Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-10
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and Dr. storrs OF New York, and DR.. Roberts, of
Philadelphia, are mentioned for the position.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES writes of The
sadness OF things when people die with all their
tiss have inspired the wish that many more might
die so.
The Rev. w. H. D Pay, D. D., for eighteen
years the assistant editor OF the New York Chris
literary work lie is succeeded by R5bert r..
Doherty, OF Jersey City.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, now at Hot Springs,
Ark writes that there are now at the springs from
5000 TO 1000 visitors, the largest number that has
yet assembled there and that the waters are PROV
ing very beneficial to him.
APRoPos of Mr.. Julian Hawihorue's ri
diculous novel of Dust the Saturday Repielo amia.
VINO was one of the guards of Napoleon at ST.
Helena contrved to get himself killed at Waterloo.
M. DUPoUCHEL, French writer IN the
RerGe deS DegE MOades. shows that the desert of
ranean sea level, has only single small tract,
about as large as Connecticut, which could be
Hooded, and to supply this with sea water would
need waterway as big as the Suez canal
IT begins to he doubtful whether the
great Egyptian achievements of Lord Wolseley
aud Lord Alcester have really strengthened or
in regard to those great achievements is creeping
out so rapidly that the English people are evident
~ beginning to suspect that they have been hum
plugged into making a military mountain out OF a
molehill.
The delightful news comes from New York
that publishers of Jesse James books are going
bankrupt, and the Jesse James drama is wasting
It's blood and thunder on empty benches II there
was ever an immoral public influence, it is this
sort OF Ted-hauded literature and stagiuess. The
sooner the business in it dies out, tse better for
pleasure in it.
"LIFEn says it is a delusion OF the Sun
that there are no classes in America. among
American dignitaries judges of the Supreme
Court senators of the United States aud clerks of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel rank as equal and as pre-
eminent. Next come bishops prize 6ghters Wall
street brokers. patent medicine men ana presi-
dents OF colleges, and professional men, million
men of letters"
THE Rev. Joseph Cook divides his admit
ration between the American newspapers, which
excel in discovery OF news, and the British which
discuss me news in superior manner. This i'm
partial judgment was reached from a strictly per-
soaal experience, the American papers having
discovered the Rev. Joseph, and the British, and
spread-eagleism in science, having discussed him
in delightfully."- superior manner.
IT Is not often thst a man digs his own
grave aud buries himself but John Tyler, an old
sraYe-dlgger OF Fayetteville N. c., did il day
last week. He was engaged in his gloomy work.
and had reached distance of seven feet. 1t is
SIDE OF The excavation caved 10 and fell upon him
tie was old and feeble, and was probably unable
70 move after falling on his face when he was
depth of three feet aud life had been extinct for
some hours.
ADIRONDACK" Murray hes arrived in
New foik from san Antonio, and denies all the
stories about his being refugee from Justice; He
says: when l arrived at Mr.. Copeland's house in
Brooklyn he sent the following telegram to L. d.
Dlbble, prominent lawyer in San Antonio:
Please answer Immediately, at my expense
whether Murray left San Antonio honorably and
10 general good repute. A scurTilous report has
been printed To this the following answer was
received to-day: Murray left publicly, honoIably
and in good repute A personal enemy is using
every effort 10 lp1uTe him.
JOAQUIN MILLER, iu a letter to the Gin
cinnau Commercial Gazette, says: "For my own
part, when die and wherever / die, wrap me in
the sheet at once and burn my body Instantly and
will. and appoint each American as executor to
see it enforced. l have a sentimental desire too
that my ashes might, II not too much trouble be
scattered somewhere on the Sierras. That is all
the bother am willing to be To my fellow-soldiers
when dead; And then the right to rest on IN
troubled after all is over ought TO be somehow
secured
The statue TO Prof. Henry will be unveiled
by ChietJustice Waie, in Washington. on the
18th instant. An interesting programme has been
arranged for the Ger monies, which VIII include
music by the Marine band, nging by the Philhsr-
monic Society, gu address by Pre- .ident Noah Por-
ter. closing with prayer by he Rev. A Hodge
DID,, the president of the Princet IN Theological
Seminary. The Executive Committee have asked
Gen. Poe of Gen. Sherman's staff 10 act as oficer
of the day. The site for the statue is small tn
angular space northwest of the Smithsonian
building, and only short distance from it.
THAT San Fraucisco father who sought to
encourage his son in ways OF thrift ought to be
pretty wen satlsne9 with the boys business abii
ties; He allowed his offspring $40 per week for
pocket money, ana in order to inspire saving pro-
pensities, offered to allow him Two per cent a
month on al moneys that the boy should deposit
back with him The boys account with the
father grew tremendously large-so large as toin-
spire wonder, and the father, upOn Investigation
found that his young hopeful was il the habit OF
borrowing money at ten per cent. a year and de-
posting 1t. under the terms of the contract, st
tBenty-four per cent.
WORK is 10 be begun at oBce at The stu6jo
of Motif & Doyle. No. Great Jones street. New
York, on a monument to mark the resting place OF
John Howard Payne. the author of Home, sweet
of Payne came from New Orleans on the Lone
Star, OF the Morgan Line, which arrived New
der Doyle, Of Motif & Doyle, in New Orleans,
where he has been engaged for me time model.
leg statues OF Gen. Robert E. Lee. Gen Albert
sydney Johnston, and of Margaret, the New Or
leans philanthropiss.
COUNT DELEssEPs is 4 great digger and
his success in the past jusifes faith in whatever
scheme he promulgates. He has recently arrived
over, he sal S that with 100 machines, eqnal in
digging capacity TO 100 coo men, he can transform
The desert OF Sahara into sea within a reason
able length of time The desirabfiity OF such a |
is too palpable 10 require comment |
and the comparatively thilug cost, If NJ. de Les
isEor Of The proposed chsnge. II it should be 6
carried out 1t would be one of the greatest tri-
world ID. u eng ''-'' -- - '' A'''' Vi inc
"GATH," gossiping about the Vanderbilt |
family says: 81 hear that in the Vanderbilt house
hold the sons, the daughters, the sonsin-law and
beloved, and given an equal /
chance by the fine old Knickerbocker who Is so L
p % Ien s n en- IL I'm so m aos iortnne
arnmeat bends. He told come of his friends about
four years ago that his iocome was $1,000 coca /
year. He has never been beaten by any stock ope-
rator, and has made every one ofthem who tackled
him squeal. So would not be surprised il he had /
an income OF so 600. GOO wear which is about /
.qual to the capital Of any of his competitors"
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, who, BY the |
way has Just been celebrating the completion of /
he tirty-ninth yTar of mis- life and the ft1 of his
in pi;yate plain. simple Life. and is
ond of Occupation and OF home. He rises early
ipends little time in study. and then takes exeT
Use in the garden. From to O'Clock he receives
II O'Clock the other ministers At II O'Clock he |
and the Queen take breakfast together with the Il
Prince of Naples seated between them From ! l
% O'Clock they receive visitors ana then drive /
put Their dinner hour Is clock, and they |
usually retire soon after 10 O'Clock Sometimes the
Queen attends operas or The theater, but The King
{ almost never seen at such places.
LoRESe DIEFESBAcH. whose death has
been announced, is entitled TO the grateful re- /
lpect of all persons interested in philology and /
.thnOlogy Those superior merits OF this remark
ible scholar were illustrated by the fscI that as
early as 1859 he began 70 publ his great work
entitled Celtic1, which made tue Germans the best
authorities on the Irish and other Celtic Ian
yusg ss Indeed. Zeurs- VINO succeeded Dietenbacb,
5 the leading authority on the grammar of lIish,
md is in a high sense, the father Of modern
Irish philology. Defe1Dach did similar work for
medieval and moderR Latin, in his famous sup
dement, of Dueange. He hiss published the bet /
realise on the ethnology of Turkey, and II Is a
7ery good authority on the history Of the Euro
,eal settlement by the present races that Is to
az Gets the Latin and German tribes, end,
inaIlv, toe Slavs.
Doing a Great Deal OF Good.
Mrs 7 Bgrry of Portland Ne yritea. |