The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-31
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
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wolves at Metz come az near to the city a. the.
railway station.
Judge r. D. Rice Of Maine, is registered at the.
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
In Japan there are 1916 schools and the scbol-.
ars number l,2S9,3O7.
Governor Benjamin F. Potts, OF Montana. ID
staying At the st. Nicholas HOTEL
Captain William G. Temple, United States Navy
Is quartered at the Everett House.
MAJOR Wiburn B. Hall. of the Egyptian Army,
is stopping at the Brev0ort House.
Congressman Elijah d. stamford, OF Kentucky,
has arrived at the Metropolitan Ho'eL
The latest contribution to natural history IL
1.-THE Book Of the Coat" by 8. holmes.
Rev. J. c. White, OF Cleveland Is among the
latest arrivals at the Westminster Hotel.
Asscmblyman Edward Gallagher, OF Buffalo, ar.
rived last evening at the Coleman House.
George Gifllan threatens . volume OF poems.
but stuffed world feels that it has Gilllan enough
Lieutenant Governor IL. G.. Knight, oil Massa-
chusetts. has apartments at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
The British iron-cad Tnunderer has Just re-.
ceved two thirty EIGHT ton guns the first t4s-
sued"
Paris papers chronicle neatly the New Years
reception OF the American Minister, "Sir Z. WASH
burne.'
Mr.. Gladstone wrote the article on Bishop Pat.
terson, which appeared in the October number Of
the quarterly Revie,o.
Tita Facieri, Lord Byron's Italian servant, who
was with the poet when he died, has just died in
London, aged seventy eight years.
In stirring his fire the fireman on French loco
motive found q human foot in his ash pan, and
that was the first animation they mad that they
had Killed man some hours before.
Mir. John Noble, author or Fiscal Legislation.
1S42l865," has in the press, and will shortly pub
llsn, National Finance: Review OF the Policy OF
the Last Two Parliaments ana OF the Results OF
Modern Fiscal Legisa tlon.r
They have just caught q ragpicker in Paris,
whom the butchers found Improbable lie had
trained his dog to steal at the butcher doors the
choicest small cuts OF meat which tho laithur
animal brought 10 his master around the corner.
In the LonuOn Times many persons have argued
pro and con. the question whether vultures ara
drawn to carrion BY the sense OF sight or SMELL
Far the larger number Of facts adduced sustain
the theory that the sense OF sight alone Ia the
guide.
Miss Thackeray is writing q new story, entitled
'Miss Angel" founded on the life OF Angelica
kaufman, which has been secured by Harpe,'s
Magazine and was commenced IN the February
work.
Captain G. l. Lydecker. United States Engineer.
in charge OF improvements OF the Western rivers.
with headquarters at Milwaukee, is on q months
leave of absence and sojournlng with his father.
Mr.. John X. Lydecker, special deputy collector at
Engle wood, N. This Onicer executed the maps
OF the Lava Beds during the Modoc war.
There was received at the Dead Letter ONCE OF
the Post ONCE Department yesterday package
containing one half dozen snakes two of them dead
and the remainder alive. One OF them is Q COD.
perhead five feet long. The reptiles were incIosed
in q tin box, perforated with holes. and were ad-
dressed to Germany, but had been stopped at New
York on account OF overweight, the postage not
being SUFFICIENT. Until the dead letter opener has
satisfactorily explained his mode of life for week
past this snake story must be taken with plenty
OF salt.
1t is not always Well to cause woman to be ar.
rested in the street simply because you BELIEVE
her to De the same woman who may have stolen
WHIT you Missed from your shop several days be.
fore; and the Paris shopk eeper, who had caused
the arrest OF lady in the street, rejected this
probably as he quailed before her fierce indgna.
tlon at the police station and saw suits for dam
ages booming in his mind's eye. Horatio. But just
as they were about TO dismiss her some one noted
piece OF silk hidden under her shawl ana in
Ave minutes sne confessed herself q regular shop
litter.
In the course OF she improvement OF Paris they
have come to the Rue Dauphne, which 10 on the
south side OF the river ana runs from the P0nt
Neuf into the Pays Latin. As the houses are now
going down Paris papers tell how the street was
opened in the time OF Henry Nv. As projected IL
ran through the garden OF the Augustins' Convene
and the Order refused to SELL Henry reasoned with
them to no purpose, ana then told the Superior
that II the wall was not down In iortv-eight hours
he would come and open the street with cannon.
Now said the Superior, "Your Majesty enters
into the true spirit Of the Church, and we cannot
longer object since you base your right on the
canon law" so Henry kept the priest to supper.
and the street Was opened.
Newspaper correspondents were allotted places
Oh board one OF the ships which were to carry
Alfonso to spain, but on the arrival of the King ON
board the Navas de Toosa ne found that the cor.
respondents OF tue Gaul0ts ana OF the Havas
Agency had got on board the royal frigate By MIS-
take. Hts Majesty gave them permission to re.
main on board, seeing that 1t would have been
tedious ana difncult for them TO make their way
TO the vessel assigned to them, and later not
wishing TO give evidence OF special favor sent
boat TO the other ship to invite all the correspOu
dents TO come on BOARD the Navas. on their arr.
val they were invited to a dinner, at which the
Chevalier Murphy presided IS the representative
OF the King.