Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-02
PERSONAL.

BISHOP kAvANAUGH, OF Georgia, Gays
that "the sweetest church music" he ever
heard was made by violin and organ.
SEvENTY-FIvE Ohio editors are now en-
gagged in writing up their experiences in
Florida. This is a powerful strain on one
State.
A CHICAGO paper says that at least one
third of the unmarried dry goods clerks in
that city paint their cheeks, and scores of
them wear oorsets and cultivate a sorrcwful
look.
GEN. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, agent of the
War Department for the collection of histor-
icsl papers and documents relating to the
war, has issued circular urging the contri-
button of such papers.
YOUNGSTOWN Herald: ga French chemist
thinks he can resuscitate human body after
it has been frozen a few weeks. He might
experiment on Oscar Wilde, and if he
missed the combination, people would be
just as well pleased"
"OH, YES" said the engineer, 81 had a
chance to become hero by sticking to my
post when the collision came; but when | re-
Elected that my name would be spelled 500
different ways in the newspapers changed
my mind and jumped"
DIR. JOSEPH RHODES BUCHANAN, author
of a System Of Anthropology and other works,
ia to be the head of the American University,
recently chartered and to be established in
Boston. 1t is to be pathological institu-
opened April next
IT is encouraging TO learn that Gen. G. II.
Grosvenor, who received nearly $4,000 ar
rears of pensions for disabilities incurred in
the military service of the government, has
rouorad he int he ITnffad Ctata
treasury. He applied for the arrears to vim
dictate principle.
LIE New York legislative investigation
into corners has finally degenerated into a
combined "wax-fgger" show and advertising
bureau. Its latest novelty was the ex-bauk-
rupt Henry Cews, the kernel of whose tes-
timony was that his business amounted 10
more than $50, 100000 year.
THE ostriches that were recently sent 10
California from New York have reached
their new home, and the first experiment in
ostrich farming in this country is under way.
The twenty birds cost $1,000 each delivered
in San Francisco, price that will seem high
10 the average poultry raiser; but The birds
are worth it.
Mr.. HENRY LABoUCHERE is believed to
have inherited 100000 altogether from his
father, who died senior partner in the we'll
known clearinghouse of Williams, Deacon,
Labouchere g. Co., but his speculations and
Investments have at least trebled his inheri-
tance. He has share in the Daily News
and owns Truth.
POSTMASTER GENERAL FAwcETT, who has
been in such ill-health that it was expected
that he would die, is one of the most popu-
lar men in England. He is over six feet
tall, and is very strong man. Although
he is totally blind he rides, rows and skates
we'll. He will sometimes walk eighteen miles
of an afternoon. He was born in 1888.
The Chicago Times prints an exhaustive
review of the real estate market OF that city
for the past year, in its edition of Tuesday
last. The season was marked by very heavy
transactions. The sales for the last ten
years amount to $500, 437 ,769. The building
operations for last year involved an approx
m ate outlay of s20,000,00O. The rage for
fats is on the increase.
HENRY 7. WHITE, whose stories in the
Chicago Tribune concerning Miss Eulalie
McGirlygirt, Miss Gwendolen Mahaffey and
Mr.. George w. Simpson have interested
many readers, no longer plays the part Of
Cupid's clown. He was married TO Miss
Fannie Driscoll, of poetic fame, at Milwau-
kee, few weeks ago, since which time no
Tribune.
Col. DUNCAN, of lockwood, Temp, re-
Gently became greatly indebted to Mr.. Stith,
the latter having saved the coionePs life.
Last week Col. Duncan presented Mr.. Stith
with 1000 acres OF mountain land. Mr..
Stith shortly afterward gave Col. Duncan
500 acres of the land back for drink of
apple brandy, and within the next half hour
gave him back the other 500 acres for the
same consideration.
A wELL-KNowN American Snowman who
has been exhibiting in Siam confirms the
report recently made by a st. Louis man
who lately went to ST. Petersburg for Bar
mum, that there ia no such thing as white
elephant. He saw the large elephants at
Haugkak owned by the king, two of which
are called white elephants. The latter,
when examined, were found to have skins OF
q chocolate color with striped blue eyes.
The real inventor of the practical reaper
was the late Coz. Ephraim Ball, of Canton,
o., who died poor. McCsrmick's first ma
chimes were coarse, clumsy, horse numbering
affairs that compared with Balls as fine
carriage does with a log-truck! Ball was
destitute of business sense and died almost a
pauper. Mccormick is shrewd man Of af-
fairs, who has become a millionaire, mostly
by using the products of other mems brains.
Mr.. JOHN Q. A. WARD, the sculptor, is in
search of model for the statue Of WASH
ington, which is to be placed on the steps of
the treasury building, in Wan street, and
for another statue of the Mayfower pilgrim
for the New England Society. He thought
by advertising fer male model he would
get what he wanted, and the advertisement
brought immense numbers of applicants, but
some were too short, others too fat, others too
lean, and all showing some deficiencies in
proportion which untitled them for the art
lists purposes.
GEoRGE BANCROFT, the octogenzrian his
torian, is native of Worcester, Mas. His
father, who was minister of the place, and
his mother lived together in wedlock for
ffty-tlso years. DESTROYS of erecting some
monument to their memory, he has thought
1t better to spend his money on the living
than on the dead, and hence has given the
city fund, the interest of which is TO be de-
voted to the liberal education of some prom
ising young man of the town. The idea is
COED one, and should find many imitators.
SAIL ladies who may be troubled with
nervous prostration, who suffer from organic