The New York herald., 1879-12-14
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


A good many Western elopements railroad ties.
London has two mixed clubs of ladies and gentle
The man who walks fastest hasn't the most busi-
ness.
Secretary of the Navy Thompson is fond of horse.
back riding
An oxford professor speaks of the female students
as ''he girls"
The father of warmoth. Of Louisiana. poor
Illinois farmer.
Senator William Window. Of Minnesota. Is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Senator Blaine passed through Boston last night
on his way to Washington.
Lord Aylesbury won 100000 on the English races
In the second November week. p.
Walters frequently praise kinds OF food which
they never in their lives tasted.
little girl who eating her first white grapes
said that she had handful Of heaven.
The London professional beauties do not love one
another as the Bible says they should.
Ex-senator Dorsey. Of Arkansas. has made new
fortune of nearly million of dollars.
The Chinese chair at Harvard is q sinecure. no
pupils having yet presented themselves
An English writer says OF mannish girls that ho
expects to find them trying to enter the army.
Seiior Zamacona. the Spanish Minister at Washing
ton is building skating rink in the of his resi-
dence.
Senators Anthony and Burnside live in the same
house in Washington. They are called the twin
Senator'S.
The deepest mine on the Pacific slope or in Amer
ica is the Becher which has attained avertcal depth
OF 5000 feet.
At the place Of tho Prince Of Wales at sandring.
ham the keepers always give rabbit 10 whomso-
ever asks for It. but poaching Is not permitted
Barring Gould says that literary women In Germany
have been treated with fairness, and that by
common consent they have been hunted down.
An exchange says that George Washington and his
Cabinet did not 60 around the country making
stump speeches and addressing little country fairs.
An English physician reports many instances
within his experience where the boxing of chdrens
ears by parents and teachers has resulted in deaf
si
Colonel NJ. Lewis Clarke. Jr.. president of the
Louisville Jockey Clup arrived in town last evening
and is stopping with friends at No. 1S7 Madison
avenue
The phrase 'the bright. consummate flower" is
used a figure of speech by Wendell Phillips. Haw-
thorne Emerson. Bacon and we do not know how
many others.
Kellogg. of Louisiana. born in Vermont but
spent most OF his life before the war in Illinois,
whence he went as colonel in the Union army. He
has large investments In Chicago. ts
Victor Hugo indorses the opinion Of Goethe. that
o man who would gain literary fame and who would
write with purity should know no other language
than that of the country in which he lives.
London TruM:-"The only way to reform gang
of thieves break up the gang So 1t is with the
ruling Turks; corruption is their raison detre. To
reform Turkey you must get rid Of the Turks
Saturday Rsuieto:-"Altogether backers Of horsos
must. we should think have passed q most unpleas
ant year; and. II the rain ceased during the latter
part Of the racing season. their i'll luck faithfully
accompanied them to the end"
It s becoming the fashion for successful novests
in Paris have their works adapted to the stage by
q professional playwright. while they themselves
keep in the background. and satisfied with
share Of one-half in the financial proceeds.
The case of the boy whose head has been sawed
into is the most illustration of the truth Of
wigan's dual brain theory yet known. whether the
boy should live not. According to wigan the
paralysis of the left side will pass away when the
left brain learns do the work Of control hereto
fore done by the right.
Saturday Review:-"Even an uneducated English
audience would probably receive with laughter or
with hisses those oratorca appeals to national
colt IN which the most cultivated and most
eminent American orators are not ashamed to in.
dulge. and which evidently hnd echo in the
breasts OF their hearers
| Pedestrians are every day hurt and sometimes
boxes which are inconsderately rolled aud hurled
| by porters sidewalks. The porters claim that
| ladies and children must "look spry" for them
| selves. II the porters do not 'look spry" their
| employers may have q few lawsuits on hand.
| Those who remember Kinglakes description Of
| the horsemanshp OF Cardigan and Scsrlett in the
Crimean war. and his ascription of their feats to
the fact that they learned to ride to hounds. will
have their appreciation OF the skill of transat-
| lantic brethren heightened when they read that
| Lord Thyme who is only six years old. recently
| rode SO well to the fore that he awarded the
brush.
Professor Blackie ssys;-''It has always appeared
to great mistake and one of which our British
| Helenists have good reason to be ashamed. that
Greek this country is always talked about Us If it
were q dead language. Modern Greek is not patos
degraded language in any legitimate sense Of the
word; it is the language In which st. Paul de-
hvered discourse to the Athenians from the Hill
Of Mars in the nrst century. with only such slight
variations a. the Of time naturally brinaa