The New York herald., 1878-12-14
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

The science OF the times sometimes fails.
Waterproof paper boots worn in Japan.
Connecticut has parties called bean bakes."
Postmaster James is registered in Washington.
Edison's electric light will supersede diamond
breastpins.
Senator-clect Houston, of Alabama, 10 known ~
'the bald eagle
The Chicago Tiass says thst sTaamsse' gives Ar
buckle blow for blow.
Near Mstgyen. Siberia nugget Of gold weighing
147 pounds has been found.
A Georgia minister rode 140 miles. married i've
couples and received 81 So
What's in the winda Well. We should say good
deal of oxygen this morning.
The worse Spurgeon grows in health the moro
grotesque his pulpit utterances.
A cable despatch from London. this morning. an
nounces that Queen Victoria is indisposed.
The game Of football occasions MANY accidents
in England that It u obtaining bad name.
Kinglake viii not continue his history Of the Cri-
mean War because he has not the msterials.
"An old fellow writes asking US whether p. l.
means Piously Inclined with Pastry Included.
London has Is, 900 cabmen. among them being law
yers clergymen and doctors and one real lord.
Dried leaves Of the lemon-verbena used in Spain
for making tea which is taken for nervousness and
Indigestion.
the sancity Of the marriage tie is held in greater
esteem than it is in the North.
Joe Jefferson ia at his home in the Paramus valley
n j. occasionally supervising amateur thestricals.
previous to his appearance in Nov York next weelo
1t is understood in London that John Ruskin vii
decline reelection to the Slade Professorship Of Fine
Arts the Oxford University account Of i-health.
That popular cry, Another lie nailed" was orig
mated by Jael, who nailed sisera while he lying
before her.-Dnsbxry Noes. why did ssera go to
Jael
Fashion demands that gloves shall be still longer
the buttons being too numerous to mention. By
and by We shall have gloves and stockings al In
piece.
Thousands Of tramps have arrived in the South for
the winter and around Atlanta, Ga. no householder
responds to ring Of the door bell at night without
carrying with him shotgun
What right in the law has storekeeper to appoint
scarcher Of customers for occasions when they are
suspected Of stealing? Why do they not appoint
men to the police force as well?
Mr. Shiskin, the Russian Minister, and Mr. Kali
chewsky, to the late Mr.. Bodisco visited
the Tombs Court and City Prison yesterday. accom-
panied by Ex-Governor Hoffman.
The best thing about country village that every
body is served alike. There few people that
the scandals 60 round easily, and everybody knows
that everybody else is slandered.
lady writes to us asking for "a poctical name for
picturesque, tumbledown. antique-looking farm"
Call it Lalla Rookhery. You couldn't get . Moore
antique or romantic name than that.
A German telling the story OF his campaigns gives
the following interesting item I'm this battle
lost the brave Captain Schultz. cannon ball took
of his hesd. His last words were, Bury the
spot where fell"
Surely surgery advances. A virginian who lost
part of his chin whether by using it too much for
music or by wiping IL of too much we do not learn
has had II replaced by one OF silver. Now let him
have his name engraved on IT, and IL will serve him
both in life and afterward
Eresirg Telegram: m:-"Mr. Louis Millot. socialist by
occupation, complains that Mr.. Abram y. Hewitt
has not an elementary idea OF political economy
However that may he. there is no doubt that Mr.
Mflot and his associates have q great many ideas
which are altogether too elementary--puerile. in
fact"
oil the men. Here Is q sketch from there: :--"when
school Is out and the chainbee over the larger boys
and girls snatch their seds and HE 10 the hil and
the little ones between maps and dinner, toddc about
in the snow. An artificial heightening at one end Of
this slope adds 1est to the sport. and many Of The
older folks join In the fun"
The oldest pensioner In the Hotel des Invalides in
Paris has recently died. His name was Darcy. and
he was the soldier who stood sentinel in the public
square ct Cairo when solciman, ths assassin of
Kisber. was dying impaied and With his right hand
and wrist burned TO the bone. Darcy had pity ON him
aud gave him a glass Of water. Scotsman drank II
and expired almost Immediately. ~