The New York herald., 1879-11-15

German music. especially schumann's monotonousIy
sweet airs
What the democrats evidently need is "a scientific
frontier
Senator John p. Jones. of Nevada. is at the st.
James Hotel.
Senator william w. Eaton. of Connecticut. is ct
the New York Hotel.
Senator William Window. of Minnesota. is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
London Truth finds that Sothern's son has none
of the fathers mannerisms and acts without seem
ing to act
In Westphalia apples and potatoes are separately
boiled afterward drained and then mashed to-
gether. with butter and salt. 9i i
German and American soldiers said to have
way of sticking in fight and pegging away after all
other kinds of soldiers would give in.
President Eliot. of Harvard, does not believe in
competitive examinations. He says that it would be
foolish to examine porter in geography when mere
strength and activity are required.
In Chicago some of the fashionable barber
shops customer receives check bearing the num-
ber of his turn. He may go away and return to
claim the place marked ON his ticket.
There is q claim that no French woman, however
low her position in life may be. will at midday put
before her husband a burnt up broiled piece Of
tough beefsteak. with badly boiled potatoes. She
will stow it with fresh herbs and we'll trimmed vege.
tables.
Carleton. who is so great favorite baritone
in America is winning great applause in London
opera. He is really an Engishman. He is usually
amused with descriptions of his black hair and
mustache. which do appear to be such behind the
gas. but which actually of quite another color
Saturday Review:--"In these days whom nearly
every lady is famous novelist and when the
lotw 1no q,
solving acrostics in contributing brilliant paro.
dies to the society journals. it seems emost absurd
to that there be any left in the world
who has not acquired perfect literary style.''
famous English general says that in . British
regiment Of thousand men there are, in his ex.
perence, usually fifty men who. a forlorn hope.
will do anything; that nine hundred men who
would either gape will follow the dfty, and
that the other Atty are ours who would crnge in
ditch If they could.
Select caulhower not marked by frost and boil IL
until is tender. Then cutting of the coarse butts
place parts of the "fower" in small deep dishes with
the tops upward Crate cheese very literally over it
with dash of cayenne and a suspicion Of salt and
bake for breakfast. serving in the Same dishes in
which it was cooked.
Liszt. the greatest Of living pianists, is sixty
eight. AS the great musician is said to be troubled
with warts let him take bit of fine white cobwcb,
roll it into ball the size Of the wart. the top Of
which he will snugly press it aud light it with o
match. The pain from the burning will last ten
seconds at most. and the excrescence will be dead
and will soon remove itself. Some Of his music is
not more intensely painful than this operation.
People who do business in New York and have
their families residing in. suburban cities and viii
lagos sometimes think that they suffer because of the
peculiar position of city. But the following
words from article in the music column Of
one of the leading journals of London "A largo
proportion of the audience being dependent upon
late trains for reaching their homes something like
a stampede occurred toward the end Of the PERFORM
ance.'