Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-13
PERSONAL.

The people of Jacksonville, Fla, are liv.
ing on strangers, and living very we'll. The
climate there is good for the invalid; but it
is particularly hard on the pocket-book.
PROF H. w. WILEY, of the Purdue Uni
versity, Lafayette, Ind, has beea appointed
chief chemist of the Department of Agricult-
ure. Pfof Wiley is a native OF indiana, a
graduate OF Harvard, and is said to be an
&C complished and experienced chemist.
The poet said deity and truly that all
the wealth the cold dead hand can take into
the other world il "wbst it has given away"
And Peter Cooper bears with him beyond
the grave fortune inside inexhanstibie by
its application, and whose fruits cannot be
measured BY human methods.
AN old gentleman of the legal profession.
in South Mississippi, had habit OF using
constantly in his speeches the expression, 81
apprehend, your honor One day a witty
opponent said 10 the Court, he had always
noticed that whenever his learned opponent
failed TO comprehend, he always appre-
hended.
MANY Greeks who have made their for
tunes abroad, who return to Athens for the
winter and who do not speak their own Ian
gusge with facility, have, nevertheless
fever of patriotism. There are many eco
nomical suppsrs, with Voor wines, aud there
is much inartistic daacing. The Queen, a
Russian, joins in the simple pleasures.
AT Graysop; KY, last Sunday, sn organ
was put out of church because certain
me mbers had conscientious scruples agsinst
its use Whereupon the Psducah Neus COM
ments, and says: "They can kill people by
the dozen in thst part OF the country, but
such thing of Belal as = church organ
cannot be endured al a |. Oh! no, OF course
nett
Mr.. PETER COOPER wss saving, without
beiog parsimoniou,; rhrewd, without beng
| sharp; careful, without being timid. He had
acquisitiventss strongly developed, but what
| he acquired was put to good Use. Honest
| sni open in all his dealings, just and toll
Grant in his Judgments, courteous and con-
siderate in his conversation, he Wss a man
respected by all the world.
The military novel, The Red Acorn, BY
| John McElroy, of the Toleco Blade, has bee n
placed on sale, and is attracting much atteu-
| ton. AndersOnvile, by the same author,
reached sale of 10000 copies. The present
is a story of the first division of the Four.
teenth Corps, which, under Gen. George Ii.
| Thomas, formed the nucleus of the Army Of
the Cumb rland. All the characters in The
story are real.
If The musicians would hang cod Sister
Eane, p etoP "Gathsriug sheits by The Sea-
| shore" shoot vt at Good Old Dog OF Mine"
| put put "The Bridegroom" quie ly 10 bed
"when he comes" and find one or two songs
| that have not been worn out aud exhausted
| the musical endura ice OF humanity, there
might be some chance for them to Ego to
heaven when they die"
LIsZr, the composer has bsen, supposed to
entertain the same enniiy for the Jews that
was evinced BY Wagner; but in q letter iust
published in a Hungarian newspaper he de.
| nies that such is the Gaze, and SAYS that
Meyerbeer, Heine and ether Jews were long
| his warm personal friends. He also speaks
| of various services lat he rendered TO meri-
| torious Jewish artists, and of aid that he
| gave to numerous Jewish benevolent institu-
lions in different countries during his long
| public career.
LORD WoLsELEY does not sgree with the
| opinion Of Gen. Grant, expressed some time
| ago, that in modern warfare the sword or
saber was obsolete as a wespon, and that the
| bayOnet twas OF no use in modern warfare,
being merely 30 much weight added 10 the
soldiers equipment-weigh which it would
be more profitable for him to carry as ammu-
milton or rations." Lord Wolseley, in a re-
cent letter 10 Col. Battersby, of New York,
| expresses the hope that ''the day may be far
| distant when the sword will be disc srded in
the British cavalry" and declares that "re-
cent experience has shown the value of the
bayonet."
For many years, and up to the time Of his
| death, Washington Irving passed the collec-
ton plate in Christ church, at TarrVtown.
| Oae Sunday morning sitter the service he
told the pastor that he had performed that
| duty so often he felt as though be could em-
ula'e highwsymsn and stop u man on the
road with your money or your lifew Don-
aid Mitchell! once asked him about his sys-
TEN Of note-ma king for historical writing
and be said: Il hsve no system; l leave
that 10 Bancroft. l just jot down thing
when it strikes me, STOW it away in pigeon
hole somewhere, and when / want ii instinct
somehow leads me 10 it,"
LAST month the fret Catholic Chinese mis-
sion in San Francisco wac established BY
Father Anlouucci, who returned TO Rome
last summer, after six years passed in mis-
sion work in China. He was preparing t.
60 again 10 China when he was ordered tC
proceed TO San Francisco, where be arrived
Last Oelobsr. He mas since been engaged II
mastering the English language, and La.
month, his preparations being completed
the mission was st.r.sd. He is assisted By
I AndFees Ma, a Chinese Catholic, and already
there is a nightly average attendance o.
4 over Fifty Chinese. A yet the teaching II
only secular, but religious instruction vii
be gradually introduced.