The New York herald., 1878-11-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Senator Blaine will go to Washington next Tuesday.
Sothen is always nervous just before facing an
audience.
SRA T. Gait left Montreal for England yesterday
with Finance Minister Iiley.
Mr. Thurlow Weed was in Albany yesterday cele-
brating his eighty-irst birthday.
DR.. Smg. United States Army one of the survivors
of the Modoc war, is in New York
Senator Thurman hes entirely recovered, and he
will be in Washington on the 10Th.
The Emperor William has been told not to return
very to Berlin for good health.
Chief Judge Sanford +. Church, Of the Court of
Appeals. is at the Grand Central Hotel.
Ben Butler is still in favor Of paper money. He
thinks the wad in the gun kills the bird.
In Memphis street twelve ladies'. Eleven
out of the twelve were clad in mourning.
London Truth says that public opinion is formed by
people between forty and fifty years of age.
A cable despatch from Darmstadt says that the
Grand Duke OF Hessc is sick with diphtheria.
Mr.. j. II. de Hegermann Iindencrone Danish Min
lister at Washington. is at the Brcvoort House.
The latest candidate for the United States Senate
from Nevada has just struck the forty-foot level.
Why is 1t that when. 10y mistake. lady gets into
smoking car. she has to turn up her and talk
much while she is trying to escape to another carr
The Thanksgiving gobbler is strut,ing about the
barnyard notwithstanding the injunction that when
yon think you standing you should beware lest
you fall
A complimentary banquet was given last night st
Chicago to Professor Elisha Gray. recognition of
his services to teegraphy in connection with the in
vention Of the telephone.
On a certain ridge of Kearsarge Mountain, in Cali
fornis. there is place where, at about midday the
rumble Of trains the Southern Pacific Railroad, lao
miles distant. may be heard.
The Cathedral Chapter and parish priests of the
diocese of Dublin viii meet on the 2sth inst, to
lect three names from which the Pope may choose a
successor to the late Archbishop Cullen.
If any country editor will start column of funny
items, quoting oil the paragraph columns in the
country. and putting silly original item at the
top. he will be reqroted and will gain reputation
for wit
The Right Hon Edward Gibson, Attorney General
for ireland, has declined to succeed Lord Justice
Christian Judge of Her Majestys Court of Appeal.
and Mr.. Gerald titzgbbon Solicitor General for Ire
land. has been appointed to fill the vacancy.
Congressman-elcct Ketcham Of waddell's old North
Carolina district. writes that. being q grecnbacker.
he cannot go into caucus with any political
ganzation. The United States will never be able to
get along unless KetchaiI changes his mind.
London TruM:-"K men and women had become
accustomed TO the beauties OK what Mr. Rathbone
calls the ideal nuc. there is very little question that
we should longer the distorted waists and other
malformations OF the body which fashion has pre.
crbed and which have led to the sacrifice OF
human lives"
London Worid;--"Elcgy in an Irish country church
yard overheard last week. Sorrowing 'widow-man
has just erected the ivariabe draped in memory
Of the late iacsns ror TO him critical old lady, hay
ing duly inspected the saIne:-'An nigant monye-
inent it is, sor nate patterned water jug as
liver see. aud cane white towel reposin peaceful
like the top av it. Well well. its herself the
| orderly woman: the heavens be her bed!'"