Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-09
PERSONAL MENTION.

JUDGE WYLIE, Eof Washington City, is
going to recuperate at Carson Springs, where
Star-route trials will not disturb his dreams.
MAJ. ISAAC SHELLEY has presented TO the
State OF Kentucky a gold medal which was
given by Congress 10 his father, Isaac Shelby.
the fret Governor of the State, for meriiori-
GUS conduc. in battle.
The Rsv. Thomas Harrison, "the boy
preacher" will next winter try to convert ST.
Louis, and expects a general revival in the
place. The Methodists there have engaged
him for five months service.
KAISER WILHELM, looking in the beet Of
health, took a drive at Gasieio on July 19.h,
with the thermometer l20o, Farenheit, in the
sun. 1t was the twentieth anniversary of
his first visit TO the Gastein waters.
The three Oldest living competitors in
Pennsylvania reside in Harrisburg. They
are General Simon Cameron, sged eighty-six
years; George w. Scott, aged ejghiy-iVe
years, agd Jacob Babb, aged eighty-three
years.
Col. lNGERSOLL was wor5ted at a game OF
parry and thrust with a guest the other day.
He called ont IS the visitor was departing
"May the Lord lake a liking to your"
Whose Lord" asked the other; your Lord
or our Lord?"
"THE Ri. Hon. Earl of Onslow, White
chapel" in gold letters, announced the arri-
val Of that visitor at Newport. The letters
we're not upon a banner borne iu front CT
the esrl's carriage, but were Labeled on his
twenty pieces of Luggage.
SENATOR VEST does not like the orthodox
Sunday and the rigid enforcement OF Sunday
laws and church-going customs. He says
that "resi, eunshIne, the open air and music
humanizs men and make them better ~citizans
OF a great, free, liberal republic"
Mr.. i. B. SMITHIEs, of London, who has
Just died, did more probably than any other
man In England TO gave animals from cruel
~. He wss the editor of the British Work
man, the Eand Of Hops ReUiew, and other pub
locations Of a p~hilanthropic character.
Mr.. HERBERT w. SMYTH, who succeeds
Mr.. A. w. Gould as Latin instructor at Will
Iiams College, is a graduate of Swarthmore,
Harvard and Gottingen. At the ~last-named
institution he was a pupil of F.ck and Kill
burn IN Oriental languages and literature,
and he will add Sanscrit TO the curriculum
of Williams College.
The ratio of suicide in the great cities for
every ] 600 coo Inhabitants averages yearly
as follows: Naples. "a; Rome, "A; London,
81; Genoa, 1876; New York, IA; Berlin,
l7O; Florence, $50; ST. Petersburg, 206;
Dresden, 240; Brussels, I'll; Vipuns, 2S7;
Copenhagen, 1902; Stockholm, 354; Paris,
4O2. New York, 1t will be seen, is we'll up
in the list, though a majority CT the suicides
there are said to be Germans.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR's death leaves but
few old cabinet officers alive. Among these
are A. II. II. Stuart, Secretary of the Navy
under President Zachary Taylor; Jefferson
Davis, Secretary OF War under President
Pierce; Philip Francis Thomas, Secretary of
the Treasury, and Jeremiah S. Black, Attor-
ney General during the latter part of Presi-
dent Buchanan's term, and Simon Cameron,
Secretary OF War under Lincoln.
The following p~relates have been sum-
moned 10 Rome: Archbishops CorrigaD, Of
New York; Gibbons, Of Baltimore; Williams,
of Boston; Feehsn, of Chicago; Elder, of
Cincinnati; Heiss, OF Milwaukee; Perchr, of
New Orleans; Seghers, of Oregon City; Ken
drick, Of 81. Louis; Alemany, of San Fran
cisco, and Lamy, of Santa Fe. OF these
Archbishops Perche, of New Orleans, and
kerdrick, OF s.. Louis, will be represented
by their coadjutors-Bishops Lerray and
Ryan.
YES, 1 sold Abraham Lincoln his first
rai- NJ snsctao1as,n said a veteran ~oeulist of
Chicsgo to a reporter of the Chicago Tribune
the other day. at wss about the time OF
the Legislature of 1854, when he wss a law
yer in Springfield. Some editor down there
paid me SIS 10 make Mr.. Lincoln a pair OF
gold spectacles, and those were the first he
ever wore. When he was elected President
l made him three pairs, one of gold and two
Of steel. / knew the Lincoln family pretty
well, and l Strengthened Bob's eyes for him
when he was a little fellow. He was born
cross. eyed, you know"