The New York herald., 1879-03-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

O,Leary. heel thyself.
Are the vivandieres brigade dears?
Spring is here and the organ grinders are in bud
The mule is the bird that makes the shoe fly.
Fddles and mortgages. arc now madc in Nov
Jersey.
Dyrons statue is likely to be erected in st. James
Park London.
Mr. George s. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Sir Henry W. Bccher and Lady Becher returned to
the city yesterday from Niagara Falls and are at the
Brevoort House.
Senators Henry b. Anthony and Ambrose E. Burn
side. of Rhode Island and N. P. H of Colorado are
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
London World hos little faith in the religion OF
men who. condemned to be hanged for monstrous
crimes. talk II they the pets OF prospective
paradise.
Now that Princess Louise has been the means Of
making Canadian customs popular in England tho
annexation Of Canada to the United States seems to
have been postponed.
Mr. W. A. Cronut. OF tho Graphic. will this evening
lecture in Science Hall. Eighth street. before tho
Liberal Club. on .Eoast Rat and Nankeen Brceches;
Plea for tho Chinese"
Tho Rev. L. +. Emerson last night resigned his
pastorato Of the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church.
Hartford. Conn.,. because of change OF opinion on
his part on the question of baptism
Labouchero says:-"My recollection of Bismarck,
however. when used TO see good deal OF him at
Frankfort before he great man. Is that no was
very gross feeder; indeed. once saw him devoura
Ash that smel high that it almost made every one
else in the room sick. And then his hands wero
always filthy and he used to paddle them his plate
in o most unpleasant manner. Except for these pc
culiarites he very agreeable man, talking. it ID
true thirteen to the dozen. but with sort OF clever
reckless. daredevil air."
Mrs. Baysrd Taylor and her daughter arrived in
New York yesterday. Mrs. Taylor is in i'll health
from the loss Of her husband. Ex-Minister Ran.
croft among the first of Mrs. Taylor's friends
who sorrowfully welcomed her. Tho remains Of
Mr.. Taylor will arrive next week. It was not 80
very long ago whom tho writer. in Fourth avenue
car. unwilling hearor OF conversation
between Bayard Taylor and william Cullen bryant.
in which the two poets commiserating each
other upon the possible death Of another poet whom
shall not The two agreed that thsir
follow poet soon must die. and that his loss wouid
be great to them. Tho fellow poet still lives aud
both Bryant and Taylor have gone.
London Truth "a run bank Is not altogether
spublic calamity. To hear the sorrowful and con-
temptuous talk Of banking people when referring 10
the things they have to endure would think
these banks did not pay ten to twenty per div
idends every year. precisely because tho public
knows better than to run upon them No we'll man.
aged bank succumbs without reason. and run IL
not for succumbing. for Q really strong
bank always fortify itself in time. leave out
of the question q general krach. as our German
friends call it. But in ordinary times strong bank
can always Withstand o run and a weak one cannot
wish there had been run the Glasgow Bank
before it managed to advance much Of its Gus
toners money to insolvcnt connections OF the III.
roctors. An occasional Ia better protection .
the public than periodical balance sheet