The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Lager sings In slaves.
Ben Wade diskes Hayes
Talmage is Jersey Dutchman
General Horace Porter in Paris.
Tom cats now patronizc the telephone.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, OF Massachusetts,. Is n
the Windsor.
Cardinal Manning writes in Latinized, cumbersome
sincere style.
New Jersey girl who was invited to go fishing SAID
she had plenty OF hooks and eyes,
Somebody has discovered that thcre were Mongoh
In Persia before the Persians were there.
The difference between Grant and Hayes Is that
what Hayes likes in cousins Is bang-up style
when one really thinks how old Tom Thumb 10 Il
becomes necessary to look up to him with reverence
Mr. ElIhu B. washburne, United States Minister to
France arrived in the city yesterday from Gaena Ill,
and is at the Fifth Avenue.
The San Francisco Chronicle says that the average
land of California rich that of Illinois, and
that the grape the only staple crop OF the great
Pacific State.
man in Spain, with red Clothes long TAIL pitchI
fork and strong smell Of 81 phur, has been trying
represent the devil. Mr. Storey the Chicago Times
Is still in Europe.
Ono OF the most expensive frauds In this country Is
the government expenditure for what called
and harbor improvements. The expenditure Is always
used 10 help local politicians.
evils in trade. especially in country produce, Is that
SPECTATORS who fail with extravagant credits
easily and kindly reinstated In confidence and bust.
ness.
Aatennun.:.sTho true artists yearning for perfec-
ton causes him to feel moro pleasure IN the perfect
representation leaf than in the picture Of bound
less Forest which, from It's very extent must be im
perfect"
In Russia the agents OF the government 60 round
condemning 10 ccbacy all horses which are not OF
heaItnfu formation and promise, and the result is
tho peasant never has word OF fault to ind with
regard to his horses.
Chicago Inter.1e. Occan.-ssThe old wing party died.
It ought to have died. for with genuine sentiment
favor OF Justice to all permeating its rank and le
1t had not the courage TO assert its beliefs mako
manly stand against the constant aggressions Of the
slave democracy"
Saturday Repiew:-sIt Is a question whether IL 10
better for family fall into the hands Of tho healthy
or Of the nervous aud dcbtatcd tyrant For the lat
ter bad rs been the influence OF his health his
character some may DO made. He does deserve
nifty for having drifted into that state which tho
Scotch idiom describes all cggsheIls.' sudden
noise, an inopportunc interruption. a painful story
affects some people with q physical shock which the
robust world knows nothing OF. There moments
OF languor apart from actual suffering, In which every
sensation is modified anguish"
Burlington Ha,ckeye:-"Mra ex-secretary Fish ale
lows smoking In her elegant house. And she
makes you stand and paw over the scraper and door
mat Tor ton minutes before you In, and then
II IL very muddy she sends you around to the side
door and she makes you take of your overshoes
the porch and leave hcm outside and the dog always
comes around and carries them away to pound the
yard with, and somehow other, after you havc
visited the Fishes once, you always feel as though you
didn't feel like going back again, the said who
blown out OF his state room by boiler explosion"
Among tho Samoan islanders arrows are pointed with
human thigh and parictal bones Tho products milky
exudatons, &c. Of several used, among others
what is supposed to be caiophyium inophylium. The
weapons are dipped into the nud, 10 which there 10
added substance obtained from wasps nests, besides
the putrescent liquid Of decomposed sea cucumbcrs
foiofhmiaj Kind Of kiln Is then prepared where
the smoked, after which they inserted
into the dried aowerstalk OF species OF acca u pre-.
vent humidity, and then bundled ready for use Ths
effects Of the poison the human system produce
convulsons and tetanus.