The New York herald., 1876-09-27
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


Constant Mayer painting portraits since his return
from Germany
Rear Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, ID
at the Glenham Hotel
People who make much NOISE with their fcet seldom
make much with their heads.
The Titusvillle Herald mentions the paragraphs Of
tho St Louis Globe Democrat SCISSORS!
Senator George s. Boutwell,, OF Massachusetts,, yes
terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
To man OF brave sentiments midnight 10 a. bright
as MONDAY for the illumination is within
1t was Addison who as many quoters 70 forget,
said that ''thc woman dei,berates is lost"
Tho greatest merit of William q. Seward in the
Senate that he the bost listener there.
Said "a Spanish boatman:-sT can forgive anything
for love, and So suppose. can the Almighty"
The Italians do not say the author Of dictionary,
but the compiler, and that appeation 10 the truest
Mr. Power H. Le Pocr Trench. Secretary Of the Brit
ism Legation Washington. is at tho Clarendon Hotel
Said lady her husband, ''My dear, what 10
cotton ducks" Oh," said he, carelessly "a kind Of
canvas back"
Business in New York is illustrated BY a man who
In Fourth avenue said, "well II you've got .
5000 note to pay. make notes for two thres'a"
.Felice" writes :-"what is tho correct expression
for when you somewhere do they used to :"
1t is 'swhen you rum do the democrats do /"
Millerte prophesies that the world is coming to
nm this yoar and his testimony Endorsed by the
fact that vsaa (Cal) man has just married his step
mother.
George William Curtis made point At Concord
when he said that the nomination OF Charles Francis
Adams was designed ''for export trade and not for
home consumption.
Old John Adams said, when he ninety years Of
age, in letter. that had four wars, and that
following each OF these wars there had been period
Of great financial and Industrial depression.
Sir Redmond Barry one Of tho British Centennial
Commissioners wishing to obtain documents relating Ia
American progress for the Melbourne public library
authorizes Mr.. Campbell of No. "a Broadway to re-
ceive and forward them.
Sunset Cox was born in Ohio fifty two years ago. Hs
college bred, and has been both lawyer and editor
Previous to 1865 he Ohio Congressman, ana ha
represented James Brooks district from Now Yorl
city, comprising the Seventh, Eleventh and Thireeni
wards
The Sioux Indians having spent the summer in out
raging white women whom they have stolen from
emigrant trains, and mutlating whito whom they
have burned at the stake, in this century Of which
America proud, going back to the agencies to
get powder and new dried fruit.
Carlyle-'That figure is Camille Desmoulins a fel.
low Of infinite wit and shrewdness-nay, humorous;
ono OF the sprghtliest, ccarest souls of all the mill
Thou poor Camille say Of thee what they will
II but ialsehood TO pretend one did not almost
love thee, thou headlons, lightly sparkling man."
Hutchinson remarks tho pieces OF netting found
in Peruvian graves that It s'pcrhaps from the
same superstition which In Granada and among the
Chnchas OF South America makes tho net . symbol Of
death. At religious festivals cast over the
principal musical performer o reminder Of the prox.
unity Of death"
urtic v,o;to IN IN Copf a.
a cheap restaurant in shanty Town and ordered .
steak After desperate efforts TO overcome s tough
ness he called Tor q napkin. Tho landlord came
out from kitchen his shirt sleeves addressed
tho astonished guest in indignant terms. sSa-ay
young feer, this amt no Continental. The next
thing you'll be wanting suppose is grand paner"
In the month OF February, 1919, Thomas wildcy and
John welch, two Englishmen, then residing In BatL
more, Md, inserted In tho Baltimore Amercom an ad
vertisemcnt in the following words:-"Notce to all
Odd Fellows-A few members Of tho Society OF Odd
Fellows will be glad to meet their brethren for con-
sul,ation upon the subject Of forming lodge The
meeting VIII be held on Friday evening. tho I'd Of
March, 1919"
Tho spectacle which humanity affords, In the past
and in present. often felt to be cherries and dis
prting the progress OF enlightenment and morality in
very slow as compared with tho short existence OF the
individual: the gradual risc Of the tide s masked bv
the nux and rcHux OF successive waves and the phil
anthrorst who has oilcd all his days attain special
end must often lie down aud await the final rest WITH
out having seen tho frut Of his self sacrifice
Charles Kcadc has been presented with tho ladies,
Centennial brooch by Mrs James T. Fields, of Boston
In return the author has teapot OF the last CEN
tury Of antique and curious Design bearing the FOL-
lowing characteristic inscription :'CharIes Reads
dcdcascs the ladies' Of Boston and presents to his
oc,~d frio Mra A
when the ctzons Of Boston turned their harbor into
teapot and tasted tho sweets OF liberty"
Speaking OF American civilization Brenchcy says:-
al am not aware that any discovery has been made
either OF fragments of ancient pottery Of gyphc in
scrptons, TO the north Of the parallel of Cedar City,
In South America the analogous traces OF Indian civ,-
zaon stop at less distance from the Equator and do
not appear to 60 beyond The 3lst degree 1t was then
between 90 degrees south and IS degrees north
latitude that tho leading nations of America oxutcd
and constituted powerful ana cultivated socosiesn