The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-01-24
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
General Dent Is in Florida.

General Dent Is in Florida.
Great musicians do not have small ears.
Joaquin Miller has gray eyes and brown hair
Thin people may drink buttcrmilk with advantage.
Mr.. s. b. A. Harper bias resigned tho editorship OF
tho Tablet.
Mrs Senator Randolph will not 60 to Washington
until February.
The Toledo Commercial has been consolidated with
the Toledo Blade
Mr. William Beach Lawrence of Rhode Island, is at
tho Abemnrlc Hotel.
Mr.. Forbes, of Boston, is said TO DO the hand
soonest in the world.
Mackey, the Pennsylvania politician, is Of opinion
that Johnny Davenport Ia q fraud.
Whitehall Times fanny business man may run IN
debt, but he can't run long after he gets in"
Ole Bulls mother-in.law has brown hair and ligh.
eyes and she puts her foot down in No. 7 shoe.
An italian at New Haven recently drank twenty
schooners or about two gallons, of lagor In threc
minutes aud a hall, for IS.
Putney concerned for ten-year old girl who has
occasional frances during which tho chair In which
she may be sitting waltzes about tho room.
Tho catcher of tho Harvard ball nine will be queer
looking fellow the ball ground, no has invented
brass wire mask TO prevent blows in the face.
large charity ball at Hartford last evening was
attended by Governor Hubbard and many Of tho elite
oil tho connexions capital nauusomo sum was
realized.
The Charleston News and Courier is informed that
PinchbacK, OF Now Orleans, Is native Of Charleston,
and that his real name Is not PinchDack nor evon
Pinchbcck.
vicksburg Herdld:-"The great bulk of tho tramps
that now feeding from the charity OF the South
Northern men, which Is q rather sad commentary ON
that secton.''
sit is remarkable" says Prcjovalsky, show seldom
European dogs iraternize with their Chinese or Mon
goan brethren, however long they may live in com.
pnny with tnem.''
General IgnatieG passed by the post of military at
tach6 from the army into tho diplomatic service
Count SchouvaoG, who began life soldier entered
diplomacy by another door.
Some $50, 900 has been subscribed at Boston toward
buying tho Moody aud sankcy tabernacle after the
meetings aud turning 1t into model German beer gar.
den with Carl vossler manager
What makes a Pennsylvania minister feel nice is for
him to go into the pantry the next day after dona-
ton party and find that he has snapped two barrels OF
plum cake Tor one barrel Of beans.
Tho Boston Globe reading u despatch from New
York. wishes to know how, on account Of fog, ferry
navigation could be by whistler Why, you see, the
people were blown over-in horn.
Norris,own Herad:-"When DR.. Mary Walker was
in Salt Lake Brigham Young wanted to mako her tho
morning star of hts harcm. He said no wanted one
wife whose old clothes could DO cut down and made
over for his boys"
Chinese soldiers do not always forage on the coun-
try through which they march. They plough tho
land SOW tho seed harvest the crop and then 60 on.
IL this the way, Senator Sargent, that they aro con-
quering tho world
Tho average boy of tho period considers neither OF
Edmunds of Morton-indoed, neither Of Tiden nor
OF Hayes tho problem that racks his puzzled brain
whether to bounce out with that sled bu-doze four
more pairs OF buckwheat cakes.
Judge Edmunds, OF whom It has been said that ono
OF his words has more power in the United States
Senate than half days speech OF any other man. Is
not vet fifty years ola; IS TALL slim, blocking and
Puritanicai has full dark beard, and though no is
great lawyer was not bred in college,
Brooklyn Argus:-'Some papers are trying TO create
tho impression that Mr. wattcrson thinks e bestrides
the Republic like colossus. lie Is really OF the
mo- modest Of men. An intimate friend statcs that
he has been known to sit with wet feet half a day
rather than take off his shoes and dry them"
Tho Graphic thinks that business mon are moro
serviceablc in legislation tnan lawyers aro But Son.
ator sherman is n lawyer who has had US good effect
on financial legislation Senator Jones; and Chase
was able TO mako debt, which not an easy thing
10 do, where business man, in tho emergency might
have failed. Mr.. Mcpherson is a of great busi-
ness genus and whole soulcd fellow but certainly
the Graphic will not put him ahead OF Edmunds
Conkng or Bayard2
Evcning Telegram :-"It Is interesting to view tho
faces OF old fashioned aboltionsts they read Pros
dent Grants Message to-day, which attempts to justify
his recent OF the army the southern States by
reference to President Pcrccs employment Of marines
and artillery in Boston. in May, 1854, when Anthony
Burns fugitive slave, surrendered, and to Prcs-
dent Buchanan's employment of regulars TO suppress
John Brown at Harpcrs ferry IN October, 1859, in
both OF which instances tho troops ordered to
duty without any requisition from tho Governors Of
Massachusetts, or virginia"