The New York herald., 1877-02-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Conkling has pink finger nails.
Merton has not pleasant smile
Cronn is in Oregon trying the blue glass treatment
History, says essayst, Is largely determined by
locality.
Eighty-nve pcr cent Of the Russian population are
tho peasantry.
Mr whitclaw Reid has called upon Congressman
Chittenden at Washington.
An exchange thinks that tho word "codger" came
from corn dodger. 1t came from darn codger.
The first gold discovered in California at tho
root OF q wild onion which pulling for
green's
detective arrested pack Of cards Fulton street
the other day. For long time most OF these CARDS
had been spotted.
From weather reports to-day the bare posslbil-
ties are that 1t will be cloudier, II not more cloudy
with occasional clouds
Mr.. Carpenter, the great philnnthropist Of Evans
ville s such crooked old man that he has to have
his bookmarks worked by steam.
The Emperor Of Germany looks at the calendar
every morning what year In the month II s, and
then he makes love TO plain soda
The Chicago Times says:-Tally two for Russia; ono
for Rubinstein and one for EssipoG Rubinstep, the
gigantic, the colossal Esipo the refined and elegant
Martin Farqubar Tupper, the author OF "Proverbial
Philosophy" arrived in Charleston Thursday night
I
Tupper.
warreuton, Ca. has gander that will jump over q
stick answer questions and drink whiskey. when no
Is not dong so he writes paragraphs for the Atlanta
Consultation.
When a man tells you he will get you notice IN this
column he Is likely to be the very last man IN the
world who do We daily receive notes cheekily
saying III promised Mr. So-and-so that you would In
scrt this tomorrow and it doesn't get inserted.
Rochester man has earned distinction by stopping
sixty-seven runaway horses in seventeen years Tho
Democrat man, however, stopped l10l in loss than
hour the last he had em. But most Of them got
away from him
Norbert Spencer says Of primitive man -'Govcrncd
as he s by dcspoc that successvely deposc
one another, instead OF by council Of the emotions
in which they all take psrt the primitive man has
explosive, chaotic incalcnablo behavior, which makes
combined action very dficpit"
Brown courted Mrs Brown because she was ethereal
and refined and abstract, aud loved to speak Of the
subtle dclicaccs Of spcnser and Tennyson but be
as mad as thunder tho other day because when the
biggest boy was crying sbo absent minded
spread knifcful OF butter all over the palm OF her
left hand.
Sir. Kinglake believes that Nicholas ''some.
times a Russian statesman, sometimes Russian
fanatic, sometimes Russian cncroacber with q wild,
always, therefore, impersonatng somc moro or less
weighty component OF Russian opinion. Thus tho
conflict then distracting one man was epome OF
what We now see extended over Russia at large"
Smith came home Thursday night, when the
night was as near morning could slop over into
and said TO the family Of his bosom that he had been
meeting with tho committee appointed to erect q
statue the Mexican patriot Juarcz Then he settled
down In a camp stool by the hat rack and remarked
that she might hike up to him and Juorcz much as
she pleased, he open conviction
Thcro are the present moment thirty.six regnIng
sovcreigns IN Cnristendom, rom tho Queen of Eng.
land to whom 237 coo, 900 of human beings nile
gancc, TO the Prince OF Monaco whom 5,741 subjects
acknowledge ms their lese lord or these princes ten
are nominay Roman Catholics -namcly the Emper.
ors Of Aus,ria Brazil the Kings OF Italy, Spain,
Portugal Belgium, BAVARIA Saxony, the Princes OF
Lichtcnstein and Monaco.
Mr. John Morley says:-"rhcrc is all the difference
In the world between the sehshncss OF capitalist aud
the socalled schshncss OF grca trade society. The
an increase Of scl-ndugent luxury for one
man q single family; the other increase OF
dcccncy increase OF comfort increase OF self respect
for the aged, moro schooling for the young,
OF one, but Of thousand ten thousand families.
Others may cali that sel6shnoss II they pease call
humanity and civilization and tho furtherance OF the
common wcaI."
Eren'ng Teiegram:-Mr David Dudley Field turns
out TO be- as We expected such fascinating feature Of
Washington life, that great desire manifested that
hc snail be returned to Congress for the full term to
succeed the one which he is serving. Tho
member elect from the seventh district Is Anthony
Eckhon, who had much rather be a Coroner than
Representative. Mr.. Eickhon being possessed of this
accommodating disposition the substitution ought
be arranged somehow II matter OF national i'm
portance in the way Of daily retain Mr.. Field
In Washington permanently. II cnliveEs things there
ana keeps them quiet here Wo nominate Mr.. Fold
for tho Forty-nnh Congress, IN place Of Anthony
EickhofI. to resign.