The New York herald., 1876-02-28
PERSONAL INTELLIGEN CE.

Some people are never happy unless they arc un-
happy.
Florida and California are each trying to be the rss
In peas
Blaine and Bancroft have both dined G. W. curtiz in
Washington.
The atmosphere of Nebraska ten months Of each year
is clear the sky of Italy
1t took West Virginia poet to sing, "But the scent
OF the whiskey hangs round its still"
F. W. Robertson thought that carly rising gave the
mind tone Of self-donial for the day.
General Benjamin +. Butler arrived at the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel yesterday from Washington.
Wild geese passing Washington on then
way North, but the ducks remain Pcnnsylvani,
avenue
NJ. saintEdm recommends nickel plating iron
lightning rods. BY and by he will want TO put
stem winders the top.
An afIectaon OF elegance in behavior is the con-
scous endeavor to assume something which Goes not
flow easily from the fixed sources OF habit
Mr. Trowbridgc, in his last poem marriage
speaks Of 'gassy smiles" But then you can have
CLASSY smile almost any corner grocery
The why men scamper like sheep Off the bowl
OF ferryboat the that they arc afraid that
otherwise some OF the ladies might get good soat
Mt Bcccher in old ssys:-'T speak in
figures, because think in figures" We can only re-
meter
Detroit Free Press:-'A young man at Nashville
killed himself because he could not get another mans
wife. II is terrible TO love somebody and hel
washing windows for another man."
'Thcre are no occult forcesr said Victor Hugo
'fhcrc arc only luminous forces" This is exactly
what said when the ice slipped out from under
him and he the Northern Lights
country editor advertises for city proof reader for
a few hours week. And yet right in that editors
ncighborhood there are, probably. dozen laying
stone wall who would read his proofs of hours with
ordinary success.
The Secretary OF War writes letter to the editor OF the
Marshatown (Iowal Times rcgrctting that he cannot
lend Marshalltown cannon from Rock Island Arsenal
for the Fourth, and terscly adds:-'I have no
right to lend gun belonging to the United States than
the Secretary OF the Treasury has to lend money"
One OF those spasmodc persons who are always
sending their personal grievances TO the newspapers
says apropos OF Mark Twans "Punch, brothers
punch, that for months he has been repeating,
Come to my heart my own stricken dear"
and wants psychological analysis OF his condition
IT. "" evidently has a rush OF brains to the feet
If II were possible TO convince a French peasant that
large and large estates promote national wealth
more cnectually than petty rceholds no would
not less immutaby attached his fragmenary
in France only maintaned by the opera'~" of posi-
tive law.
George Eliot in her novel, speaking OF a girl
seeking her pleasure at time when ideas are
fresh IN the world says:'what in the midst OF ihl,
mighty drama girls and their blind visions9 ThoJ
are the yea and the nay of that good for which mcr
are enduring and lighting In these delicate vessels Il
borne onward through The ages the rcasurs OF human
Affections
The 900 English owners half male and half female.
recorded in the census who have so often offended Mr.
Min aud Mr. Bright would although their possessions
were uncqualy divided have averaged about ,0Oc
acres apiece Their average is now reduced t. thirty.
FIVE thutysx acres although the great majority In
number nothing but house aud perhaps slrip
Of garden.
The London Worid in biographical sketch Of
George Eliot, says:-"so thoroughly does she think
out her books TO the structure OF her sentenced
before she commences TO write them, that, unlike
Dickens, though like rhackeray, her manuscript dis
plays scarcely or blot Both OF these char
actcrisiics are nothing than might expect 10
find In writer TO whom authorship Is charged vita
the same responsibilities as existence"