The New York herald., 1879-07-03
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Secretary Evarts is at the Brevoort House.
Jelly makers play the kettle in brass band.
The Newport skating rink opens on Saturday.
Edwin Booth will spend part of the season at New
port
The Marquis de Chambrun is at the Union Square
Hotel.
Ex-senator Stanley Matthews. of Ohio. is at the
Windsor Hotel.
The Congressman all running for home. go
as you please
Secretary Thompson will leave Washington shortly
for an extended trip to his home in Indiana.
Secretary Sherman will go to Maine and from there
to Ohio. He will make one or two speeches in each
State
George Macdonald. the novelist, is going to give
dramatic representations of Bunyan's ..Pngrim $
Progress"
The President does not smoke and does not offer
cigars to his guests. whom he receives the south
ern portico Of the White House.
Blaine is among the lumbermen and political log
rollers of Maine. He is laying in q good stock Of
chips to be knocked off his shoulder next winter
Mary Andersons new dark bay six x-year-old mare ia
trained to every saddle gait and can trot to buggy
by lady driver in $40. It has been sent to Long
Branch. Its sire was Hunters Lexington.
Congressman s. s. Cox. of this city. is to be re-
ceived to-day by the Boston letter carriers and en-
advocating the bin in their that has just be-
come law.
Senators Francis Herman, of New York. Ambrose
E. Burnside and Henry b. Anthony. Of Rhode Island
Justin 8. Morrill,. of Vermont, and n p HILL OF
Colorado. arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hoel yester-
day. from Washington. Senator Herman left the city
last evening for his home at Utica.
The vacation for church fairs has begun.
The rubicund strawberry has begun to belong to
the pallid past and the deacons the seaside are
looking down into the blue depths to catch an in
quistive sight of the little lone oyster who is to
make a sensation in next winters stew.
Pail Mall Gazene:-"On the evening of q bright
spring Sunday. IL you stroll through the Summer
Park of St. Petersburg, while the nches twiter-
ing in the fir trees and band Of of the Guards
regiments Is discoursing music, you will behold Q
number Of Russians stretched out on their backs on
the grass. with their hands folded behind their
heads and their CHEEKS bathed bitter tears you
imagine they have been bullied by their wives or
bothered by the tax collector. console yourself; for
they are simply peaceable citizens enjoying them
selves in their own way. They have come out for q
days holiday: they have drunk little vodki eaton
little ham and some apple cakes; perhaps they
have firted. and they luxuriating with their
faces toward the sky and their open to the music
of that brass band which speaks to then maybe, of
q nappy lanu Deyonu TINS, where there IL no snow
ami police. taxes and no wars-perhaps not
even a Cxar--but only fair women and cheap drinks
aud plenty of repose grass smelling sweetly of
dew and buttercups."
Court Circular: "Here is good story of the late
King Of Italy, IL Re Galantuomo.' ~ his subjects
liked to call him. Going to the theatre night
gray coat the King observed that the daughter of
the Emperor OF Russia and the Princess Margherita
in the house He must pay visit to the for
eign Princess, and it too late to return to the
Quirnal to change his dress. am all black but tho
coat he said to his atendants If some one would
lend coat! He espied q young marquis,
one of his aides-de-camp. near. and sent for
him. The coat quickly exchanged, but a
white tie was still wanting. The marquis offered
his; but Victor Emmanuel seeing one of his SER
wants ut the door OF the box with fresher one,
walked up to him and silently took of his tie and
fastened 1t himself, then brushing his hair at the
glass he said. DO look King of ItayY This
familiarity, in which he occasionally indulged, did
not involve a loss of dignity. for he knew how to
check any undue presumption. Once a Roman
noble whose sympathies rather with the old
regime than the now, sad:--I wonder Your Majesty
drives in the Corso: we Roman princes do not go.
And we, King of Italy. CO. replied Victor En-
manuel, with . stately dignity which he could as
anne when occasion req uuired