The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-08
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

It Is again rumored that Mr.. D1sraeu 10 to Do
married.
Marion Harland has an income Of 81, 500 from her
"Cook BOOK" alone.
MIR. Dewitt c. Littlejohn, OF Oswego Is stopping
at the Metropolitan Hotel
Judge George F. ComStock, OF Syracuse, Is stay.
Ing at the Filth Avenue HOTEL
The subscription book publishers are accused Of
swapping up the most popular writer's
The American edition OF Chambers Encyclope.
dian costs $55 and the Scotch edition $18
Professor L. II. AJwacer, or Princeton Colegs,
Is residing temporarily at the Everett House.
Rev. DR.. W. &. Cattell, President OF Lafayette
College, is sojourning at the ST. Nicholas Hotel.
Comptroller Nelson X. Hopkins and Mr.. Henry
r. Person OF Albany, are at the Filth Avenue
Hotel.
Baron de Bussiere, Of Paris, arrived In this city
yesterday from Washington, ana is at the Hoo.
man House.
State Senator Wells s. Dickinson. OF Bangor,
politan Hotel.
Brownlow's Knoxville WIG will make its ap-
pcarauce LIST March, with the irrepressble Parson
Brownlow as editor.
Assemblymen James e. Brown, Of Spring Valley,
and Adolph E. Wenze OF Cacoon, N. Y, arc
registered at Earle's Hotel.
Speaker jeremiah Mcclure and Mr.. D. G. Ellis,
superintendent OF the Bank Department, arrived
from Albany yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Democrats will console themselves over the New
Orleans case with the thought that II there was
any doubt in regard to 10 these events have re.
moved 1t.
.sDeep Sea Fishing and Fishing Boats" by W. H.
Holdsworth is a finely illustrated aud we'll written
book on the capture OF sea fish, which may be
classed as one OF the great industries OF Britain.
The name Of A. NJ. Holorook now appears at the
head of the New orleans Pfcavtne as ''editor and
propreto thus setting at rest the doubts Of
some OF his contemporaries as to the proprietor
ship OF the paper.
Frank B. Carpenter, the we'll known artist, is At
work on n portrait OF Hon. Ezra Cornell. The
sttlngs for the picture were given at Ithaca last
summer. The portrait was ordered by the trustees
OF the Cornell University.
With what gusto would the tyrant in Madrid
have received from yhe Duke to Alva proposl-
ton to declare all the patriot people Of the Neither
lands .'bandirtiw The tyrant would have said
your course is thoroughly proved"
She IS a dreadful creature, Cora Pearl; and yet
the other night, when her coachman was arrested
Just as she came out OF the theatre, '5eune ee-
CANT" volunteered to get on the box and drive her
home. 1t seems sometimes as II they were fond
OF dreadful creatures.
Russia has given her Turcomans OF Astrakhan a
reservation on the Peninsula OF Manghyschlak,
beyond the Caspian. They began to move thither
In september, and all who ere not moved by May
will be counted as inhabitants OF Astraknan and
will consequently be subject to the laws like other
people.
The suggestion OF the Springfield Republicans
that General sherman should resign Is one that he
will not be foolish enough 10 act upon. 1t is an
axiom in military science not to do what your
enemy wants you to do, and TO refrain from a Ger.
tain course simply because he wants you to take
II. Every lover OF the country feels at this crisis
that there Is great guarantee in the fact that the
commander OF the army is not a creature Of the
satraps OF the White House.
NJ. De Villemessant, Of the Paris Figaro. has dis.
played enterprise unusual in the Paris press BY
sending one OF his best leader writer's TO India to
attend the trial OF Mana Sahib Such enterprise
would scarcely be noted at all In America. but Is
a new thing in French Journalism.
"Perc Joseph" keeps little fruit shop In the
Rue fontane, In Paris. lie has weakness for
art and for artists. lie trusts them, and some.
times this is very important to them. lie does
not get rich, however. on the contrary, he gets
poor. In December sixteen French artists Of frse
rate reputation, every one OF whom in his time
has been helped by Pere Joseph, each contributed
picture for the benefit OF their old friend. The
pictures win be exhibited and then sold, and 10.
scph Will be able, evidently, to keep the wolf
away.
The SHAH, according to the TRANSLATION OF his
diary kept lii England was enrapturcd with tho
Illuminated Albert Hall blazing with its countless
Jets OF Gas. on the one side the great organ
spread itself out like plane tree" To rlgit
and left were 500 lovely maidcns at;ired IN a uni.
form of spotess white, but onc-half Of them wear.
ing blue riDpons and the other half red. The
stupendous instrument was manipulated by q
single man. "Hc played well, but wind was sup.
pied to 1t by steam. Otherwise how could an In
dividual, with his feet or both hands, blow the
needful blaatr'