The New York herald., 1877-02-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Blue silk may be trimmed with silver braid.
Iberia. La has white negro with white hair.
It was lady at a low necked ball who objected to
calling blades blades
Rear Admiral George H. Preble, United States Navy,
Is At the Everett.
Newark Is the champion city Of New Jersey. l.
feeds lts poor instead Of Its vanity.
1t is believed that tho Jura Mountains OF Switzerland
are undermined by subterranean streams.
"Nemo. "-They called ''General Washington
Dispatches" because they cannot tell a lie
Tie rice aud peeled oranges in cloth and boil tor
hour. Serve with sugar cream or both.
In the chicken world the bird all tho
very long feathers. II Is different in our world
Senator Thurman may do the greatest act of his
life with his Pacific Railroad bill by compelling simple
justice.
England is getting salmon eggs for her rivers from
the Rhine and expects to make tho Thames fine
fishing place.
Mr. Creel, Of Virginia, whose wife has been insane
for nine years, asks tor divorce that he may
marry again.
A good many Southern papers arc sobbing over the
brutality Of tho North Most OF these papers are on
tho Southern tier.
II is not proper 10 pick your teeth with jackknife
unless YOU arc the agricultural editor city paper
and want to assert your rights
Good authority says that whoever eats oranges Is
healthy Louisiana alone raised 81, 100000 last year.
and yet her returns are not wholesome
Whitehall Tinses:-"Many men who claim 70 be scf
made seem to have exercised very poor judgment in
selecting tho material for their own construction"
Cinc nnati writer says that while ho was In New
| York he did not much of the boosted ladies'. If
he had gone to q charity ball be would have some
| OF them.
Mllas the great English artist has lost his father
lprh him. fortu the f0rtu na was
lett to him Mlais not painting the picture, eyes,
or No."
General Spinner Is luxuriating In Florida. letter
in his familiar "hand wr,te from Jacksonville says
ssPlums and peaches are In blossom. Mrs. Moore has
ripe strawberries in the open grounds of her garden
| Troy chemist and mathematician has discovered
| that pearls may be made just as the oyster makes
tnem. He puts bead in a bucket containing salt
water, with the calcarcous matter of the sea. The
| deposit on tho beads becomes little pearl balls OF
which he makes 100 day, according to - Daboll.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that India is collection
Of countries rich. some poor, which are barely
recovering from centuries OF the government o
the worst Oriental type; and that as tho peoples
savings have yet been invested in such shape
is employed by civilized nations taxation is uncer.
tain.
Evening Teicgram:-"Mr. Lyman Trumbull's mai
now consists great part every day OF invitations tc
attend colorcd balls In every quarter OF the United
states, from Tallahassee to Galveston Ono Of them,
from Illinois, addressed to the care Of Judge Cf
ford, President OF tho Electoral Commission. Some
arc accompanied with photographs"
! Patience is figured sitting on monument bencn
Gently smiling at some kind OF grici; but nothing II
this world OF shadows and politics can exceed the
grim dcspairing grin OF tho man who stands In hi
stocking feet the cold mating while his wife trie
to button u new collar the back button OF new
neck band.
The wife OF a literary should be Intelligent
enough TO share IN her husbands highest joys. Sh
should only be able to get up early in the morning
TO make the fires and pick up the stray pages of manu-
script with which hc has paved the hoor, but sh'
should also be glad to got down on her knees with
rag and OF hot milk scrub the ink out OF tn
carpet
Tho terms in music sometimes puzzng to evel
amateurs. For instance, the barcaroc is a mustca
composition whose time Is in the measure with whic
the Venetian gondocrs sweep their oars, as singing
that measure they 60 down tho aIablo canal Wha
| America really wants Is musical composition In th
time with which the politician goes up TO Tree unc
and sings small