The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-11
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Judge George F. Comstock. OF Syracuse, Is STAY
ing al the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Congressman William NJ. Springer, OF ILLINOIS,, ~
registered at the Sturtevant House.
Assemblyman George West. OF Ballston, N. Y, IL
stopping at the Grand Central Hotel
Ex-Governor John I. Holman arrived from Al
bany yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel
Congressman George M. Beebe, OF Monticello. N.
Y, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Assemblyman James Faulkner, IT., OF Danvilie.
NJ Y. is residing at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Fifty-two names have within the past year been
erased from the rolls OF the Legion OF Honor.
In Italy they have found the keys OF Ugolino's
tower hut too late 10 be OF any use to Ugollno.
MIR. nenry A. Tiden, brother OF the Governor, is
among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel
Judge Lafayette S. Foster, OF the Supreme Court
or Connecticut. has apartments at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Mr. Henry 5. Sanford, OF Florida, formerly United
states Minister TO Belgium, arrived last evening
at the Brevoort House.
MI. George 5. Bangs, superintendent OF the
Railway Postal Service, has taken up his residence
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Proudhon VINO used 20 give soirees OF Passy re-
reshed his friends with "a great deal OF philoso-
phy and a little plum pien
Tne President has appointed Richard Gibbs, OF
New York, 10 be ENVOY Extraordinary and MINIS
ter PlenIpotentary 70 Peru
CIVILIZATION slowly but certainly elevates the
mean duration OF human life. As many live now
10 seventy as lived 70 forty three 500 years ago
Cham has a very happy sketch Of Mr.. WALTON,
the new Minister OF Public instruction. teaching
his little GIRL La Repubhquen 70 spell the word
s'moderaHon."
The keeper OF q Paris restaurant went into his
cellar where ne had moments vertigo and
tainted and before he discovered ne was half
eaten up by rats.
Governor General and Countess Dunerin and
family leave ottawa Canada for England on the
I'd INST DR.. Grant. OF that city, accompanies
them az family physician.
"Gr. Forney said he was in communication with
the Duke Decazes and the viscount de Meaux;"
but Il does not appear that ne is In communlca-
ton with the Pacific Mail committee.
Just as we thought Now the English papers
come to the rescue In the spelling madness, and
tney say thar the judges IN our matches don't
know how to spell 50 well az their unfortunate
victims.
cable telegram from London reports that the
Hon Jonn Jay. late United states Minister to Aus
tria, is a passenger on the steamship Bothnia,
which sailed rom Liverpool yesterday, Ioth Inst~
Tor New YORK
senators Cameron, Anthony, Dennis and Pat
terson, ex-senator Chandler, Colonel Mcveagh and
others Of the senatorial excursonists, arrived az
the Grand National Hotel at Jacksonville, Fla.
yesterday. They intend remaining there several
days.
DIZZY want thinking any more about Bis
marck ethan about Rory O'Moren when he made
that reference to the want OF freedom OF even
nobiemen IN some countries, 50 that's all right;
bus we are waiting hear what Berlin will say
about X.
Fiorenuno. an Italian. who once fought q duel
4wyru lad MIN
on the morning OF the duel he had prayed 10 the
Holy virgin tnat he might wound his adversary,
ana that anis success was, doubt, due 70 that
circumstance.n
III Il estimated that there are In the country
parts or France 100000 cats which the peas
ants do feed and that these KIN in the course
or year not less than 2,1oO, 100000 birds, Of
which 100 0OO.O 900 game birds; but there - no
tax on cats and no game law against them.
80 Robson has a sideboard TO match WilamS
landauet How proud We ought TO feel that our
government Is In the hands Of men superior 10
any small prejudices as TO what belongs to them
and what Is public property-ready TO give the
government what is theirs or TO take from u what
is not--especialy the latter.
Beecher, IN his Friday night address, had word
10 say about the editors Of religious papers He
represented them as very contemplate creatures
and their piety as hypocrisy Several religious
editors appear In the great trlal anu theT record
sustans his opinion. Beecher, perhaps, regrets
that he himself ever wrote for the religious press.
There Is a British literary theory that Tennyson
insplred Poe with the idea OF "fhe Raven,n be-
cause the laureate wrote in his youth two short
poems, In one OF which the WORD "moren occurs,
aud the other has In II the name "Lenore.r For
our part, we have dhtant. recollection OF hav-
ing seen the word more" some where in Shakes
pcare's plays ana also IN Jobusons dictionary, ana
Poe may have read botn But n Tennyson did
inspire ''The Raven" It's a pity he has not In
sDlred more aud written less