The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-19
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Ben Hill and Alexander H. stephens are bitter enc
mics.
Colonel W. f. shaffer. Of San Francisco is at the
Hotel Brunswick
The negroes of Washington are suffering greatly
from the cold of winter.
The President has recognized Giovanni Battista
Ratio as Consul General of italy at New York.
Sir Edward Thornton and family have been visit
ing Niagara Falls, which icily pretty just now.
superintendent Smyth. Of the Insurance Depart
ment offers to resign if the insurance companies
say
Kearney says that in San Francisco the women
drink more than the men and he not talking
about tea either.
p. s. O'Brien, the reputed brother Of the dead
bonanza king is reported to be still disappearing
from place and another.
Mrs. Hayes Saturday receptions will be from three
until I've p. NJ. that persons the Of the
line will have to push the others ahead little.
Detroit Free Hjamar Hjorth Boyesen
hopes to get us to pronounce his name Yalmar Yort
Boye-sen, but wejll sjee him in HjaljfJx first"
Senator Thurman always drops little Of the judi
cial dignity to get into the lower stratum Of
politics. and he is one of the few men who can do
this dropping we'll
The monument to the American, Captain Ward.
who became COMMANDMENT Chief of the Chinese
army, is very costly, ana has on its top ever
growing lily, which is watered every day.
In Georgia politics likely to be broken into
parts by the opposition Of Governor Colquitt,
old time democrat and Ben Hill. who represents tho
old whig element. Hill is q sort OF Kilkenny cat
whom nobody can find out.
Morrison, of Illinois. was very much Of a man at
one time in Congress- but failed because he is const-
tutionally slow. But he thinks he may be Speaker.
ana he is in favor Of Bayard for President. which
democrats.
daisy Dcwdrop'' writes asking that bread crumbs
be thrown into the streets for the sparrows. We
give her request; but we doubt. without rashness.
whether these chattcrng little nuisances
ought to be fed. The question always is whether
they really nuisances
Senator Christiancy. of Michigan. who made Q
phenomenon by being elected over Zach Chandler
in the neutrality-suspicious. movement. and who made
a sensation and little cheap talk by marrying girl
clerk, is sixty-fve years old. He free
soiler and very much Of radical intellectual politi
clan in his State
New Workers quite long ago got rid Of the idea that
il they had any good butter it came from Orange
county, n. " Orange county butter is good. but it
is about scarce considering the number of people
eat it, Saddle Rock oysters Yet in New Or.
leans the superstition remains about ''Goshen''
Orange county, butter
Senator Edmunds has been growing rapidly of late
as possible candidate on the republican side for
the Presidency Mr. Edmunds is of our half.
dozen big (if he were dead should say great men.
For who is spoken Of magnetic" as.
for instance Blaine is he is wonderfully Thought
about" because he has weight in discussion, When
he rises to speak in the Senate any Question the
noisy little mice who have somehow got into that
body keep quiet. He is hardly man to swing torch
lights around. and he would have made good CHIEF
justice.
ErsRin9 Te'egram.-"A correspondent in Salem.
Mass, sends us some statistics about Miss Sally
Nichols, cstimable lady who died there last week
at the age of seventy years, which will be in
tcrcsting to female pedestrians. She began to take
regular walks for exercise in 1923. and continued
them without the interrnsson of u single day till
near the end of 1878. During those fifty years. 40
cordng to register which she kept carefully. she
walked 1902 mes--never more than twenty nor
less than five miles day. On rainy days she paced
up and down barn floor This is better example
for imitation than Mrs. Andersons.''