Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-28
NOTES AND COMMENT.

4 n ID0 lnulallS Says tnere
i are swear words in the Indian language.
| THERE was music in the air of down
| town store in New York the other day, whom 1900
| song-birds, each in a separate wicker cage, were
| sold at auction.
FoUL water is made drinkable and harm
less, it is said, by the powder of the African kola
/ nut. Perhaps an occasional cargo of these would
| find profitable market in Boston.
FREQUENT reports of trouble between
| Russian merchants and the Chinese appear in
| the London papers. They may fOreshadow fur
| ther Russian military movements in Central Asia.
THE imports of iron ore from Spain to
the United States have increased from ,0i tons
tons, in 1879, to 3i3-359 tons in 1888. Spain i'm
| Italy, French Africa and British North America
have decreased slightly in each country.
| Ware told that among the fishes most
| commonly eaten, the cod is the poorest in total
| solid matter, in al6uminOus compounds and in
| fat" This may be useful bit of information to
| those who would fast during Lent. The Goldfish
| can give spiritual if not bodily nOurishment.
| UNDERGROUND telegraph wires in France
! have so far met with great success: The govern
IT has, therefore, determined, in addition to
the extensive system already laid, to lay further
| lenth OF 1886 kilometers, about $3.50 miles of
| SOO,OOO.
TIE increasing demand for spirits OF
| turpentne barrels on the part of the manufac-
turers of the spirits in Georgia and Florida, has
prompted Savannah firm to erect a factory for
manufacturing spirit barrels on large scale.
The present capacity of the shop is 800 barrels
/ day, but 1t will be enlarged as the demands in
| crease.
PRATT MINES contributed $1,000 tons for
/ January, 1884, to the coal output of Alabama.
These great mines are gradually increasing their
production, and the January output will probably
in the end be much below the monthly average. 1t
put of the entire State was less than that Of Pratt
Mines.
THE Winston County Miss Signal says
work on the Canton, Aberdeen and Nashville
L IL gOiug OF track
been laid through BlanIon's Gap, and large
force is engaged laying iron in the direction Of
Starkville. 1t is expected the road will be I'm
ished to Starkvile by the lst middle of March.
By summer it will be in operation all the way to
Aberdeen.
SOCIETY reporters in Kansas drink pc
| culiar brand Of whisky. One of them writes:
''The 1.-THE form of little Mrs Con was clothed
in tiara of bright au burn curls, which fell over
| ing to behold. Her eyes reminded of dia-
mond springs sparkling in the shade of whisper
ing willows. She was decidedly the finest type Of
| beauty present..
AT Rome, Ga, the other day, Judge
/ johnson decided that the wife Of Sam Echols, a
should retain custody of their old boy
Tne wife testified that although she has not lived
with her husband for two years, she was stll de-
| voted to him, but would never consent to follow
him, wandering about the country he did
preaching MOrmonism-
THE railroads have carried from Florida
to the West 500 car-oads of oranges this season,
| and there are loo more cars to go. car carries
about 80 boxes, or 5000 oranges. This makes
tho total crop marketed West 2l,OO0,0OO oranges,
Si2O, 600 in money, the oranges netting about SO
box, or two cents apiece. As only a third of the
/ crop went West, the total crop of Florida was
about 60,O00,0OO oranges, that netted the orange
! growers about 81 ,200,0O0
THERE is a movement on foot among the
4 Brooklyn members of the Grand Army of the
Republic to render substantial assistance 10 the
exCon federate soldiers of Virginia in their efforts
i to erect a soldiers home at Richmond. meet
ing of commanders of posts will be held within a
have lecture delivered by Capt j. NJ. Senter, of
i tho national staff of the Grand Army of the Re-
! Henry Ward Beecher will be invited to preside
en- the occasion.
DR.. J. ]. LINN, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
! has purchased a largo body of land near Mont
ocher. The ,Snd contains forty fifty acres, and
the specimens 'aken have been examined by the
quality of ocher and equal to that of France. The
land is situated sono ten miles from Montgomery
railroad. The ocher is worth in New York by
wholesale so ton, and as an examination nat has
| it may be said to be a fine investment.
THE old regimental hospital system in
the British army is abolished, and the new sys-
tenn which was worked at Tel-el-kebir BY Lord
ae II US Ssarea
of eight doctors, some 200 trained bearers und
Sas ssaSs S' wines ebIoSoform and Sf the means
4 6f perfcruing operations and giving temporary
support is iOlIGel for the division as whole,
and to il all the rekimental wounded are taken
| by the resimental and its own behrets, Hers
| they are examined, operated on and fed. When
this is over they carried by ambulance to the
| field hospital, generally some further distance
| tfom the Geld, and there deposited.
TINS Salt Lake Tribune says that ,hs
| need of the Mormon -duped sufferers in Colorado
| continues urgent. The good people of Salt Lake
hsYe not lost sight of this fact and contributions
continue 10 be received for their benefit by Miss
Kate Field, Gov. Murray and the treasurer of the
| Tribune Company. At the Union meeting last
/ Sunday movement was set on foot for holding
public meeting in the interest of this cause and
| those having IL in eharge are moving as rapidly
Gs circumstances viii admit. We expect 10 be able
| TO announce in a day or twoa definite programme
/ for the furtheranes of this good work. The be-
tTayed people of Colorado deseFFe we'll of Ameri-
ieans for their independence in coming out from
| tie abominatiOns Of the disloyal sect as soon
/ tIey found oUf the true meaning of what was ex-
Iected of thenl by their Eould-h dictators, and
refusing TO yield under persecution and sufferins.
| Their conduct has been IN every way sdmirable,
and the free Americans of Utah, who, better than
any other people can, understand jEst what these
| people have been compelled to pass through, will
not fsil to do what they able to do in approving
| snd sustaining them"