The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-02
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

General George B. Mcclellan IS at the New York.
Now is the time to set goats at eating rag carpet.
Sir Charles L. Young, OF England, is at the st.
James
According to the Russian law two brothers cannot
marry two sisters
Oysters no longer scasonablo; but clans have
Organized O corner In collie
In Russia priest cannot marry second time, and
therefore priests wife is greatly respected.
Senior Don Francisco Soivcres, Secretary OF the
Spansh Legation Washington, Is at tho Albemarlo.
Tho ambition OF the Northern negro Is TO work IN
stable and wear cotton velvet sack coat on Sundays
Tho Huns took the scalps of their enemies, which
thew fastened TO their saddles and brides Ia Sitting
Bull
Il is not the Turks but Europeans, who originated
Tho idea that Mohammed's coffin Is suspended between
heaven and earth.
In Egypt the ancicnts sometimes wore false hair.
and Mrs Potphar used to hang her raven resses over
the back OF char.
A German. passing tho Office of the Street Commits
s,oncrs Yesterday. exclaimed, III shmell some Linn.
bergcr's .actory-yah ?"
"Innoccnts," wee flowers, little larger than pins
head come up through the green sod to tell toddng
babies that spring has come.
Buffalo milk cheese Is good and when IL gets old II
wal,zes around with the sprightly skip customary IN
the most civilized cheesos.
The Cossacks, who may be brought into prominence
by the war In Europe, derive their name from tho
Polish word scoza, " which means goat
Jones got down on his knees hastily to his girl the
other night and was about to pour forth his soul In
poctry when she said, 81 SEQ you tumble to It,"
The editor of tho Paterson Press cries because poor
tomatoes are twenty five cents quart Somebody
must be going to lecture IN that town. Well, try eggs
A stylish young lady went into Broadway store
Yesterday to match yellow ribbon, and when she
was satisfied as to the shade, she said "Thats tho
cheese"
New Haven man ate TWO pounds OF bccfsteak and
uino bood eggs up to the timo when the editor-in-
chief sont around tor him to como back and finish the
exchanges.
Worcester Press:-.why arc hives OF bees, whom
they separate into swarms like ChristiansS Because
thew are divided insects" No sir; because they
the drones
While tho rain Is weaving its tracery OF Taco over the
sombre gray Post Oico the gloomy corridors OF that
building lighted through duh porcelain, appear like
caves hung with opals.
Men sometimes hiss at stercopticon pictures OIL
Grant and Lee OF Mcclellan and Bcaurcgard; but tho
portrait of Lincoln tho good and homcly Is received
with either silence or n sigh.
Tho Sandwich Islands require an American Minister
and as there is ono man LETT Ohio and as his namc
Is General Comlcy, we are likely to be represented
among the Kanakas by Comley fellow
A Chinaman of California says:-"Blme by, mex
leah, big mon Cinnamon kun, plenty mon, two
swordy two iaeo, no smashee hooluni, no afraid.
makce white man cspcck Chnaman."
Recent American politics. including the excitement
over the tribunal, show that mems minds, In this
country strained for idea and become PARTISAN
without regard for tho Tho South s IN this re-
spect more sentimental than the North.
When the heads OF family tell you conndcntially
TINT they encourage the attentions Of tho for
o,sner 10 their but that he Is lonely aud they
lot him COME although thoy don't altogether like him,
be sure that they Will hang to hun like death TO q
dead Niger.
Colonel H,gginson, Who in tho opinion OF James T.
Fields writes tho best English In America since Haw-
thornc is tall and ouldcrcd An old aboIi-
tionist he rebukcs the republicans VINO consider tho
Southern States Provinces and who will not allow
those States to manage their local Affairs, even
| badly.
You can always toll gambler by the way no snunlcs
his fceL-Cincinnati Saturday Night But not BY the
| way he cuts his fricnds.-Norristoson Herald You
| can't mistake HIM, because he always favors his
s.antc "-Oa CITY Derrick You fellows seem to know
a deal about this philadelphia Bulletin. Oh.
yes NO frequently pass hm.-Camden Post. And al
ways find him going II alonc.-Rhincbcck Gdseae. FIX.
ccpt when he up drinks for tho crowd.-Yonkcrs
| Gazette. Is this the way TO ''gvc us your bestf"
Tho array OF diplomatic officials Of the FIRST class ut
present in the city, drawn hthcr at the instance OF
the diplomatic ENJOYS OF tho bollgcrcnt European
Powers for n better communication with their re-
spcctivc governments and by affairs, is somewhat
formidable. N. Nicholas Shskin, the Russian
Minister, Is at the Clarendon; Aristarchi Bey, the
Turkish Envoy, is in private quarters; and Count
Ladisaus Hoyos the representative OF the Power the
most vitality Interested outside OF The two bclligeents
Is stopping Mt the Buckingham prior to his departure
for Europe, having lct tho Chcvacr do Tavera In
charge of tho Legation. Tho Netherlands Minister II
also In town