The New York herald., 1877-01-23
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Sugar cane came from China
Let your children eat all tho salt they want
Primitive nations generally eat what they reverb
In the Sandwich Islands the Chinese are called
cockroaches
Carlyle thought that the Crmean war was piece Of
tragic stupidity.
william Black calls Professor Fawcett "sort Of
political Shelley"
In Texas wild turkeys 81 dozen and whiskey is
fty cents drink.
General Bob Lees monument will evidently be built
long before washinRton's
The cold weather has hastened tho ecct Of pulnon-
ary complaints In the South.
John s. Dwight has been elected President Of the
Harvard Musical Association.
London shop windows do not contain their usual
display OF goods. ON account of hard times.
General Horace Binney Sargent, Of Boston, is re-
elected commander Of the Massachusetts, Grand Army.
New Bedford boasts a Scotchman, granddaughter Of
Robert Burns, and who has several garments by
the poet.
When a man dcspairs Of the world he may llstcn
with profit Of soul melody Of the child songs Of
Schumann.
Boston bcggar has been living by picking crumbs
from saloon tables and eating them. Tho stock fail
ing he took poison.
A Massachusetts man of fne education has become
quart OF pure alcohol
Renan will deliver an address upon Spinoza at the
Hague, February 81, tho occasion Of the 2Oosh
nlvcrsary Of spinozas DEATH
Courervillc Louis. Wdterson: says he has
Welsh blood in his veins. Perhaps that is why he Is
charged with lwnestyIwvddhidtng.
II you 20 10 Texas grow up with tho country you
NAV buy 100 acres Of land for twenty-five cents and bo
shot within ten minutes. This is a nation.
sGerman Christmas customs still show strong trace
Of heathcn rnditionsthat Is to say, in the hummer
,es which prccedc the Christian festival"
senator Anthony continues to improve IN health,
and II Is expected that he will be present In tho Senate
when the vote on the Electoral bill shall be takcn
By a recent Greek law the shepherds are forbddc
under heavy fines and imprsonments, to cut down
trees on the mountains 10 light fires in their hollow
trunks.
Senator Bogy, of Missouri who has become demo
cratic tree lance. descendant OF the early French
pioneers Of the Mississippi Valley. He is a lawyer
and a railroad NAM
Among the applicants for positions tho Bost on
police force Wednesday man who, three years
ago. paid taxes on $4,000 OF the city real estate but
now needs the position TO support his family.
Matthew Arnold believes in the criticism whose busi
ness 1t Is simply know the best that Is known and
thought in tho world and by in its turn making this
known to create current OF true and fresh ideas"
"Doctor Roylc, with some plausibility, suggests
that when 1Iccn in tho house OF Menclnus gave TEL
emachus Ncpcnthcs,' she administered some prepare.
tion of Indian hemp which she had received from an
Egyptian"
II is, says London paper, from the inoxhaustlbie
source of the sea, swollen by full moon tides, driven
up by the casterly wind, and thus heading back the
unusual quantity of rain that rushing down the vail
ley Of the Thames, that the foods which have swampcd
South London have been fod
Pail Mall Gascte:-''The Russian scholar and man
OF science knows we'll that the most urgent duty Of
Russia, and tho only OF which the iulnlmcnt will
save from speedy dissolution, is not 70 overcome
neighbors little lower In the scale Of good govern
ment than herself, but 70 improve her own nssisu-
fiona"