Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-17
PERSONAL MENTION.

The rumor that the summer resort piano
has been tuned lie premature.
The "hight Of the season. is generally
measured by .he length of the summer hotel
bill.
THE Philadelphia Times hopes that wicked
Sitting Bull will not scare Mr.. Arthur by
hopping up from behind a rock.
Mr.. THOMAS 3. CoNNERY. formerly man.
aging editor Ct the New York Herald, has
returned from Europe, but will not resume
ne S0psper work. He has been thirty years
in harness and wants no more of it.
AN OK team is singularly symbolic Of
couriship and marriage, says an exchange,
for it begins with a bow, continues with q
ring and a woke, progresses with a tongue,
and ends by presenting 10 the world the
picture of a goaded pair.
IT Was at the close of the wedding break
fast. Ooe CT the guess arose, and, glass in
hand, said 81 drink 10 the health of the
bridegroom. May he zee many days like
ihisW The intention WAS good, but the
bride Looked up as if something displessed
her
A A in North Stonington, Conn, now
eighIy-four years of age, deposited 500 in u
savings bank on his tweuty-6rst birthday,
and has never Withdrawn a dollar of the
principal or interest since. Ii he takes Joy
III liz bao AoOn1C PlCo6oiC
from il.
Very few people know that a letter mailed
in a hotel envelope which fails to reach the
person addressed is sent al once 10 the dead
letter ofics, Notwithstanding the ten days re-
turn notice on the corner. Ii you stop at a
hotel and use one Of its envelopes, always
mark out the name and insert your own if
you want your letter again if it fails to reach
the person addressed.
AT the recent old mems gathering at lewis
burg, Tenn, l64 members were pres mt, the
Oldest being 104 years old. There were ia
between The ages Of go and 20; AZ between
20 and so; 5 between so and 80; 2 between
80 and 100; over 100, l. OF this number 102
were born in Tenness.e; 40 in North Caro-
lima; s in Virginia.; 5 in South Carolins; 8
10 Kentucky l in Ma'vland; L in Germany;
l 10 Ireland and 8 in Gsorgis.
THE Prince of Montenegro, vino some time
ago closed all the cafes and drinking. shops
in his dominion, regarding them as schools
of effeminacy, extravagance and corruption,
and abolished all titles, go that, while for
merly every other man in Montenegro was
an "excellency," now even the ministers
have to be content with plain "Mr.," has re-
Gently issued an interdict against all, "lua-
rious wearing appare'," including cravats,
gloves, walking-sticks, parasols and uu-
brella'.
AN earnest fort is being made in Georgia
TO raise funds by subscription for the puI-
chaee OF Liberty Hall, Alexander II. Ste
phens's late residence, the intention being TO
erect there a monument, and TO keep the
properly rs nearly SIS possible in the condi-
ton IN which Mr.. s ephens left it. The prop
erty C IN be he'd for $4,000, if taken before
the lat of November next, and thisi includes
the library, which cost $4,000. The plan
includes the establishment of a high school
on the grounds.
DR. JOHN G. THOMPSON writes TO the Lon
don papers 10 poi2t out What ought to have
been a well-knewn fact 10 Capt. Webb, or
aoy other experienced swimmer, that human
strength or sklll is Of absolutely no use 10
foamiug water, where the number Of air bub-
bIes is necessarily 30 great as 10 reduce the
gravity OF the water sufficiently to make il
impossible for the strongest m to sup
port himself. Had this consider alton re-
ceivsd due weight Capt. Webb's attempt
might never have bsen made.
The Fink brothers are all connected with
railroad interests. There are three brothers
Albert, Henry and Rudolph. They are Ger
mans snd engineers, and their combined
salaries exceed those paid to any family in
the Uaiied States. These three brothers gel
about 100000 a year. Albert Fink has
built some OF the most important railroad
lines in the South. Henry Fink ia with one
OF the largest Southern systems. Rudolph
Fink is building the main line of railroad
into Mexico for the Boston men.
The Rev. D.. McLsne, of Steubenville
o., was some months ago adjucged a hereto
aud was suspended by his prespytery from
the exercise OF ministerial functions. Hi
case was taken to the General Assembly a
Saratoga, where it came very near beirl
tried bat on the understanding thai DR.. Nc
Lane would retire from the Presbyterian de-
nomination, the trial WIS indefinitely pos.
| poned. Dr.. McLane has now become a Con
gregationslist, aad Notwithstanding the her
etical teachings of his book, The Gross IN III
/ Light of To- Day, he has been received by
! Congregational Association. Alarge numbe
of his iormer church members 60 with hin
| into the Congregational fold. DIR. Nolan
Ia a man Of considerable power as q reacher
! and OF much personal magnetism.
An irreverent correspondent describes til
English bishops as they recently appeared i
the House OF Lords: There sat some sew
enteen elderly persons in episcopal robe
their pulled lawn sleeves suggesting in
e rather curious way that a feminine element
: not youthful either, had somehow found il
way Into the House. Look at their face
The stamp of their profession is on thea
. Nobody would say that these are men of III
world, or men OF bnsiness, or men Of al air
!, The punched lips, the eyes mostly too nea
j together, the skin drawn firmly over chez
and chin, the sloping corners of bite
mouths, the air of sanciimony, of always Po
inc before the world-all this and much mol
y the casual observer may see az he glances 9
e ! This phalaur of spiritua al legislators.n