The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-27
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Senator Barnum of Connecticut, is in Chicago.
Secretary Evarts returned to Washington yesterday.
Senator William b. Allison, Of Iowa. is at the Bre-
WORT House.
Count Dodun dc Keroman, OF France. ia at the
Hotel Brunswick.
Senator Theodore F. Randolph of New Jersey. is at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
People who want everything to be in apple-ps
order are apt to be crusty.
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick d. Grant arrived yes.
terday at the Brevoort House.
Tramps are around Every housemaid should
keep . stick OF stoyewood handy.
Nebraska has popcorn sociables After popping
the corn some of the boys pop the question.
1t is the who stays out at the lodge late at
night who most feelingy sings, Home. Sweet
Home"
In the Offices Of the Department Of the Interior ut
Washington there 96 clocks 657 spittoons and 5l1
washstands.
Detroit Free Press:-"If Lorne's low neck order
keeps in force we see why Canada was termed the
Nude Dominion
Seymour Ind, is o small place, but its people in
one day devourcd 1900 rabbits. What stew they
must have been in.
A Hartford Mich. minister had q surprise party
and the guests stole all his napkins and best dishes.
after eating him out Of house and home.
Baron Max Won Thielmann. Secretary Of the German
Legation at Washington, and Mr.. Leon den
Bossche, of the Belgian Legation. at the Hotel
Brunswick.
A young gentleman yesterday accusing another
Of having big mouth. yes" said the other. but
the Lord had to make yours small al to give you
plenty Of cheek
Lafayette. Ind. has hen twenty years old. Send
her on to one of the New York boarding houses: she
would be mere broer there, that is If she saw
the second Centennial.
A tramp called on Racine clergyman and begged
for pair of shoes. When they given him he
said tramps stopped now to beg. but the time would
not be long till they would demand shoes and what
ever else they wanted at the point of the pistol
London Truth "a widow without her ghost
would be but poor kind of creature, given up to
prose and truth: and there is no more convenient
shield in the hand and weapon in the other than
the Of who, when above ground. was
often wished below it,"
gentleman of Battle Creek, Mich. owns q cribbage
board which is deliberately constructed entirely Of
human bones. II made by a soldier In the army
OF Wellington when engaged in fighting Napoleon
and the bones Of which it is constructed human
boncs-bones Of dead Trenchmcn.
London Spectotor:--"Nobody in active life can hope
TO WRITE think. count anything else entirely
without interruption; and nobody unless his tenn
per very bad indeed, he is nervous to the point
OF disease makes of interruption q serious prlev.
ance He learns to endure It, IA he endures tho
weather. treats some Interruptions automatically,
dsposes Of others with half his mind settles others
by concentrated attention, and learns by habit what
ever happens. not TO lose his thread"
Saturday RerieW Tt is far less difhcut to catch
Of the peculiarities OF this or that pianist the
quality of his touch. his forcc-not speak Of per-
sonal features not connected with his function Of
musical exponent-than to master the subtier terms
and phrases Of critics when they seek characterize
peculiar kind of composition. our companions are
more ready to listen TO the mnutg of a vrtuoso's
manner Of performance than to the dctailsof COM
poser's Style and method Of work.