The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

TIE Able List, who is now in his
seventy fth year, has laid aside the baton
he replies to an invitation Of the Russian
own works at st. Petersburg, that he has
duct.
In recent address in New Haven,
DR.. Cuyler said: with my own eyes have
seen Mr.. Gladstone kneel by the side Of a
common street sweeper and pray for the sal
walton Of his soul" The Rev. Joseph Cook
seems to have been so unfortunate as 70 miss
this scene in his travels.
FoRTY-sIx years age Father LIE
Pailleur founded the Order of Little Sisters
Ofthe Poor He still lives, and the kindly
charity he devised has grown to the owner
ship OF Z4Q homes for the poor and 1000 min
istering sisters. 1t has sheltered amounted
numbers Of outcasts Of all ages.
The Chinese Minister atW ashineton
is old and paralytic. He was getting too
rich as Governor OF a province and so was
exiled TO this country on salary of S25 900
year and all his expenses paid. We pay
our Minister to China $4,000 year, make
him put up his own expenses, and house him
in q barn,
MISSIONER, Gerome. Rosa Bonheur,
Bastien Lepage, Durand, Boudry, and near
ly all the foremost artists in France, have
plCluItb u u lOLIeTyR the pfO-
ceeds Of which are to be used to erect mon
ument to Claude Lorraine at Nancy. Two
hundred pictures donated for the purpose
are already on exhibition.
A STUDY on the "Marseillaise, by
M. Vigfusson, the Icelandic scholar, ap-
pears in the Paris De6dts The writer's OBJ
ject is to show. that several of the lines in
h0uget de /, Isles song, in cluding some Of
the best and most characteristic of them,
are taken, with very little alteration, from
kecine's two sacred dramas, Esther and
Ahdlie.
A ClLoRED man named Jones is as.
tonishing the Philadelphia doctors by eating
lamp cbimneys and champagne glasses. "a
special weakness of mine" said Mr.. Jones,
tween slices of bread, and / am also very
fond of crushed glass in ice cream and
cake. The doctors assert that he must have
pane in his stomach.
In Russia national subscription is
open to erect a monument to the Emperor
Alexander H., on the esplGnade of the Win
Ter Palace at st. Petersburg, The materials
are to be bronze, marble and granite. The
statue of the late Gar will stand on a pedes-
tai, around which will be grouped, like in
the monument to the Emp Catherine, the
hgures Of the principal statesmen of his
reign.
THE British Encyclopedia has
decided that James Chalmers, the Dundee
bookseller, is entitled to the credit of hay-
ing, invented the adhesive postage stamp,
and not Sir Rowland Hill, as is generally
supposed. Sir Rowland simply adopted in
December, 1889, the Scotchman's invention,
long after its utility had been urged upon
him by the Mercantile Committee of the
City OF London.
The Socialists of Paris propose TO
celebrate the anniversary of "Capet," bet
ter known to history as Louis XVI. by q
banquet, to which the Deputies of the Cham.
her, whose ancestors were members of the
convention which passed the decree of
death, are to be invited. Fourteen Deputies
able honor, among whom are M. Wilson,
sOn-in-law of President Grevy, and two
members of the Cabinet
WFE-I think, mother, we had bet
ter be starting for our shopping. By the
way, John, what are the weather probabili-
ties
John (reading from the paper)-Heavy
rains, followed by snow, hail, sleet, bliz-
yards, cyclones, tornadoes, simOOns, hurri-
canes and earthquakes.
Wife-H'm, how oprOvOkinsI Shall we
venture out, mother?
Mother-Certainly. We are not made of
sugar?-LVe.
The claimant" of the Tichborne
estate has just delivered lecture in Dub
lin; He drew an immense audience, Who
hailed him as he came on with cries of
Halo, Roger |" and "Wagga-wagga !" All
the other performers with him were Kissed
off. Sir Roger was in evening dress, and is
described as tall of stature, portly in build,
OF dark Omplexion, and as solemn as a pro-
fessional undertaken in appearance. His
powers OF oraiory are not GOOD, his voice is
bad, and his twenty minutes address was of
the plainest character.
WHILE Henry Wilson was Vice
President the face of his brother, jeremiah
Goliath, was familiar to all irequenters of
the Senate. He was for many years one of
the dOorkeepers of the galleries. Later he
was ASSIGNED to a position in the folding
room. His health failed him, and for long
time he has been out Of employment. He
tute. Gov. Long and Senator HOar, hearing
of his distress, have made up small purse
for him among the Massachusetts members
to supply his pressing wants.
THE case, says the London Graphic,
Of Ashwell, who, borrowing shilling, spent
the sovereign given him by mistake, has
been more than once referred to in this col
umn as having divided the fourteen judges
into two halves, seven affirming him to have
been guilty of larceny, the other seven pro-
nounclng him inn ocent of any Otfense cog
nizable by the law. In accordance with pre-
cedenco he was adjudged guilty; but, when
brought up for judgment at the Leicester
Assize, he WIS simply ordered 10 appear
again when called for, which win problbly
be at the Greek Kalends.
IT is now practic ally settled that
Bishop John Lancaster Spalding of Peoria,
ILL.,, Will be rector of the National Catholic
University which the plenary council of that
church in Baltimore iecidedto establish and
which is to be located in Washington. The
selection is an emineDtly wise one, as DR..
Spalding is one of the ablest and most
progressive man of his church, and has in
h oil tha fro Of knfn gr,Irr N,Hkuv
years of age. He will bring to the position
great talent and industry, aud it may be
promised that the institution with him at the
head will be shining educational light.
THERE are no professional humor-
lists in Conaress this session. Tom Reed of
Maine comes az near being one as states
man of his avOirdupOis could. The three
great Congressional humorists were Sam
Cox, Proctor Knott and Jim Beforehand
see what they have come tol Belford is
hustling for law business on the streets of
Denver, Cox is salaaming to MOhammedan
despOt and dreaming his soul away in the
enervating atmosphere Of the Bosporus, and
Knott IS issuing notary commissions and
pardOning negroes out Of the Kentucky PEN
Tertiary.
THE Imperial decree degrading the
late Chinese Minister to Germany, Ii FOn
Pao, has been published in the PekinO Ga
zette. The vessels built under his orders at
the Stettin yard have proved so unsatislac-
tory that he is being severely punished. The
decree says; Iii FOn Pao, who wears a
button of the second rank, is person Of a
low type OF moral character and depraved
conduct. He is an adept in the art Of
pushing his own ends, and his misdeeds
have frequently been the subject Of denun-
citation to the throne. We commend that he
be cashiered and never again employed in
an official capacity" The Minister fed
secretly from Picking, and his whereabouts
were 1or come time unknown. de is now
said to be at Shanghai.