Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-18
Personal MENTION.

ways occupied In Washington oue certain
set OF rooms-the rooms formerly occupied
by Henry Clay.
AMONG the wedding presents sent to ex-
Senator David Davis WAS an immense chair
made of ox-horns. The donors were Texas
admirers of the great Independent.
The Rev. J. Il. Day, Methodist minis
ter, until recently was preaching in Maine
on salary of few hundred dollars year.
Now he goes TO New York City at salary
of $1,000.
TWENTY. FIVE churches in the city OF Bal
timore have been found to be provided with
insufficient egress in case of accident Of any
kind, and the church authorities have been
officially notified 10 remedy the defects.
THE tunnel under the English channel as
been finished to a mile and a quarter from
the French shore, and the engineers say they
can advance 132 feet day. At this rate the
tunnel could be completed to Dover in year
and half.
IL the Nihilists allow the Emperor OF
Russia to sit on the throne he will carry
scepter worth 32,000,O00r., which was
made for his ancestor Paul 1. 1t ia tipped
with the Orloff diamond, which alone is
valued at S,OO0,00Or.
| Mr.. GLADSTONE has a dozen detectives
about him by day and by night. On Sunday
when he went 10 the communion rail in the
little English church at Cannes, two detec-
| tives stood by him while he received the
elements of bread and wine.
CARDINAL MCCLosKEY, on the 10Th in.
! slant, celebrated the thirty ninth anniversary
| of his elevation to the episcopacy of the
Roman Catholic Church. He is now nearly
| seventy three years of sge, having been born
| in Brooklyn, March 20, 1910.
Col. INGERsoLL's father once offered a
| prayer that occupied an hour and seventeen
minutes in its delivery, and the Rochester
| Post Express infers that he must have been
praying for his son. This is one OF the
cases where prayer remained unanswered.
"THE most unhappy people in New York, -
said clever lawyer the other day, "ars the
men who have Just about 81 100000. They
are expected TO entertain handsomely, and
$4,000 for a party is more than they can
spare from their income" Great heavens
What agonies they must suffer.
Ex-SEcRErARY EvARTs turns his delicate,
| thin souled boots out when he walks; he
holds his hand against his thin overcoat as
if he would aid the buttons in holding it
together; his hat rests on the back Of his
head, but not as far as Charles O'Conor's
famous hat; and he walks as spry as a man
OF twenty-five.
ACCORDING to the last census, 756, 1893 per-
sons died in the United States during 1880.
The death-rate for the whole Union was,
therefore, Isl to 1000. That is low rate,
and yet it was much higher than that given
in 1870, which was only 12.S per 1000, while
the death-rate, according TO the census of
1860, was 1875.
AMONG the candidates for governor Of
Georgia are mentioned ex.Speaker Bacon,
Judge Martin, J. Crawford, Hon. Henry d.
Mcdaniel, Judge Simmons, Judge Under
wood, late of the Tariff Commission, and
Gen. Cook, with fair prospect, the Savan-
nah NetCs thinks, of a multiplication of en-
tries for the gubernatorial race.
GEN. BLUMENIHAL, the new Germsn Min
lister of War, is 10 the seventy-third year of
his age. He took part in the street fighting
in Berlin az long ago ss 184S, was in the
Schleswig- Holstein war, was chief of the
general staff and distinguished himself in
The war against Austria in 1866, and held
the same position 10 the war with France.
The health committee OF Wheeling had
two bills before it; one for fifty cents for to-
bacco and cigars for a smallpox patient,
and the other for fifteen cents for candy for
q sick baby. After a heated discussion OF
nearly two hours, it was decided that the
was not entitled, under the act of the Assem-
bly,, TO luxuries.
CONGRESSMAN VAN AERNAM, OF New York,
recently said: 81 attended the memorial
services of Abraham Lincoln in 1866, and
those of Garfield in 1881. OF the 400 great
men who were gathered on the former occa-
siop, only nineteen were present at the latter.
In sixteen years political generation has
passed away. We live and die rapidly on
Capitol Hill"
SIR GODFREY KNELLER, the painter, was
very conceited. He lived next to DIR. Rad
clitfe, and there was door between their
two gardens; and, as the painters servants
stole the doctors flowers, he sent word that
he would close the gate. "Do anything with
it but paint il" said the doctor. 81 would
take anything from you" replied Sir God
frey, "but ysur physic."
Mr.. JEFFERSON, the actor, went into a
bank in New York recently TO get a check
cashed. The cautious clerk refused 10 pay
out the money, saying that Mr.. Jefferson
must be identified, whereupon the actor
leaned back against post, with that pecu.
liar forsaken air of the returned sleeper,
and said sadly, in the words of rip" "If
my log Schneider vas here he would know
me-" The check was paid.
THE Marquis of Blandford is apparently
many degrees further advanced in cynical
wickedness than even the courtiers Of the
Restoration. When Lady Bradford wrote
to tell him Of the permanent Disagreement
Of his newly. born child in consequence of
prenatal violence, he returned the note,
saying that she might place it among her
family archives, as chronicling The details of
an historic incident of her life.
A uba H.
share of the wine, is carefully feeling his
way home at night, when he unfortunately
stumbles against the circular railing which
surrounds statue. After having gone
around 1t about seven times the hopelessuess
of his situation flashes upon him with vivid
ness, and be sinks down upon the pavement
outside with Departing shrek: "The
scoundrels! They've shut me in herew
THIS is the greeting which Texas paper
extends 10 a new pastor: "The Rev. Mr..
Glass, the pastor for the ensuing year has
come. He has pretty good clothes, doubtless
purchs sed with means saved by systematic
starvation from HE salary OF last year, for
he looks a. little lsnk. 1t is, perhaps, quite
proper that the world and especially his
church members. should take his good clothes
into consideration and dead-beat the Lord
this year. There is nothing more TO be APP
preciated than free religion"
AT public dinner recently DR.. Playfair,
late chairman of committees in the House
OF Commons, gave the usual toast of "The
Army and Navy" in terms of rather equivo-
cal compliment. This is a toast" he said,
which requires very little comment. The
army and navy have been drunk for very
many years, and the reserve forces have now
been drunk for over twenty years. The
result was an explosion of merriment.
When the Learned and genial gentlema an was
made to realize the import Of his iittle slip
he Joined heartily in the laughter.
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