The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

George Ripley has resigned the Office Of Bank
Examiner OF Boston.
General George W. McCook, OF Ohio, is registered
at the Hotel Brunswick.
Bogus great men are known BY the number Of
the tools they believe In.
Governor E. M. McCook, OF Colorado, has apart
ments at the Sturtevant House.
State senator John II. Selkreg, OF Ithaca II
staying at the Metropolitan Hotel
Captain K. K. Breese, United States Navy, II
CHARTERED at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. Luther Terry, the sculptor, Is among the
latest arrivals at the Albemarle Hotel.
Ex-Congressman Stephen sanford, OF Amster.
DAM n. T., is stopping at the Gilsey House.
State senator william B. Woodin, of Auburn,
N. Y. Is residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
MIR. Nicolas de voigt, Russian Charge d'Afares
at Washington Is sojournlng at the Hoffman
House,
monument is to be erected to Hans Christian
Andersen in the garden OF the Palace OF Rosenau,
near Copenhagen.
Miss Annie Louise Cary and Nile. Donadio, OF the
StrakOsch Opera Company, arrived last evening az
the Everett House.
DIS. Chase and Clamp, who were tried by thu
Massachusetts Medical Society for practising
homeopathy, have been expelled.
Mr.. John Blgelow. formerly United States Minis
ter to France, has taken up his residence for the
winter. with his family, at the Westmoreland
HOTEL
Congressman elect q. c. B. Walker, Of Corning,
and General George J. Magee, OF schuyler county.
New York, arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last
evening from Albany.
Even Ben Butler wants to 'get at'' those people
at New Orleans 1t is great compliment TO the
hero OF Five Forks 10 be envied Dy the hero Of
no one knows how many spoons
Statistcans declare Q marked difference be-
tween Jews and Christians as to longevity. In
100 Christians so die before the age OF ST. and with
Jews the same proportion reaches beyond 81.
In England town clerk afirms that in his OBJ
servatlon the majority OF husband-and-wife guar.
res take their rise in the fault OF the wife, who, Dy
her 'lnfernal tongue" aggravates her husband T.
assault her.
Nationally speaking, Vaughn was good name
with which TO protest for freedom on the door Of
violated house, and De Trobriand equally good
In the same for the expulsion OF Representa-
tives by armed force.
Sir willred Lawson pictures the present tory
party as combined OF alarmed landlords, terrified
ecclesastics, prosecuted publcans, betrayed beer.
shop keepers, suiky soldiers who have called IA
their aid noble army OF illlter8te voters and bona
Hde drunkards."
sin what circumstances will the natura; charity
OF a woman most strlkingly appear ?" This ques-
ton and the answer to 1t are, declares M. Sar-
dou, the foundation Of his new play, "La Haine."
The answer Is, ''When a victim to an outrage
worse than death she feels for her enemy pity
that leads her to his rescue"
Lies Diaboliques," by j. Barley dAurevtily, the
whole edition OF which was recently seized for
suppression by the French police because 10
''onended public morality" Is only the ordinary
French novel IN which the interest turns on Illicit
love. 1t is no worse nor better than thousand
others, and there Is no special reason Tor Its
means beginning at this point to use It's power
to reform literature.
More cneatlngl In Holland a gentleman who
had q picture by Leonardo Vinci on panel
lntrusted 1t to restorer to be cleaned The rc-
storer sawed the panel so to leave the picture
on a thin sheet of the wood and then employed o
talented young artist to copy the picture on the
thicker piece He returned the copy to the owner
as the original picture "freshened up" and the
cheat only came out when he offered the original
for sale in Paris at fabulous price.
There recently died in the north OF France at the
age OF eighty three miser who lived alone, and
whose hut, when examined by the authorities after
mis- death, proved sort OF gold mine His pillow
alone contained 1900 francs In gold pieces OF the
time OF Louis XIV. and Louis XVI. He had taste
for old pieces. He had been robbed many times,
and the thieves were generally detected through
the antiquity OF the money they stole. The total
OF the sums robbed from him In his life, for which
100000 francs