Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-09
IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE

FATHER: al never imagined that your
studies would cost me so much money"
student: "Ees, and don't study much,
either"
Mr. THOMAS MAST celebrates his return
to HdTpcr's Weekly by ornamenting the
irst page OF the paper with an elephant
and caricature OF himself as a dime
museum midget.
THE trustees of the University OF Penn
sylvania have under discussion the ques-
ZION OF establishing new laboratory in
which can be conducted chemical expert
meuts relating to the industrial arts.
TIE president and fellows of Harvard
College have appropriated 500 for the
Boston firemen's relief fund, in recogni-
tion OF the service done by the Fire De-
partment at the new building of the med
ical school, one night last May.
THE Rev. r. Hebsr Newton is still hav-
ing serious difficulty with his eyes, the
Hebrew points of the Pentateuch tried
them severely, and his enemies, who pro-
pose to present him for trial, are preparing
statements that will trouble his ears.
LADY RUTHvES, whose interest in
Greece dates as far back as the war OF in
dependence, has presented her collection
of Greek vases, terra cottas, lamps and
Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh.
Mrs. Ole BuLI's little daughter 0lea,
now twelve years old, inherits something
of her fathers tiddling facility, and is
going with her mother for a summers
visit to Norway, atte npting concerts,
probably, in some OF the principal places.
Ir is said that one of the best Greek
scholars in the country said, during re-
cent lecture on the benefits of Il classical
education, that there does not exist a
graduate of an American college who can
properly afix the accents 10 a page OF
printed Greek.
DUMAS still retains in France his rights
in Cdm,ne, from which already he has
realized $4,000, and the original of
Armand Duval" is still living. But
Marie Duplessis. who furnished the
portrait for Marguerite Gautier,' died
long ago, and once year Dumas places a
wreath on her tomb.
ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER photographs
John Ruskin as very different-looking
man from what the aesthetic world has
londly fancied him. He makes him about
five feet five inches tall, with an iron-gray
beard extending up to his eyes, a low and
retreating forehead and long hair, which.
ike Tennyson's, for years nos had no &C
quaintance with comb or brush.
Ii is not often that a non-prosessional
astronomer has gained the honor of gold
medalist Since the award to Mr.. De la
Rue in 1862 for his photographs of the
solar eclipse, Messrs. higgins and Miller
received Joint medal for their researches
in astronomical physics in 1867, and Baron
nembIouski one for double star work in
1873; the fourteen other medals going to
professional astronomers.
The Pal lfaH Gazsfis says OF MIR. Bran
der Matthew's: ''His knowledge OF the
French stage is at once wide and accurate,
but this is perhaps doubtful advantage
when he turns from criticism TO author
ship. strenes to ssy, Kcresrs's LcUecs IS.
so far as we know, his first work of any
Importance which has found its way to
the footlights either here or in America.
lie is almost as well known in London so
ciety as in New York, though not so much
in theatrical circles as in the literary
colerie OF which Mr.. Gosse and Mr.. Austin
Dobson are prominent members.
FEDORA will make net profit this
season of $4,000 said Miss Fanny Da-
yenports business manager TO reporter,
land the play is still good for six or seven
wears to come, if we can md an actress
strong enough to stand the wear and tesr
OF playing the title role Miss Davenport
. is pEysiesly probably ths stronssst actress