The New York herald., 1876-01-21
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Hendricks is ahead.
S. S. Cox s'slops over"
Iowa people like militia
California is soaked with rain.
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California is soaked with rain.
Philadelphians economical.
In Norway whole regiments practice skating
Western country towns having leap year balls.
Hudson River counties harvesting very little ce
The Khedivc of Egypt has recovered $4,000 acret
from the desert
scventy-hve cents drink for whiskcy the Black
Hills Go West, young mani
d. Appleton & Go. have published Mr.. Charles Nordr
hon's "Thc Cotton States"
Mr.. Disraei underp.ands and rarely selects tho
feeble except for seats in his Cabinet
Dean Swift wrote TO Tisdal l:-sTime takes of the
lustre of virgins in all other eyes but mine"
The New Orleans Picayune publicly thanks oyster.
man for sending it some oysters the haf-shelL
One hundred and hfty-iour pounds is the average
adult human weight, and OF this l16 pounds pure
water.
The Earl OF Dunraven, Of Ireland, returned to tho
city yesterday from Montreal and is tho Brcvoort
House.
Hon Samuel T. Benedict, of Schenectady. was ap.
pointed Commissioner Of the United States Circuit
Court yesterday.
prominent English journal says that the coast
Scotchmen have unerring taste for nsh; and echa
answers ian herring taste"
The Springfield Republican says OF the Centennials
.Tfit can get on with the flag and without appros
priation by all means let it"
Sam Bowes says that Tidcn is likely to be the dcm-
candidate Tor President year. and that he
will be hard to beat Pshawt
The wider and vaguer a subject is the more modest
should be the range Of reading and the thorough
the study Of the few works prescribed.
Governor Hartranft Of Pennsylvania, was two years
ago the best abused OF a candidate for gov.
ernor. Now his old enemies call him a model gov.
ernor.
Goethe said he would like TO live threo great
works completed canal across Panama connecting
the Atlantic and Pacific canal connecting the head
waters Of the Rhine and the Danube and canal acrosf
the lsthmus Of Suez.
The agent Of NJ du sommerard the French director
OF contributions to international exhibitions, will SAT-
for the United States the LIST OF February. He ro
grets that the number Of French exhibitors does not
likely to be as large II At Vienna, and he
hints that the display will not be as hne.
Lord stratford dc Rcdce, white he was Sir stratford
Canning and while he was the autocrat OF Turkey he
Is described Kinglake. always opposed 10 Rus
sIA He now writes TO the Lofdon Times, deprecatna
any policy that may lead 20 the abandonment OF Tur-
key and wishing that that country should be placed
under tutelare.
The London Spectator says:-"A certain kind Of for
ttude an ability TO annoying criticism and roube-
some opposition and exasperating interference from
home ana yet 20 on patiently essential TO
ful viccrv The ploughman temperament, not thu
poetic is the that succeeds In that post though
traoe Of genius Is very welcome, TOO
London Spectator THE truly wonderful chess
players Of the world have very seldom been remark
able for anything else. Indeed, though the play Of
great chess player very high and intense exercise
Of the maginason u Is an exercise Of Imagination OF
very thin kind indeed, which need not imply any COM
siderablc-maginative grasp Of the realities oflep
new periodical. ''The American Catholic Quarterly
Review" has just appeared. It's published by Hardy
4 Mahony Philadelphia. and among the contributors
20 the arst number we nnd such writer's as Dr. O. A.
Brownson. DR. Edward McGlynn, John Culinary Shea
and Bishops Becker and Lynch. Among the additional
names for the second number, which viii be published
In April, is that OF the Rev Augustus j. Thebaud whs
has already earned distinction by his bold analysis Of
the theories OF the Darwnans In tho present number
DR.. Brownson discusses ''Thc History OF the SUPER
natural" Dr. McGlynn exposes 'rhe Bugbsar Of vati-
canism'' and Dr. Shea writes Of "rhe Catholic Church
In American History"