The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-20
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


Rev. A. G. Mercer, Of Newport. Is residing u
the Brevoort House.
The Putnams are going to publish the ANATOMY
OF tho Domestic Cat"
The spelling match excitement 10 Job: all got
up by the publishers Of dictionaries.
General Benjamin F. Butler arrived from Wash.
ingt0n yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. George W. Carleton Is said to have the most
fanciluly ntted up ONCE OF any publisher In this
city.
Judge Amasa J. Parker. OF Albany, arrived In
this city last evening ana Is at the Brevoors
House.
M. wastmsnn, Prince Gorsscnakon's alter ego In
the Russian Foreign once, has nad stroke OF
apopexy.
Lieutenant Commander Frederick Pearson,
United States Navy, is quartered at the Fifth Ave.
nue. Hotel.
Messrs. Sidney Bartlett ana Richard q. Dana,
Jr., OF Boston, are among the late arrivals at the
Windsor Hotel.
MIR. LUcius CROKER, United States Vice Consul
at Panama will sail for his post to-day In the
steamship Acapulco.
Miss Anna Dickinson viii repeat on Sunday
night her very interesting lecture. "whas .
Woman Thinks OF It,"
Mr.. Gladstone IL writing . new book on mar.
Rage, with special reference to the alleged sacra-
mental character OF tuat lubtitutlOus
Secretary BristOw VINO has been com planning
for some time oil Ill health, left Washington for
New York yesterday to consult eminent medical
practitioners here.
Secretary Fish left washington for New York
yesterday morning, accompanied by Mrs. Fish and
his daughters. No special importance is attached
to their movements.
Edward King will commence . series OF papers
on American cities In the April scrtoner. The nrss
paper VIII be on Baltimore which city he calls the
Liverpool OF America.
Senators Jarvis Lord and William Johnson ana
Assemblynen James Faulkner, Jr., and F. ". vos.
burgn arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel lass
evening from Albany.
The company Of learned thcologIans, revising
the authorized version of the Bible, lately held
their twenty-eighth session in London. They
have now got up to Isaiah.
II "hi9h interest means poor securityu the
French imperialists have but o small chance in
the future, IS they are now regularly borrowing
money to be repaid 900 per cent upon the restora-
ton OF the Empire.
Kaulbacn's literary remains include an extern.
sive correspondence on the subject OF bis paint.
ings OF the Reformation period with Rlnke.
oilers, Muller and others. The painters sketch.
book diary OF his nrst Impression OF Munich as
seen IN 1926 is also included.
Pereire got little tired OF returning the bows
OF an uncomiortably polite man In his establish.
ment, and finally gave the polite man this conuu.
drum at point blank range :-'Sir, what would
become OF the hours n the minute hand stopped
to bow to the second hand every time they metz"
Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at tins
Grand Central Hotel from Washington YESTERDAY
morning, and lett in the afternoon for Boston.
He will return to Washington about the middle Of
next week, and after remaining there for few
days will make visit to New orleans and Texas
The chrome "Deacon Jones's Experience found
It's way into the show window OF religious pub.
Listing house in this city the other day and caused
considerable excitement The chrome and It's ac.
companying poem make no pretenslons to piety.
and when the head OF the nrm discovered TIA
whereabouts he was not long In getting It out OF
the way.
The explanations In regard to the 1000 70.
ported to have been paid to Mr.. Curtis for his
eulogy OF sumner are satisfactory. 1t was honor.
able in MIR. Curtis to refuse the money, and the
intention OF the committee to give him bust OF
the great subject OF the euogy to be paid for with
the money declined, was at once delicate and
handsome.
The Secretary Of the Treasury arrived In this
city yesterday evening from washington and wen,
to the Fifth Avenue Hotel He was accompanied
by ex-Supervising Architect A. b. Mullett and
one or two other personal friends The visit o.
the Secretary had nothing OF an oticial character
A consultation with his physician In regard to 40
affection OF the throat the given for this
visit to New YORK, and last evening Mr. Brstow
accompanied by his party. visited the Fifth Ave
nuc Theatre to see the big Bonanza
Bergamo the city IN which DonIzefti was born
and died, mas resolved to remove the bones OF tho
great composer from their extramural place O, in
terment to the Church OF 81. Maria Maggiore and
bic monument executed some years ago in his
honor by the sculptor Vela. The ceremony will
take place next autumn, and many OF the most
distinguished artists OF Italy and other countries
VIII assist at the solemn funeral mass and the suc
ceeding musical festival to be celebrated at Rer
gamo
u. p. Dutton Co.. OF this city, have for sale q
copy Of the history OF the campaign In Egypt pre.
pared under the direction OF the first Napoleon.
Tue work is out OF PRINT, and there are but two
other copies In this country, The work was ma.
lished by the French government, and consists of
twenty-five voumes-elght or text, eleven or rio.
lures and three OF maps 1t Is most claboratelv
gotten up, and cost at time OF publication a. 600.
Dutton d Co., however, do not ask more than
quarter OF that price.