The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-04
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

General J. N. Knapp, OF Governor Dix's stan, Is
staying at the Windsor HOTEL
Captain D. H. Kinze, United States Army, is
Quartered at the Sturtevant House.
Congressman Thomas T. Crittenden, OF Missouri,
u registered at Barnums Hotel
Assembyman James Mackln, OF Fshkill, N. T., Is
stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
The Emperor OF Russia wants his visit 20 Eng
land to be considered as strictly private.
State senator John A. King, OF Queens county,
has apartments at the Breyoort House.
Prince OLescachi and n. Souzogno recently had
q duet In Switzerland, but neither was seriously
hurt. The former Is . liberal Roman noble, and
she latter free lance journalist OF the Holy City,
who assails botn the hierarchy and tine monarchy.
Messrs. s. Bowies OF the Springfield Republican;
Horace White, OF the Chicago Tribune; Henry
Watterson, of the Louisville Couriey.JOurn0l and
Murat Halstead, OF the Cincinnati Commercial,
arrived at the Brevoort House Saturday evening
from Springfield, Mass.
TIE Pope Is unable to find properly constituted
female sovereign belonging to the Church to whom
he might present the golden rose. Empress
Eugene and Isabella OF Spain, were the latest
cipients Of the rose, and to neither OF them did
the present bring good fortune.
young man recently gave himself up TO tho
police In Paris, saying that he was Rochefort and
that he had been in France Tor several months,
having escaped from New Caledonia on the back Of
. shark The story was so ashy that the authori-
ties put the author In a unatc asylum.
The Prussian Field Marshal Count Wrangel re-.
Gently celebrated his ninetieth birthday. He was
in capital health and spirits The Emperor and
Empress the Princes and Processes OF the Royal
House and numerous persons OF note called upon
Che n0nagenaran to congratulate him in person.
The Rev. Samuel Pearson, OF Liverpool Eng.
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delicate cons ience He recently refused to pay
his share OF the School Board rate as he would not
aid, he said to educate children in faiths opposed
to his own belief. The authorities did not sympa-
yhIze with Mr.. Pearson. and they forced the pay
nlent through the medium OF a distrainr warrant
DR.. Drummer has resigned the proessorship of
astronomy In Trinity College, Dublin. 1t Is
rumored that he Is to be succeeded by Galway
peasant VINO, at the end OF late controversy,
made startling mental incursion into the stellar
regions. The new professor Is to occupy his time
Cor years IN locating the stars he saw after the
'.sweety lambent playing OF his friends shilleah
upon his head.
recent sitting OF the French Academy Of
Sciences was marked by q rare incident. M. Bee
quere. the Father or Senior Of the society, having
reached the nitieth anniversary OF his election,
was presented with gold medal. N. Becquerel,
wno Is now eighty-six years DID, was elected to tho
Academy in April, 1924. His studies OF the subject
OI pnyslco-medcal science have been Of very great
value.
MISS Mary Matheson, q Glasgow maiden, dis.
liked cricket; her betrothed, Mr.. Eccles Shorrock
Ecces, was passionately fond OF the game. Unfor-
tunately neither remembered the good precedent
set Tor them by Mr.. ana Mrs. Spratt, the subjects
Of widely known nursery rhyme. Miss
Matneson would not hear OF cricket,
30 Mr. Eccles, feeling that his vile
must be lady sympathetic towards all his Joys as
well as sorrows. broke his promise to her. As
balm to her wounded feelings the lady mas been
awarded $4,000 BY jury, but she now feels an IN
senser hatred Tor cricket than before.
Mgr. Jacobini the new Nunco of the pope TO the
Court OF Austria, has arrived in Vienna. He be-
longs to very poor and obscure family, his father
having been butcher ana the reverse OF prosper.
Gus In his business. This humble origin is made
the subject OF much comment In aristocrattc ctr.
clcs In Austria. 1.-THE Pope" say the vIennese.
sshas quit with the kings. His Holiness sends ma a
Jacobin, ami to be sure that he is thorough one
chooses q butchers son. They forget Cardinal
wosey, who was "born Of butcher, but by bisn.
obs bred.r