The New York herald., 1878-09-14
PERSONAL INTELLIG. NCE.

Ting-ahI.ing is a Chinese belle.
The War Oflce at Berlin has adopted the telephone
tor fold service
Queen Victoria likes to travel by night She suffers
little from fatigue.
Americans are plentiful the Rhine, and they arc
liked by hotel Keepers.
Al Guernsey Victor Hugo has a writing chamber
the root OF his house.
Senator }. d. Cameron, OF Pennsylvania, arrived
last evening At tho Brevoort House.
Al ST. Noritz ono recent August Sunday were Mme.
Ri,tori and Miss Kate Field ut tho Icy spring
Londoncrs do not ike the namc Vaudeville for q
play yhouse, and Inc hackmen call It devil
Lord Beaconsaold's physician, who was sum mmoned
from Lonaon Berlin during the Congress- presented
a bill for 50, SEQ.
English travellers arc Fastening toward the Alps
Il may be well tell tourists that The Alpine
horn is not cocktail.
The State Deparmen has prepared the com mission
OF Colonel John S. Mosby Consul At Hong Kong
Tho salary Is $1,000 a yea.
London Truth:- "Thors are persons who gain credit
for being and better than others simply because
they affect an appreciation OF wordsworth.'
wilhonj, tho violnist, with young Maurice Stra.
kosch arrived hero the steamer Celtic yesterday
Tho virtuoso will appear at Scinway Hall the 23i
inst.
A Hindoo ut Simla has boon sentenced to eighteen
months Imprisonment for saying that the world will
como to end next year. II II should happen to
como TO end theu the judgs will be sorry.
Attorney General Devens, Commissioner Le Due
and the party who accompanied him West have
turned TO Washington, has also Colonel Rogers, tho
Presidents private secretary, who has been absent
about six weeks.
New Haven oii.cr has invented new police.
mans club. II has u sheath Of BRASS coored 10 re-
sembls rosewood and SO fastened with springs thnt
when a rough scizes IT, IL slips of, leaving the club
all ready for use.
MISS Annie Rosecrans, the youngest daughter OF
General Rosecraus, received the white veil Sop
tembcr 6, In the Convent OF tho Ursulines, Brown
county, Ohio. Tho Rigbt Rev. Bishop Rosecrans VS.
present his coug gratulatons TO hts Niece but
arrived too late TO confer the veil.
Latckeye:-"A man may sneer at woman all he
win because she can't sharpen lead pencil, but she
has the smile on him when he stands holding n.
occupied sCspcn button In hts hand and wonder
ing whether II will hurt less pull the needle out of
his thumb tue samo way II went In or push 1t
through"
Alexandra Dumss has Paris house TAR away from
noses II is OF BRICK faccd with white stone There
are pictures aud sta,uary from hall TO garrett Hc-
says that the surroundings OF the writer should DO OF
the best His library Is mere booxcase--works on
ply sioiogy being the most numerous HIS paper-
weights are marble bronze models OF hands lady
| friends.
London World 'sTbe 'iiie OF the sisters Brone
ought written tears; and perhaps is In ar-
cordancs with the fitness OF things that of them
should hnd resting place In dismal plot Of GROUND,
by no means suggestive Of Gods acre, overhan ging
the German still hardly likes TO discover
close by tho dusty roadside neglected grave marked
by u worn ana SINKING stone, with an almost oblit.
| Grated epitapb: --'Herc Ne the remains OF Anne
Bronis daughter Of tho R~v. Brontc, incumbent OF
Haworth, In Yorkshire. She died, aged 2s, May 2s,
lsls' And this brief ana melancholy record Is all
| that tells Of the tomb or Acton BeL'"
"SoSIA," "SAvgLLfs ExpfATiox There Is sti
some virtue Left Ia France whsn the novels OF Henri
Grcvle hold SO promlnent place III public esteem
and if tho rspidty with which the TRANSACTIONS follow
each other Is any evidence tho readers In THE
Try are entirely given over TO tho sensuous. The
OF their appearance tall tho novels are
| pictures Of social aud domestic LIE In Russa) nrst
brought them into notice. but they have charm In
dependent OF nero curiosity There is vitality IN
the personages, and tho scenes and incidents
such interest that the reader not
tionai that lends piquint relish 70 other Frcncn
novels. To hint at the plot Will take away from tho
reader onchaf the pleasure bc will md In the perusai
of sssonla" aud "avell,'s Expiation," rendered In
such pure id,omaic English by Mrs. Mary Neal shcr-
| wood that thero Ia LETT trace OF their foreign
| origin. Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia