The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-16
PEOPLE or NOTE.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton has come out for
the Prohibition party.
Miss Edith NJ. Thomas is to become one OF
the editors Of S. Nicholas.
Miss Kate n. Upper has accepted chair
Of pedagogy in the Nevada State university
in Reno.
Michigan women voted by thousands at
the school elections in Michigan last week.
Many were elected TO Office.
Miss Mary A. Green is the second Massa-
chusetts woman lawyer She will be a MEM
Der Of Suffolk county bar
The Chicago evening law school has voted
that women shall be admitted after lively
contest to the contrary.
The Union Labor party of Michigan nom
mated Mrs. S. W, Emery for State superin-
tcndent Of public instruction.
The directors Of the Western Pennsylvania
Medical college in Pittsburg have declared
against the admission Of women.
Mrs. Harriet Cook was elected trustee of
the third ward at Grand Rapids, Mich, by
majority Of seventy-throc in 1900 votes.
DIR. Schweinfurth, IL is stated, intends
shortly TO visit Yemen in order to make
study Of the coffee plant and of coffee cult
uro in Arabia.
Henry Irving has gone to Scotland with
the desire "to catch somcthingof the inspi.'
ton OF the country before assuming the role
OF Macbeth"
Three playwrigh Masdcn, Seebohm and
Grccy-hnye killed themselves within few
months Several Others have been killed
by the public.
Oliver Wendell Holmes and the venerable
Peabody Of Cambridge once mad an appoint
ment TO see statue Of Eurydce. DR..
Holmos arrived iirst aud when few mo-
monts later his friend drove up in q cab, he
| greeted him with the very obvious pun:
"Ah, You rid, ! see" Dr. Peabody was
wonderfully pleased with this sally, and on
his return home attempted to repeat II for
Ia beneft OF his family. Or Holmes was
extremely witty this afternoon" he said.
| I'VE went to see the Eurydicc, and when |
drove M he said, just as quick as n flash,
All. Doctor, see you came in a buggy"
The London 1c1demyannounccs the death,
at Rcykia,ik, aged seventy, Of Jon Arnason,
| the collector Of the lcclnndic fairy tales aud
| folk tales. Two volumes II says, 'dedi.
Gated to Jacob Grimm appeared Mt LEIPZIG in
1924; q third volume, the work OF his later
| years, containing riddles games, childron's
| rhymes, aud the like, Is announced. A quiet,
unassuming man 81 the type, almost cx'
tincl Of the dilcr Gcchrtcr, he accom-,
plishcd his work Of collecting very faith
! fully and patiently. A disciple Of DIR. Egils
son, the translator Of Homer, lac piously
wrote that scholars biography. When, In
! 1871, IL was intended to send two
deputies 10 represent Iceland at the
Upsala University centenary, Il wa,
privately suggested Mr. sgurdsson being toe
illl that Dr. William Finscn. the lawyer and
Jon Arnason would represent most worthily
| lcclnndic letters but the official mind al
Copenhagen was Mortified. What would
you send porlcrg Jon Arnason being jan
itor OF the Iceland high school But schol
ar recognized his worth, aud tho late Mr.
J. Campbell, Of lslny, who knew him per
sonally would often say that he enyicd him
the leisure and quiet retirement Of his little
room In Iceland. OF modern IcclandiC
books, next TO the prose translation OF 10
mcr by the master, the disciples ThcodsO
CUR is certainly to be placed"
Tho Austrian traveller Edouard Oh.
Sc, writes in glowing terms from Alden "a
bs patrons OF the results ofihc journey
waicd lac has just made through southern
Arabia. lie comes laden with about Loo
IL v,pt'ons (orlrinals, squcczcs and coplcs)
the plants which yield the various kinds o
gums, fmnkinccnsc. myrrh, etc, have beer
a special object OF biz Investigations. and h,
hopes to bring 10 Europe living specimens
Of these vegetable curiosiiics. The maj
which be has prepared Of southern Arabia
Including the desert rcpion) he considers o.
the nrt really accurate ono. lie has con
sidcmbly added To the information gathered
on his previous journeys concerning the eth.
biography aud mcicorolory Of the Ambiai
peninsula I lis pathological abor., Herr Ola
ser claims, will furnish the maisri
ais for clcnr comprehension O
the south Arabian drlcci III
contemplate the results" says the traveller
''of my various Arabian journeys ma
justly affirm that they give me full saiisia,
, ton, aud that cyufy unparalleled srholn
will acknowledge that have thorough
fulfilled my duty, having achieved NOR
than any OF my predecessors In Arabia cal
,lnim 10 have done. The pleasure this II
fo.ds me Il all the greater from the fact tina
Of MI persons Il has Just been my lot TO ha,
b. constantly and under all manner a
prc,cNts Ignored and for.akcn by the wor
Of science On what plane would on
knowledge OF Arabia now stand had cncnui
agcmcnt aud, above all, assistance beef
youchsalcd moY'