voluntary. 1t is feared
that they will reach Canada before they can
be overtaken.
GEN. STEPHEN d. LEE, president of the
State Agricultural and Mech anical College
| of Mississippi, has been invited to repeat his
lecture on "The Battle of Charlottesville u
in several New Euglsnd cities, and he has
consented to do 20. In a letter to him, a
nephew of ex-senator Hannibal Hamlin, oil
Maine, says that go valuable a contribution
to history as Gen. Lees personal knowledge
OF the battle Of Charlottesville should be
presented entirely in accordance with bis
own views, regardless oil NoIhern sectional
prejudices.
| WHILE Remeuyi was csressing his violin
on the stage at Austin, Tenn, last Friday
night, he felt a breeze coming through the
open door. He assumed tragic attitude,
and pointed bis bow at the door. 1t was
closed. Then young man cough.d. "Pui
that man Quit" shouted Remenyi, stamping
his foot. The man, astounded, arose and
| quilted the hall. Soon aflerward there was
an alarm OF fire. Rsmenyi conceived tbs
idea that the young man referred to had or.
| ganlzed mob Tor the purpose OF lynching
him. 1t was some time before he was con-
WINGED that mis- life was not in danger.
GEN. SHERMAN ia very unwilling to have
the cost of the Signal Service Bureau
charged 70 the army. He said the other
day: You might as we'll charge the ex-
| penses OF match factory to the army. The
so-called Signal Corps do nothing anyway
but talk about the weather. What as the
weather to do with the army? 1t doesn't
help the poor boys out among the Indians
to know whether Tomorrow is to be cool and
clear, or warm aud cloudy? What do they
care about the weather? II the Signal Corps
is worth anything, 1t is for commercial pur.
poses. A good many intelligent people be
lieve il is not worth anything for any pur-
pose. BIT it certainly should not be sad.
died on to the military establishment"
| TALNAeE on dying: 1.-THE child who died
at i've years of age few days ago, at whose
funeral L ofiiciated, knows more to-day oil
God than Andover or Princeton or Edin.
burgh, or all the theologians of the world
Yet men are rushing around among the
apothecaries, wondering if this medicine i,
good for neuralgia, and that for rheuma
item, and others for other diseases, lest they
should be suddenly ushered into heaven
Men ought not to go around groaning be
cause another year is gone. We ought to b.
living not according to the old maxim
which says men should live as though every
day might be their last, but as though VI
were to live forever. But don't let US b,
nervous lest we should have to move out O
a shanty into an Alhambra."
AVE- are often asked" says the Musica
Herald, "by anxious pupils of inquirins
minds, questions relative to the value O.
composers: Was Handel as great as Beeth
oven? Was Chopin superior to Schu.
mann? etc. In order that we may be tor
mented no more, and that all doubts may be
solved forever, we have compiled the follow.
ing tables of musical values: Six Willard:
make one Abb; len Abts make one Schubert
two Schuberts make one Chopin; two Che.
pins make one Schumann; four Schum aims
make one Handel; two Handles make one
Bach; three Bachs make one Beethoven. II
will be natural, therefore, that in future ex-
aminations In music schools the pupils will
be expected to reduce a symphony 70 noe
turnes, or to answer questions like the fol.
lowing: "A man went to 8 concert TO hear g
| symphony. Owing 20 the illness OF the sec.
ond bass drum player a suite was substituted
Just how much did the auditor lose, aud
what could be say at the box-ofice about iii
Give the answer IN fractions of a sonata"