The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-11

PERSONAL.

"ARE you Prohibitionisl2 2" asked
Col De Stone, posing his pocket flask
in the air as ne regarded his chance
acquaintance suspiclously. II am"
Then you will excuse me if l drink
before passing you the flask ~ Macon
Telegraph.
The assessment of the estate Of Gen.
Toombs at 100000 has been quita q
surprise to the public. 1t was gentr-
ally believed that Gen. ToJmbs was
worth quarter Of a million of money.
He was very liberal man, however,
and in addition sunk money in the
Kimball House in Atlanta.
Nor long ago q young man about
town called on certain young woman
Of his acquaintance. He was promptly
ushered into the drawing-room OF her
mistress to announce her visitor. "0h,
ma am" said she, "that most iligant
of gintlemen who danced with me one
night last summer up at the Phoenix
Hill Park, ma'am, at the gravediggers'
social, is doW n in the parlor a-caIling
on you, ma'amp The gentleman
never called again.-LouisviHe Com.
nlercidl.
Hon. B. A. ENLoE has formally an
nounced himself candidate for Con-
gress in this district. He is one OF the
most earnest, intelligent and devoted
Democrats in the State, says the Nash
vile Banner, one who has taken q
leading part in public affairs and who
will make an efficient Representative
in Congress. Being one Of the promi-
nent journalists of Tennessee his sue
cess would be gratifying not only 10
his friends and supporters in his Con-
gressional district, but to the press OF
the State, by which he is highly es-
teemed.
OUR Washington special says the
Nashville american, brings the in-
formation that the Hon. Benton Nc
Millin has been chosen by the Tennes-
see delegation as Tennessee's member
OF the Congressional Committee. Very
much depends upon the action Of this
committee. Intelligence, zeal, pTu-
dence, sound common sense and 10y
atty to Democratic ideas and principles
are essentials to lis success. These
qualifications are possessed to an emf
nent degree by Mr.. McMillin. Our
Democratic delegation could not have
chosen safer II an to fill this RESP onsi-
BILE office.
The remarkable fact was recently
discovered by Prof. Leidy Of Philsdel-
phiA, Gays the New York Herald, that
a block Of ice which had been some
months in store on being melted
yielded a number Of worms in living
and active state. The low tempera-
ture in which they had been secreted
was entirely harmless, The ice being
spongy, with numerous air bubbles
and water drops. This discovery con-
firms the Observations Il French
scieniis. made three or four years ago
after the excessively cold winter in
France. He found that animalcule
encssed in hard ice had survived all
the rigors OF winter. Were there no
con6rmatory facts, these observations
abundarty prove that it is inadvisa-
BILE TO drink water which has been
cooled by spongy ice, or to take such
ice into the stomach. Our water cool
ers should be so constructed that the
ice would do it's cooling work without
coming in contact with the wafer
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Herald, who accompanied the delega-
ton invited by M. de Lesseps to ex-
anime the present condition Of the
operations now going on along the
lire Ci the Panama canal, has gwen
the result of his information and OBJ
servstions. All the accounts sgree
that the completion of the work is
only a question Of time and money.
How long a time it will take and how
much money will have to be expended
on il are points on which his inform
ants differ widely. Mr.. Kimble, an
officer Of the Tennessee, who had
made a study OF the work every day
for four weeks, crossing on foot the
whole IOOts of the canal, has come -
the conclusion, on the basis OF the
operations Of the past five years, dur
ing which only 100000 of cubic me.
tiers out Of 1856 COO 600 have been exca.
waited, that It will require forty years
more before the canal will be open
though, II the calculation be based OF
the work done in 1884 twelve year.
may suffice for its completion.