The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-13
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mr.. John Jay Knox, Comptroller Of the Currency,
Is at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Captain Williams Is evidently part OF tho police
which needs reconstruction.
Rev. 7. Harwood Pattison, oil London, yesterday
arrived at the Sturtevant House.
The condition OF Congressman Hooper, who u
Ill in washington, has become worse.
State Senator F. W. Tobey, OF Port Henry, N. r.
is registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel
Mr.. Andrew D. White, President OF Cornell Unit.
versity, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Rev. DR.. r. b. Fairbairn, Of st. Stephens Col.
lege has taken up hts residence at the st. James
Hotel.
General John N. Knapp, recently OF Governor
Dix's stan, is residing temporarily at the Windsor
HOTEL
Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermont, II
among the late arrivals at the Filth Avenue
Hotel
Mr.. James T. Joy, President Of the Chicago. Bur.
ungton and Quincy Railroad Company Is sojouru.
ing at the Windsor Hotel.
Mr.. James Harlan, Of Washington, formerly
United states Senator from Iowa, is stopping 81
the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, Gene.
raj W. n. Grler United States Army and William
Aston, ESQ.,, arrived in Jacksonville Fla, on the
Sth inst.
Dr. G. Il. Kingsley, brother Of the late Canon
Kingsley, arrived at the Brevoort House yester.
day from Quebec, and will sail for England to-day
in the steamship Baltic.
The gross receipts Of two street railway compa.
nies-the Sixth and Eighth avenue lines-are
$1.5Se, 1872 which, at i've cents iare gives upward
OF 81, 900 0C0 passengers carried by the two II
1874
The proposition In the Legislature to extend tho
Greenwich street Elevated Railroad is good, and
<{oIv Io%
was vetoed last year. Governor Tllden. We hope,
is not Interested In rival enterprise.
Luckily the Civil Rights bill Is not q law. or
Mayor Wickhams discrimination on account OF
'.race. COLOR" &C., in refusing to marry white
woman and q black man might get us all into
trouble, and His Excellency might favor us with
some military attention.
:. Managerial manners The manager holds forth
with q sympathetic friend on the decay OF the
drama:-'sThere are no authors-no plays. There
is not q decent piece and not one to be had for
love or money" At this point timid youth ia
scown in, who requests permission 10 leave the
manuscript Of play for the managers considera
ton. mo. SIR" says the manager, savagely. "A
/ was Just saying to this gentleman, have plays
enough IN the house for ten years."
Paris Figdro cites as an evidence that the Duk
d'Aumale is not a mean man the TACT that in tnl
year 1874 he gave away $4,000. He Is one of thu
owners OF that famous Orleans property, TIT
restoration OF which, just after the war, wa
looked upon as a financial burden worthy to b.
mentioned in connection with the five million
and the German war acquisitions.
Charles Gautier recently died In Paris, the La
OF series OF Charles Gautiers father and son
known to have succeeded one another from the
time OF LOUIS lie Hutln. They were not mobiles, but
common people, and several times declined to be
ennobled. Instances Of ! family or common peo-
pie" thus preserving the record OF their descent
from period remote are very rare. Gautler
died from wounds received In the war.
In Japan they have the Pure Shinto, In which
as we learn from newspaper OF that country, thu
sixth prayer Is addressed to Oho-kunnushi 'wh
rules the Unseen, and to his cOnsort Suseri-bme,
wnom Is dedicated the ancient temple or Oho-ya
snlro In ldZumO BY the term Unseen are mean
peace disturbance in the Empire, its prosperit!
and adversely, the lie and death. good and ba'
fortune OF human beings; In nne, every super
natural event which cannot be ascribed to a den
mite author. The most fearful crimes which maj
commits go unpunished by society SO long as the,
are undiscovered, but they draw down on him thu
hatred OF the invisible gods. The attainment o.
happiness by performing good acts is regulated BY
the same law" Won't some OF the big importing
houses introduce the Shinto?
Was the .Pigrlm's Progress" invented BY
Dutchmanp The weight OF evidence Is that way
The London Athengum says:-"Mr. Douce len
southcv for perusal a copy OF the Dutch bool
Dat Boeck van den Pegrim,' Deli, H. Eckert var
Homberch 1923, ito, which is now in the BodleiaI
Library, at oxford; and, although Southey did no
perhaps understand Ducn, still the wood cut
must have shown him it contained the gist O
Bunyan's book; yet he prefers To conound tn,
sBoecK van den Pelgrm (Delf, 149s, 4to) with
the 'DuyfKens ende Wilemynken Pelgrimegie
antwerp, 1921. with engravings by Boe
vert. The edition OF Deguleville's book Of
the Pilgrim, printed al Dell 1l9S not the first.
previous edition, "Dit Is dat Boeck van Pei
gherijm," had been printed at Harlem, by jacob
Ecllaert, 1856, ioo. Or. Barlow the Bishop O,
Lincoln, who Is usually said to have procured the
release of Bunyan from Imprisonment which
had lasted not less than twelve years and a nal
Ut was after, not during, his imprisonment tina
he wrote the 'Pllgrm's Progress), may have
shown him an English Ms. translat on OF Deguillo
vIlle's "Plgrimage OF Man." which after havni
been In the possession OF Bishop Moore who dice
In 17lj, Is stu In the Cambridge Universil
Library. That the books are Identical in then
main purport seems beyond doubt