The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-17
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mr.. Gladstones detractors charge him with being
an indscreet man.
Captain Brooks. of the steamer City of Chester.
sailed for Europe yesterday
The Sergeant-at-Arms Of the British House of
Commons has held his office for forty-three years
DIR, J. p. Thompson. of Berlin lies dangerously
i'll ut the house of friend ut Tulse Hill, London
Lord Beaconsfeld has advised Queen Victoria to
make Lord Lytton an earl tor his services in the
Afghan
At Mini Novgorod. where General Ignatief was
ordered, the fashionable drink is q mixture Of Dub
lin stout and Clquot. 81.
The doctors of Homburg. where many equity
people go to be cured. will not permit their patients
to eat salmon, ecls or potatoes.
An Italian ut Turin has agents throughout his
country buying up vegetables at low prices and
sending them to st. Petersburg.
President Grevy is about to make q speechless
visit to the south Of France. The London papers
think that he has taken General Grant his model.
At Arcachon and Barritz ladies' in bad weather
wear the wooden sabots or clog Shoes made very
light-some of mahogany. with silver ornaments in
front.
General Bob Toombs, Of Georgia. attended tho
Athens University when boy. and he was expelled
for having q fist fight with another boy. He is now
member Of the Board of Trustees Of that university
George William Curtis is credited with saying that
Whereupon tine Buffalo Express is constrained to
that it is time the ladies get out of the
way.
Victor Hugo has got idea. He says that
in the twentieth century war. capital punishment.
monarhy. dogmas and frontiers would all disap-
pear. There would be for oil great country, the
EARTH and one great hope. heaven.
M. Paul Bert, the great Paris Psychologist, who
was lately sued land who his suit for causing
for vivsection in his laboratory. is public enemy
of the Jesuts and speaks against them when he
When General Tom Ewing was in Maine he made
o speech against Blaine and then spent the night
with the Maine Senator. When Blaine goes to Ohio
to speak against Ewing he will be offered the hospi-
taities of the great greenbacker's house.
On the front of the house where Lincoln died,
when no was carried tho street from the
theatre, has been placed marble tablet giving his
name and the date of his death. The house is now
occupied as the Office of the Washington Sentinel
The Baltimore Gazette asks whether all Americans
selfish when they travel by rail7 If the editor Of
the Gazette will take the trouble to find out where
selfish travellers were born he may discover that
they not ALL but that minority are, Americans.
Mr.. Mitchell, brother Of TX Marvel, has an old
farm house at New London with which he has pro-
duced unique effect by painting it and the fences
and outbuildings in India red. and having yellow
lattice work along the piazza. row of sunfow-
ers adorns the river bank.
Lady Duffus Hardy and Miss Ada Duffus Hardy
visiting Ottawa Lady Hardy is the authorizes
of number of popular novels, as 10 also Miss
Hardy. These ladies have attained high literary
position in England, and now tour through
Canada and the United States.
CovrhiH tells of man who. being bitten by q cat
which died of hydrophobia. attacked by symp-
toms Of the disease; and he cured himself by taking
violent physical exercise in the open air. although
he suffered greatly. His physician says he was
cured by a violent effort of the will
Colonel John b. Brownlow. of the late Senator
Browniow, who originally appointed to the In.
ernal Revenue service at the instance Of Secretary
Sherman. has accepted position in the Treasury
Department rendered him three months ago, equal
in value to that vacated in the Internal Revenue
service.
London World thinks that the constant appeal to
the military abilities Of Sir Garnet Wolseley who
was taken from his cabbage garden in Cyprus to go
to the Zulu war. is humiliating confession on the
part of England of its poverty OF military talent
The fact that Sir Garnet too late to win victory
is looked upon by the World great bit Of salts
faction and the knowledge of it national gain.
One of the severest pieces OF literary castgation
that we have read for long time is London Truths
article Lord stratford de Radcliffe. and it is
the softer because it is well written. From it We
learn. without any chance for doubt that the noble
diplomatst is not only man of angry passion, but
that he has always shown. himself to be a bully
And yet the old man. at the age Of nearly ninety
two. is studying the evidences of Christianity.