Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-17
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this direction have emboldened a radical minor
NY, and eause1 II 70 play the anne par Il ! R btuJ,
House of Commons. The. coming election in
June is awaited with great anxiety.
The Brooklyn hremen, after a run OF
over three miles to the fire at the works of the
STANDARD Oil Company, on Friday night, were
forced by the company agent to pay IN advance
more engines. This was the gratitude of a mon
ster monopoly to brave men who were trying to
save its pr~Operty-proving that one corporation,
at least, has no soul.
AN indignant writer in a German paper
| calls attention to the fact that a town in which
1000 workmen were employed in the manufacture
American demand for these instruments having
ceased, the factory is closed. The writer assigns
| cutting off of which has necessitated the closing
| of the reciprocal branches of the exchange.
Mr.. HANNA, the assayer at the mint,
reports through the Charlotte Obserrer that seven
different analyses of the tin ore lately found at
Kings Mountain show that it is an impure cas-
| siterite, containing fOrty-three and ~forty-six hun
drsdths per cent. of tin. which is at the rate Of
or $500 per ton, so if this ore is present in consid-
cradle quantities the mine is very valuable.
APARTY OF Persian pilgrims once started
| for Mecca. They were, however, forbidden to
leave the steamer on which they took passage, it
being reported that cholera prevailed in Persia.
They were carried, unwillingly, from port to
! London. There fortune favored them, and,
after seeing the sights and making money, one
4 mai = th Tx anu III III
THE Norwegian State trials are not like
| ly to be terminated with any great haste, for after
| the present one is concluded, eleven others are
prepared for the pleadings. The one now in pro-
the question of whether the Ministers gave the
King unconstitutional advice in telling him that
his consent was a prerequisite in all instances to
amendments of the constitution. 4
THE importance of establishing the au-
thenticity of paintings is attracting marked at
tention both in France and England. The sug-
| nEtIn hnE ham made hot IVA ErAngh nj
should take each picture as soon as finished to the
Marie or some proper official and obtain a certif-
work beyond a question. Iii also suggested that
| every picture-pronOunce a forgery by experts,
wherever found, shall be at once destroyed.
A GREAT Swiss marine and pocket
| chronometer competition is now going on at
Geneva, to last over eighty-three days. A spe-
cial stove, in which an invariable temperature
was built: For five days the c~hronometers placed
therein will be kept at one temperature, which
| will afterward be raised by a degree at. n time
from five to thirty-fve eentigrade. and then re-
duced in like manner from thirty-hve to fifty per
cent.
CLAIMS grow old, like persons. They
outlive their welcome. A claim for the value of
about $50 hogsheads of tobacco, destroyed in
Maryland by the British on their way TO attack
regularly since that time. The grandchild of the
original sutton now presents the claim. If all the
reports and sPeeches, made on it could be collect
ed, they would not fill a hogshead, TO be sures but
the monument to wasted efforts would be i'm
pressive.
ONE OF the most significant facts in the
expansion of Italy is the recent increase in the
lished in that country 1878 journals and other
periodicals. of the newspapers the oldest is the
Genoa Gazette, which dated from 1877. Another
saw light in 1914, five came into being between
1870 and 1880, six from 1880 to 1910, nineteen fron
1910 to 1850, ffty-two between 1850 and 1860, while
S3 new ones appeared in 1882, and thirty-foIr
were started on January l, 1888.
THERE are seventy-nine deaf mutes in
the Mississippi State Asylum founded for their
benefit. They are instructed in lip:reading and
articulation as far as possible, and the boys in
rhoe-making, carPentering, and type-setting and
needle and the machine, ironing and other house
hold duties. Among the boys are sixteen negroes,
gent pupils. No death has occurred in the insii-
tuition since its organization in 1871.
The International Electrical Exhibition,
which is to be given in Philadelphia under the
auspices of the Franklin Institute, will occur in
September. The exhibition will, as its name in
dicates, be attended by the leading electricians of
cate that it viii be the greatest electrical exhibi-
ton ever held. Invitations have been sent to the
leading electricians of this country and Europe,
and the replies already received show shat the at
tendance will be very large.
ANYONE DESTROYS to assist in determin-
ing the true status of the European house-sparrow
the relations of this bird to mankind are con-
cerned," will do well to apply for blanks lately
! These contain twenty-seven questions touching
the habits, diet and general reputation for good
and returned to DR.. ]. b. Holder, at al the q AMER \ p
can Museum of Natural History, in Central Park,
New York City.
A CREMATION society has been formed
in New Orleans: The directors are Dr.. Felix
FOrmento, president; Julius Aroni, C. L.Walker,
4. ID. Loucler. }. j.. Meuunier and DR.. L.. ii.
ing the dead, and an effort will be made to i'm
press upon the people the advantages of crema-
ton. There are more than thirty cemeteries
4 SmRh az fhay ara-fngiAn tho aftNr 1frnffs anA - =
not doubted that the tOmbs of brick and stone
above ground exhale poisonous gases through
their crevlces.
ANOTHER gas vein of remarkable power
has been tapped a little northeast of Champaign,
Ill.,. at a depth of eighty feet. The gas rushed
out through a two-inch pipe with such force as to
The roaring sosnd made by the rushing out of the
gas is still heard for a long distance away. These
gas veins have been struck in so many places in
Campaign county as to lead to the belief that oil
wells may be opened successfully. The gas is
utilized in many instances to heat the dwellings
and do the cooking for many families.
The hot-water craze will have its day,
and in its turn will give place TO some other cure,
new or old. In the meantime it would be better
| Of the overburdcned stomach TO seek relief in his
hot;water cups, The man who knows nothing Of
prescribe medicines for his complaints. outvies
the lawyer who draws his own will and is said to
doses of hot water, and, if an organ or the whole
system is reduced until il requires n tonic, a ply
the tonic shall be.
ONE of the bells, says the st. Augustine
correspondent Of the Belfast iMe.) Times, the old
est, Is marked 1852. There is a vast amount Of
sentiment connected with these bells, and il is
considered the correct thing to admire the chimes
and say that they make charming music, but
when you try to make four notes form a tune it is
asking too much of them, for il tires them all out,
and they don I accomplish anything either. When
l heard them | wandered off to the sulphur spring,
where the smell was SO so foul that L could not
hear the bells at all. l think the fragrance from
this fountain would make il SO still in n boiler
factory that you could see a pin drop.
PUBLICATION having peer made of the
broad assertion that whole communities in Rich
mond county, y. G., speak only the Gaelic Ian
gqage, one Of the papers printed there thus ex;
have applied truly to the Spring Hin ~neighbor-
hood of this county. At that time the entire
population-we mean whito-was made up of
original Scotch settlers who spoke only Gaelic.
They heard the gospel deliveredin Gaelic. Now,
however, it Is spoken only by a few Of the old
since have well acquainted themselves with En-
glish, but simply TO amuse and instruct the
younger generation.
The Reading railroad, which had al
ready made its connections through Pine Creek
with the New York Central railroad to send its
coal West, also pressed into the Clearfeld dis
trict to get more coal. 1t is estimated that in
that district is coal to last for 500 years, admirable
in quality, which they can get without paying
schuyikili mines, and the coal runs down grade
to Philadelphia. Of course the investment in so
Company unquestionsbIy has The most ~ c SeaplIets
supply and outfit and facilities now on our con-
tinent to handle coal and mine it.
THE Hebrew hatred in Prussia is an ugly
when the law reinforced it with yexatious ~restric,
tons: When in 1868 Moses Mendelssohn, the
met Gugenheim tho ceremony conid never have have
been brought about within the sanction of the
Law without the purchase of a certain number of
apes, and china ones at that. 1t seems that the
royal porcelain works had manufactured an end
less number Of china apes, which were unstable.
Germany, Jews who married were forced to buy a
Ss5Ss1p nH%ses Of ,; these china apes, and these
sohn family as precious heirloogs.
I SINCE January I'd, writesA eorresnaud-
Sock(obbers Of Zurich have been on strike. on
imposing on dealings in stocks and shares several
lhgpisitorial and. as II would seem, very absurd
TO be taxed, and a government oficer has been
appointed. without whose sanction no official
az sSSt ga Sa5 es published; and who is empower
sorreetress oflheir returns for purposes of taxa
HSn' ane orSksrs' on their part, object that the
trade, vlolatesthe Federal constitution, and they
appeaied 10 me Federal Council 10 suspend the
to the Federal Tribunal, the supreme authar;ty
on all constitutional questions.
FUTURE annalists, saws the Boston Ad
~vcvffser, may well describe this period of American
omy Of our daily life are we divorced from ron SSge-
Il is our slave, and yet an sver-present master.
Sleeping, we rePose on wire mattresses. Eating.
We see foods which have passed through sleeves,
and which are sheltered from insect appetite nv
wire covers. Calling. we pull wire bells To ring
eurled wire gongs. Travelling, we are conveyed
by cable or electric wires, and hurried over wire
bridges; We announce our coming BY TELEGRAPH
or telephone wires, and we thread our way BY
night through streets lighted by means of electric
cables. Across our fields are strung many thon-
sands of miles of barbed wire fences against which
dumb brutes protest, Texas rangers draw the
KNIFE, and lawyers, juries, judges and reporters
Mhet their Intellectual blades. Our clocks are SET
oy wires, our watches run by wires, our books are
sHlSnea WIN wlresl our pictures hung by wires