The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-06
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
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Jette1 lace IS worn.
Sam Long fellow IS u broth sr Of him.
Mr. W. F. Weld, oil Boston, is taxed $40, 533
Charles Francis Adams 10 taxed for nearly $lO 900 In
Boston
According TO the Boston list oliver Ditson Is one Of
the wealthy men.
Senator Francis Herman is at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, on his way to Washington.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company, OF New York,
is taxed over 81, ooo 600 in Boston.
Springfield RepubHcan:-"Mr. Hayes has made
enough mistakes show tho country that be is the
ideal President who somehow never survives naugu.
ration day.
The United States government has received. the
thanks OF the Admiralty for having restored the grave
of British officer who fell at the engagement Lake
Champain century since.
An Irish jury has given verdict against woman
in a SUIT for breach OF promise OF marriage; 1880
were the damages to the mans hoart. AS to ages,
well, that was dam ages, too
Mr. Dorman b. Eaton. the pubicist- reiormer, has
purchased a Vermont farm on West River tor a sum.
mer residence. The farm Is mainly bean PATCH and
next summer we shall be asking, sWha; will Dorman
B. Eaton?"
Since the hard times began many young men have
been entering the ministry The number is constantly
increasing, and IL is beloved in the rural districts that
by this time next year the shortcake and preserved
ounce crop will be entirely exhausted
The Savannah Ntws has NEW suit Of typo for Its
New YEARS. present. The prottIcst city Of the South
deserves handsome newspaper, as 1t certainly has
good In number of points Of journalism the
News leads Southern journals. 1t is liberal, good
natured and cosmopolitan. 1t is not near so
s'Georglan"-we narrowly so-as of IT,
contemporaries
Tho New Orleans Picaymne has for some time como
TO US as q quadruple sheet. Business seems to be
lively. Just wee bit provincial and possessing the
idea OF most Southern journals that readng matter"
In climate winch induces patience, Is preferable to
busting news the Picayune Is still OF the best.
and our quotations show that II is OF the wit.
test, journals IN the country.
Saturday Rerep:-"If rich man walks through a
hospital he 10 SAINT II he spends thirteth part Of
his income on charities he is paragon Of beraty.
il his wife hauns places OF worship, rather from want
OF other occupation than from devotion, sho such
q religious woman while the poor who put them.
selves to Inconvenience 20 to church perhaps
q week are thought ncglecters OF means Of grace'
General Richard Taylor In the North american Re-
re,v:-''The hrst skirmsnes and actions Of tho war
showed that. unframed, the Southron was better
fighter than the Northerner; not because Of more
courage, but of the social aud economic conditions by
which he was surrounded. Devoted to agriculture,
in a spursey populated country, tho Southren
sslfreant, q practsed horseman and skilled in the
use OF arms"
poor Undergraduate at a celebrated university
once had his position lucdly explained 10 him by tue
head of his college requesting the favor Of nights
absence in the middle Of term. 'You arc neither
noblcman, said tho dop ''nor a nobIomans SON. you
are not even the son OF q member Of Parliament nor
you the heir 10 an cstate cannot therefore
ceive under what pretex you can have the presump-
tlon to mako such request"
All the strong minded iadies-bess 'em-of Wash.
ingtop arc 10 OF lady constables. We have often
remarked here In New York tina. our constables are
not ladyhke. We would rather DO arrested by lady
than by nasty man. When arrested we would
struggle. II she boxed oars we would kiss the
cruel but sweet hand II she ugaed Us on TO jail In
her arms would DO bad again AZ soon as possible
opneiia, do not suicide, but DO a constable. juliet,
step down from thy balcony escape nurse and be-.
come short stop IN a baseball club.
The editor OF tho Burlington Haiuk Eye ho il as brill
liant us he Is unsophsicued devotes space to saying
that being recently In New York he would have been
glad to see the great HERALD sanctums but was told
that It was just as easy for him to get Inside Al it
would be for camel to amble sidewise through the
eye OF needle. Child. heard OF your arrival in
New York, but could not discover the number OF the
precinct where you taken Your hat and watch
will be forwarded 10 you by express.
An English lady told curious talo at dinner parts
the other day. She had occasion 10 make extensive
purchases at the Louvre. She began by buying Silks
then lacos handxsrchefs and all kinds Of gauds; but
she remarked rs each counter jumper conducted her
to tho next rayon, he invariably called out "Deux
cling" Her multitudnous purchases were brought to
her at the Hotel Bristol in the morning, and as she
paid the heavy BILL she begged the chop boy TO OK.
PLAIN TO her the moaning OF tho cabaiisticn WORDS
''Deur cinq." He muitercd excuses, was confused,
assured her she was mistaken, but eventually admit.
ted that she much resembed notorious shopiter.
The chief of each rayon, therefore, enjoined his col.
league to keep his two eyes fixed upon Ave nngsra