Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-15
PERSONAL


PERSONAL MENTION.
AN eloquent New York restaurant waiter
says Talmage is a "regular old boss on oat-
meal musb."
GEN. Crook says he has not bad a good
nights sleep for three months. He should
procure q position On the New York police
force.
NJ. DE LEssEPs ia seventJ-sight and spends
most Of his time away from home, but they
don'L seem to miss h.m there. Madame's
last baby, recently bora, is tue eleventh.
ENocH PRATT, who never gave a free pasa,
while president, over his road, the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore, has now
gwen nearly 81, 100000 to Baltimore for a
free library.
The Courier-JOurBai believes that the
politeDess of the Virginia duelist in lifting
his hat to the gentleman he has Just MORALLY
wounded, if put Into sny ordinary business,
would make a fortune for him.
WILLIAM MORTIMER, a oue-handed COM
position in the office of the Carbon pa Ad-
Uoeate fastens his stick diagonally across the
a." box, and sets, corrects a1d distributes
5000 "ems" of solid minion each day.
CHAUECEY NJ. DEPEw stated it quite right
when he said that "few men, comparatively,
think they are fitted to be lawyers, doctors
or ciergymeu, but there is no one in the
United States, of reasonable age, who doubts
his ability to occupy the editorial chair"
PRoF. SCHAFF says the decision of the Bap.
fists TO bsve a Baptist Bible, was the wisest
that could be made under the circumstances,
bat "the common sense OF the Christian p 60
pie will ultimately prefer the better to the
good. Every scholar admits that The re-
vised is better. Therefore it will stand"
OXEN CLEVELAND, who died in Cleveland
Sunday last, in the ninety-ninih year of his
age, was never sick a day in his life until be
received a fall which caused his death. He
had voted for nineteen candidates for the
Presidency, and was the oldest drummer in
America, having spent the greater portion of
his life as a travelling salesman.
THE Duke of Marlborough, deceased, was
d notorious gambler, aud his successor, the
Marquis OF Blandford, is said TO be one Of
the most polished blackguards in Great
Britain; yet upon such g~raceless scamps as
these descend titles which carry with them
p~rincely pensions and enormous estates, which
the people are called on TO pay for.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has been charmed by
Mount T. coma, in Washington Territory.
81 have been through the Swiss mountsins,"
he says, "and L am compelled 10 own that,
90 lEC hldI dpDchT,t UtTt
is absolutely no comparison between the
fuest effects that are exhibited there and
what is seen in approaching this grand, iso.
lated mountain"
GEN. BUTLER has been compelled to do 30
much writing of late that be has been threat
ened with 'scrivener's palsy" His right
hand grows very shaky when he takes up a
pen, and hereafter he proposes to dictate his
letters and public communications to q stem
ographic amanuensis. Mistakes in classic
quotations will be attributed herceforth 10
the humble secretary.
AN incident of the celebration Of the
golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cor
n%elius, which took place recently at their
country place, "Lawndsle," near Frankfort,
Pa, was the presence of all he children and
grandchildren, numbering twenty-ihree. who
have been born within the fifty years. They
met a family in which, starting from Rob.rt
Cornelius and wife, there has not been a
single death. All are living and prosperous,
and all were present. There has been no
death within the fifty ears among those
who married their children or grandchil-
dren.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, has been hav.
ing a great time in ireland. When he
reached Balbriggap, his native place, be
found nearly the entire population turned
out TO receive him, and although he has few
relatives at present living there, and the
principal object of his trip was to visit the
family graves in B%alrothery churchya ard, he
found the streets arched with evergreens in
his honor. The buildings festooned with rib
bJns and flowers and The populsce in holi-
day attire. He was received at The station
by a large delegation and was presented
with an address by the Town commissioner s.
SENATOR MCDoNALD's private life is a
vsry happy one. His home in Indianapolis
is emineatly respectable but not fashionable.
Here he tntertsIus with old-fsshioned hospi.
tally, one OF his habits being to give a re-
ception TO each State Legislature, wbich is
regularly looked forward TO as a feature of
the Sc ion. He has been married twice, and
has had three cons and one daughter by his
first wife. OF these two sons survive, one OF
whom is unfortunately deformed. List win-
ter Senator Mcdonald married a Miss Bsr-
nard, a lady in middle life. He ia. mem
Der of the Second Presbyterian church of
Indianapolis, and is a liberal contributor TO
all religious objects.
SAYS the Nashville Banner: THE vulgsr
habit OF clutching a girl midway between
the elbow and shou!deT-blade is INDUCED in
only by the du e.; By gentlemen never. The
Souihern gentleman of culture bends his
arm at the elbow, the latter member resting
On his hip, while his hand is allowed to run
straight out 10 front of him. In the niche
thus formed the arm Of the lady is allowed
to rest, her dainty hand neither touching bis
broad palm nor any other part of his arm,
but allowed to dsDgle gracefully at the side
of his wrist. The support thus furnished
The fair one is more secure than the old
style Of allowing the tips of the fsgers to
rest lightly on the sleeve OF the gentleman's
coat"
The monument to DIR. ]. G. Holland in the
Springfield (Msss.) cemetery has been COM
pleted by placing in position the fine bronze
bas relief of the journalist by A. St. Gaudens.
The monument itself il CT a beautiful blue
stone of even grain, dense texture, and fine
dove color or slate. Il takes inscription
perfectly, and reveals every line clearly. 1t
is about six feet by seven at the base, above
which is s plinth with tablets; above the
plintb, after two or three small steps, rises a
short rectan ,ular shaft, with Ionic pilasters
uPsn its four corners, supporting a scroll.
The shaft bears upon lis face the relief,
which ia the striking feature of the whole.
This represents DIR. Hollands face in profile,
and is an admirable likeness of him in q re-
iective mood. TIE relief is in the form Of q
parallelogram, and bears, besides the profile,
a spray of bittersweet and the legend, in
Roman letters, t ritam impendere zero, "Io
Devote Life to Truth; :" also DR.. Hollands
lame in full. The plinth of the monument
bears also the name in full, his life dates
July "a, 1919, and October u, 1881, and
the following inscription, being the last
clause of his will: For the great hereafter /
trust in the infinite love, as il is expressed to
me in the life and death of my Lord and
Savior Jesus Christi