The New York herald., 1876-02-22
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
spiritist Foster Is In Washington.


Mrs Speaker Kerr has white hair.
Mrs Potter Palmer wears silk of faint blue
Poet Lowelrs home is called 'Elmwood" II Is "A
ancestral ball
Mr.. Moody says:-"f can't be lighthouse lei
us be a talow candle" But by no means let us be gas
Philadelphia CITY Hem:-sPaul Butler, son OF Gen.
B.F Butler, is OF the prominent beaux in Wash
ington this WINTER"
"a foreign critic thinks that Engand's boasted power
was only moral influence coming from Wellington's
defeat OF 8onaparte
The wealth OF England great as at this
time and the thoughtIess mprovidence Of Englishmen
more conspicuous
1t was Talleyrand who said that "one must have
loved woman OF genius in order to comprehend what
happiness there is in loving a fool"
In Cashmere, India, it may require thirty men for
year, many months according to the nneness OF the
texture, TO produce dozen shawls
When the affairs of the Bank of California up
II viii be found that Senator Bill Sharon much more
of man than his enemies pretended
Those persons who have read with intense interest
George Eots latest work will be glad to learn that the
second book will be called meeting Streams"
From the State press of New York we understand
that a political sentiment Horatio Seymour is far
ahead OF s. J. Tilden In the candidacy for President
Colonel W. NJ Grosvenor has assumed full control Of
The Public high toned, erudte weekly in the style
OF the Nation. We wish 1t the that 1t 1t will
never get
The London Times says is authorized to say that
there Is no foundation whatever for the statements
which have been made with respect to the marriage o
Princess Beatrice.
An Eastern legend says that the human head wa
originally composed Of peacocks' tails. This be
fore Senator Morrssey used to say 10 Heenan, Heads
/ win, tails you lose."
Enropoan vrfar -.cThn varv rourar rd r-iS~
the very raisOn ders OF music is that expresses ths
which words are powerless to express which can be
expressed in no other way"
The Georgian who cast OF by the nineteen year
old blonde for the sixty four year old Christiancy
going to hang around Washington until she becomes
widow and gets her thirda
on the Pacific slope squirrels and rabbits are 90
bothersome crops that squads of farmers 70 out q
have three and four day hunts the plan OF our old
time barn raIsings and stone frolcs
At dinner TO Senator Sharon in San Francisco tn.
appeared ON solid silver bill Of fare worth so
for each guest
The St Louis Republican says that the question O
greatest with the Eastern wholesalers pres
ent is how 70 become independent OF their drummers
aud resume control OF their own business.
An English critic says that the whole philosophy o.
musical composition, broadly stated Is the art OF pro
crossing logically and yet with apparent freedom from
point Of repose to another.
'The wealthiest among as Is the best" ex
claimed Wordsworth, who lamented the loss OF plain
living and high thinking: and there Ia truth In Mr..
Smiles that accumulation Of money has bo
come the great desire and passion ofthe age"
New Hampshire paper says that the English spar.
row which drives out native birds q good deal like
the distinguished foreign who reported at our
summer watering places, and who usually turn out 70
be Bavaran BARRIERS or something Of that sort
Nyack lady asks what the New York boys with
ttle boxes like hand organs their backs, mean by
crying out "Hay, shinef" Madame these young
gentlemen are perapatetic philosophers and they mean
TO inculcaie the posulate 'Make hay while the sun
shnea" They have q stin brief way OF express-
ing their philosophy In "shinem"
Lafayette and De Tocqueville fell into the error "A
believing that the early prosperity OF the United States
was the result OF republican institutions whereas IA
really originated with the virtues OF men trained under
the English mOnarchical regime NJ Le Play is Of oplp
ION that since the publication Of Rousseau's "Contrat
social no work has done much harm as De Tocque-
viIle's 'Democratie en- Ameriquev
The Nashville Ameoan speaking OF the death OF the
Atlanta (Gal Herald says:-.The HeraId,s suspension
supports the proposition have heretofore advanced
that 70 each city. OF not less than 35 900 population
only one daily journal have reasonable hope Of re-
muneraiive existence One daily 10 every 10000 OF
population 10 about the newspaper supporting capacity
Of the largest and most prosperous cities Its surviving
rival had an older existence and permanent good
will, for papers long established seem 10 hAva mar
v~ii~us tenactv oflfa~