Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-17
PERSONAL.

1HE u6aIn Is dunOuuCtu lTOuQ lOTbuCc
of Giambattista Giuliana, one of the great Dante
scholars of Italy-or D~antiste, as the Dante
scholars love to call themselves.
SOME one writing from New York to a
London journal says that the fame of the dead
Delmonicos will live Us long in New York ss that
ofsW ashington or Hawthorne.
Two boys, with hooks and baskets, rang
the door.5ell of an uptown house in New, York
city, in front of which was an ash-baTTel, and
said: AK the missis if there's any einders in
that darned old BARREL
AUSTIN CoRBIN, president of the Long
Island Railroad Company: Ashamed of Long
to convict the criminals. If the jury does not do
it the farmers VIII take the law in their own
hands.
A MEMBER of a theatrical troupe recently
said, in Chicago: 1.-TWO weeks age we we're in
New Orleans with the thermometer at 81, above.
Last week we were in Kansas City, and the mer-
curry was "a below. 4 fall of l16 in one week is
a pretty good change
Mr.. S. B. Mills, the eminent pianist,
will on the 10Th instant have been twenty-five
I'D he will celebrate his silver wedding. Mr..
Mills married a German lady, whose acquaint-
Music.
PAULsEN, the champion Norwegian
skater, says the secret of great speed is in bal
ancing, and moving in as straight q line as posi-
at rest at his sides, and makes his slides fifteen
feet in length. His average speed in long races
Is u llJtle over JDTee minutes 10 u mlie. In snort
spurts he lowers the time to inside of three min
utes.
A lies in the New York Bellevue
Hospital with a rubber tube through his brain.
His name is Bruno Know, and last Thursday he
shot himself between the eyes with a thirty-two
caliber revolver. The bullet took a slightly
lodged within the skull. Unable to reach it by
any other means, the doctors sawed out a piece of
the back part of Know skull and extracted the
bullet, inserting a rubber drainage tube. He
gradually grows better.
ALMOST the last time that Wendell Phil
lips went out he gave his attention to perfecting
his title to n lot in the cemetery at Milton, Mass,
where he expressed a desire to be buried. We
hear, says the Boston Journal, that in accordance
with this request his remains will be removed to
the spot DESIGNATED. About two weeks before his
death Mr.. Phillips went into the Suffolk county
probate Office and executed his will which was
was acquainted. He probably drew it up himself.
GEN. GRANT wrote. by the hand OF his
secretary, to 2 friend in Galena, I'LL, on the I'd
instant, as follows; Il was glad TO receive your
letter of the 18th ultimo, and regret very much
that | am not able to answer it myself. The in
jury that l received l think is very much, i'm
proved; but pleurisy and then rheumatism have
followed, and | am still an invalid and confined
to my room, and part Of the time to my bed. !
a few weeks of good health will bring me out
again.
Mr.. A. NJ. BRoADLEY, the legal defender
of Arab Pasha, has rooms in the Temple, Lon
don, furnished in strange contrast to the re-
mainder of that somber, dingy and prosaic pre-
cinct. Their entrance is a Saracenic %archwsy,
waIl-hangings blazoned with Koran texts-once
the Sid Ben AVID, who was buried in kairwan
nearly 1900 wears ago-and a host of brilliant,
quaint and curious tokens of North Africa and
the Orient.
A CITIZEN of Baltimore, who recently
made the acquaintance Of Gen. Chinese, Cor
don, in Brussels, says that the Oriental fighter
tache, and looks like Gen. Angus, OF the Balti-
more American. He relishes a good joke, never
visits a theater, and deyotes himself when in
London to relieving the distress of the worthy
poor. He dearly loves America and intends to
visit us soon if he lives. He admires our news
papers. He hates slavery, and he wonders why
Mr.. Vanderbilt does notappropriate 81 200 GOO and
place il his hands to be used in abolishing the
slave trade in Congo.
A PHILADELPHIA correspondent suggests
that a strong ticket for the Democracy would be
such men as Daniel W. Voorhees,, Of Indiana,
and Col. Casey Young, of Tennessee. While
these gentlemen might not be elected they would
at least give their party n ticket of respectability,
and one that would command respect throughout
the country. Voorhees, is a Democrat of national
reputation, immensely popular in the Vest and
South, and would poll, a handsome soldier vote.
Besides, he can carry his own State. Col. Young
is n Yell-known member of Congress from Mem
phis, Tenn, popular with his party and people,
and, like Voorhees,, n man against whom not a
word can be said.
THE French Academy rendered a tardy
justice to high talents few weeks ago, by e~lecting
NJ. Edmond About to one of its vacant Jauteuis
" bhO 'tNSAoA az H.ESSlef ~ hOo
famous of living engineers, which is now said to
be certain, will do the Academy equal honor.
Of this august body, seem happily to be fast pass
ing away. NJ. About's freely,speaking book about
twenty years. NJ. Renan had been for an equal
period the most distinguished writer in his field
Gle, The greatest authors and scholars used TO be
excluded on account of political or religion,
opinions.
IT WAS the uncle of the late Marquis of
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glory of the family and made himself so notorious
as to be sketched from for character by both Dis
E3SIi t and .. Th&Skfg' Si M hSPG gs9fG9 rs SSaiia %Sd.
and handled him gently as compared with. the
giant Thaekeray, who out of the third MARQUIS of
Vanity FAR. The career of the man had been
hideously conspicuous. As a massive figure of
evil, the incarnation of the spirit of soulless. |
cynical and cruel debauchery, the Marquis of
Steyne" stands unriyaled in English literature.
/ believe that the end of this eminent noblemnn
was Observation-Disclosures like that of the Baron |
de Chevrial' on the stage. He had given n supper
to some ladies, of the ballet ct the ,Mqi'oa Dores,
which merited n higher and drier fate. |
THE advantage of rich men to a COM
munity. says Cath is seen in the estate of Asa
university be founded at bethlehem, making q
greater beqnest than that of Johns Hopkins at |
Lehigh Valley, developed it, gave it com nunica-
tiOns which built up. its, towns, and having hus-
Dduut ME iANaho WIN Al "a ~ ~ Il
benefit of the mineral interests of the country and |
the engineering talent we shall need, to found a |
free technical school of the highest quality. He |
has been dead but a few years, and now his son /
the remainder of the estate to the col |
lege, which therefore becomes the owner, so to
speak, of the Lehigh Valley railroad system, |
which extends from, New York bay almost to
Lake Ontario. Girard College was a mere char /
ity TO orphans. The Lehigh University is almost |
a national institution like the French Polytechnic |
School. |
Mr.. CoRcoRAN is finishing the handsome
brick building opposite Wormley's Hotel; Wash !
ington, which is TO become the chief residence of
the Columbian University. This college was
founded in the early days of the republic, about
the time that John Quincy Adams had q bill in
for q National American University.
The college was organized but fell into ~denomina-
tional hands, and meantime the Roman Catholics /
greatly developed their more ancient school, /
which had been founded by Bishop Carroll ard
visited by Gen. Washington. Georgetown Cd /
lege possesses a considerable estate. Its rival is
the Columbian University, which has now more
central housings than tho other, though the new
facade of the Roman college is one Of the finest
ornaments of Washington. Within the grounds
Of Georgetown College died Susan Decatur. pore
twenty years ago, who had survived hei JUS
band, Commodore Decatur, nearly forty 1--WE |
years. She gave her estate to Georgetown College |
- IL oF hahn takau rara of for life and 4