The New York herald., 1876-09-21
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mouse gray Is fashionable
A schoogirl cannot learn much II sho has cold feet
Ingersoli bushes, but ne has had many .
flush.
"vignette says that ladies' will not low shoes
city streetsL
NJ Hear. says tha. Philadelphia Aotsls arc kept on
the Ethiopian plan.
Mr. c. ~ Campbell N. p, Of England, 10 At the
Fifth Avenue Hotel
trimmed with sable
Rear Admiral Charles s. Boggs, United States Navy,
10 nt the Everett House.
Nothing brings greater sadness TO healthy man
than a tree blown down.
Raston gavc Foss tho crack California stage driver,
a whip which cost $4,000
Macmillan. the English publisher, has onded BID
seasons visit to West Point
1t is very difficult to judge ordinary novel fairly
when we are fresh from Thackeray George Eliot
Louis Schneider OF Milwaukee, had a balky horse,
and hitchng q rope to its tongue he induced another
driver to pull the tongue out
Mr. Martneau shows that neither matter force,
taken by themselves, neither atomic dynamic
materialism, solve tho riddle OF existence.
Danbury Ne,gs:-.Rcmarkably careful Is that Dam
bury coal dealer who stands the scale himself to
see that there fooliug with tho weight OF loadn
Julian Hawthorne, whose popularity manly
from the prestige of his fathers name has recently
become very unpopular, both in q personal and In
literary way.
Secretary Lot N. Morrill,, Of tho Treasury Depart
ment and Secretary Zachariah Chandler, Of the In
terror Department arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
yesterday from Washington.
Sir John Lubbock gives the various stages of religion
In the following order:-() Atheism, C) Fctishisn, C9
Nature Worship Totemism, ( Sbamanism, (5) Idola-
try Anthropomorphsm 10y that In which tho Deity ID
looked upon really supernatural being. creator,
and ( that in which morality becomes associated with
religion
"Blue Jeans" Jimmy Williams, democratic candi.
date for Governor of Indiana, Hxtv-eight years old
and was Ohio born. He was farmer; has been for
many sessions an Indiana legislator, and Morton's
opponent for United States Senator. His majority
when elected Congress equal to tho of his
opponent
Rev. Charles Howard Malcolm, d. D., who has occu.
pied the position Of pastor over the Second Baptist
church of Newport r. l.. for twenty years, has ac-
ccpted tho sccrctaryship OF the American Peace So.
cicty, at a salary OF $4,000 per annum. His fathor,
prominent divine OF Philadelphia, President OF said
ssociat;on.
ssThe opera observes Sgnor Dele Sedic, "contains
three essential parts: poetry, music and dramatic
representation. The first appeals Ia the mind. the
charms the and touches the heart tho third
speaks to the bodily sonsc through the eye. Those
parts, always closely united, should nevertheless bs
analyzcd separately"
There seems to be q growing tendency at present,
among those who write and speak upon the vexed
question Of the origin Of species 70 admit tho posi-.
by or even the probability, that species OF animals
nnd plants have originated by process or evolu-
ton, but deny that tho Darwinian hypothesis Of
natural selection will account Tor the phenomena
writer the Ulster Journal of archaeology says
.sThe boomerang still the deadly weapon Of the natives
both of Australia and Central America has been dis.
covered In tho hands Of the sculpturcd Nimrod at
Khorsabad and of hunters represented in basso rc-
cvo at Thcbcs 1; may have been the crooked weapon
OF Saturn is supposed to have been the club of Her.
culcs land We may add. tho hammer OF Thor which Ia
SAID to have returned to his hand when throwu) and
II the matter properly investigated would per.
haps be shown that 1t was not unknown to the an.
cicnt Celtic nations"
John stuart Mill Of opinion 'that as mankind
improve they will more and more recognize two ,ndc
pcndent provinccs--the province Of belief and tbe
province OF Imaginative conjccture tha, they will bo
come capable OF kcsping these apart and that wbilo
hey limit their belief TO the evidence will think II al
owabc to let their imaginative authorizations 20 forth
not carrying belief their train in the direction
which experience and study of human nature shows to
be most improving to the character and most exalttne
and consong to tho individual feclings-
NJ. Rcnan, IN his last book, says Nations such
as France England, Germany, cities such as Athens,
Venice, Florence Paris behave like persons possessed
Of character, of mind, OF definite intorests we may
argue concerning them as we argue Of an individual,
thcy have like living beings secret instinct, feel
ing Of their essence and OF their so much
so that apart from the calculations OF ts politicians
nation or city may be compared to animal, whose
Intuition is so ingenious profound when II Is called
upon to save .s fo and the ropagation Of i
kind"