The New York herald., 1877-01-09
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
,c,fax is icc,urine IN Canada.

Cc'ax is recurring IN tanaoh
London receives beef from Scotland
1t is said that the Turks are becoming democratic
Ole Bull hates she music Of Wagner and Of the
future
List has poor old square piano. loves black coffee
and smokes bad eigara
The Rcv. Mr. Ever was . California editor tho
days OF the Argonauts
shelley the poet used TO 70 around With his pockets
full OF bread from which ne gained crumbs OF comfort
Wade Hampton believes mainly in the State; but he 10
known sometimes write Tor people outside Of South
Carolina
John Bright's son Is praised - . briliians young
ana commonplace.
Mr. Crouin may have the physical disadvanssss OF
large nose; but he ought, therefore. 70 bs treated
with consideration. and not with levty.
George Eliot was q pupil Of Herbert Spencer, sho,
thirty years ago, asked her 10 marriage. She is nov
afty seven. and has madc ssoo.ooo BY her writings
Rochester Democrat: "a mountain In Switzerland
gives back an echo forty-ninc times. With such re-
turning board as that Mr. ridcn would I've all right"
Augusta Gal Consfitutso~a,ia woman only eubs
her toe once to a mans SIX. but when sue does che
goes down like tipped.ovcr churn and cuts postage
stamp out Of both elbows.
recent scientific book has the songs Of birds set 10
music and givcs a very composition on the tom.
ill., Now let the author gve the roman candle note
of tho tom cat In wagnerian octavea
Detroit Free Press :srhat meteor last week 10 ~.
garded by the Second Advcntists as a srrc sign tha,
the beginning OF tho end has begun. but they hold
their corner lots at tho same old prices"
Sir George Campbell says:-"As regards toleration,
the best OF the Mohammedans, tar from being intolcr
ant, are models OF federation, and set an example
which we could wish that all Christians would follow :"
Burlington Hdok-Eye:-"rhcy tell OF . Burlington
v,It~ and lorQ nj
gwen to explain himself very clearly, who began his
prayer last Thursday night, ParadoxcaI as IL may ap.
pear TO Thee, o Lordp"
Eraminer:-"Oncc confess 10 your fashionable doc.
tor that you have got a head, chest, stomach.
spine or an auricc and It is all up with you. You &c,
posscsscd and once possessed Of fashionable DOCTOR
there is no power on earth to bring dclivcrancc"
Says an Englshman in tho Boston Herad;-'The
average Euglishman is an extremely unncliiecnt per-
son. according TO tho American standard; and oven the
Encl,shman much above tho average frequently sur
pr,scs Yankee by his plentiful lack Of information"
III the earth's orbit were much more eccentric than
IL is all living creatures would die. for the OF
heat and cold different periods Of the year would DO
fatal TO life This Ia what makes Mr.. Storey hesitate
to lean his head ono sdc for fear tho world would zip
! over.
London Quarterly :-"who has not realized tho
character which a trrlct OF poplars adds to rural
landscape they above the hcdgcrows and the
lesser timber trees; or tho sembance TO pinnaclcd
cathedral put by group of these in the far DIS
tancc as it cvcrtops tho oaks and Gins and bceches
| that intcrvcnc?'
Colonel Lcvi p Luckcy who was yesterday nominated
Secretary OF the Territory of Utah. was for
private secretary TO President Grant and has lately
occupied responsible position In the Interior Depart
| mont The President was desirous Of further comri
nentlng Mr.. Luckey before tho close Of his admins
tratiop and as n consequence invited him 10 accept
the position to which he to-day appointed.
Modern English geology holds that all geological
changes have been effected by agents now In opera
t,on and tha. those agents have ocen working silently
NJ tho same ratio in all past time; that tho grca
changes OF the earths crust were produced not by
great commissions and cataclysms Of nature, but b,
the ordinary agencies of rain, snow frost, ice an,
chemical action.
swe talk" says Mr.. wysc, IN his history, ''abou
the duty OF rocaimine waste lands and making corr
spring up where before grew. But II Is often a.
much n duty TO leave them alone. Land has highc
and nobcr Offices TO perform than TO support house
or grow corn to noursh not so much the body as th
mind Of man; to gladden. the eye with It's iovclincs
and to brace his soul with that strength which IS ion
to be gained in the solitude OF the moors and th,
woods"
Appietons Journal speaking Of tho fact that isshor
-"
fashioned short dress THAT would be sngularl,
im,n Oldest woman who should appear to-day at NJ
evening party in dress Of this character but " th
fashion were revived and in bcvy OF dozen younl
women there who refused 10 adopt tho styl
on account Of modest scrupcs would not this fac
seem to advertise which OF the group had though
most OF the subject, which had associated with tn
garment questionable idcas?"
Ercaing Telegram: 'whcn Judge Miller. ofthc su
premo Court OF the United states, was accused cs
weeks ago Of committing himself to the opinion tina
Mr. Hayes must bd inauguratcd President hc mad
haste to contradict the rcpor, tha, he had been guilt
OF such an Improperly in view Of hts judicial oacc
We shall be pleased to hear similar denial iror
Judge Samuel J. Field OF tho same court, who now
accused OF committing an improperly OF tho sam
kind In Mr. Tilden's interest Judge Field Is an ow
brother OF Mr. David Dudley Field and encrtains hii
as a guest at Washington Has no been overcome b
David Dudiey's soft persuasionsT'