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

Dr. ]. q. Kinsman, United States Army, is quar-.
tered at the Windsor Hotel.
General E. +. Jones, OF BnRhamton, is regis.
tered at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Ex-Governor RUFUS b. Bullock. Of Georgia, 10
staying at the Sturtevant House.
Chancellor John v. L. Pruyn arrived from Albany
yesterday at the Brevoort House.
Ex. Senator James A. Bayard, OF Delaware, has
apartments at the New York Hotel.
Postmaster q. W. Lowell, OF New Orleans, 10
stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. Ferdinand Strakosch OF Paris, is among tho
recent arrivals at the Everett House.
Political query-ShOuld Iilden be nominated
may not the voters conlound him with 1ltonS
Arlthmeticians say that our Governor has lived
DIX. 5000 years, and Is quintuple centenarian.
Mr.. p. G. Desonde, late Secretary or state OF
Louisiana, is residing az the Westmoreand Hotel.
Mr. Herbert Spencer's health prevented him
from taking any active part In the proceedings Of
the British Association.
The French authorities are erasipg from the
rolls OF the Legion Of Honor the names OF a great
MANY men who were decorated for lnsuficlent
reasons.
Now that the Count de Jarnac Is French Am.
bassador to London, the French wits hope he will
not indulge in the coup de Jdrndc against the
English.
Columbia Comnenus, a girl OF seventeen, dc.
scended from the imperial family that once
reigned in Constantinople, has just taken degree
In the school at AK, IN France.
In order to settle the great topic as to who shall
stand on top OF the vendome column, the chart.
va,i proposes that the members OF the Assembly
shall take turns and each stand there twenty.iour
hours at q time.
Here are some proverbs which Alphonse Karr
says are Russian:-'If you are q mushroom let
them put you in the basket Debrs are not noisy,
but they keep one awake. One Is not loved be.
cause he Is handsome. but handsome because ha
is beloved. Make trends with the bear, but keep
hold OF your hatchet."
Baudry, the decorator Of the new opera house In
Parts, was sadly bothered for an idea by which to
represent the emusic OF England" emblematically
In his frescoes. He painted finally three little
gentt One carried the Irish harp, the other the
Scotch bagpipes, and the third paid the two first
for playing and tried to look as II he understood
the music
The courier du Hare gives an account OF tho
suicide of Gordon Gordon 1t says that on his first
arrival in this city he made himself intimate With
"Tweed, the Mayor OF New York Hall, with Gen
eral Butler and other statesmen. He became the
possessor OF several millions, when he spent In
Sardanapalian orgies, and nc was the inol OF the
New York populace."
In Paris the dealers in refreshments have had q
Congress to agree on the important reform OF re-.
duclng from six to FIVE the number or pieces OF
sugar served with cup OF coffee. Formerly they
served six pieces with each cup; the customer
put three pieces in his coffee, two in his pocket
and left his out Of respect for public
opinion. Now tnat only five are served he puts
three In the coffee, still leaves one out OF sense
OF public decency-and there only puts one in hM
pocket.
so much about kidnapping! Now here's the
other side OF the story-a child too many. In the
train from Nantes 10 Paris there was little girl
O! six years whom no one knew and who answered
to all questions ''dont know" On her hat was
sewed an address in Paris, to which she was to no
taken. She was sent there when the train arrived,
but no such person lived there as was named In
the direction, and now the inquiry is who wants
pretty little girl'
The CAFE Procopius, IN Paris, has finally put up
It's shutters and definitely deunct. voltaire sat
tnere and j. j. Rousseau and D'Alembert and Gre.
billion and Diderot. 1t was at No. Is Rue de
pAncienne Coincide, and the changes made in the
whole life OF the Pays Latin by the great avenues
that Haussmann cut are what have killed 1t. II
was the first house OF the KIND in which news
papers were put on the tables as gratuitous treat
to the guests.
The Rosado-Couto duel was fought near Tour.
nay. The men were placed at thirty PAGES dis.
tance, To IRE where t"cy Stoou UT 10 advance II
they chose seven PAGES each At the signal Couto
advanced Ave PAGES and stopped; and at the IN.
stant he stopped lie received Rosado's ball in his
right side, tue latter having fired from his first
position. Couto did not fire, as the pugnacity
was ont OF him just then, and the parties wero
reconciled on the spot.
Watts, ID. d., OF Belfast, caused some excite
ment to the British Association by the prcsenta.
ton Of paper, which was rejected, entitled, An
1renicum; or, q Plea Tor Peace and Coo 9cration
Between science and Theolog,.u Bills were
posted in the town, announcing that ths rejected
paper would be read in Emwood church. and
large and sympathetic congregation was thus
drawn together However praiseworthy the
writer's intentions might be, 1t Is clear that, al
there Is no section for THEOLOGY, the only course
open TO the committee was to reject such com
municatton.