The New York herald., 1877-07-22
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Cronn talks OF nosing around Europe
Pump handles trimmed with boys
Republican Office. holders cannot be trusted In pol
itics
Bottled lager driving out the original nhabtant Of
New England.
New Jersey deacon hates dice, unless the three
sixcs top
London Pumch:-"How you lag behind, Cissy"
"Ycs, mummy! Ny poor toe is so bad!" (Which toe
Is ~" ''My eldest, mummy"
Children up TO ten years old best attired Ia q
frock cut something like pactot loose princesse
robe, with just wntc fril visible below It,
Detroit Free Press General Grant wanted to smoke
big cigar in tho presence Of the Queen, but he ab-
stained when they told him she laid aside her clay
ppe forever"
young Highland doctor spends his leisure hours
In practising on tho bagppes, ana passcrsby, thinking
an amputation isgong on inside, dcudcd to the
number of the mans patients.
Stanley Matthew'S was the other day looking ut an
engraving OF Moses being towed from the pond, and
he remarked "Certainly, they ought to have put me
somewhere modestiy n the foreground"
boy on upper Broadway last evening crying
''Granny Granpy!" but one heard the lost little
fellow. Several Evening Posts that lay In doorways
observed to feel themselves addressed, however
The man who was going down Twenty-third street
last evening" and who felt the paving stones slipping
from under him, remarked that rolling stone gathers
moss But soon aftcrward the man gathered him.
self up He had lot the tucks out.
A crowd OF Charleston negroes lately assembled on
wharf thero to meet waggishy advertised ship on
which they said they wore ''gwne 10 Iiberlum whar
custard grow on dc tree and dars mo- wuk to be
done" They had idea that It was a days sail and
dressed accordingly In thcir very best
Philadelphia Ledger:-"Stylo in writing is medium
for imparting knowledge for expressing thought and
opinion. for communicating Information But OF what
style to the writer who has knowledge i'm.
part, NO information to communicate, and OF conse-
quence no foundation which to base suggestive
thought or authoritative opinlons His style Is nero
sound, Agnifying nothing" Well, NJ Ledger, give
US some more style knowledge or communication,
or something, please.
Court Circular:--"A homemade bathing suit Get
the pattern Of your dress body and of a chomise Cut
out by tho shoulders OF the body and the rest to the
waist from tho chcmisc. Take tho remainder from q
pair Of knickerbockers Cut the whole pattern In one
IN paper first, and then in light washing SERGE The
costume should iasten down the contre front with
buttons; tho sleeves be short, the mock high but
slightly aquarc and the leg nearly to the ankle. Trim
neck, arms and ankles with braid"
Thero is a pretty patriotic moral attached to o
French drama now performing ut Vinccnnes It IL
called 'Vengeance and tho Wooden Log" Tho Marquis
de Solangcs who lost his leg at Solcrino finds strap-
ger at the feet OF his nancee Tho stranger draws his
sword. "No matter" exclaims tho marquis, ''mine
was left In the body OF an Austrian general-no
tcr and he unscrews his wooden log, with which ho
strikes his adversary Dead crying, vive la Franco
while tho orchestra strikes up the Ma:seilaise and
the ancec touched by this act OF palriotsn substi-
tutcs the support OF her for that OF the missing
limb, and leads the marquis back to tho chateau.