The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-13
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

General Banks will lecture in Iowa this month
Mr. John Ruskin has resigned the Sade Professor
ship at Oxford.
Senator David Davis believes that he is out Of the
Presidential race.
sehor Zamacona. Mexican Minister at Washington
is at the Rossmorc Hotel.
General Devens does not like applause. That's
where you touch him on the hurrah.
Mrs. General Sherman continues to reside in Balt-
more, while her husband and daughters reside in
Washington.
Senior Don Juan B. Dalla Costa. the Venezuelan
Minister arrived at the Windsor Hotel last evening
from Washington.
When You put up sign, "Please shut the door,
please that your door is easy to shut. One can
not stand all day fighting bad latch
Colonel Mcneil, who accompanied the new Cover
nor General from England to the Canadian capital.
will return by the next Allan line steamer.
An elephant in circus in Kansas got exasperated
at banjo players music and went for him and his
instrument, and now both the man and the banjo
played out.
Des lIoincs, Iowa. has brass band composed OF
printers. They set up type all day. set up the neigh
borhood during the evening, and then get set up
themselves about midnight.
English Fun lawfully funny):-"Mistress Ito
servant who has called about astuaton)-T There are
show mo over the ouse. mum? as never takes
situation mum, till I've wont sort of ouse the
'ouse is, num-"
Mr.. Park Harrison says that the tattooings some
of the people in the Australasian islands really
readable inscriptions, he proves from a copy he
made of Motu girl. She must have been regular
Cleopatra's needle.
An Indianapolis correspondent asks whether
Talmage is not hard shell Baptist No; he is more
like soft shell crab rich and if taken in large guam
titles quite sickeniug And, then, like the soft shell.
he is rather nude in style.
Speaking Of Thomas Hardy-"One sees what he
means and is all the disappointed at the clumsy
way in which the meaning is expressed" says the
AttenGum. We long ago called his style "hard; but
isn't his modest way Of making lone see what he
means" one Of Hardys real merits
Ercning Telegram:-"Mr. Francis D. Moulton says
that pound Of cheese is equal in nutrment
to three pounds Of meat but does not specify what
kind of meat There is great difference between the
nutritive properties Of for instance, veal and beef
and great deal depends upon the part Of the animal
from which the cut is taken
London World THE accident Of Mr.. Gye happened
He, with Mr.. Spencer Ponsonby Fame, Sir AL
fred Horsford and his host, Lord Dillon finish
ing the days shooting at Dytchey on November %
by stalking some wild ducks. which had settled
small pond at the end of the covert; Mr.. Gye was
giving his gun to keeper preparatory to getting
fence, when it went off, the contents lodging in the
region Of the groin" s
DR.. James Martneau recently said in q lecture:-
"If in Mr. Arnold's vocabulary to verify means to
test by experiment. the complaint ia true but rrel-
evant; the inner attributes of the Supreme Cause
cannot be submitted to Baconian experiments. with
registered results tabulated under Sic and 'Non.'
Yet their exemption from this criterion does not dis
credit their existence for if Divine Mind were really
there and in it's purely and only Thought
and Love it would equally transcend the interroga-
tons Of our experience 1t Is not by such methodA
that spiritual truths can be extorted."