The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-26
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Iguaticnr has weak eyes.
Gum camphor drives ants away
Evarts swcars at a shirt button in hexameters.
John simms, the colored steward OF tho White House,
has given bonds in $50, 900.
Chicago Times:-"lt would have been better tor Reno
hat he shared Custcr's fate"
Leslie Stephen has been admitted to tho Athenmum
Club as distinguished member.
We take no stock in fun that must be helped out by
q letter In parenthcses; not whit
Cincinnati Commerciat:-'Oakcy Hall may have
come to Ohio to grow up with the State"
Twenty years. study are required by Chinaman for
learning his native language and literature.
Frank Spinoa, the political wheebarrow, will take
down his Pcadilly sides when the spring vioets come
Darwin is Receiving elegant albums containing por.
traits of eminent scientific men of Germany and
Holland.
Louisville Courier.Journal:- wants the st.
LOUIS Post Oncc but Hayes, remembering Grant, says
NO cousins nocd apply
Detroit Free rcss:-"The New YORK HERALD has run
as high as 500 new advertisements OF Sunday, but
isn't willing to quit on that"
son OF the late Hon. Henry I. Blow, Of St Louis.
has gone looncy Acc Oates the actress and follows
her around offering her costly presents
German music Is having rapid Influence in chang
ing English taste; and the most popular music in
London drawing rooms Is heard In the singing Of
Scotch songs
Dsraoli says "Evenng dress is style of costume
sanctioned by society Tor enabling ladies to display
their natural beauties with profuson worthy OF q
Grccian statue"
Boston Poa:-sThe New York critics can't under
stand how ladies 20 and hear Aimee in La Tim.
balo d'Argcnr without blushing Perhaps the ladies
never studied French"
Poet laureate OF Ncbraska:-
And the hounds werc baying SO long and so loud,
When along path came an hunter so proud
He was all robed DER from head TO toe,
In buckskn made from tho hide oil the roe.
In France novcsls almost invariably belong to the
bourgcosic and very often to the lowest ranks of it,
Novels, says writer, rarely discussed in Partisan
salon. whic plays constantly form the subject of con.
vcrsation.
Erapiner:-"For the fostering oil dramatic magma
ton there Is necessary large experience OF men,
we'll as a large sympathy with man-a practical mas
terry over particulars as well as philosophical mas
terry univcrsals-a knowledge, moreover. OF man
as cog In the social wheel, as well as knowledge OF
man rs an isolated unit-a knowledge, indeed, OF
.le' in the ordinary sense and we had almost snd,
knowledge OF AFFAIRS. This was the kind of knowledge
possessed aud this the KIND OF life lived, by such
dramatsts as Eschyius and Sopbocles Shakespeare
and Goethe and Molierc."
Some idea OF the extent to which maidenhar fern is
used In Covent Garden for bouquet making may be
cleaned from the fact that Mr.. Rochiord of Totem
ham, has several largo span rooted houses entirely
devoted to its culture Tor furnishing frohds in a cut
state The plants arc grown in twcvc-inch pots, and
in order to keep up regular succession only por
ton OF them is time those which furnish such
fronds beng subjected lower temperature than the
rest, by which means the fronds assume deeper
green Color and longer after being cut than they
othcrvisa would