The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-16
NEWS AND VIEWS.

NEWS AND VIEWS.
"AFrER nearly eighty years exist.
ence," says the 81. James Gazette, "the
French Military Academy of Saint
Cyr is to be suppressed by the Minis
ter OF War.
The Orleans Princes have been
shiewd enough IN the past to discount
the future by borrowing on theit
French estates one, third @ their value,
occurred by mortgage to the Cleill
FonCier.
Mr.. LAMAR remarked a year or two
ago, that the public business was in
creasing so fast, Congress would soon
have to remain in session the ear
round, only taking a recess in sum-
mer. 1t looks like the time has al
ready arrived.
JOHN CowDEN was the person who
requested Senator Sherman to intro
duce a bill to cease all payments to
Capt. Eads for making the j%etties, and
securing deep water at the mouth of
the Mississippi. OF course the bill
will never be heard Of seriously again.
The census recently taken in Paris
shows more than eve the tendency
of the various clss;es to concentrate
in certain parts. The poorer classes
are ten ding more and more to gather
into Passy, Belleville and Mont.
mare, while the rich ara drawing
more away to Batignolles and the
Elysee.
ACCORDING to DdS Echo, Of Berlin,
there are about 10000 houses in that
city, the majority Of them being tene-
meut houses. There are 300 OF them
with from sixteen 10 twenty families
in each, 10000 OF them with from
twenty to thirty. Among these tene-
ments there are $4,000 homes COM
posed of a single room.
TcHERNYcHEwsKY's story, What is
TO Be Done! and which is known az
the "Uncle Toms Cabin OF Nihilism,"
and which the author wIote in a st.
Petersburg dungeon some twenty
years ago, is being translated into
English. The horrors related in the
narrative, it is said, exc ed anything
that has been brought to light, even
by such writers as Stepniak.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY celebrates
this year the 250th anniversary of its
foundation, and Heidelberg Univer-
sity celebrates the completion OF 500
years of existence, America is yet a
youth among the nations. What
imagination can conceive of the con-
dition of this continent or OF the world
when Harvard shall celebrate the
50Oth anniversary o. it, birth.
A MEETING has been held quite re-
Gently in London to form an associa-
titn Ct lady dressmskels, the object of
which is to train and associste together
for work on a cooperative basis edu-
Gated women, whose tastes make the
occupation OF DIRE ssmaking more con
genial to them than teaching or any
other intellectual pursuit. 1t is pro-
posed to train n of the workers in
Paris, and n or two in London.
PETER BALES, the stenographer of
Elizabeth's reign, is one of the celeb.
rites siRnalized for honor at the in
ternational congress of shorthand
writers to be held ia London in the
autumn OF 1887. He vas a famous
writer of longhand as we'll as of short
hand and is reported by Hollipshed to
have presented tho Queen with a ring
enclosing a manuscript 10 characters
so fire as to be illegible excep. by
means OF a magnifying glass
THE plan Of a P6ysico-T Technical
Institution, 10 be established in Der.
lin, has been submitted to the Ger
man Bundssrath. 1t is t. be q high
school in which engineering, ~tele0ra-
ply, astronomy, photography, phys
les, ETC., will be taught. Prois. Helm
holtz and Foestsr have elaborated the
scheme, toward the execution of
which the electrician, DR.. Werner
Siemens, has contributed the sun OF
0 5000 marks 1925, 0O0).
Mr., JOHN TRMPLEToN, "Mme. Mali
brsn's tenor" and renowned as a Scot
fish vocalist, died recently at New
Hampton, England, at the age of "a.
Mr.. Tempseton made his first appear
snce before an English audience at
Worthing, and subsequently, he Gang
at Brighton, but his debut in English
opera took place at Drury Lane The.
alter on October Is, 1881, as "Belville"
in Shields RoSind. For many years he
was the leading exponent of the Scot
fish muse.
Miss GRACE KING is the name Of an
other Southern girl who is making a
literary reputation. The Philadelphia
american says: Miss Grace King, of
New Orleans, is the author Of the
striking story called Monsieur Motte,'
which appeared anonymously in the
first number OF the NeW Princeton
Reviep. 1t has been widely attributed
to Mr.. Gable" Miss King is also the
author of the striking story entitled
"Bonne Maman" in the June Harper.
THERE is a suspicion that the new
regulations permitting the sending of
by mail is a device to get
around the stringency OF the laws in
some States regulating the ~transporta-
ton OF Intoxicating liquors. A flask
OF liquor sent by express into Maine
is liable to seizure, but the Legislature
has not yet framed a law that viii pre-