The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-14
PERSONAL MENTION.

PERSONAL MENTION.
EN MAYOR JONATHAN SCoyIILE, n
Buffalo millionaire, has sued his tailor for
making pair Of trousers too tight.
The dons of the Leipsic University
have conferred the hishest diploma in phil
| esophy in their gift upon DR.. Susanna Ru-
bernstein.
A MADRID letter in the London Times
says the stoI les about Marshal Bazaine' pow
erty are untrue. His wife has an income Of
about $1,000 year.
IT is said that B. f. Warder OF
| Springfield o., the millionaire maRufact-
ursr of mills and agricultural implements.
will soon build the finest house in WASH
ington.
SOME o. the ladies' OF Cincinnati pre-
scented n purse of Sl35 to the wife of the Rev.
| Sam Jones, last week, in apprec alton of the
sermons that her husband mad delivered to
| the ladies only.
J. T. SUNDERLow, who lives near
keuka; Putnam county, Fla, while blowing
| unearthed n chest containing Spanish money
to the amount of $500. Some Of this money
was very old, dating as fur back as 1878.
H. p. MILLS, president OF the Gene
see National Bank, Mount Morris, says the
| Rochester IN. W Democrat, has just pasfed
his seventy ninth birthday. and Icing un-
usually vigorous and healthy, proposes on
his next birthday 70 take toboggan ride
with Gov. Hill at Albany.
SENATOR CALL of Florida pronounces
untrue the statement that he offered John g.
| Sinclair the registership of the land Office at
gainesville, after first finding out that he
! would not accept, and that he did this be-
! cause II was said he was unwilling to ap-
point Northern men to office.
CAPT. j. G. h. ADAMS, the Sergeant
| alarms, is confined at home by illness. His
| many friends will regret to learn that he is
| threatened with a reopening of his wound.
| 1t is sincerely hoped by all that this will not
/ occur, and that by rest Capt. Adams will
soon be entirely well again, and able to at
tend to his duties at the State House.
ELDER THOMAS PARKER DUDLEY Of
| Lexington, Ky, is said to be tho oldest Bap-
tlst minister in America. He is ninoty-tour
| years old, blind, and very feeble, lie began
preaching in 1870, and has preached in Ken
lucky, Tenn fsee, Mississippi. Ohio, lndi-
ana, illinois, Michigan, Kansas, Missouri,
Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jef-
sey and New York.
THE situation of old Moneybags,
whe dies knowing that two or three suitors
are lowering about, anxious to marry his
young and handsome widow, is about MS en-
yilble, says the Lewiston Journal, as that of
| Capt Chase, who sees a number of well
known Democrats already making plans to
go for the colectorship after having piously
attended his political obsequies.
The trustees of the East Tennessee
Wesleyan University, located at Athens,
Tenn, have changed the name of the insti-
tuition to the Grant Memorial University. 1t
was organized in 1857 by ''Parson" Brown
low, HoEaceg Maynard and the Rev. j. P.
Spence, ID. d., and Gen. Grant made the first
cash donation for it, bis well known sigma
flra a nnaarinQ n tha "a aud of thu liut
IN. DE LEssEPs," saws the London
Tmes's Paris correspondent, "has been
known to hear at breakfast of the death of
friend at Bordeaux, to look at his watch,
send for cab, put on evening dress, reach
bordeaux in time for the funeral, and catch
tine first train back in order to preside over
board meeting, One Of his strong points is
never deferring for q minute what he thinks
is necessary TO do"
Or Mr.. Briggs, who was a member
of the late Parliament, but was not re-elect-
ed, il is told that his one great speech was
made in opposition to ,he Napoleon memo
rial in Westminster Abbey. He came in
that night il full evening dress, and waxed
eloquent over his subject. ''Is there not"
he demapded, some eminent Englishmnn
Who might more titly w t9ko place in The Ma;
Briggs |" roAred the II. use with one voice,
and the speech was ended.
THE Hon. William Walter Phelps
has in vain, so far, tried to persuade Mr..
Blaine to come TO Washington, TO complete
the sitting Cor q life-size portrait, which Mr..
Phelps is having painted for his New jersey
large picture of her hush nd, and that gen
tleman wishes this one of Mr.. Blaine as a
companion. Mr.. Phelps, in talking to nm
American correspondent, said that MIR.
The Blaine house there is roomy and large,
and there are big, chOery wood fires, making
plenty of warmth during this cold weather.
"A WRITER in the Boston Record saws:
Personally, IAnigan, this poet, was one of
the oldest and most uncouth men that the
historian has ever known. He was very short
Of stature, mmpy and round-faged, and hui
= orous in every suggestion ana movement.
lie had never shaved, and his face was
fringed with foft and fuzzy substance that
only family resembled a beard. BisclOthes,
when the historian knew him, were always
Of grey, coarse, WOODEN. cloth, and he wore
&c. COLLAR save the flowing one Of hts wooden
shirt. He always carried in some of the
depths Ofhisextraon1nar clothing bottle |
OF ink with screw top, folding gold pen,
and supply OF writing paper; and he would |
der the shade Of o tree in the palk-he pre-
ferred the beer saloon-and write with rapid- |
ity the most beautiful copperplate copy that !
ever eameinto a printers hands"
COMPARATIVELY few States are rep
resented in the Senate by. citizens born |
wi hin thvfr own borders. New York gave |
Leland stanford to California, Teller to |
Colorado, Conger to Michigan, Var Wyck 10 |
Nebraska, DoIph TO Oregon and Payne to |
Ohio. Ohio gave Voorhees, and Harrison 70 |
Indiana, Allison and Wilson 70 Iowa and
Plumb TO Kansas. Kentucky gave Cullom
10 Illinois. Gibson to Louisiana, Vegt TO |
Missouri, Maxey to Texas and Coll 10 Flor |
ida, Massachusetts gave ingalls, 70 Kansas |
and Evafts to New York. Among the States !
which send native born citizens TO- tho SEN
ate are Delaware, Maine, BarylSnd, Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, |
Pennsylvanin, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Vermont, VirgiBia and West Virginia.
Jones of Florida, Fair and Sewell are Irish |
men; Beck il a Scotcbman, and Jones Of |
Nevada is a Welshman. Nevada is the only |
State represented by two aliens, namely,
Jones, corn in Wales, and Fair, born in Ire |
land.
Dr.. P. w. MosHLEcH, who has been
one Of the most accomplished Psychologists Of /
his time ard was the master Of ten Ian |
guages, died last week in the Erie county /
alms-hOuEe. DR.. Moshleek was born in |
Baiensbufg, RheHish Prussia. After prelim- !
tnarg study At Mayoaee he spent five yeafs !
In the university at Born and graduated |
with honors, especially in the depsr msnts
Of philosophy and medicine. He then pTae- |
tieed medicine in Paris for seven yearB. His 1
talents ihere won general Tecogni lion, and |
during his residence n the METROPOLIS he |
mingled upon terms Of intimacy with Alex |
andsr Dumas, Victor Hugo, Button and |
other men high in the world OF science aud !
literature. He aftefWard spent several years
in the principal cities Of BHrope, dovoting |
most OF his time 10 the study of botany, geol- |
ogy and philosophy, He enjoyed the ae-
quaintsnce Of Charles Darwin, with whom
he frequently discussed biographical subjects
bearing upon The OroiH Of Species, the work !
which Darwin then had 10, contemplation.