The New York herald., 1874-11-09
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

the Windsor Hotel.
Vice President Henry Wilson has apartments -
the Grand Central Hotel.
Major White. OF the British Army, is registered
at the Brevoort House.
Jesse r. Grant, son OF the President, was in sy-
racuse, N. T., on Saturday.
Congressman Lyman X. Bass, Of Buffalo, Is %.
journing at the st. James HOTEL
Captain George l.. Browning, United States
Army, Is quartered at the Sturtevant House.
Congressman Luke p. Poland, OF Vermont, 10
among the latest arrivals at the Grand Central
Hotel.
Hon. Nell Gilmore, superintendent OF Public
instruction, is severely Ill OF typhoid fever at
Albany.
The chandelier for the middle or the Paris
Opera House Will be q marvel In It's way. Il viii
cost $4,000.
The students OF the University OF Edinburgh
have decided to elect the Earl OF Derby to the
Lord Rectorshp.
Mir. Richard Potter. President OF the Grand
Trunk Railway, OF Canada, is residing at tho
Windsor Hotel.
Mr. Charles F. Conant, Assistant Secretary q
the Treasury, arrived from Washington yesterday
at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
The government OF the Corea has promised to
send to Japan the heads OF all the persons I'm
p,cated In the insult to the Japanese government.
In the hunt at Eschmont the Prince OF Walea
proved the best shot. or course no Frenchmau
would be so tmpolite as to shoot better than
prince.
Mr.. Franklin B. Gowen, President Of the Phila
delphia and Reading Railroad Company, arrived
from Europe In the steamship Republic yesterday,
and is at the Brevoort House.
The party OF french astronomers In Japan wero
entertained at the Imperial Guest House In Jeddo,
as the American party had previously been, ac-
cording to Yokohama advices OF october a.
Experiments In the now opera house at Paris
seem to show that 1t is acoustically defective aud
that the echo is SO well developed that encores
need never be called as they will always come Of
themselves.
The Royal Geographical Society of England in.
vited Lieutenant Payer, OF the Austrian Polar Elk.
pedltion, to read paper; and the letter was re-
tarded several days because the learned geograe
piers addressed 1t ''vienna, Prussia.n
new form OF Japanese marriage, by which tho
ceremony becomes o civil contract, has been intro
duccd into the Empire by Mort, formerly Charge
d'Anaires at Washington. The first marriage under
this system is that OF Towita, appointed Consul at
New York.
The French government has expressed through
its Minister at Berne, the expectation that the
Swiss Federal Council would take steps to put an
end to the attacks OF M. Henri Rocheort on Mar
shal de MacMahon. But the Swiss government
Declines as It believes in the freedom OF the press.
some doctors, not over learned In the line OF
their profession, have the habit OF calling nearly
every disease in which there Is any deranqemens
OF the throat dphheria and 1t Is lust possible that
this habit may account in some degree for The 70.
markable number OF deaths attributed to this
disease In the city.
Different explanations are Uiven OF me nre
which broke out in the house OF Count onArnimI
mother -in-law when the police were searching Il,
One allegation IS that policeman threw down ths
ashes OF mis- pipe on some combustible maternal
Perhaps, however, the lady. in desperate hurry.
burned some important papers herself.
Europe is discussing the celebration Or one
more centennial. This Is the centennial OF the
potatoe or OF its introduction to Europcai tables
Although the potatoe went to Europe much more
than hundred years ago. Its introduction to the
table OF Louis XVI, by Parmentler, In l7A Is tina
date counted ns the beginning OF It's hl,tory be-.
yond the water.
Taleyrand died May 20, 1888. His memdrs wera
to have been published In thirty years. His ex-
ecut0r, M. de Bancourt, determined to delay tne
publication fftecn years longer. But the Executor
died few years snce-and the executes OF the
executor are reported TO have decided that Taley.
rand's VIII Is oil more consequence than BAncourt's
opinion. Hence an early publication Is looked ior
Moreau, recently gulllotlGed In Paris lIor mur
der, pctitioned for pardon on the grouid that he
was 'the only support OF three orphsns.n No
motive had been assigned for his crine but Gu
pidity. IL was thought that II he was the only
support OF three orphans there coudbe no Gu.
pidity IN hm-and on this ground 1t wai we'll nigh
to pardon him. But upon inquiry II
was found there were no orphans in the case. The
story was An Invention