The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-31
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

At balls tho wall flowers wall pockets.
The Silver bill has reached the forty feet level
The Trenton IN. J.) State Gazette is Frightening
So. tho boomerang also was sort OF Returning
Board.
Sir Alexander T. Gait, OF Montreal Is at the Gilsey
House
Senator Randolph's side WHISPERS have grown gray,
and he sits very straight in his chair.
Tho Utica Republican,, speaking of the President 10
DESTROYS that no ono should disturb hts .smassve
head"
Why not pass bill In favor of plated money, and
give the junk shops a chance to issue few old door
knopsP
When Mr. Blaine feels his vertigo coming on he sits
down on the nearest steps, In this way he stoops to
conquer.
Ii ,hcre Is no h-ll. what has become Of Brigham
Youngg Ho ana Benedict Arnold should be - fol-
lows we'll met.
What's In names Just let US toll you There is
a county in Nebraska where there Is not saloon.
Its name is Greeley.
new species Of monkey has been discovered In
Abyssinia and It Is an improvement on tho average
member Of Congress .i-.,. l.
Zen years ago q Newburyport girl broke Oh ncodlo
in her right foot last Sunday it worked out OF the
little finger OF her left hand. So.
An English critic says that the most selfish, oGon-
sive person in the world Is woman with an iron con-
sttu,on. iron nerves and principles of steel. 'They
are the dragons OF society"
The editor of the Summit (Miss.) Times says
"Though differing In views many subjects
consider the HERALD all in all. the best newspaper in
the United States" OF course. you do
Buffalo Express :-ssGeneral Scheuck is charged by
the New YORK HERALD with smiling like the front
door OF iron foundry. man who smiles like that
can smile and smc, and-and be hanged 10 him."
Senator Paddock, tho handsome, light cottonwood
of Nebraska wishes that the observatory at Washing
ton should be removed from tho fogs of the Potomac
to the plains near Omaha. But, Senator, you never
could see through the clouds Of grasshoppers.
The wind is northwest and the drinking fountain In
front OF the great Post Office Is covered with ice.
Yet, per the Puget Sound Washington Territory Dis
patch, wo receive a bouquet OF flowers, whose pink
and blue well preserved This bouquet was picked
III the open air. January A. on Orcas Island, seventy
five miles north of Seattle The Dispatch, In its pretty
notice. says:-"we have forwarded bouquet to the
New YORK HERALD" The bouquet is tied with blue
ribbon. None but lady's could hand have tied the
ribbon; SO, miss, we kiss the ribbon.
From the Evening Telegram: Is a Gnical queru-
lousness which accuses conductors OF street OF
being too familiar in the attentions they bostow
ladies' getting In out, and which brings a similar
charge against Broadway policemen who assist ladies
the crowded parts OF that thoroughfarc.
A conductor more especially, has too much to engage
him to bestow than professional and pcriunctory
attention to ladies emerging from entering q car
The work demanded from him is no slight thing ana
it is only in very exceptional cases that no eau find
time tor bestowing surreplitious pressures and
squeezes. The same dcfcnccis applicable TO police
men. A constable stationed IN the crowded parts OF
Broadway has no opportunity for furtive firtatons.
Between omnibuscs, trucks, wagons, coupes. car
riages and vehicles OF all descriptions he has,
role, quite enough to employ him without bestowing
| improper attentions upon women. Complaints like
these often the niggl:ng, naiHin fauttinding OF
people VINO have squeamish notions about the respect
| due to women. true man respects woman not the
less for having pressed her arm perhaps hairs
breadth more than was absolutely necessary In
! Ing her from danger"