The New York herald., 1879-12-24
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Minks destroy fish.
General Sherman loves society.
Boston artists very sociable and clannish.
The German likes to buy his fish while it is alive.
Aconite in right quantities will cure distemper in
dogs.
Attorney General Charles Devens is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
Among the youths Of Boston greater number of
boys than girls study art but only as pastime.
Secretary Of War Ramsey has but one child. Mrs.
Furniss. who married the son of celebrated Uni
tartan theologian.
The New Haven Register says that when man has
rheumatism in his knees he knows the value of
gate without hinges.
It was lady of Philadelphia who upon asking the
price Of postal card inquired whether she could
not send an embroidered valentine instead.
Mr.. W. W. Corcoran says that the full length por-
trait Of Washington in the White House is only
poor copy Of the original by Stuart which ia at Now
port.
Washington Territory boasts an apple which mea-
sured sixteen and onehalf inches round and weighed
three pounds. the exact weight Of ounce from At
lanta, Ga.
While bystander on q fashionable street Of Bos-
ton taking notes he saw in an hour and . half
fifty 1--we people who wore eyeglasses. Thirty-four
were ladies and twenty-one were men.
The Tile Club Of New York. which meets fort
nightly at tho studio of celebrated photographer.
sketches tiles. the pictures becoming the prop
erty Of tho member Of the club who that evening
pays in his turn the expenses for crackers, cheese
and beer
Senator Morrill, recently in the Senate introduced
Ex-Governor Dillingham;. Of Vermont. to Senator
Hamlin Of Maine. and was surprised almost to tears
to the two old chaps embrace each other and
claim PAUL" and "Hannibaii" The Ex-Governor 10
Fc<b ~ Gar att Oar
consin.
London Woyid:-"Sir Leopold McClintock. Of Arctic
celebrity hoists his flag on board the new frgste
Northampton as commander-in-c Of the North
American and West Indian squadron. The gallant
Admiral will sail from Spithead the Goth Of De-
cember. and. contrary to the general rules Of the
service. will be accompanied to Bermuda by Lady
McClintock ami his children"
Many who attended Professor Huxley's lectures in
New York three years ago were unable to under
stand the stress laid by him upon the evidence
which the genealogy of the horse affords in favor
of the general doctrine Of biological evolution.
His prediction that this evidence, decisive even
| ss he advanced 1t. would be confirmed by fresh
archaeological discoveries, until those
least able to follow his reasoning would be
| convinced, was made subject Of especial ridi-
cule-ridicule we'll justified in one sense. though
not exactly in the intended. The prediction
has been amply confirmed, far the discoveries
/ Huxley anticipated are concerned. but he was
| altogether mistaken in supposing It would con-
vince those ignorant Of com parative anatomy They
reject as of yore the evidence which satisfies bet
| ter informed persons though 1t is to bo noticed
that they limit their objections to objurgation.
avoiding las in their is wise) tho effective
| weapons OF reasoning and argument. Science owes
| 10 American paleontoloRist the additional evi
| dence which Professor Huxley promised. The Eng
lsh scientist able to show only the recent
ancestors Of tho horse carrying back the series to
| the protohippus hipparion. and the miohippus
or anchitherium the former three-toed, the latter
having three toes and the splint Of fourth. In the
| hipparion the additional toes had already become
| too small to be of service. but the anchtherium
may perhaps havc been able to all three toes in
walking, though probably not In rapid running.
Professor Marsh Of Yale College. has added to the
series some remoter ancestors of the horse the
mesohippus. which had three usable toes and the
splint of another each foot; the orohppus which
had four well developed toes each Of its fore fee
but three only on the hind feet and the eohippus.
which had four we'll formed toes and the rudiments
of another tho fore feet and three behind. II is
| noteworthy that the animal changed gradually
| by development from hve-toed ancestor mot yet
! discovered. though competent to form
opinion now questions its exisence to the present
onc-toed form. It increased gradually in size note
worthy also that In recent Of reverson. rs in
the famous leigh footed Cuban horse (realy two
| tocd on each FOOT the animal thus abnormaliy
| formed has in evory case been bolow tho average
| haipht.