The New York herald., 1874-09-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Sir Samuel Hayes. Of London, has apartments at
the Gilsey House.
Alexander Dumas Will be received by the French
Academy in February, 1875.
Atadiian Khan, younger brother OF the Khan Of
Khiva, is IN ConstantinopIe.
Secretary Brlstow arrived from Washington yes
terday at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
General William Hoffman, United States Army,
Is quartered at the st. Nicholas Hotel
Lieutenant Colonel Dowllng, of the British Army,
is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
General D. D. Warner, United States consul at
St. John, n. b., Is staying at the Gllsev House.
Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in this city
last evening, and Is at the Astor House.
The Paris american Register was sold August 20.
1t bought by DR.. Evans the Dentist Tor III 2oOf
or $34,240.
boy, aged thirteen, swimming in the lake at
Neufchatel, Switzerland, was seized BY a m0n-
strous pike, but got away from MIN.
At Marseilles, while the custodian OF q public
picture gallery went to his dinner. visitor cut Q
valuable canvas out OF its frame and took It
with him.
That American aloe at Kew is Q fine plant. It
has circumference OF thirty feet around the
points OF the leaves. and the blooms are twenty
two feet high.
John Paul Alexander sapieha, a British subject,
has received from the Emperor of Russia authority
to bear in Russia the title OF prince, which be-
lonCed to his ancestors.
The Marquis de CovodOnga Prince OF the Astu-
rias is visiting England. This is the young gen.
tleman in whose favor his mother, Isabella Of
Spain, abdcated the Spanish throne. 1t Is thought
he may enter the military school at Woolwich.
Henry Wara Beecher Is passlonately fond OF cro-
quet, and plays with the ladies' Wonder II Tilton
will embOdy this charge in his next statementf
Does the Hon. Christopher Columbus Ryan knowr
Despite the vigilance Of the authorities the Lam
terne is extensively circulated In France. It Is
very minute in size, being reduced by photography,
and Is pronounced by impartial persons very dull.
From the report IN the Swiss papers OF trans
action in the Bernese Jura, 1t would appear that
the priests thereabouts supply absolution through
the post ONCE upon receiving written account
OF the sins 10 be forgiven.
Count de Jarnac, named for the new French
Ambassador at London, was First Secretary or
Embassy at London under Louis Philippe and
went to Dover to meet His Majesty when he
crossed over IN 1S4s, ON account OF q little revou-
ton.
Was it the destiny Of all the men of the Mexi.
can expedition to he ruined by their wivesp There
was Napoleon and Maximiian. Must we ada
BazalneS fit was really his wife who secured lor
him the command to which he was so ridiculously
unequal she 1t was who made his ruin Inevitable.
Two years ago Mr.. Jacobson, Jew, was elected
q justice OF the peace at Sebassopol in Russia
Some OF the people, firm In the faith of religious
intolerance sent their protestations to the Minis
ter OF Justice at st. Petersburg and no more was
heard OF 1t. But now Jacobson has been thanked
TOR the manner in which he discharged his duties.
Hts Majesty the Gear OF all the Russias wrote
baptized In fire, to 60 to Russia and witness the
autumn man9uvres; but Louis excused himself
on account OF school at Woolwich. Is the Czar's
courtesy political or Is 1t procured as a personal
qualification by the Russian Grand Duchess Maria.
who had tender place IN her heart ior this boys
fatnerP
Queen Victoria has gone to Balm oral. where she
will remain till November. She left Osborne. Isle
OF Wight, on the Goth ult In the royal yacht Al
berta, crossed to Portsmouth, which she left BY
special train in the evening, and, travelling
through, reached Balmoral the next night. There
was some excitement at Perth, because the pub
lie, contrary to the usual custom, werc excluded
from the railway station BY "the peremptory
order Of Her Majesty"
Prussia proposed at Brussels that the people OF
any country found In arms and not regularly en-
rolled In the military force should be treated az
criminals; also that they should be similarly
treated II they refuse to assist the invaders when
called upon. The congress rejected the PROPOSE
ton. In 1913 the Prussian government called upon
the people to become "land ssormn and rush
upon the invaders with any arms they could seize.
Then It was the other mans OK that was gored.
Amouroux, aged twenty, and Rollin, aged twen-
ty-nine, students in Paris. Induced Jeanne Druel.
dressmaker, aged twenty-two to make little ex-
cursion on the SEINE in what they call canoe over
n ornhA no,h
the students swan ashore, but Jeanne, girl like,
didn't know how, and was in . fair way to drown.
Bicard, q brave dyer, was on shore. He carefully
put on several OF his garments. jumped in and
saved the pretty 0rtsette. Four persons already
In this drama. Then came the heavy villain name
unknown. he saw Bicard put down his clothes.
ana in the excitement nched the brave dyers pock-
cts OF fourteen francs, and 'soixan e.quinze CEN
times" And they say the French have the senti.
ment Of admiration for generous acts But per.
haps he was foreigner-a Prussiani