The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-23
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mr.. Wendell Phillips. of Boston. is at the st. Denis
Hotel.
The Yonkers Ga-ette is hereby informed that q
frozen ham is not a cold shoulder.
The wedding Of the Duke OF Connaught will take
place in .semi state ut Windsor either on Tuesday
March IL. Thursday March IS.
A Cincinnati man. who is music mad. writes to the
Enquirer. asking whether Ralph Waldo Emerson il
the manager of Emersons Mnstrels.
Cincinnati is music mad. Whenever any other city
has in opera the editors take out their pens
ann write 'Sce what you all for not being Gin
cinnati."
Prepare to laugh. Here is q side-splitting and
rather new joke from London Judy :-.strange. but
true. Matrmony is frequently nothing more
less than u matter-o' money"
Cleveland wretch, signing himself "Molecule.'
writes to us asking whether that which We call flour
would by any other name smell as wheat. There is
grain OF sense in this question
Men OF decided con victions-convicts.- Nccbuyy
port Heratd Men OF scents-perfumers.-B
Post. Men of parts-divorce lawyers.-Ciaaaaati
Commercial. Men OF many nds-phrenologists.
The Rev. Thomas X. Beecher of Elmira. asks
whether. since we after death to become dust,
ashes earth it is better to become by the short
and clean way of cremation by the long and nasty
usual way.
Ereaiag Observation-Disclosures Tyndau will be in.
terestcd know that Senator Wade Hampton attrib-
utcs the successful healing Of his broken leg
amputaon to the prayers of his friends, and parti
cularly of the Methodist clergy
London Punch :-"'Bcg pardon. sir! But I've just
caught these two young rascals making slide in
front of doorstep. and they say US yon EN-
permission It's quite correct did. policeman.
Tho fact is. expect my mother-in-.Aw to luncheon
London Word:-"The General (Grmt) expressed to
Lord Napier his high admiration of the troops. He
had seen none in Europe well disciplined. Their
firing pleased him. They had learned lie said.
he watched the manGuvres. how to fire low and fire
slowly"
Detroit Free Press: -"When people write iattering
Biographies of powerful magnates they, of course
pcct something from the fatterei subjects. The BIZ
ographcr of Hayes got nice place. and now that Mr..
Conway has written a history Of the devil no doubt
but the future will show"
Here and there in parts of the country you
find some of the good old fashioned people sticking
to the royal old fannelbound hot brick, which they
put into the bottom Of the sleigh when they start
out. The old usually gets home. however. with
the brick wrapped up in his hat.
10 the busy housewife who stands in the market
stall looking at the great punches of rabbits ready
for pie stew there comes only sense of the prac
teal. But did you ever stand Of chill twilight
the white hillside, with its background of BARE dark
naples. and. the cold sun slipped down under its
clouds Of btonze and vermilion. the little dun
rabbit putting the gentlest Of taleteng tracks in
the snow?
Vicar General Bessoncs, of Indianapolis, last
week said speaking Of his little log church,
Father Neirinck q noted man in the
Catholic Church in its early days. He lived
at Bardstown in 1s24-5. and told his par
ishioners that when bitten by rattlesnakes they
should come to him to be cured. He gave med3.
cine; merely blessed them and they departed cured.
After he had left and gone tho far West it is
said the bells chimed midnight without the help
of mortal hands and found that he had died ut
that very hour in his new location. All, he was
a;ptft