The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-15
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Sacramento has fever and ague.

Delaware shad broed- m-m.m.
All branches Of trade in Scotland are depressed.
Soma farmers are using the hoe press and somo the
bullock.
Gentle spring has como. Peas caress the lamb and
man ams the peas.
ExPrcsden Lcrdo and suite left the city last
ing Tor Washington.
Tho superstition is that II you pull daodils too early
there will be no-ducks.
Wade Hampton wears a cabbage leaf In his boots for
fear he might get sunstruck.
At tho Southern ice factories beautiful wrcaths of
flowers artiscay frozen TOTO the centre Of blocks
of leo of any desired size.
Tho most eloquent man Wendell
Phillips standing State street while an italian put
gill OF hot peanuts In the tail pocket OF his steel pen
coat
Tho Rochester Democrat thinks It real mean for the
New York weekes TO steal thor paragraphs from tho
dailies Of the country Spring the copyright on them
some day and sue them.
great many young girls from the suburbs como to
school IN New York, and large majority Of them
attended by young fellows and old who play sweet TO
them and drive studies out OF their heads.
The Evening Telegram has poetry again.
Some little dogs delight to bite
For tits their nature so;
But little Spitz alone have fits,
Likewise the hydropno
III man keeps animal which he knows Is dan.
gcrous be is liable for any damages which that animal
may cause. Would the owner OF Spite dog be SUBJ
iec 10 Indictment manslaughtor case of hydro
phobia9
A gentleman at Abingdon, Va, has a pet nsh. He
has kept it spring for five years and SO and
call It up at any time. II cats from his hand and
shows marked liking Tor its keeper. II Is a black
perch twenty inches long.
A young Fourth-avenue-car colored waiter In Mad
ison avenue house recently announced himself tho
seneschal of the place, and his master happy
that he Immediately bought chbouk and tore up an
old tippet TO make turbau
Probably the sublimcst spectacle that Wagner ever
saw In his maddest dream beautiful lady dressed
all In snowy white, with nutbrown hair falling in n
cascade down back the middle Of the night try
ug to smugge her husbands best razor 80 as to cut
her
Birds killed on the Western prairies packed closely
with paper in barrels, and without any freezing or
other artificial process OF preservation. 60 regu
larry 10 Leadenha and sold and eaten tho din
ing rooms Of London and the Wdst side by side with
the much more expensive cartridges and fowls which
are reared in England.
Burlington MISREPRESENTATION San Franciscan gets
to be immensely wealthy he builds palace of stable
With marble halls, Brussels carpets, and hot and cold
water in every stall; Chicago millionaire builds ho-
tel nine stories high; New Yorker builds hospitals
a Bostonlau builds college, and Burlington man
builds another bay window his house and paints his
front fence"
slnauircr."- Parson Newman. frequently men,
oned in American papers, is clerical politician who
belonged the Grant and welded considerable
power Father Newman Is Dr. John Henry Newman,
formerly the Church Of England but for many years
belonging to the Roman Catholic Church his books
are religious, but the style is model Tor even aymep
who wish to learn the secrets OF elegant English
Here is bit Of description from tho Italy OF month
ago:'Ia contcssa goes home to her pala2zo at Carg
nano where banxsa blooming against the
wall and pink ana white fruit blossoms In the villa
while pic Judas tree Is a-ower before tho house
And the Signor tiiordano goes home the flat Cas-
teletto where though 10 is tive stories high, flowers
still bloom upon the and the pcrgola for
winter is past, and We are in spring time. -
Lord Charles Bcrcsford has shown us that you may
launch, out of sort Of frame, from tho deck OF a
vessel torpedo which will sink to any depth Ia the
water that may DO thought best 10 decide upon from
one foot 10 thirty feet and then move rate Of
twenty knots hour for tuil thousand yards-more
than half mle-lcward the ship for which she Is dc
signed and on contact knock hole In her bottom o
an area Of seventy square fect-say, for instance
gvc dstnc;Iess TO the conception hole OF eight feet
one way and nine feet the other way.
Boston Hcraid:-.'Ii you hear OF II. s. Sanford be-
ing appointcd.;c any position you can put down to
a judicious expenditure or money Tor groceries and
wines. There would hot have been much talk about
Sanford II he had not at one OF his entertainments
this week. tied up a blue ribbon across The room 10
divide certain members Of the legations from tho
Of the company This was a performance which re-
calls Postmaster General JEWELS party year two
ago, whcrcat he provided champagne for members OF
the Cabinet only and sherry for the remainder Of the
company"