The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-25
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

There are $4,000 English women in India.
Ex-Covernor Fenton. of this State is in Caifornis.
Cetywayo's four wives received each concertna.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron is visiting III Cleveland.
Ohio.
The Queen of England loves the cold weather at
Deeside.
lola works in q big house. in big room and at .
big table,
General Hancock is the guest of General Carroll IN
Washington.
1t is said that the forts on the Thames could be
taken in an hour.
Labouchere calls G. A. Sala the best after dinner
speaker in England.
Mr.. Gladstone is very confident Of coming into
power at IN early day.
In France agents buy up all the numbered seats
for the first night at theatre
Philadephia's Municipal Reform Club has dis
banded. 1t nine years old.
female celebrity has arrived in Monaco who goes
by the name of the Roulette Fiend."
Shrewsbury oysters on the shell are in finer con-
dition than they have been in for several years.
In England an attempt is being made against inc
briefly with an antidote made from cinchona bark.
Mr.. Toombs' death to the Union" despatch is
almost universally repudated by the Southern presss
In London an eminent law firm has telephone COM
munication with some of its most important clients.
French wines late this year and Africa Is
ahead Of Spain for earliness in sending wines to
Paris.
In rural France there is mania for having Eng
lish servants. Governesses treated members
Of the family.
Baring-Gould says:-"An English woman Is
lovely. q French is charming. German
woman is angelic
Glass while at red heat is plunged inso oil and
made hard that mortars and pestles may be man.
uiactured in that way.
We buy steel railway rails in England. England
brings her steel rails from Germany and the ID
taken from England to Germany.
While repairing drain at house in Rome some
workmcn unearthed q large number OF coins OF l450
to 1861 and nearly $4,000 were offered for them.
The electric light. introduced into tho Paris Opera
House for the protection of Mr. Beaudrys paintings,
was tried on Thursday last with complete success.
Mr.. George Augustus Sala. whose popularity ts
having revival among the London critics, will
make tour of the Southern States for the London
Telegraph.
London TruM:-''To come home and end ill
cooked dinner presided over by slatternly wife
in her tantrums is gloomy business. To hear
husband maunder daily the increasing price
of Goals small beer quite as gloomy for the
wife,"
Thomas Hardy:s new novel will be called "The
Trumpet Major" Mr.. Hardy ranks next to William
Black among the novelists Of our day. and would
surpass him. it in his study OF Defoe's style he did
not sacrifice grace to that strength which he thinks
comes from being hard and graphic.
In anticipation Of the visit of General Grant to
Jeddo there appeared sketch OF his life Japanese,
in which the author. after speaking with enthu-
siasm of the achievements Of Gorantu, no
calls the General. addresses his readers in
tho following words:-"Whether We consider the
fox among beasts. or tho phDnix among birds. we
find that even when endowed with unusual abilities
the intelligence OF these is not equal to that Of stupid
old women doltish boys. But men are able il
they choose. cultivate their talents; and there is
who has cultivated his great natural abilities.
is rich in thought. Is admirable in his movements.
is as unfathomabie heaven and earth. and with
whom mother the fox nor the phoenix is for mo-
ment to be compared. Such a one is General Grant.
whose intelligence is commanding to degree, and
whose business capacities are truly grand