The New York herald., 1878-03-03
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Pew rents arc coming down.
Second mortgages are latter.day saints. -
English sparrows have almost driven bus birds from
New Jersey towns.
A Georgia negro has foot twenty-three inches long.
He Is also toed -generian
Japan thinks she rivals the rcst OF the world Ia
plants This must bo Japanese fancy. s..4.
Blaine's handwriting looks like two Massachusetts
Holsters trying to tear each other's claws oil.
The Com missioner Of Agriculture should not sxperi
ment tea culture until he can iron shirt front
ike Chinaman
We road that in some parts Of Russia the peasants
arc begging even turnips eat These must be Rus
sia-besgar turnips.
George Eliot writes only from forty to sixty lines
day. And yet thcro sometimes more lines than
that In tkis column.
Kossuth says:-"Austria is q wcaknoss, NOS
strength, 10 Hungary. Heavy times are In store for
US first and for Europe alter"
Hon. Edwards Pierrcpont, cx-Mlnistcr to England.
was in Washington yesterday, and called upon the
President. Secretary Sherman aud other officials.
Commissioner OF Agriculture Le Duo having ex-
haustcd the tea question now wishes to raise date
trees IN America This Is good idea; but arst let VI
plant some chewing gum or fail use.
s.Rahway"-The Vassar girl who sends you the
uom says, perhaps, q very good thing We do not.
care to repubsh IT, The item appeared In this col.
umn about three months ago. Obliged, though.
Columbus Enquirer -Sun:--'ssumner evincod moth
Ing but a freezing partisan intellectually. His only
idoa of satesmaashp was TO represent Massachusetts,
himself and abuse tho South because Of slavery"
The question In dispute at n debating oociety In
Wampaw last evening was Ills thero any place like
homer" Jones, who was Judge, decided thus s:-"Gen-
tlemsn, your arguments aro worry pretty. but Bob In
gcrsoll says there is no he'll The negative has IT."
A country paper says that tho other evening num-
bcr OF persons gathered front OF the residence Of
ncwly married couple and made the night hidcous
with incongruous sounds "Were they" asks the
paper sioos or apes sn Neither; they tin pam
zees
This is the kind Of weather in which TO take cold.
Do no, be deccved by the light OF birds northward,
by tho sudden rising OF windows or by tho sounding
OF accordions midnight Summer Ii not here
Keep on your thick shoes, und II you wear red fan.
mel per wiper your chest do not take II of until
turkeys eggs are In bloom.
The san francisco Call says that tweny.fou inches
OF rain have fallen in that city this scasoh-the big.
gest rainfall for many years Why, In Jersey .he
other night listened TO rain pipe twenty-sx feet
long, which filed up every minute and cmpticd again
every minute for hours and hours Still San Fran
CISCO brags Of twenty -tour inches OF RAIN
Max Muller liz delighted with u work tho s'Orgin
of Language" by Ludwig Nolr6, In which the lastci
teaches that W hen senses arc excited and the
muscles hard at work feel kind Of rolief IN ut.
tcring sounds, us when peasants thresh soldiers
march or women spin sailors row. Sounds, he
says, when originally uttered in that way, became
words Tor conventional idoas.
"w. Il. W"--Tho text OF the constitution Is that
the President .shall nominate, and by aud with the
advice and OF the Senate shall appoint" &c.
You will see that he does nominate with the ad-
vice Of tho Senate Mr.. Hayes s sticking closely to
tho letter OF tho constitution. Whether or not .
great statesman has the genius to In the guidance
OF nation nothing but the A, B, C's OF primer hts
tory will tell you. =,
Buffalo Erpress:--"A Jersey City miser named Da-
vid Leach has died. leaving $40 900 to Queen Victoria
Something should DO done stop this kind of foolish.
ness Men like David Leach should be bounded By
their relatives not with selfish purpose, bat to pro.
want them making fools OF themselves. The name OF
David Leach will bo known hereafter whore IL hap.
pens to be known ALL that Of the stupsn.
dous idiot OF his PERIOD If indeed II isn't shown
should be- that he Is crazy. Victoria doesn't need
that money, and she did she could hardly accept IL
| from such a piebian source. Tho lawyers will in-
| svi.ably get H. Or, stsyl THIS seems TO be-why,
this u dear old Cousin Davdl Excuse these tears
II is very sudden. We must soc about Cousin Davids
| funeral VI once"