The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-25
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mrs Charles Francis Adams Is at the Windsor.
General Benjamin +. Butler Is at the Filth Avenue
Tennessee raises great numbers OF chickens for
market.
Some things are stranger than nction but you can't
find them IN hash.
Turkish coffee is boiled and served with the grounds
reduced to powder
NJ. Outrey the French Minister LETT the city last
evening for Washin gton.
Milwaukee houses are again n fashion, for they arc
as yellow a bilious cat.
Cronin hard work In Oregon. but the size OF tho
nose hangs round him still
Tho Princess Of Wales recently wore Calico which
was worry lice Of the Printccss
Kentucky girls cut of the tops Of thor stockings TO
mako wristlcts for their beaux.
Our exchanges are asking, ''what is Ben Butler do.
ing ?" Hshl he's digging canal.
An Indianapolis fruit seller has become an editor.
He will still deal in the latest dates
"Meat doesn't spoil in this climate" SAID Cafor.
MAN who took the last forkfull Of steak.
Western preacher says POLITICALLY, "what shall we
do when the ewcr Is lost? ?" Ever another.
That Nebuchadnexzar of insects the grasshoppcr. is
again coming 10 make for hay whc the sun shincs.
The gentle tramp begins to think OF tho country
nl.co that he will patronizc when warm weather
comes.
Among American colleges Olmstcad physics and
Yournans on chemistry arc used by the greatest
number.
That prize package child Of journalism, the editor Of
tho ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat, IS great genius for
framing somebody elses items with pair of scissors
Russian political socialism Is accompanied by much
fanatcism. Sccs provide for suicide child murder,
mutilation, &c Tho Skoptz, or mu,ilators, number
100000
General Mcclellan got out Of a cab at Twenty third
!. Mi IN walk
He has not get because there are two sides 10
the street.
At an Alabama fair drum rolled down hill, tum-
bcd two negro babies TO the ground, took the hind
LEGS out from under old lady, and upset peanut
stand. What baso drum!
There is girl ten years old In Kinds county. Miss,
who 10 six feet high weighs 100 pounds and has SIX
fingers on each hand and six each foot. She is
going TO learn a four handed piece on the piano.
Mcissonnicr, the great French artist, is not popular
among small people. Ho has that arr Of the true
genius the air Of Bonaparic, rcnnyson, Carlyle which
seems to say, .Lc is short; don't take much Of my
time.'
Miss Emma Abbott tolls Toledo reporter how. when
she was poor she used TO borrow nifty cents and
dollar and how, when she got some money, she telc-
aphcd round tho country surprising her creditors By
paying up the small amounts.
Mr. Gallon holds that the numerical proportion OF
giants III generation Is the Same. and that taking
a hundred of tho allest men OF any generation they
vii, Just tho same varieties OF stature tho
hundred talcst men Of the preceding ono.
"Card,gau flake clean cobwcb. roll it into
ball as large as the wart press on the top that IL
docs not touch the adjoining SKIN, light tho cobwcb,
bear the cxcruciating pain OF burning Tor lew Sec
onds In a day two tho wart will DO rubbed or
"paragrapher :n-Thcre arc many paragraphic col.
| Inch Vc q
PROMISING and we are anxiousy waiting until they
contain something really worth taking. Our exchanges
cvcrv day mako plo hardly less than i've fcet high
when spread out IN pages.
Nine EssipoG says that If young pianist studies
harmony in music she obtains selfreliancc and deep
insich, into composers meaning, the structure Of
tho entire work being opened To her ana the phrasng
ana expression easily following. She recommends
| the study OF Bach fuguc
According 10 the abstract OF paper by ~ Sidoron,
in tho Geographical Magazine, tho the
mouth Of tho Siberian river Yencsei is accompanied
by cracking noise loud that the natives say rein
deer and other animals frightened at IT, In FraRcs
Joseph Land tho Austro Hungarian expedition seems
to have heard a similar noise, but only when the
roral light shonc southern part Of the heavens
In Prussia, out Of ], 900 births 100 arc Legitimate;
in southern Germany, 200 out 900 are icgtimatc
In France "so frivolous and corrupt tho Ilegiiimnto
births but 20 1000; in England they but
In Upper Austria the proportion s23 births to
In Lower Austria 800; IN Car.nthia, 4.6-,hat Is to
say IN Carntha nearly every other child iliegiti-
mate.
In Western France much Of the farming is still Of
the most primitive kind, but tho sun seems make
up for all shortcomings. Everything nourishcs
here" says Miss Edwards speaking Of Anjou; 'cvcry
fruit you think Of every vegetable that money
can purchase at Uovent Garden Working people cat
asparagus, green peas and strawberries every day. as
they eat bread and cheese with Rich and poor
alike have such stores OF eatabcs and turntables,
medicines and clothing at homo that there Is hardly
more shopping donc than II We wcrc living on al
| ocean island"