Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-12

Ihey are 30 h3Fd to get on that the talr
owners keep them on when making calls and
are cure TO take cold when they go out again
into the open air. | love my wife TOO much
to expose her 10 such dangers"
ONE evening recently the John McCul-
Tough Dramatic Club, amateur actors of
Washington, played Mr. and Ms Peter
White, at the Government Hospital for the
Insane. "1his," saws the New Orleans Piod-
yune, "illustrsted the fitness Of things, though
it must have been cruel to the crazy"
For q quarter OF a century Mrs. Lydia
Maria Child and her husband lived without
servant, in their humble and pleasant
home in Wsyland, Mass. Once, relates Zion's
Herald, when ne said to her, 81 wish for your
sake, dear, was as rich as Cresus," she re-
spouded, "You are CrOesus, for you are king
OF Lydia"
QUEEN VICTORIA will spend the latter
part OF this winter at La MOrtols, near Men
tone, where she hops to enjoy more peace
and quiet than she found at Mentoae last
winter. The Duke and Duchess of Albany
will at the same time occupy the villa at
Cannes, which was engaged a short time ago
for her majesty.
JACOB COLE, a venerable citizen of Mis-
souri,, died al his home in Franklin county,
in that State, on the 18th of December, in
the eighty -seVenth year of his age. He was
born in Fayette county, by, in 1897, and in
the following year was taken by his father
10 Missouri. For some years he was a
neighbor of the venerable old pioneer, Dan
iel Bone.
VICroRIEN SARDoU takes extraordinary
pains with the mountings and rehearsals OF
| bis plays. He chooses the upholstery, tries
| the scene-dooTs, goes to the back of the pit
to study the perspective, climbs the gallery
TO make sure that the goods" can see and
hear we'll, laughs, cries, enters into the spirit
of the piece, and plays it all over himself
three or four times during single rehearsal.
The February number of The North Amer
| lean Reuiet1 ia 10 contain an article on "The
| Experiment of Universal Suffrage" by Prof
Alex snder Winchell; a discussion of "The
Revision of Creeds," by clergymen repre-
senting six evangelical denominations;
paper entitled "The Decay OF Professionalism"
by Bishop McQuaid; and a defense Of the
Standard oil monopoly, by Senator Camden.
| J. s. HosKINs, editor and proprietor of
The Lexington (Miss.) Bulletin, was charged
two or three years sgo, while sheriff of
Hslmes county, with being $4,000 short in his
cash account. The case, says the Vicksburg
| Herald, has been decided in his favor, the
| books and vouchers showing that he bad
actually overpaid the county treasurer $780,
which he is entitled to receive back. He
will probably be made sheriff again if he
should ever desire the position.
GOING out to hunt in the forest one day
/ late last autumn, the Empress of Austria
saw an old, half-crippled woman lettering on
the very brink of high, steep river-bank.
| Springing from her horse, she rau and caught
| the poor creature, just in time to save her
| life, and then discovered that the old woman
was blind, and that the child who was acting
| as her guide had Jagged behind. The EN-
press waited till the truanL Came up and ad
| ministered severe reproot Tor its careless
| ness, gave the old woman g purse full of
| gold, and then rejoined her companions in
| the chase.
The BARON DE CARvlsART, for many
years physician TO Louis Napoleon, died
| fortnight ago, at his home in the Champs
Elysees. He was, somewhat appropriately,
| a nephew OF the First Napoleon's doctor
who had an apoplec;ic fit on hearing of the
defeat at Waterloo, from which he died
and was as faithful 10 the Bouaparte cause
as his uncle had been. He followed the en-
peror into exile and tended him with devo-
| lion, and on his death bestowed his attention
upon his SON. The death. of the young
prince in South Africa affected him deeply.
| In fact, he ia said never TO have entirely re-
covered from the shock. His age was only
| 6fty-four.
Mr.. DAVID BINNING MUNRO, the new
provost of Oriel, Oxford, is one Of the ia
nous band of "Ireland scholars" educated
| on the bequest of Dean ireland. OF those
scholars ifty-eight, all told, living and
dead-a surprisingly large number have be-
come distinguished throughout the world.
Among them may be named Herman Meri-
vale, the first on the list, elected in 1925;
| PonaIall Daln,ar p0hart Gaotf he
rapher; Dean Stanley, William Basil Jones,
successor of Bishop Thirlwall; Goodwin
Smith, Edwin Palmer, who might have been
chancellor; Bishop Day, of Cashel;C S. c.
Bowen, now lord justice, and G. A. Simcox.
Mr.. Munro is Oriel's fret lay provost.
AN association has been formed in New
York City 10 prossire the reform and codifica-
ton of the statute and common laws OF the
State. The officers are George Ticknor Cur
lis, president; George II. Yeamans, Clark
Bell, Stephen w. Fullerton, d. r. James,
William S. Opdyke and Judge Goepp, vice.
presidents; Roger Foster, secretary; Charles
Noble, assistant secretary, and Morris
Cooper, treasurer. The utility of such an
association will, of course, depend upon the
strength and character of its membership.
The Peanut Code" has made codifchtions
unpopular, but "reform" is another matter.
The State Legislature has twice passed a
Civil Code only to have it vetoed by the ex-
ecutive.
Mr.. B. d. GODFREY, formerly of Milford,
Mass, and now of Newtonville, in the same
State, and who signs himself "shoe- aker,
farmer, and original proprietor of Godfrey's
'Patchen," sent as New Years gifts copies
of the Bible, with letters calling special at
tention to what he deemed appropriate texts,
to Gen. Butler, Gov. Long, Oliver Ames,
George F. Hoar, J ohm NJ. Forbes, Jay Gould,
William II. Vanderbilt, and five others. Mr..
Vanderbilt's was: "Hew much better it is
TO get wisdom than gold! and to get under
standing rather to be chosen than silver
Get wisdom, get understanding; forget il
not; neither decline from the words of my
mouth. Forsake her not and she will pre-
serve thee; love her and she shall keep thee
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get
wisdom; and with all thy getting get under.
standing"
CERTAINLY the English people will pro-
pounce Mr.. w. S. Gilbert literary hereto
| in saying: my theory is that the people oil
England have no real appreciation Of the
merits of their most distinguished poet.
do not refer to thoughtful few, of whom
am one, and the reader is another, but to the
no ass of Euglish-speaking men and women
educated and Otherwise. l an prepared for
the storm of indignant rejoinder with which
this expression OF opinion will be met.
am prepared 10 hear that the people of tbese
islands hail Shakespeare as the greatest poet
the most profound thinker and the most
accomplished dramatist the world has ever
produced. But who reads him? / read him
and you read him, and probably Mr.. Irving
reads him, but how many more read him? A
few, no doubt, but how many? l do not near
how many dip into him? me IAN how many
read him right through, as they read Dick.
ems, Thackeray and Tenpyson and Carlyle
or as they used to read Byron and Walter
Scott, and Cooper and Marryat"
The wife of the celebrated DIR. Tanner has
lately taken up her abode in France, having
obtained a divorce from her eccentric hus.
band under the following circumstances: DR.
Tanner, it appears, is peculiarly addicted tc
extraordinary fancies, and, some time since
he thought that he had found out that the
human character becomes modified accord
ing to the food taken by the individual, and
especially in relation 10 The vegetables con.
sumed. Carrots, he AYERS, make people
fdgety and sly; turnips produce extreme
amiability, while prolonged diet of French
beans induces great irriI ability of temper
The carrying out Of this theory has brought
great trouble into DR.. Tanners home. He
made heavy wager on the question with
some friends, and experimental on Mrs
Tanner with French beans, giving her to cal
about three pounds of this vegetable daily
1t is not altogether to be wondered at if, aftel
tuch regimen, Mrs. Tanner became rather
more irritable than was perhaps contem.
plated, and threw a jug st DIR. Tanners head
The doctor, however, gained his bet; and
more thoroughly convinced Than ever of the
truth of his theory, put his wife on the tur.
nip diet, 60 as to make her as amiable as she
was before the French bean regimen. Thii
time, however, the result was not SO strictly
in accordance with the theory. Mrs. Tanner
objected to Be any longer subject for thess
vegetarian experiments, sued for divorce
and, what is more singular, obtained it.