Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-28
PERSONAL MENTION.

SEA bathing is a safe amusement for avid
DaviP. No shark has ever tried 10 swallow
the Great Eastern.
A DAKOTA editor speaks OF John Bright
az being 'the inventor Of a very successful
disease OF the kidneys."
The Rev. F. /. Ferguson, OF Armada,
Mich, acts as pitcher in a local baseball
club. His congregation has forbidden him
to play in match games.
The editor Of the Detroit Free Press has
discovered that it is possible to have $1,000
coo and be utterly wretched.
TITUS s.. CHURCH, of Boston, is the only
colored man in this country who has taken
out a patent for an invention.
The Hon. s. A. Davenport, Of Erie, Pa,
has the cases out OF which Horace Greeley
set type when he worked on the Erie Gazette.
JOHN BIeELow, for many years connected
| with the New York Euening Post, is preparing
a life Of Bryant. The book will be published
in the utumD.
SOMEBODY asked Gen. Grant what ne "was
doing nowadays" Costing as much COM
fort out OF life as I can" was his reply; and
everyone will Wish him success.
AMONG the notable visitors at the House
of Commons the other day was Marwoo1, the
executioner. He was given a conspicuous
sect and treated with great consideration.
SIMS REEVES, the famous tenor, is a portly
man, weighing nearly 200 pounds, with a
full, chubby face and a quantity of curly,
iroa-gray hair, once 1T black, of which he
has always been very proud.
Mr.. JOHN E. OWENS, the veteran sclor, is
living at his farm 90 the York road, near
Baltimore. His genial face is occasionally
seen on the streets of Baltimore, where he is
heartily greeted by a number of old friends.
BANREs BABCooK, a farmer of New Ber-
lin, Wis, married a sixteen-yesr-old girl
against the wishes of her parents, who locked
| her up when she came home. Babcock had
the old folks arrested and recapIured his
| bride.
A BRoTHER,of the Khedive, Prince Ibrahim
Hilmy, Is about to publish a photography o;
printed books, manuscripts, periodical litera.
lure, ETC., relating TO the antiquities, history
aud political and social life Of Egypt, from
the earliest times to the present date.
THE story that Mark Twain is at the verge
| Of the grave wrestling with the maiarisI
| fever is a fabrication. "He is IN good health, .
| says the Elmira Advertiser, sand is working
hard. Any newspaper correspondent who
| doubts this statement can satisfy himself re-
gsrding Mr.. Clemens's condition by climbing
up Quarry Farm Hill any m%ernipg at $3.50
o'clock and knocking on the door of the
well-known Mark vain sindy arbor. He
will find the author at hls desk. If be
chance 10 be something of an invalid, Mr.
Clemens will take him out and show him the
woods wherein, last year, by ~chopping wood,
he cured himself of thirteen different anG
distinct Diseases"
The late DGke OF Marlborough, as year
advanced upon him, acquired an expression
of dignity which was absent from hts faci
end figure in his less mature years. Hl
rather commonplace appearance on one &C
casiou led to an extraordinary eontretemps
When the odd and wicked and very mucf
married duke was gathered to his fathers
and his son Winston succeeded 10 the family
hopors, her grace determined TO have a BIZ
house-warmiug at B.enheim, in the shape o.
a county ball. As Marchioness of Bland
ford, abe had lived in comparative seclusior
outside the palsce gates, and the duke woult
not allow her TO drive up the grand avenue
Il was natural, therefore, when che cam
into her kingdom that she should wish Il
strike an attitude Of triumph. But her lori
considered dancing e~evilish, 20 there was
difference of opinion at Blenheim. The voic
Of the feminine authority prevailed, how
ever, and a ball was given 10 all Oxfordshire
Among the guests was a funny undergradu
ate; and, not knowing the duke, from Adam
he positively mistook him for a waiter, AMI
when his race tried TO transix him with
stony stare, his genteel remark was: snow
you old lido, look sharpl Champagne, d'y,
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