The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-15
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Southern States talk of raising much coffee
The latest hymn is MOODY, Make Room For Your
Sankey."
After to-day ''donklng" will not be printed in this
column a rhyme for Conkling unless il comes from
Tennyson.
Many OF the houses in Virginia City (Nevada) are
protected against avalanches by shaped structures
intended to divide and aside the descending
The great estates of English landed proprietors have
been chiefly formed by the gradual aggregation of pur
chased lands round original nucleus of patrimonia
property.
James Parton is Aty-four and his stepdaughter wifs
about forty Parton was thirty-four when he married
Fanny Fern and she was forty-fve The whole thing
is general average.
Norristown HeraId:-It is said that Mark Twain will
dramatize his 'Pnk Trip Slip for Eight Cent Fare"
If he does he should be punched presence of tho
passenjaire"-or any other man
'Veni" writes long poem, with the following cou-
cusion:-
or whom to give you an inkling.
Roscoe, first name; after, Conkling.
Many rhymes to "Conkling' sent to this Office arc
omitted either because they repettions because
they undigniied. No poetry should be written
about Senator unless 1t is august
The Virginia (Nevada) Enterprise predicts that she
time distant when silver will be deprecated
to half its present value. The production already
mense is destined to be vastly increased by the
proved methods for reducing ores
The great estates of the Scottish landed proprietary
consist chiefly of what century ago was the merest
waste land, valuable to nobody, but subsequently
brought under cultivation though the wise lberalty
shown In granting long leases to sklful capitalist
farmers.
1t is said that Professor Giohing OF Germany has
produced from chemicals influenced by galvanIc bat
terry perfect egg, which by artificial he has
Matched. The chick, however, has feathers It is
bad-headed all over and won't need singing Thus
does German genius triumph over pin feathers.
Bdlow says:-"For kind of technical knowI-
edge and depth of musical cultivation Boston stands
first But for abreadth of comprehension, a down.
right thirst for good music and keen appreciation OF
it, give me Philadelphia 1t has the most sensitive
music audiences have played to in this country"
The Troy Budget says its contemporary. the Wai0
Doth republican, evidently takes delight IN ''punch-
ing" Senator Conkng and fails recall Mark Twan's
idiotc lines
Punch brothers. punch-punch with care,
Punch in the presence OF the passenJalre
Which is bad for the Budget
He was minister from the country tall, sel!.con-
scious and with tuft OF pale beard his chin She,
his wife held his arm in buoyant way that told Of
once rIeeful girlhood She was gIancing at a candy
window when he said, 1--WE must not think Of worldly
afairsn she thought Of the five children at home and
sadly replied, "Dear, you arc always right"
The Richmond Wing, speaking of a Southern Pacific
Railroad. says:-"Much better would 1t be for tho
South and the whole world the government If il
really intends to 90 into work this Of facilitating com
merce 10 begin and complete early day as possible
canal either through the Isthmus Of Daren by the
Ncaraguan or Tehuantepec to the Pacific Ocean"
Prince Gortschakons special organ, the Journal o.
S. Petersburg thus unconscously exposes Russia's
Eastern policy and the humbug OF the triple aIiance
at should be borne in mind that this government has
in no respect abandoned its traditional policy in the
Eastern question: it Europe which, frankly recognize
ing the loyalty aud dsntcrestcdness Of that policy has
ceased TO regard It with suspicion aud mistrust"
The Albany Argus tdem) In rcctng 'tho issues DO
fore the country" asserts that the swhoe republican
policy is merely morbid method OF governmental ac-
ton. The natural action is to DO attained by return
to healthy democratic principles The real issue before
| the country is whether these morbid ana unhealthy
republican processes shall continue to tine exhaustion
and destruction OF the vital forces or whether the gov
ernment shall discharge its functions ~ founders
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