The New York herald., 1875-12-18
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
The French eat 50, 900 900 rabbits every year

The French eat So, 600 600 rabbits every year
Nomination by prayer" is good Suppose elect
him by doxology?
Western says that figures won't lie unless they
happen TO be gas meter
J. w. p wants TO know whether a horn of apple
brandy will intoxicaten Yes it will, cornucopiousy.
1t is estimated that there about 400 young
from the United States pursuing their studies at the
universities and colleges Of Germany.
Chicago Inter Ocean:-'lt is stated that William NJ.
Evars will go upon the stage This prejudice against
is taking wide hold upon public men,"
Blondin walked a rope from mast TO mast of a
ship the distance being 43l feet several
was compelled to stand still while the rocked tho
vessel
Blaine said to John Y Foster as Richeou said to his
follower 'Joseph-heh ~ poking him in the ribs az
will make you bishop" And then like Richelieu
again, he made fool of him.
Few remember that oliver Wendell Holmes began
life as law student, and not many to know
that Lowell did the same thing and was actually
admitted to the Bar and opened office in Boston.
G. W. Curtis says:--"There wise critics who
think they have disposed OF Dickens by calling HIM
sentimentalst. What is the Sermon on the Mount,
what the soul OF all religion what morality ITSELF
but sentiment
At Ann Arbor University, Michigan, the studcnts
have hred shorthand writer take down the lee.
lures. Querv-Whether the taking down by the stu.
dents themselves is not an exercise mind not to be
dispensed with
General Francis A Walker, Professor in the Sheffield
Scientific School, Yale College, has been appointed
Chief OF the of Awards Of the Centennial Exhb
iton The appointment Of Or. Pepper Medical Di.
rector Of the Exhibition confirmed by the Execu.
tive Committee yesterday morning.
The daughter of NJ. Benoist, a vandeean school
gree OF bachelor of letters the University OF Poi
tiers in France and the other day. the Birkbeck nsti
tuition of London a large and old college, distributed
the first prizes in modern languages and advanced
mathematics to three women.
Mr.. Disrae dining with Baron RothschiId when
a telegram from Paris brought to the Baron
nouncing that the Khedive had offered his shares in
the suoz Canal for sale the French government and
that the parties at that moment hagging about
the price Mr. Disraeli suddenly raised his head and
said What is the priceS" The Baron Immediately
elegraphed for the desired information TO Paris and
the answer came back in few minutes, "Four millions
sterling" 1--WE will take them" said Mr. Disraeli
without moments hesitation, and from thence tho
matter became merely OF detail.
And now Brown is to be written up, not John Brown
Of Harper's Ferry, but the magnificent Isaac Brown
Of Grace church, whose tales anecdotes and gossip
about fashionable life will doubt make most at
tractive volume. Colonel Frank Moore has under
taken to write "Browns "reminiscences" and IL
rumored they will comprise lively sketches of parties
public meetings and receptions weddings and funerals
in which the great 3. participated.
The sultan OF Turkey who is eneminatc and has
high temper, has quarreed with yalidcs his mother,
and with his Grand yzier Public opinion in Constan
inope is excited against the Sultan, who on account
his weak icentiousness, to be less respected
tYap h{g he MfnI He a 4 n
done nothing much more than TO demand money,
which was refused TO him. but which he forclbly took.
Even the Turks, narrow IN their IDEAS OF government
and civilization revolt tho idea Of Sultan serving
himself with money when the country needs IT, The
Sultan may be deposed
The January number OF the Catholic World contains
a remarkable article upon President Grants speech
Des Moines Iowa at the Convention OF the Army OF the
Tennessee on September 90 II processes TO find that
all Grant said OF the relations OF Church and State and
OF the contest which he predicted might occur between
patriotsm and intelligence on the one side and super
stition, ambition and ignorance on the other" % In
perfect accord with the teachings OF Catholicism.
"The speech expresses" says the Catholic World,
,'bctter than many imagine, the common sentiments
OF the American people, and of Grant u declares, a
must admit that he IS true American, formed and
moulded by the events in which ne mas moved and
truly representing the country aud the times" IL
a,lrms that il Grants recommendations in the speech
are adopted the Church viii be content The article
,ery aby written, and the process Of reasoning, by
which the President is made 70 appear the champion
Of the Roman Catholic theory OF the common school
system, IS exceedingly ingenious. But whether thc
President will accept this argument the true inter-
probation OF his speech is Interesting question.