The New York herald., 1876-02-25
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

BMany consumpnves visit ken, s. c.
Anna ickinson is rapidly recovering her health
Cubans soak straw paper in tobacco juice for cigar
filings
The population of Atlanta estimated at from 80 600
to 35, 600
Fred Douglass refused lodgings In an Indiansp
oils hotel
Mr.. Frederick Law olmstead is experimenting the
improvements in the Capitol grounds
The Boston Transcript thinks that too many studies
are imposed upon common schools.
Senator Sharon, of Nevada via California thinks
that Hayes of Ohio, is the coming man.
George Tcknor writes that for time after Wash
ngton death Boston boys Grape their arms
Lionel Tennyson, eldest son of the poet passed at
Cambridge University first class in mechanics and
theology.
Country boys In England average an inch and quar-
ter more in height and pounds more in weight
than city boys
The Kingdom OF Prussia supervises 81 465 pri-
mary school teachers Of whom SO, 765 under the
control the Lutheran church. 1870 OF the Roman
Catholic and 424 ofthe Jews; only 1851 women
The Auburn Advertiser says:-''we learn from en-
trely reliable authority that botn Governor Morgan
and Congressman Wheeler are favorably disposed
ard Conkling's nomination, and that all is perfect
harmony between the parties named. Our authority
IS entirely unquestionabe."
Robert Buchanan writes that while the despair oil
George Eliot is always unpcasantly suggestive OF the
Fuerbach whom he translated in her youth, that Of
Victor hugo is the despair OF poet and he adds that
a Hugo's work would be of greater value II il we're
compressed within the compass OF Of Hawhor ,os
novels.
W. D. Howells editor OF the Atlantic Monfhly, saye:--
i''Our Walt Whitman is poet who has carried neg
lect of the form TO its logical usions and has
arrived sort Of literary resemblance all out
DOORS and is much such poet summer mornni
is OF alarm of fire, unpleasant smell which
he would personally prefer to prayer"
The Newburyport (Afass.) Herald relates that when
young Miss Charlotte Cushman engaged to Charles
spalding Of that city, OF Prescott spalding Vhe
young man keeping dry goods storel the parents Of
Mr. Spaldng made objection, and the match was
broken or and neither ever we're married. Mr.
spalding died somo years since bachelor.
A 'hoodlump is vicious boy youth, reckless and
uneoyernabe and ''hoodumism" Is the state Of being
a "hoodlum" Not that such boys exist only in San
Francisco but that the number OF them was so large
that the word originated there Jimmy blanchard
would be considered hoodlum- There crcum-
stances under which Cox might be called one.
Kansas City Times New Jersey nomina.es Joseph
norsett Bede for President the republican ticket
when Bede was publishing and sending his dime
povels TO Grant at Galena he regarded as a big
man But now that he Is in the field the whole Grant
family are turning up their him. II begins TO
look as though nobody lived in tins country but Fred
Grant and rather "
IL is popularity supposed that in Paris nobIemen oc-
cupy the first and second floors Of house. gentlemen
the third and fourth tradesmen the fifth and working
men the attics. But Paris houses are inhabited by
people Of nearly equal position in society," or at least
they arranged by means Of separate starcascs
Il
pier ncghDOrs except in the open or at the
riage entrance
Tho ST. Louis Republican says:-'Iast night Daniel
Mcfarland was found by police officer wandering in
the streets Of this city state OF beastly ntoxcaton
When taken to the Chestnut street police station he
became partly sober and incoherently for long
time about the great trouble which seemed always on
his mind-the assassination. II seems he has been
stopping at the Southern Hotel but inspection OF
his pockets failed disclose any vaIuabes Of any con-
! seouepce and no money whatever"