The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-04
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE

VIII M. Buffet make Cabinet or will 1t result
only in another i'm Broglie-o9
Colonel George w. Patten, United States Army,
is quartered at the Coleman House.
Mr. George W. Riggs, Of Washington, arrived
last evening at the Brevoort House.
Judge Israel s. Spencer, Of Syracuse, is among
the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue HOTEL
Mr. Sebastian B. Scnlesinger, German Consul a.
Boston. is sojourning at the Westminster Hotel.
AS Porter is an ex-engineer OF q mining com.
pany and an ex-G General they count him as doublG
X at least.
General John ]. Abercrombie United Statei
Army, has taken up his quarters at the Hotd
Brunswick.
Mr. M. Hall Stanton, President OF the PhiadeL
phia Board OF Education, Is registered at the st
James Hotel.
Senator-elect Francis Herman and Congressman
elect Benjamin A. Willis lett this city yesterday
for Washington.
Mr. John W. Fo-ney, Commissioner or the Cen.
tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, arrived yester
day in Florence Italy.
Mr.. N. c. Stevens, United States Vice Consul a,
Annoy, China, arrived in this city yesterday and il
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. NJ. E. Ingalls, President OF the Indianapolis,
Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad Company, u
residing at the Windsor Hotel.
Mr. Palmer's bronze statue Of Robert r. Living.
ston, OF New York, was placed in the old hall OF
the House OF Representatives at Washington
yesterday.
One OF The Russian jeunesse doree has made an
enormous bet that he will 60 from ST. Petersburg
to Vienna IN twenty.one days in the saddle. This
Is three times as far as the German ofcer went IN
the same time.
Mr. william D. Bishop, President OF the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Com.
pany, and Mr.. Isaac Hnckley, President OF the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Company, are at the st. Nicholas HOTEL
Ills Royal Hghness the Duke OF Edinburgh has
invented and brought into use style OF dress In
which the tops Of the shoes are made or the same
material as the pantaloons, which must tend to
largely increase the shoemaker's BILL
There was likely TO be great distress in the Vale
OF Cashmere when the Cashmere shawls went out
OF fashion. but the Maharajah made contract
with q shrewd heatnen from Christendom in
virtue OF which ali the women OF that country are
now working al tapestry instead OF shaws.
Paris Is pluming Itself on a W fancy in ladies'
Dress which is a species of tackle by which, when
q lady wishes to dance, the train OF her dress is
drawn up TO possible dimensions. This tackle ia
made so as to be ornamented with Mowers or rib
bons and to become a great addition to the
toilette generally.
Frederic Stlebman, matchmaker In Paris, said
his soul nau passed. lntO WAUGH dL WHICH ne mad
been WORKING Tor twenty years One day this
watch lost many minutes-the next day 1t gained
many; thereupon frederic went TO bed and SAID
he was very Ill. The watch stopped aud Frederic,
when he saw the hands motlonless sprang uu
from his recumbent posture and fell back-dead.
II would appear that the taste OF the Prusslau
soldiers for tmepieces was once possessed by
French soldiers also. At Lausanne, IN Swltzer.
land there IS clock that was made in that city I'm
the time OF Louis XIV. by one Golay. 1t was stolen
thence by a soldier and carried to Berne. From
Berne IL was taken by a French soldier in 1903 into
france, and from France It was taken again ty
the inevitable Prussian and sold beyond the Rhine
DR.. Hubncr made some experiments on Decem,
Der l. In the Theatre Marie, at 81. Pctersbury ia
ascertain the changes that occur in the air of
crowded places lie found constant and con-
siderable increase Of heat an increase OF moist.
ure to the extent OF eighty-1ve per cenf ana n
saturation by carbonic acid sufficient to pr)duce
a markedly poisonous effect on persons nabltu
ated to pure air.
Raoul Feval publishes the story that Napoleon,s
first thought In the disaster at sc ian was TO Cd
cape IN disguise; That he proposed to put on the
dress OF peasant and follow the bye.way,
through the forest TO Mezle cs. NJ. Cornebols IN
spector OF the forest and supp )sed TO DC familiar
with the paths was fixed upon for guide But
it took an hour to lind this perso1 ana during that
hour the Emperor changed his MIND.