The New York herald., 1879-11-23
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Evening Nail of yesterday THE Clerk Of
the Weather is mysterious parsonage upon
whose devoted head visited all the faults
of the sky Tor those virtues which to our
nyopic view faultsl. but moro pal
pable official of the weather Is its Corresponding
Secretary. the HERALD. The European correspond
ence OF this assistant of. the Chief Clerk Of the
Weather has proved tself wonderfully reliable. as
facts, based on mathematical calculations and not
hypotheses, founded ON theories or evolved by
chance, are transmitted to Old World friends.
The HERALD publishes this morning long extract
from the article in the Geemsas Nagazine, to which
the Evening Mail has already referred confirming.
by an independent Judgment resulting from actual
investigation in England of American progrostica-
tions the truth of tho HERALDs prophecies Similar
verfcation from uninterested person. and one no
less worthy Of confidence and we'll known in the
scientific world than M. Simonin who writes in
L'Independence Beige We congratulate our contem-
porary on this grand success Of its able weather
service, and claim It's work in this department as
bringing general honor to o.American Journalism and
enterprise.
Kearney has played out.
German boys have no public games.
The Baron Won Ende has sailed for Europe.
The idea of Gerster singing lullabys to baby
The hour for dinner in Paris is at haf-past seven
p. M.
The Irish of county westmeath are likely to return
a jew.
Rich people in England not spending
much money because they think that they fear Lord
Beaconsiold's policy.
Colonel John Hay yesterday assumed tho duties
of Assistant Secretary OF State the President having
signed his commission.
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-JournaI.
thinks that in the next election three four South
orn States may 90 for tho republicans.
It is reported that Major De wintons visit to
Winnipeg is in connection With the expected visit ct
tho Marquis Of Lorne and Princess Louise next
summer.
Atlanta, Ca, wishes to have the next National Re-
publican Convention. Atlanta is tho place where
the frst republican convention Of Georgia held
after the war.
There ia a good deal of In tho eminent scholar
who recently said that he prefers tho kind OF review
,vhich tells what o book contains. Ho had owl
dontlv been reading the headlines in modern news
papers.
Mr.. Adams, OF the Washington Star. says that tha
south is solid against Tilden, that Bayard aud Han
cock are the democratic favorites. and that II Grant
should be elected. he may dsappoint tho old ropub.
lican ring.
London Wortd:-"Scrmons may be made as inter-
csting as any other form of literary composition but
some pains must be taken to make them SO; and
that with tho Of the PERIOD is exactly whas
IL not DONE"
An English dramatic critic says. speaking of Shy
lock in the Merchant of Venice" :"There is somo-
thing grandly pathetic in the ixoi calm of the jew
as he stands in the judgment hail. figure Of Fate
inexorably persistent. demanding the penalty of his
bond; no is Furnishing bankrupt
debtor; IL he avenges private injuries he also repre-
sents nation seeking atonemont for centuries OF
wrong BY what technical quibble Is he denied
justice ana trickcd out of both penalty and princi-
pail What pitifu cur is dratiano to yclp at his
heelsi Ones sympathies follow tho o fled and
prosecuted Jew a. he slowly wthdraws from tho
courts II is impossible to feel much interest In the
reeasc from peril of that very duh parsonage An
tonio."