The New York herald., 1878-12-03
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Some one speaks OF Fernando Woods Billiard bal
sublimity.
Count Won Beust has presented his creden ials q
Austrian Ambassador to Franco.
Nice little bit of wit from London Faa:-" 'Aw-fu
langnage.--Languid swels' talk"
Sunset Cox is growing fat like nice little rabbit
The little fellow has big Inustache
Selior Don Manuel r. Gar.is the Argentine Minis
ter, arrived ut the AlbeInarle Hotel yesterday from
Washington.
Tie Southern Planter. published in Virginia. say
that the public school system Is an idea importe
from Yankee land and likely to rob the brave tax
payers of the South.
senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has arrive
in Washington. viii Senator Cameron be 80 good a
10 tailor who has the courage to tell him tina
coat that reaches to the waist is not the coat for
man who occupies place III the United States senaci
Secretary os the Navy Thompson. while at break
fast ut his residence in Washington yesterday, waa
attacked with vertigo and became nscnsible for some
moments. Proper remedies were applied. and ne re-
yiycd and in very good spirits last night though
somewhat weak. PR
Our politicians in the East must not make mistake
about Kearney's influence in California. There is
something in the air OF CALIFORNIA; which makes men
eager and anxious and it affects the poor man and the
hoodlum as much 1t affects the nervous bonanza
the hoodlurl and the ChiIsman. The Chinaman
patiently makes green gardens. Tho hoodlum throws
bricks at the Chnaman.
sSat1roay Rer1<w. speaking Of William Blacks novel;
macleod OF Darc,' says:--"We have said that the
boldness Of Mr.. Blacks venture is justified by Its
success. We should, for port, have been more
pleased had he been yet bold and arrived ut his
goal without sending his hero mad. However. as the
novel stands it reveals decided gain the authors
part in power and in artistic perception, and through
out it runs tho charm Of his style. the only danger in
which il q slight inclination to thickness"
Pedestrians have long since stopped complaining
of the brutality Of drivers who have the streets and
crosswalks to themselves: bnt the other morning We
were quite inclined to give the number Of young
driver who on Park Row backed up to hardware
store and after scattering barrel OF hinges over the
sidewalk through sheer lunkhcadei carelessness.
triei to prove his smartness by kicking nearby
lager becr barrel among the heels Of the passers.
nearly knocking elderly gentleman into cellar.
Mr. James Sully writcs:-'Persons ut al sensitive
noises exposed to amount OF suffering which
may apprecably color their conscious existence.
Our mixed population represents AL stages OF human
progress in auditory sensibility. The man with
finely musical ear has practically to live with bar
barians who actually take pleasure in harsh and un
lovely sounds, and with many semi-cvilized
who are quite Indifferent to such noises. Not only
children but adults love to tease aud excite their
dogs and this to show that they positively
10y the sensations Of loud sound which they thus
evoke The fondness Of certain class OF people for
screaming birds points to the same primitive condi-
ton OF sensibility."