The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Paul H. Hayne. the Georgia poet has been visitino
Boston.
Gambetts advocates the scheme for restoring ron.
lette in France.
Secretary Thompson viii return to Washington
from Indiana tonight.
Secretary Sherman says General Grant never had .
truer friend than he is
Senator Blaine says 1t is no to talk to him about
Presidential candidates.
Lady Florence Dixie. famous in tho hunting field.
has taken to poetry and politics.
Senator Hoar says wages higher in Massachu.
sets than in any State in the Union.
1t is rumored that Prince Leopold Is to be created
Prince of Mar-the island. not the biped.
Cardinal Manning rules his priests with Q rod Of
IRON and Is styled the Moltke of clercalism.
The steamship Gallia arrived last night. Miss
Adelaide Nelson tho actress is among her passen.
gers.
In the opinion of the Cincinnati Gazette real estate
is soon bound to share in the general revival Of bust
The late Sir Rowland Hill dictated the invitations
for his funeral. encouraging the penny post to
the end
The marriage Of Miss Bette Evarts daughter of
the Secretary of State will take place during the
holidays.
Ex-Congressman Hardenbcrg will deliver the adj
dress before the Bergen County Agricultural Society
on Wednesday.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes is to have o comph.
mentary dinner given to him by the publishers of .
certain magazine.
George Eliot is said to be in very precarous state
Of health She is at present residing at her country
house near Godamng.
The author OF THAT Lass o. Lowrie's" is the wife
of Washington physician. and they are both very
plain and Woodworking people.
JuIea simon tho statesman hates the radicalg md
loves good living. Honce the French extremists c.
him ''Simon 10 scelerat" and tho English "Simt n
the Ccllarer.'
II has been discovered by many married couples
in an Indiana town that tho so-called minister who
for years has been joining them together never had
legal or u church license.
Norddeutsche Augemeine Zeitung:-"The Rev. DR..
Thompsons grave in the Jerusalemer Kirchhof will
be visited by many in thankful remembrance. May
German soil rost lightly him. He has richly
morited tho laurel and the palm branch which we
have placed upon his grave"
Tho favorite daughter of General Sherman is en-
gagged to be married to q lieutenant in the navy.
She q Catholic Of the very liberal kind. and so
good horsewonan is she that in jaunt Of thirty
two miles she has been known to como back freshs
while the half dozen young officers who escorted
her entirely used up.
stuart Robson says that Bret Harto is not lazy. but
SLOW fastidious, sef-crtical and frightened. Even
when Harte was q reporter on San Francisco news
papers, ut hack work. he would labor little
paragraph for hours. While Harte was writing Two
Men of Sandy Bar Robson and Barrett had hard
work TO keep him ut his pen. and he would DO two
or three days fashioning littlo speech.
The "language Of flowers" is not always iowcry or
polite language, as the following episte. sent by
Newport florist to gentleman who had misaid or
overlooked his BILL will show
NEWPORT Sept. "a, 1879
from you say that always keep tho iadc.
in my experience. whom the gentlemen forgot to settle
and give this notice. that should you fail sotc up
going this time. will certainly present BILLS
to the several ladies to whom you bouquets, and
have doubt they will pay for thom -.
London Worid:-"Thc high schools which II
Ia the fashion for girls to attend doing almost
much mischief rs could be effected wore they suf-
fered to remain in state of the most unenlghtenod
ignorance. Women agreeable comprehension
other words. tolerablo wives--in tho long run.
cordng as they possess and display an intelligent
interest in tho affairs with which their husbands
chiefly conccrned in proportion. that is ms thein
intellectual sympathies aud perceptions are
tanned the alert II IL the cultivation of tho
ceptive and assmilative quality In womans
turc which Is tho most important feature In hel
education and is this feature which has yet to
esvo the attention that II its DUE"