The New York herald., 1877-02-15
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Adam was tho 1rst ticket OF leave man.
Senator Macdonald says ''hunderd' for hundred
When Senator Anthony speaks he seems to sink into
himself
Senator Conkling mends quill pen with graceful
delicacy.
Senator Bayard will, in tribunal work constantly
with his pen.
Senator Howe, OF Wisconsin, looks like tho proven
bial Sam Slick.
sonal appearance.
Congressman Garfield Ia as complacent as country
schoolmaster and docs not oil his hair.
Senator Patterson Of South Carolina wears poetcal
hair and has the walk Of jaunty swell.
Congressman Jcre Harason, OF Alabama, Is SO bright
q follow that he makes black looks white.
Senator Thurman asks frequent questions Of tho ar.
gung counsel in tone OF stern significance.
Hon. Martin l. Townhend always speaks with his
hands In his pockets and is good two
Captain William Gore.Joncs. naval attach6 Of the
British Legation at Washington, is at tho Clarendon
Colonel Gordon, the African explorer. was yesterday
appointed Of the entire province of Soudan.
ut is expected that Queen Victoria will visit Ger
many about Easter" says the Pail Mall Gazette Of yes.
tcrday.
william NJ Evarts docs not Oil up his chair, and he
forces his lips together until they disappear 10 the
cesscs of a wrinkle
Judge Bradley makes his notes with diligence, fol-
lows tho lawyers with close attention and scratches
slow notes with quill.
Mr. Matt. Carpenter likes 10 rest his head on his
nand and to go about to counsel whispering words
that he supplements with q jolly smile.
A welshman just getting into the mysteries of the
anpua 90 this side the Atlantic spells unatic "llwwn
aaicn This is what made Josh Billings give up lee.
turing
If some one wore to ask US to give unprcjudiced
op,nion concerning tho considerable town In the
United States from which the very worst newspaper
emanatcs VIC hould say Mobile, Ala
In tho country opera house the particular swells
walk around the end Of the gallery, and, leaning like
demigoas against the upper box, bow with ravishing
| grace 10 the people in the orchestra below.
Western papers are boasting that n Nevada read
ne ewspapcr while n tumor taken out Of hls side.
That IS nothing. man in Rhode Island whistled the
other day while a Massachusetts, dog taken Off his
legs.
Congressman John Hancock, Of Texas, Is a democrat
against whom no opponent cares to rum but IN 1861
he refused to take the oath OF allegiance TO the Con-
tdcrac States and expelled from the Texas Legs
| laturc.
Dr. Holland says in Scribner. 'you must take your
baby Just where he Is now and educate his physical
uaturcn That is 1t exactly. Take him with the bot
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| alto with good education
Professor Richard A. Proctor writes to a London
papcr that he believes not only in 'the' serpent
but IN lots of serpens. It's unnecessary for ~
to say to our intelligent reader that the Professor is
temperance man, that this Is the first real argu
ment we have ever heard in favor OF tho serpent.
Professor Fawcett says that he finds 1t very difficult
to persuade himself that he has persons ant
things that have crossed his path long after ho bc
came blind, but OF which he has heard vivid dcscrip
tions; but IL is a novelty TO nnd a parallel pho
nomcnon In the Of man OF such accurat,
memory as Mr. Martineau.
Sometimes when you attend tho theatre You observe
In The gorgeous drop curtain a small slit at ono end
where active shadows pass to and fro. Suddenly
dark round object appears at tho slit That Is the cy
of the STAR who Is look Ing to what kind OF hous
he has got and who in another moment will boun,
upon tho stage with tho exclamation, "Hcr blood b.
on his head"
Louisville Comier-Jo,wnal:' 'Fashlons that wouI
speak for themselves: For grass.widows, lawn; TO
elderly women, moirc antique; for democratic bellies
anything but rep; for women inclined TO badness
nohar; for with poodcs, muslin; for shippers
wives alpaca for the Misses Neverrcady, dclainc 70
saiiors' wivcs serge; Tor dairy women, calico; 10
soldiers wlvcs bombazno; for debtors wives, ticking
Tor women with profano husbands, kcrsey; for cart
less servants crash; for Mira Sitting Bull, whool
skirtao