The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Emperor OF Japan twonty-four years old on
the Sd inst.
sDo you have buckwheat cakes at this house'n ID
the latest password of the tramps.
Mrs Robson, wife OF the Secretary OF the Navy,
has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Senator Newton Booth of California arrived in this
city yesterday and is at the Sturtevant House.
Aristarch Bey Turkish Minister at Washington has
taken up his residence tho Albemarle Hotel
Holmes f. onlcy late Chief Clerk Of the Navy De-
partment banker OF Washington, is at the Astor
House.
Mr.. Richard Grant White, having been in III health
all summer Is lying seriously sick at his residence
III this city,
study the idioms and vocabulary OF foreign Ian
guago before studying grammar the advice OF the
Providence Press.
Colonel Manuel Freyre the Peruvian Minister ar
rived with his family the Clarendon Hotel last
ing from Washington.
The French government is laying an automatic tube
from the Place dArmes at Versailles to the Palas
rElysec 1t has found the telegraph offices leaky and
henccforth will only be conveyed in pipes
and tin boxes.
paragraph is going the roundsi that there was but
one house in Burlington, Iowa. twenty one years ago.
The Ha,ck Eye established in that city in $780,
thirty-sx years ago. If the FIRST statement be true,
the earlier patrons OF that paper have howl.
crs in a bowling wilderness.
II was twenty years ago the 10th inst, when
the Hon. James g. Blaine became OF the editors
and propretors of the Kennebec Journal at Augusta,
Me. In announcing his advent the retiring editor
said :-"Mr. Blaine comes among us comparatively
stranger II is but just to say that he a gentleman
OF decided talent Of liberal education extensive travel
and acquainted with the public and measures OF
the country That easy to say whether it wai
not
Recent events in the history or san Francisco more
than prove the mcrcuual character not only fits
institutions but Of It's people San Francisco lives
upon the Nevada mines. The condition Of the mines,
therefore, has great deal Of influence upon the bust
and the temper Of the people in San Francisco.
The recent tire in the bonanzls has depressed San
Francisco trade AT the time the agricultural
enterprises Of the state temperng the sensational
spirit Of san Francisco people There is an UNDER
growth III business the city which does not depend
upon The mines, aud il will supplant sensatonasm.
About the recent Hoods in the Nevada mines the
Independent derives the idea that the mines may
easily pumped out and the machinery soon be put
III order The independent says that there is vast
ocean Of water 1000 feet IN length, in some places
nom 600 to 500 feet in depth, and not living beng
able 10 enter the lower portions OF any of these
mines The Ovcrman mine has been drowned out for
wear ana las never been dried There may be good
deal az truth nThc criticism OF tho Sutro people but II
must bc remembered that there is such thing ass
sutro Tunnel Company, whose claims are before Con.
gress and arc fought by Senator sharon There self
ishncss on both sides
The Empress Of Austria viii not, says an English
raper be present November ofthe Quorn
hounds as she had intended to be This change plan
is not caused by any bad results q Her Malcsys tall
while hunting "a few weeks ago u France Indeed the
severity of the fall in question has been very greatly
exaggerated A very well-known riding master was
with tho Empress when sho met with her accident,
which he describes as but very rifing HcI
Majcstys sister, however the xQuccn Of Naples in.
tends hunting in the grass countries this season. and
eight horses have already been despatched TO North.
amptonshre for her use. As the Queen Is not onJJ
a light weight, but Of the fearless OF women
Gacta showed that-and had experience last year to
hounds she IS safe to be the first 0gbt as her small
stud Is one Of the best IN the shircs