The New York herald., 1876-12-04
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Quail may be tanned to sing
The Boston Posts rooster Is not egglected
Turquoise earrings may have pearl centre.
Portlandville, Iowa, wants horse miiliner.
Sapphire velvet may be trimmed with silver fox.
Paris driver blows his whistle with bellows.
California has had golden meteor with pink trai.
Pale blue silk may be trimmed with ruby velvet and
4 Liverpool vessel had an owl come on board in mid
ocean.
/. is against the law to SNOWFALL in the streets of
Glasgow.
Lady Tarbat wore ruby velvet, trimmed fur, at
wedding.
For a bridal party white cashmere may be trimmed
In Scotland, well as in Nevada, rabbits are con-
sidercd vcrmin.
Southern California will pc the great raisin making
district Of the world
Tbe Dundee (scotIand) whaling foet makes about
$500, 600 this year
Kentucky deacons with gray hair 60 to see aud hear
tho female mnstrels.
Bob IneersolI wants to know whether Pre- sident can
be elected by Injunction.
The suits of OF the recent Arctic explorers
objects OF rivalry to London bidders
Wealthy English ladies have models of their figures
made by French artists and leave them with their
drcssmakers
Henry Stafford Northcote, who is going to Constan-
t,noplc as private secretary married Miss Brooke
OF Montreal
In London fashions the front line of beauty in
woman perfect perpendiculary from the throat to
the feet.
Tho ex Empress Carlotta OF Mexico in her demented
condition converses only with ghosts and rs calmly
meihodical
Disraeli is still reported verbatim for the London
Times by the scribe who took maiden speech
forty years ago.
An Alabama baby. OF negro parentage, has exactly
onchalf OF his body white and the other half blacK.
Count him In.
IL seems that when q negro in Louisiana turned
from being a republican to being democrat he
Always convinced by barbecue
Governor Coke of Texas thinks Tiden the greatest
statesman OF the age II may be well to say that Coke
wears 5il hat and 97l set OF false teeth.
C. T. Huntington the nnancicr OF the Central Pa
sinc Railroad, Is in Texas, and the people there
not and out what doing. Some railroad idea?
Norristown Hcraid:-"A pump of 3, 200 horsc-p power
has recently been placed in metal establishment in
this State. This is 200 horsepower moro than the
average New York newspaper interviewer"
The st. LOUIS Republican have always regarded
ss having one Of the editorial pages remarkably
so in its social discussions, the country; but re-
Gently 1t has been rIdiculousy partisan.
The old Loveoy press. which thrown into the
Mississippi by pro-slavery mob in 1885, and which
led to Wendell Phillips's first great speech, is now
owned by Colonel Ranney, at Stuart, Iowa.
Court Journal --"Is Is rumored that Mr.. W. W.
Story, the American sculptor, will be invited pro-
pare design for the Byron memorial lftruc, this
good news Mr.. Storys studio is at Rome"
Wendell Phillips used say that a constitution
should ike the English constitution grow the oaks
grow and that acorn planted In vase would in
time break the He said coqucntly but he got
the idea IRON Goethe, almost verbatim.
William A. Jones' foreman OF tho com posing room OF
the New Orleans Times died last week. Just before
his death he became conscious .or moment, and in
that CLEAN, dwelling upon tho habit OF his fc he
denly exclaimed "Thc ads all right Sherman; lock
up the forms and let's 70 to prcssn
From London Fnn.--sMistrcss You're going to
your brothers. wedding to-day, aren't you, Marthar
Martha:--Yes IN, aud was ngon' to asst you, m
,f-Yer see we're much o. the same eighth, an fig
uer. ana compctchon, and style, as they say-Ifysr
could lend a gownd TO 60 ini'
Colonel 7. W. Hggnson, Of whom the Atlantic once
said that the best writer of English since Haw
,hornc believes that woman's commanding influence
ran best be Iet " she Is professor a school cob
Icpc stil there many school teachers
cho could do their best work a washboard.
Congressman Elijah Ward Is confined TO his bed with
,sovcrc and somewhat dangerous attack Of pneu.
non,a aud wili consequence, bc absent from the
gouse on Monday. Mr Wards experience and con-
ervatvc views would be useful IN Congress this
nm and II is to be hoped that his recovery Will bo
speedy.
"a pretty sehoomarm off Wisconsin county, says
an exchange 40 prevent scholars from being tardy
nromised TO kiss the first scholar who his ap-
ncarancc at school house. All well for a few
laws and the year old boys, anxious par,ic
nate in this fun actually got TO roosting the
Il, night in be at school the first tho morning
rms became mopotonous and tho Aeachcr gave the
idea up"