The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-03
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Judge Taft writes shorthand.

Judge Taft writes shorthand.
Carlylc's clay pipes made in Scotland.
Ole Bull will visit this country in the tall
Ben Hill says:-'The currency question Ia SUBJ
ordinate
the Saturday Review eritcises Lowell for using inss
ligent English
At Eutaw, Ala, is piece Of embroidery lis years
old, owned by Mr.. Cleveland.
Godlove s Orth defeated Speaker Kerr for Con-
gress in a democratic district
Congressman Pierce, of Boston, who is SO tired Of
Congress that he will not again, q man ufacturer
Muligan who went for Blaine, is a clear headed
Yankee and hc IS treasurer or the Globe Theatre Bos
ton.
A Paterson, N. j., witness recently sad:-"Half tho
machinery IN this city 10 not worth In the market tho
price OF scrap
The ice on the Chelsea rink, England continues as
clear and dry as any icc seen on q clear
winter morning.
In the Oneida socinstic) Community il Is said that
the remedy for dphthera is ice and prayer This is
blowing hot and cold.
Murat Halstead has m-colored goatee and eats
devillcd crabs with fork while he reads the HKaALD
from his LETT hand.
In statesville, N. c., is minister who has been in
business years He has married eighty I'VE cou
pies Tor less than $50.
John Forsyth, editor OF the Mobile (Ala) Register
has become less prominent than he was as candidate
for United States Senator
Danbury Ners :-"The rural piano Is franticaIly
writing beneath the touch OF the amateur the open
windows publicly proclaim"
James Montgomery Bailey, "The Danbury Nescs
Man." will lecture tins fall Among American humor-
lists he Is by all odds the best writer.
II is claimed fair authority that John Morrissey
having lxed the Kentucky democrats for Tilden, did
not care to go TO Missouri before the Tight
Senator Edmunds is OF the leading lawyers OF the
Senate. He has been in politics Tor quarter of Gen.
tury. He is dignihed, and be wears blue coat
The widow OF General Stonewall Jackson is in Ala.
bama, visiting her BROTHER the Rev. Mr. Morrison of
Selma, Presbyterian Her daughter is with her
Sixteen hundred young women OF Cleveland arc
pledged not 10 with young men OF tpplinc
habits They feel lonely, and say that girls COMPANY
is no good.
Elkins. The good fellow who Is trying to get Nav
Mexico into the number OF States is an Ohio man
thirty I'VE years old; but he received his training IN
Missouri
The Hon. William A. Wheeler who is much talked or
As the dnrk horse. on the republican side is within
two years Of sixty Murnt Hastcad says that no Is too
we'll known to be unknown.
Senator Spencer OF Alabama, is forty years old He
was born IN jefferson county, New York, but was an
Iowa lawyer and politician He was one OF shcrman,s
cavarymen, aud became q carpct-bagger and good
fellow"
Theory doesn't always accord with practise. An in
specton Of the rolls of the New York Custom House
shows that fifteen appointments in that institution
have been made since The 1869 at the instance Of
George William Curtis, champion of Tho civil service
system. On the other hand, not a single appointment
mas Osen procured, directly indirectly during this
umo oy senator conklng Notwithstanding his rccos-
nzed q c6cio privileges in this rsspec.