The New York herald., 1876-02-29
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Babcock has blue eyes.
Rumor-That Governor Tilden is engaged.
General Phil Sheridan has a little daughter.
Bristow was colonel OF a Kentucky regiment
Soda water is not made of soda but of marble dust
There is only German in Congress and he is from
Texas.
Go West In the Black Hills cheese is dollar for
Just little mite.
The Kentucky Legislature is first for Hendricks and
then for Old Bill Allen
Titon is IN Canada; but the weather is cold thai
he has {, hang up his pictures an Ulster overcoat
The Chicago Times enormously says that the Dan.
bury Mems man is dead and Mrs Scott-Sddons wishes
he had been
fashion critic says that ladies in mourning should
not wear fcather<. Their husbands probably wear
feathers on the other side.
.Grocer There is real way OF testing the purity
of maple sugar. You had better consult promi-
nent furniture dealer
Near Boston the spring weather is so far advanced
that the cherry buds and rum blossoms have como
with the faithful robn.
An Iowa house OF worship is called 'the toardown
church" There Is one in Brooklyn that, by .
little double shuttle OF speech, might be called the
breakdown church.
Those who read washngtons Farewell Address,
will that he declined third term and thanked the
people who wanted him have another, the ground
that he guessed he'd go to farming.
Colonel Jim Flood. the king Of the Bonanza mines,
writes friend that the question OF return to specie
payments ought be settled during tho present session
OF Congress Colonel Flood a democrat.
So dcmorazing has been the effect of civilization
upon the Sandwich Islands that the 400 900 population
have dwindled 900; and OF the islands the
proportion OF men women is to one.
sPerdta. ~--lt is impossible TO determine from his
-.
cut down the cherry tree but you may rest assured
that II George did ic the who got up story
did
The Washington correspondent OF tho Virgins
Chronicle saws that tho family OF ex-senator Nye are
in absolute dcstitution and that the ex-senator is 10
the Fiatbush Asylum in state OF hopeless imbe-
cility.
A writer from Cairo. Egypt says:-'Nothng in the
world can surpass a from the citade when
the sun is sinking the Libyan Desert through sea
OF golden behind the SPHINX and the pyramids OF
Ghizeh."
BuIow says OF the German press in America that 'ft
is simply wrctched; low in tone, ignorant IN admin.
istration ami without enterprise enough 10 get
honestly what little they do print They steal their
correspondence, ncws, everything. The German press
In America is pitiable affair.
A Canadian coachman drove a carriage over a re-
porter of the Montreal Gdscc the other day and nearly
killed him, but did not wait to render assistance
when asked why he drove away from the wounded
he declared he had carried him too often for moth
ing already, but would have given HIM another chance
II It was 20 be the last.
Murat Hastead sends the followng:-
Hero are two efforts to get even with Roscoe Conk
ling, which commended to the poctical person q
the New YoRK HERALD:-
rilE GRAPES
yne Der the walls the White House doth Chamber.
Whose pendulous clusters jlo thicky thereon cling.
How tempting they look from the senates low chamber
But they'll ever be sour TO Sir Rcynaric Com king.
Az UNSUCCESSFUL cEsARiAN OPERATION.
DARK "reminiscences of the primal Cesar
Must e'er about the Kuhicon cling.
And modern Cars fiddle de- dee. sir,
That stud can't boost" ambitious Conklne