The New York herald., 1877-02-02
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hon. W. N. Tweed is visiting New York.
Goethe says that the key to history is enthusiasm
Governor R,ce of Massach uscts, has gone to Wash.
ipgton.
A Houston street man does not believe in the ghost
Of bunko.
Rev. j. s. G. Abbott. who Is lying Ill at Hartford,
cannot live long,
English critics praise Sydney Howard Gays His
tory OF the Unitcd States"
Jean Paul said that Rachel was the only woman he
ever met who had true humor.
Mrs. Olphant nkens Edward Irving, the rhapsodist
and the friend Of Carlyle, to Savonaroia.
Colonel Leo Crandall Of Philadelphia, promoter Of
the .sMemphi" will not attend the carnival at Men,
phs
Kingsley, when fever broke out in the village,
r,cd an augur with him TO bore ventating holes
over the heads of the sufferers in the cottages
A son of Donald G. Mitchell eek Marvci'') is a
coastng victim, suffering compound fracture Of the
leg by striking comrades sled at Westvillo, Conn.
Sir John Lubbock thinks that England has been at
proat expense for tho bencn of her colonies white the
colonies have not contributed much toward England.
Whitehall Times:-''Some people are SO wrapped up
in their own conceit that, like cam all the world
seems dark to them only when they open their
mouth"
Rev Mr. Denton, who has travelled In European
Turkey says that sixty years the Mussulmau popula
ton will have perishcd and that only the Christian
vii, remain.
In Tashkent and samarkand tho Jewish women, In
opposItion TO all thor traditions whom in the streets
90 veicd Mko their Mohammodan sisters, 10 protect
them from insult
Colonel T. W. Higgnson, OF whom II has been said
that he is the best American writer Of English sinco
Hawthorne, believes that woman should protect hor
scle with the ballot we'll as the negro does
" ,hoas
ing tubos which 90 from story 10 another whcre
there is much taking going on in the morning ono
story can always tell what kind OF cock the other
story
The Cincinnati Commercial with its customary
bravery dsIikcs the idea OF ennnt Well, n man si,s
down on the sidewalk with his back against lamp
post and takes aim the along the edge Of his
left boot, that's ennmi
II is gratifying learn that plan progress for
preserving watcrmelops all wntcr and now viii bo
possible for St. Louis girl TO have something round
enough to put in tho heel of her stocking when shc
wants TO darn II smoothly.
Murat Hastcad, who visiting New York, was say.
ing to gentleman Church street yesterday morn.
ing that this thing could not be settled the quo
bell,sm basis. Then he went down hts stomach IN
two feet OF chocolate and haIloocd .'Pol,cet"
Lewis. OF the Detroit Free Press, did not become
witty until he was blown up steamboat explosion
He went Up sad and came down funny II anybody has
fleet OF Great Easerns that he spare we hone he
will them to tho writer Of tho Chicago Tribune to
| experiment on himself witha.
| Erentng Telegram :--"Among other special qualica-
tions OF Judge stephen H. Field, David Dudley Fields
BROTHER for useful service on the Electoral Comm,s.
son II Is mentioned that hc passed several years oi
his boyhood in tho Levant became familiar with
the Intricate methods OF rascality which prevail in
that region. Judge Field is described speaking
modern Greek like a native AS the casc OF Florida
will be the first before the commission and as
considerable part Of the inhabitants OF that State are
descendants OF cmigrants from the Mediterranean,
these peculiar requirements Of the Judge may nnd
field tor their exercise"