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

T1INE PAYING HOTEL BUsINESS-sit-
n uatsd in one OF the liyest towns in the
South. Does business Of over $1,000 per
month. Bar can be added 10 the business
II desired. For terms, address
j. s. NJ, Box l02, Meridiao. Miss.
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ANuSEAENTSs
TuRRIE,s .rstRATRR.

w. j. SCANLAN
pRFK-A-BO0l.
Thursday and Friday Nights anl Saturday
Matinee thrst time In this cityl-SHANE
NA-LAWN, b. Jas. O. Roach and j. Ar
moy Knox lTexas siitinssl. Without
Priest, Red Goats or Process seryers.
saturdsy Night-Ered Marsden's Romantic
Drama, THE IRISH MINSTREL.
During both plays Mr.. Seaman will intro
duee all his latest songs,
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"a GOOD sTAvE-MAKERs-Apply per-
~ sonally or by letter 10 -.
a. W, LEARNARD, Arkansas lily, Ark.
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A Shot tina. si,snced Him.

OF MIR. Somerby, who was counsel for the
defense in the notorious Alley murder case,
the following is told: 1t may be remarked
for the benefit Of those who do not remem-
ber that cause celebre, that the body OF the.
murdered man was found brutally hacked
to pieces and slowed into barrel which was
discovered floating in the harbor.' Soon
after the conclusion of the case Mr.. SOM
erby, who had worked very hard in it, went
to the Isle Of Shoals for rest, and while there
sat smoking on the hotel piazza one evening,
in company with other guests of the honse
only slightly known to him. One of the lat
ter, a man Of the sort gifted by nature with
the faculty Of making awkward speeches,
.uddenly turned to the lawyer and said:
1--WE have all had good deal Of curl
osity, Mr. Somerby, about the Alley case.
AMI ] wish you would tell us frankly pre-
c:sely what you think is the truth Of the
who,e matter. Z"
Il think" Mr.. Somerby returned, gravely,
regarding the oths- with an air OF the ut
most candor, II think that it was clearly and
unmistakably case of suicide -..
The questioner began to frame an inquiry
how suicide could distnember his remains
, and bestow them In a barrel, when a shout
Of laughter gave him a dim hint that he had
been snubbed, and the conversation ON the
Alley case came to an abrupt conclusion.
Providence journal ti 1.! s.. .g@EEfs
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aLiberty, Equality, Fraternity" are cut
and stenciled and painted above the doors OF
churches, wine shops, museums, libraries,
theatres and schools. vet it does not seem hike
liberty to post your letters within ten feet OF
4 bavonet, to enter IAN art gallery between
,entries and to find a squad of infantry at the
,pera sternly watching your exit as IL you
had designs on the the building. 1t perhaps
yiyes confidence to people to know that 1t
has 800 600 ormore of soldiers ready to tight
its battles but what is the use OF having sol
liers at every corner to prove that they are
,live2 In the United States, now, we are
,atisfed TO know that we have an army With
out ever seeing it. Yet the soldier adds 10
the brilIiancy of the Partisan crowd ana IS
nrobably liked because he is red and blue and
has brass buttons He is inside the theatre
as well as outside; you will find him gazing
at the nictures and the marbles in the Louvre,
,tirring up the animals in the Jardin dies
Pl.ntes. loungins through the parks, taking
mis- evening nip at sidewalk taoae on Tue
boulevard, attending mass on Sunday MOI n
mo and going down the river with ms girl IN
the afternoon. He seems to have leisure, anu
more money than his pay, and afte awbiie
Ne comes to figure in your mind as an emblem
N the amusements of peace rather than The
mvaoery of war; But he may be out Tor
,usiness on one of these fine days, for ms tie
eat nv Goths and Vandals of the lands be-
yond the Rhine has made lasting soreness In
him and he bankers for revenge. Cor.
Brooklyn Eagle.
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WHOLE NO. 804.
TIL, lGRApHOPH0NE.
EDlsoN's PHoNoGRAPH REVIVED
UNDER A NEW NAME. .-

One of the Most Marvellous Inventions in
the Worlds History.-A Machine Which
Records Sound, Leaving Il to Be Re-
peated at viii.
The phonegraph, which was undoubtedly
the most marvellous invention of Edison's
while he was yet the Wizard of Menlo Park"
is likely to be developed into something prac-
ticable. Edison gave his attention to cleo
trio lighting, while others turned their atten-
tion to the phonograph. OF the results OF
their labors, Franck q. Mcguire says in Har-
per's Weekly:
Believing in the possibility of making
successful machine to record and reproduce
sounds, the Volta Laboratory association es-
tablished a laboratory in the city of Washing
ton, one of the principle objects of which
was to experiment upon methods of recording
and reproducing sound. After several years
of experiment, the inventors of the graphic
phone now desire that the writer shall intro
duce to the world the results they have OBJ
tanned.
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SHOOTING FLYING OBJECTS FROM SADDLE.
Immediately Erastus Wiman, the late New
York ncwsboy, sets apart two large tracts of
land to be devoted to the amusement of the
people Like the wizard that he is, he seems
to touch these places with his magic wand,
and almost immediately these grounds are
transformed into amphitheaters, the like of
which have not been seen since the days of
Titus. One o. these, as in old Roman days,
is dedicated to national games, and in the
other is reproduced the thrilling spectacles of
war and contests with untamed beasts, just as
exciting probably, though not SO sanguinary,
as the exhibitions which used to delight the
old Roman maids and matrons in the Colos-
scum And all that a great railroad may be
induced to come that way. Who knows but
Erastus may have copied the scheme of some
former Roman namesake, and that the re-
nowned Appian Way was built to carry the
populace to some great wooden amphitheater
which did not long stand times ravages, but
was constructed to bring the Via Appia that
way, and thus enhance real estate around it
to the discontinue of advocates of some other
route
On visiting the largest amphitheatre it
would seem that we are not removed many
generations from Pagan Rome. There are
realistic encounters between Indians and
whites, and contests in which wild bufaloes
and vicious norses, mules and steers test their
powers with men: and when the bucking
burro or steer comes nearest to annibilating
his rider then is our modern maiden most
pleased The gladiatorial combats only are
missing to take us back 2 600 years.
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SECTION OF WAX AND CUTTING STYLES
The diagram gives an idea of the way the
steel point cuts into the surface of the wax,
and also portrays an actual sound wave. This
figure is magnified three times and there are
140 lines to the inch upon the cylinder.
Upon a cylinder six inches in length by an
inch and quarter in diameter one is enabled
to record at least five minutes conversation.
The cylinder holder is constructed with ball
joint at one end, and can be easily tipped SO
as to allow the hollow cylinder to be rapidly
slipped ON or off ., .isr1 -a@zst ils 3, za-
The first illustration shows the graphophone
in actual operation, with the operator in the
act Of speaking into the machine. The second
shows listeners with the ear-pieces on in the
act of listening to the reproduction. If the
listener does not care, to use ear-pieces, or
should there be four or five who wish to hear
the reproduction, trumpet attachment is
placed upon the machine, which throws the
sound out into the air. % 4 at#a II p.
This machines is Ia O. condition at the present
time to do the amanuensis work usually done
by stenographers. For instance, anyone may
sit before the graphophone and in ordinary
tones speak his daily correspondence into the
machine. as s *H1 &gfzl.gi = Fl -1
In copying from dictation by the machine,
the operator is enabled by q neat mechanical
device to take as many words at a time as he
can conveniently remember, and should he
forget any part Of the sentence, by slight
pressure of the finger on a rod running along
the base Of the machine the reproducer will
repeat the sentence.
Should a correspondent also have graphic
phone, the writer of letter could in few
moments dictate what would make lengthy
epistle, enclose it in box about the size of
the apothecary's ''pill box" place a stamp
thereon and transmit through the mails The
correspondent can in turn place the cylinder
received upon his graphophone, and listen to
the letter of his friend with his voice pre-
served, thereby avoiding the vexation and
loss of time consequent upon an encounter
with bad chirography. .-......
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WHY MEN CONTINUE SMOKING.


An Inquiry Into the Alleged Reasons
sor the Masculine habit.
A number Of literary men smoke simply to
make an income. They have learned that
with pipe in their mouths thoughts not only
come more readily, but IN better order. and
that, while it is often difficult to get the
proper word if they are not smoking, it runs
to the point of the pen the moment they
slight up" Psychologically this is the most
interesting, and the reason womapkind cam
not grasp it probably is that psychology is
not, unfortunately, taught in ladies' semina-
ries.
Smoking is great safeguard against infec-
tious diseases. 1t, is only by reading UP the
subject scientifically in medical treatises that
one thoroughly gets to understand the
thousand risks of this kind that we
run every day. In the country dur
ing the summer months, when men are on
their holidays, they look forward to having
temporary respite from smoking. Then. it
does not SO much matter how the tenlpera-
ment is; living so much in the open air the
smoking of other persons has little effect on
them and there is less danger of infection.
1t is to keep off the flies that men smoke at
the seaside and on the hills. Their own
weatherbeaten countenances can stand tho
flies; but these little demons would not only
spoil the summer for susceptible wives and
sisters and children, but would disfigure
them as well. That is what man cannot en-
dure. You may have seen picnics on the
river or among the fields, with all the men
smoking and the ladies standing quite near
them With many men smoking is merely
an excuse for staying at home. A man looks
foolish of an evening doing nothing, yet he
is too tired to do much A cigar supplies the
amount of labor he requires, and he does not
mind the trouble of smoking it so long as it
enables him to stay at home without loss of
dignity, and took admiringly and yet un-
demonStratively at his wife. Should man
with small income be an epieure, or natur-
ally of an irascible temper, it will add greatly
to the happiness of his home if he compels
himself to smoke. And ut present, when
times are SO hard as to affect every one more
or less, cigar is a cheap and excellent sub
stitute for expensive anusements James
GaZettee
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LISTENING TO THE REPRODUCTION.

One Of the most novel and interesting feat
ures Of this machine is its ability to record the
sounds Of a number of voices speaking at the
same time; this is done ON one instrument by
one diaphragm, one metallic point and upon
single line. How it is done finds an explain
ation in the fact that the different tones of
the voices vibrate with unlikespeeda force,
and thus make different impressions upon the
diaphragm, and move the metallic point in
different way, 50 as to make a record of the
various sounds. The diaphragm of this ma
chine, like the drum of the ear, can receive
and record distinctly the various sounds OF a
quartet of singers.
The graphophone Is now prepared to repre-
sent all moods. It viii tell you funny story,
and laugh with you in natural tones; it will
repeat q tragedy that is blood curdling in its
nature; it viii tell you q love story with all
the ardor OF . wooer, it win sing you an
nMiRpdn u
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JOAQUIN NIiller's Bit of Experience.
NV ambition has always been to build up
little home and make d moderate living by
-sising something i'll garden, such as 1fult,
lowers and SO on, and also practising law III
aouiet way In fact, think L never had
uch ioy as when last. year at New Orleans
picked up western magazine with picture
,f the house which built and the trees which
planted in Canyon City, Grant county, Ore,
when Judge there. Those trees are now a
fortune to the owner. am sure never had
much idea of my verses, and | prefer prose
work But above either prose or verse think
have financial ability that ought to have
,arried me far to the front. For man who
.an at the age of 90 take county, with It's
oaper low down in the twenties, and Ill less
han four years have it at par, ought not TO
Ne desDised, even if he does write rhymes. IL
vas something of this confidence Ill myself,
md desire to stop writing, also, with the
urpose of writing a sketch for an English
magazine. and all this backed by the fact
hat nv books had sent millions OF English
n,ney over the Pacific railroad, which made
it's great manager 1ny profeSsed friend, that
led me into Wall street, and to the WrecKlng
If the few thousands had saved. This w all
street battle threw me back to writing again.
md harder. I went to Washington, bought
piece of ground, built cabin-the only
sind of house could afford, and yet it suited
me exactly-iind paid for it piecemeal-by
lays work, may almost say. And now,
soon, this year, God willing, l shall stop
writing, and in small way take up the la"
again For man who writes constantly can
not think much And II man who does not
think much ought not to have much to say
GppiIl ;ott's Magazine.
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He Thought of "Dem Hogs. -"

"Just previous to the war;" said M1ssls-
iippi planter the other day, Il was out i'll the
ield giving an old and favorite slave of mine
some instructions about a change OF fence,
when heard the hiss of O snake and jumped
aside lust in time to avoid the fangs of a cot
5on mouth was for the time badly ratified,
while the old man seized a club and killed the
make Several months passed, and the incl
lent had been forgotten, when l got into
rouble and was challenged to fight duel.
accepted and named the next morning at y
o'clock How the news got to the old slave
aever could understand and he would never
ell, but in some way he got an inkling that
was to fight In the afternoon, as | sat alone
IN the veranda, he came shuffiing up, pulled
off his hat, and when gave him nod OF en-
.ouragement he approached and said:
"'Mar's James, dey dun say you am gwlne
20 fight wild Mars - tomorrow
"sHush! What nonsenseP
"'I amt gwine to say one word to nobody
Mars James, but de old man."
"'What?" I asked as he hesitated
""Member dat cotton mouf down by de
wamp, Mars Jamesl Member how-how
you dun turned pale an trembled!
@'Perhaps did" :,
"sWall, Mars James, if you am gwine to
,out wild Mars - jis' doant fink of snakes
tall when YOU am standin' up to shoot. Put
YER mind right on dem eighteen hogs which
rooted under de fence an got out into de
orush de odder day, an de Lawd will help ye
Trap him
"The duel came off, and Mars - was
drapped' with a bullet i'll his shoulder, and
she old slave didn't quit shouting and praying
Tor week detroit Free Press.
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But it is good thing, no matter If it Is to
help along railroad, to take 10000 OF out
people day out iato the open air and make
them acquainted with the dangers which
Aeroes braved in advance of civilization, and
which feats are rapidly becoming legendary.
There one can see the skill in craftsmanship
and horsemanship required of the Indian
scout, and exemplified in such we'll known
representative of those heroes as Buffalo Bil.
One can see the famous Deadwood coach, in
which to ride was often to death. The daring
riding and lightning renaounting of rider OF
the "pony express, the original "Star Route"
for carrying the mail, the attack on the
settlers cabin, are also viyidiy porffayed.
f.raphic sketches of few Of the inciden1s are
presented here with.
For grand speetacles no land possesses ma
terial equal to ours in the reproduction OF the
romantic scenes which are fast fading away
from our frontier; and cenamendabae Is the
affort to exhibit th,.na.
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AN ELABORATE TEMPLE
Erected in Buffalo and Dedicated TO
Cremation. s

A magnificent creraatory temple has re-
Gently been erected in Buffalo. Our first pic
ture gives an excellent idea of its unique
exterior. =-r
The building is of brown stone, with a red
slate roof Little attempt is made at decora-
ton, the massiveness of the masonry being
the principal architectural feature. The
ground plan of the building includes a roomy
auditorium, with a seating capacity OF
200 or 300, an. organ room a chancel where
religious ceremonies may be conducted,
together with the furnace room and the
necessary reception rooms and offices for con-
Quoting the companys business. The base
ment will be fitted up as columbarium,
with inches in the walls, where urns, con-
tanning the ashes of the dead, may be depos-
tied The high portion of the building in the
center is the furnace room proper. The due
from the furnace is built up in one of the
walls and is thus concealed from view.
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IALhlN0 III lu6 noT nONE
The word @graphophone' is simple trans
position of the word "phonograph, " and is in
tended to convey the same meaning.
1t was found that tin foil, used in the pho
nograph, presented surface unfit for the pur-
pose it was called upon to fulfill, because of its
piiability and destructibility. Many and
elaborate experiments were made to discover
substance upon which a perfect and durable
sound record could be made, resulting in the
idea of using surface upon which the sound
record could be cut, instead of indenting
soft and pliable substance, as is done in the
Edison machine. 1t was finally decided upon
to use paper surface, coated with prepara-
ton composed of wax and parafffne.
The graphophone is provided with two
diaphragms, one used in making the record,
and the other in reproducing the sound. The
machine stands about five or six inches high
by eight wide, and weighs about ten pounds.
There is no skill required in the manipulation
of the machine, the rotation of the cylinder
being accomplished by crank or automatic
motion.
Upon diaphragm three inches in diameter
steel point is attached, which cuts minute
hair line in the surface of the wa1ed cylinder
upon the agitation of the diaphragm by
sound The indentation is SO slight as to be
scarcely perceptible, and yet these records
can be gone over time and again, and are just
as perfect after 100 repetitions as they were
at first.
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Mai. seiovcr and Jay Gould.

Chatting on a sofa of the Fifth Avenue
hotel, Mai. Selover told me OF his encounter
with JAY Gould, in which he dropped the
little man over railing into tho area Untl
that affair happened to me, said the major:
II never Enew how man could become Sc
far forgctrul os himself as to commit murder
and not know what he was doing. L wa
utterly beside myself. Tho next thing re
membered after getting excited in taking
with MIR. Gould was when saw him hanging
head down in the area, while had hold OF nh
legs. / drew him up until ! got hold OF IN
coat collar, and then set him on bis feet.
was terribly angry. think it knocked m.
ont Of about 81, 100000 You see Gould haf
iiggled me out of about s5oo,ooo clean easn
We have talked it all over since, and nov
know that he was mislel by the Information
that he received would trust Gouid to-day
as quickly as would trust any man dowL low,
town. and consider him pretty good httA
man. when yol take him all round. 4 mus
say. though, that ! would not trust any y
+Isna very far,a--Dor. New York Tribune.
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JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER. likes society, is sale
to be a great ladies' man and is a good story
teller He is full of humor, and his heart is
as kind as that of any man in congress. He
was for eight years attorney general of Vir
ginia, and was professor of law at Washing
ton and Lee university. He has served il
congress since 1875 1t was supposed that h,
would retire to private life, as he has an
nounced his objection to reelection. Hi
selection as solicitor general would place him
in position for which he is eminently
qualified rn
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A Discovery Of Antlquarlan Interest.

A discovery OF great antiquarian in
terest was made in Aberdeen, Scotland,
not long SINCE by a number of laborers
excavating in Ross court, one of the old
est parts of the city. Three feet under
the surface the laborers came upon a
large bronze urn filled to the brim with
silver money. The number of coins was
about IL, 900. and they are in excellent
preservation. They are all English
money of the reigns of Edward Z aad
Edward H.. and are supposed by anti
qIaries to have been part of the booty
secured during one of the raids into
England during the thirteenth century.
Chicago Herald.
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The Need OF . Liberal Education

u am soliciting funds. :" said the stranger,
neryously buttoning his coat across the place
where his necktie ought to show, "for cause
that appeals at once to the pride and the
heart OF every true American, lam obtain
ing subscriptions for the completion Of the
Bartholdi pedestal and" "The Bartholdf
pedestalp exclaimed the astonished mer-
chant, @why, it's upP 4Upr queried the
visitor, uncertainty. @Up." replied the mer-
chant; completed last week; statue un-
veiled and dedicated with all pomp and
glory; speeches by Edward Everett, S. s.
Prentiss, William Seward and all sorts of
people. You've been 10 absorbed in Your
work yoi haven't had time te read the
papers, and you've missed the show" The
stranger bashfusly bae ked himself out, and
five minutes later found him investing in
back numbers at a news stand. He grew
thoughtful as he read, and finally spoke co a
str'anger aDead," replied the eitizen, "all
OF 'sm dead, ages ago." The needy one cast
bis papers on tho ground. II don't mind
bein' chaffed.n ha said, hittehy, shut do
bate . liar Burlette in Brooklyn Eagle.
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