The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-19
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Baltimore is to have merchants club.
General Grant brought with him Japanese page.
The Persian salutes you with MAY God cool your
eye."
Count D3nhoff of the German Legation at Wash
ington is at the Brevoort House
traveller on four continents says that the pref
test city in the world is Oakland. Cal.
Ex-Minister Bgelow will entertain great deal at
his residence in Washington this winter.
Max Muller says that eccentric takers are tho
spoiled children of the fashionable world.
The Washington Republic tearfully intimates that
Talmage crack cocoanuts with his teeth.
Less than six in ten thousand Of the population
Ireland are said to be in receipt of pauper relief
How would 1t do to send Charles Francis Adams
to the mission at st. Petersburg that he may
thaw out?
Colonel O. 7. Beard will write lifo Of the late
Zacharah Chandler and the Detroit Post and Tribune
solicits letters and anecdotes.
1t has been estimated that in England and Wales
one person in every l1s arrested for drunkenness
in Scotland one in every 1874; in Ireland in
every Al.
Speaking of the Indian war, a colorlst who says
that in this instance he is color blind. wonders why
the reds make the whites feel blue. Well. it is be-
cause the government is green.
It is remarked that all the candidates for the Ohio
Senatorship now in Washington-namely. ex-
Governor Denison, Ex-Governor Young. ex-senator
Matthews. General Garfield and JudgeT Taft.
Although great deal of the cider sold over coun-
tiers is with avorings and acids. there
has within year two been notable improve
ment in refining bottling and preserving the pure
article.
While photographers sell pictures of the beautiful
rooms of the White House. in which the President
lives executes business and holds receptions there
are critics irreverent enough speak of it cold
shanty."
Knickerbocker gentleman well acquainted with
the characters of local ''hep says:-"Aid q COACH
man to unhitch q trace. the fercest night
and on the next night he will expect that you will
unhitch both traces"
Salicylic acid. which Is extensively used BY
physicians nowadays. is said to produce hemor-
rhages in where the disease does not have
that effect but its best combination is with qunne.
says q high authority.
London TruM:-''H q woman has money to leave
|. she seldom heaps it all individual. favors
men at the cost Of those of her own sex. but she
fairly apportons her wealth among those of her
lstions entitled to it."
There 10 good old devotee in this city who likes
hne living and who especially affects green turtle
soup. He will never eat his green turtle soup
Friday for fear the cook may have adulterated IL
with calves head and mutton broth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has never been considered
as q whose religious beliefs could be classed
with those Of any denomination. The recent
statement Of Bronson Alcott, that Emerson Is In
the full sense of the word Christian Theist. has
raised great in Concord the centre of literary
vanity OF this universe
Pull Mall Gazette:-"If French peasants had large
families Of children like the English and Irish the
subdivision of land would soon resolve itself into
an absurdty; therefore the land question may not
have received It's final settlement among neigh
bors though there can be further change in the
radical direction without touching Communism"
II o man has little pain in his foot he runs to
his family physician for prescription of potash
to be told that he must not drink sherry When he IL
about to hire house he thinks Of asking his
physician, who is generally amiable man II duti.
fully Cross questioned whether he is moving into .
healthy neghborhood whether the house is prop
erly ventilated and drained
Washington Capital 1.-THE intellect necessary to
make great captain is not great. of the finest
fibre. God never intended. did Christ teach.
that the art Of killing should call for the highest
order OF mind or Of the most approved nature The
great captains. therefore, when deprived Of their
uniforms are rather common men, and that Julius
Caesar. Napoleon Bonapartc and George Thomas
were great men. looked at from any point, only
makes the exceptions necessary to prove the rule.