The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-23
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

In Scotland the trade of whiskey making is in
creasing.
The fan is mother of pearl and satin and costs
about $40.
At Lyons. France q book has been woven in silk.
letterpress and all.
English politicians look upon Canada mere
paradise for sportsmen.
The Pope, it is said. will make a cardinal Of Arch
bishop Eyre. of Scotland. during this week.
Next month Queen Victoria will become great
grandmother before she is sixty years of age.
Ex-Postmaster General Jewell and W. Otway. of the
British Legation at Washington are at Montreal.
Louise Chandler Mouton tells the AHennum that il
is the fashion for American poets to take to editing
The President has recognized Camilo A. Carrizosa
as Consul Of the United States Of Colombia at Phila
delphia.
The largest number OF notes ever paid into the
Bank of England in day was $1,000. and this was
done one day last month.
The fact that member of the royal house of Eng
land has been sent to Canada has probably postponed
annexation to the United States for great many
years.
Scotchmen with - 900 miles Of herring nets catch
every year S43.2 5000 herrings, while the gannet
birds take 1.110.OOOOoO and tho Goldfish eats
O,4O0. 900.
There have been fourteen Englishmen who have
filed the Office of Poet Laureate. majority of them
have not been the first poets Of their age by any
means If Tennyson should live longer than next
year he will be the only one who will have held the
Office for thirty years.
There is joke among officers of the English navy
to the effect that midshipman who reported for
duty on board ship told by the captan-"Well,I
suppose that Of old they have sent the biggest
fool of the family" NO." replied MILDLY, "the
fashion has changed since your day.
Hon. Mr.. Mason. Minister of the Militia. who was
attacked with fit in the House Of Commons at
Ottawa, Friday afternoon. while smoving address
OF coincidence in French to the Queen on the death
Of Princess Alice. has not yet recovered. It is said
that he had second fit yesterday. and that he will
probably leave shortly for France.
Ralph Disraeli. brother of Lord Beaconsfeld, Is
old man. living IN obscurity. He strolls about old
gardens with book in his hand. He goes into no
society and is among tho list of guests at
Beaconsfeld's house. He has q small public Office
put will give no information about himself his
marriage.
M. Jacob. a clever Paris detective. said that no
could always recognize q man. no mattor what
bis disguise. simply by tho expression of his eyes,
On occasion, bet. he went to the jail Of La
Roquette. and from i've hundred more convcts
dozen paraded in coverlets and hoods. that
only their eyes could bo He named each ono
he passed.
London Spectatoy:-"The reluctance Of most men
to leave without buying q shop where they have
given little trouble and their wives contempt Of
them for that reluctance are two unexplained facts
in English human nature The men. IL merchants
brokers' would all the dealers samples in
their trade, test them microscopes to them,
ask worrying questions about them. and then Alb
stain from buying without pang; and the women
far more considerable under other circumstances
~, 1,rx,o a.
a shop and then bow herself out contented. while
man looks hot and feels more than half ashamed
1t is absolutely necessary to be rid Of that feeling IL
you are to shop artistically."