The New York herald., 1875-10-27
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
J still hard uD.

The soft money men are still hard up
P. 7. Barnum has started for trip to Colorado.
Madrid Spain, has college for barbers It ought to
make an A. NJ OF the razor strop man.
Senator Justin s. Morrill, OF Vermont. arrived in this
city yesterday and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
The fourth volume of the Count de Paris ''Hstory of
the Civil War in America has appeared in Paris
scientist claims to have discovered petrihed
sea lion in Missouri while looking geological speci-
mems
The Chicago Excelsior Magazine will go no higher,
having been 'knocked higher than kitc by the hard
times.
The English hangman is q small, thin man, with
soft eyes and a catlke step, and he likes to hang
with a Roman
1t seems row that Singer had five wives instead or
three and wonder that the poor had to get up
some kind Of a sewing machine.
At Monterey Cal, great quantities Of whalebona
have been thrown upon the beach, and local prcsa
wants to know if it is useful or corset is
General Dufour left behind him important manu-
script containing tho history of tho Sender Bund War;
which will bo published, with a memoir of the Cen
eraL
One Frenchman gives to another tho following bit
OF advice: Jacques II you keep quarreling with
everybody who loves your wife you will have M
friends ;,
The forthcoming volume OF ''Langc's Commentary
now in Scribncrs press, will contain Ezekiel aud
Daniel, the latter by American divine the Rev.
James Strong, ID. d.
The Detroit Free Press says:-"oxford University
has just issued tho smallest Bbo in the world One az
small as a thrcc-cent piece would bc too cumbersome
for some men to carry round"
f. d. Mansfield veteran political observer adds his
testimony to the fact which intelligent person in
Ohio questions that largo section of the republican
party voted for Allen and Carey.
Professor Gcddes Of Aberdeen University has formed
theory Of the Homcric poems, which is that the
"Iliad" enlarged out Of lesser poem, of which
Achilleus the special subject.
black pelican measuring nine feet across its out.
stretched wings has been shot Denver Col
Denver should adopt the pelican for crest 1t can
drink and say less than any other bird.
'Itay Revisited is the title OF a now book in TIVE
volumes, by Antonio Gallenga, Of the London 7imes
Its object to illustrate the social and moral con.
dons of Italy, resulting from political changes
The new 'History of ireland, from the Earliest
Period to the Year 1875" from the London press Of
william Tegg, which is in its fifth edition. is STYLED bv
the Publishers Circular well written eloquent and
authoritative history
Professor Samuel Knccland, of the Massachusetts
Institute Of Technology, has in the Boston press "An
American in Iceland with description Of the millen-
ial celebration in 1874 and on tho Orkney shet-
land and Faroo Islands
An elegant work the French ongravIngs of tho
eighteenth century, containing catalogue of ltho-
graphs, steel ongravings colorcd plates &c, from
100 to 1S0o is appearing in Paris fully illustrated
from the pen of NJ. Bocher.
Richmond journal furnishes facts and fgures
to show that the negroes, obeying law of their ma
ture, are gradually drifting to the tropical semi.
tropical regions Of the country. The editor says tho
black mans 'passage towards the sthmus OF Daricn il
matter of philosophical certainty"
Senator Francis Herman thus spoke in Buffalo 10 a
democratic mectng:-"Thc highest court OF your
State than fifteen years ago declared that tho
common schools spoken Of in the constitution were
tho public schools, and that Legislature could allow
dollar OF that money 70 60 to the support OF do
nominational or scctarian SCHOOL,
Buckle says in his "History Of Civilization - that
OF all the actions Of men, with greater rec
uarity than the commission OF crime where the peno
raj laws Of circumstances remain tho same, aud hs
instances among other examples the fact that for .
number Of years the deaths among males In Paris was
very nearly the Same the number of persons in
France who we're accused Of crime, the greater yara-
tion being on the side OF the deaths
Much silly writing has been expended over N.
forged letter purporting to have come from Thomas
Carlyle to Harvard College declining In strdent upu.
brious rhetoric the honor OF a degree Of IL D. offered
TO him by that institution. The forgery was porpo.
trated by Chicago evening Journal and though er
aggeratcd, was fairly DONE Little real crcdcnco wa
given TO BY American journals until ii was copicd h,
the Liverpool Ios when they turned about and comic.
II from the English paper. Tho fact is that Ne
Carlyle was given tho degree by Harvard but his lotas
has never been nrlnled-