The New York herald., 1874-12-09
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Mr.. Luclus Robinson. Of Emira Is stopping At
the st. James Hotel.
Mr.. Dewitt q. Litlejohn, OF Oswego, Is staying
at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Ex-Governor Ambrose E Burnside. OF Rhode
Island II at the Filth Avenue Hotel
Assemblyman George 8. Batcneller, Of Saratoga.
has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Aristarchi Bey, Turkish Minister at washington,
has apartments at the Abemarle Hotel
Governor Henry Howard, OF Rhode Island ID
among the latest arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
Naval Constructor William l. Hanscom, United
States Navy, Is quartered at the Union Square
HOTEL
state Senator Franklin W. Tobey, Of Port Henry,
N. Y, is residing temporarily at the FLth Avenue
Hotel
An artificial harb0r on grand scale at Dover II
favorlte project with the present English govern.
ment.
II Tennyson wrote that 'trance'' letter, poerryi il
evidently very closely rel.aed TO common nom
sense.
MIR. David L. Follett, OF Norwich, Judge elect Of
the New York Supreme Court, is registered at the
Metropolitan Hotel.
Congressman John o. Whitehouse. OF Poughkeep-
sic, is sojourning at the Albemsrle Hotel. Why
not in Washington?
Baron w. de Wagstaf, Of Russia, arrived from
at the Brevoort House.
Senior Don r. Gonzales Errazuriz, the Chilian
Minister, arrived from Washington yesterday and
Is at the Clarendon Hotel.
Mr. r. s. Joyce, of the Irish Rtne Team. arrived
from Europe yesterday In the steamship City Of
Brooklyn, and IS at the Windsor Hotel.
Four OF Fortuny's principal pictures brought
him together $4,000. One Of these was the "Acade.
micians OF Salamanca Choosing q Model" sold to
N. Stuart for $4,000.
There Is great impatience in Paris to know when
the vendome Column will be ready for the people
who have been waiting these many months to
throw themselves from the top Of It. N >9
Sir John BrUges Karslake, the eminent English
lawyer and Queens counsel has become totally
blind. His afiction was caused by 0verwork. and
there is hope that 1t may prove temporary.
Tue French Academy Of Sciences will propose
the International adoption OF the meridian Of
Greenwich. French navigators now reckon from
the meridian taken at the Paris Observatory.
Since The oath OF May, 1873, the date OF the fall
OF the Theirs government, lib newspapers have
been subjected to various penalties BY the French
government Tor too great freedom OIL comment on
the acts Of the authorities.
Cham, the great carcaturist OF Paris Is DID, but
fingers with supernuous pencil, and his designs
are nat and dull. He never had any malice. and
take It's place caricature becomes mere toast and
tea. m
1t Is stated as probable that one OF the Paris
theatres will adopt the rule or closing the doors as
soon as the curtain rises and keeping them rigor-
ousy closed while the curtain is up. so that late
corners may not interfere with the comfort OF
all who are seated betlmes. s3.fs NJ
Admiral Salsset, OF the French navy, evidently
had ,ath IN Don Carlos He bet H. Leonce De-
troyat OF the Paris Lf0erte, dinner for twenty
persons that Carlos would reign in Madrid before
the oath OF last september and ne mas paid for the
dinners, which 1t 10 reported were good Tney
were taken at the CAFE Anglais.
The Empress OF Russia was tmprudent In Eng.
land, made unreasonable excursions and caught
cold. Her attendants were alarmed, for Her
Maesty's health Is delicate at best and her lungs
are not strong. so DR.. Botkne, her regular
medical attendant, was urgently sent for. He as
once declared that the Empress must leave Eng
land, and she is now on her way to some point on
the shores OF the Mediterranean.
Commander William 3. Cushing, United States
Navy, whose mental condition has recently been
a subject or some anxiety to his friends. has be-
come insane, snd was on Monday evening re-
moved TO the Government Hospital for the Insane.
Commander Cushing Ii we'll known a. tho oO-
tinguished onicer who led the attack on the ram
Albemarle during the late war. Hc has been star
toned at the Navy Ysrd nerA tnr a"nus Tina