The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-28
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Paris is dull and forsaken.
Nice is having . brilliant season
The Queen OF italy almost always dresses in white
slippery card player probably plays according
to oil.
London bankers are trying to form bank clerks
club.
Mr.. Theodore D. woolsey. Of New Haven. is at the
Everett House.
Speaker Samuel J. Randall arrived last evening at
the New York Hotel
The funeral OF the late Henry Wells will take
place December 81, at Aurora, n. Y.
George Eliot has face which for its fine lines is
said to resemble that of Father Newman
Ex-Governor Seymour and Judge Ward Hunt once
belonged to the volunteer Fire Department Of Utica.
At Cedar Key they cant afford to eat mock turtle
soup. because green turtles only six cents q
pound.
London Itlmch:-"A hint to ladies who will wear
outside pockets. Have your purses made up TO look
like prayer books"
A Wisconsin astronomer says that tho earth is lop-
sided. Has Sunset Cox been leaning his head little
too much one side?
Frida Wagner. the new prima donna is from tho
teaching Of watel the old master OF Nilsson. She is
pale beauty and only child.
Welsh traveller finds nothing very great in tho
Hudson Highlands. though he thinks that ut the
fallsAdeS the river SurpasSeS the hn1ne.
Mr. Alexander Stuart, late Finance Minister for
New South Wales has arrived here by the steamer
Republic, en- route to Australia via San Francisco.
The London Daily News announces this mornn g
that ex-Presidcnt Grant. accompanied by Minister
Welsh and Governor Noyes. viii arrive 1t Dublin on
the Sd Of January.
Prince do Metternich. who has great taste for all
the arts we'll ~ literature is amusing himself with
composing ballets which are represented by friends
at his chateau In Bohemia:
Many harmless German socialists, who do great
deal Of talking and lounging and who have been
banished from Berlin by Bismarck. hang about Lon
don ana fraternize with French socialists.
There isn't room enough for an ash barrel and .
man at the same time on Nassau street. And by the
way filthy barrel Of ashes and refuse front Of
store is not very pretty sign for the store.
Mr. George Augustus sala has just attained his AZ
teth birthday. In celebration Of the happy event
the propretors OF the Daily Telegraph have presented
him with exquisite service OF plate Of value
In Siberia you can buy beef for two cents pound,
goose for twelve cents chicken for four cents,
horse for IS ana 3Gl pounds Of corn for six cents
and you shoot bears out OF your parlor window.
Let us get exilcd.
lady writing to the domestic department Of .
Western paper signs. 20 for stuffed tomatoes in
winter Well, stir the "stufing" into quantity Of
canned tomatoes and bake in very small deep dishes
Serve in the same dishes.
London Spectator :--"Good girls in Boston are a
good as they will be found anywhere. but If they
want to the Common without escort they
cross it; and II will to that here even IL we
have to revoluonize police system 70 It,"
London Erdsaiser ITO suppose thst the opinions
of statesman should remain the same for . period
of fortyhse years. and that he should speak and act
at the age Of seventy just no spoke and acted at
twenty-five is to imagine that the stasesman's mind
or that the world stood still"
MILE X. OF Paris. meeting one Of her old
boarding school friends who has just been married
"wcll., says She "are you happy DO you get along
well together = Happy. yes. without doubt; but
wo squabbe q great deal" Already and about
what ?" paul pretends always that it in he who
cares the most for me. and I'm very sure that it
isI?"
Some in the Marion twas itD once said that
there was culture west Of Cleveland, Ohio. Cleve.
land is OF the three prcttiest cities In the United
States but with all its society and literary culchaw
it has great deal of obtrusive about it. II
resembles its chief products--maple sugar and pop
cornin its cuchaw; and it isn't Boston baked beans
after all.