The New York herald., 1879-03-30
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Albany Press has new type.
Have any of the idiots asked. What did the pipe
stem?
Can the Senatorial caucus room be called policy
shop?
General Butler is the ono who takes stercoscopc
views of politics.
Hanan's oars arc to be white. Hope he will not
show the white feather.
Shad flies and spring bonnets waiting for the
frost to get out of the ground.
The worst feature about Anger is that its throttle
valve is open too ooften.--Errafique Enrique.
Yonkers Gdsete:-'Trying to get to Heaven without
faith is abou. like setting out in silk tights to climb
creased pole"
Mr.. William Beach Lawrence of Rhode Island. and
his son-n-law, Baron Kcnck, Of Hanover. at the
Albemarle Hotel.
List receives So 900 year and title in Hungary.
If his life of Chopin any criterion the old musi-
clan cannot write.
Captain Ferdinand De La Kethullc. Envoye Extra
ordinaire from Brussels. Belgium. is at Ottawa.
Canada, on . hurried visit
King Kalakaua, of Hawaii. has knghted Claus
Spreckles of San Francisco. for his services in de-
vcloping the resources OF the Hawaiian Islands.
The New Orleans Ifcayune says there is stray
brass band wandering about New Orleans streets and
that the owner have it by proving property and
taking 1t away.
Jones said looking into the glass the other morn
ing II man with three heads on my shoul-
ders-the one see. the one feel and the one that
Brown put on me-
The chronological Journal does not like funny
paper paraeraphers All! Mr.. Phrtnologist. IL you
only knew that funny newspaper photographers have
on their heads many bumps u democratic torch
light procession.
The bridesmaids of Princess Louise Margaret
ordered to have dresses in uniformity to 80 to
tain modiste who charged fifty guineas. and to give
check of fifty guncas il jlre that they would buy
the Princess present.
New Haven Regisier:-"wash baby up clean and
dress him up real pretty. aud he will resist all ad
vancos with most supcrlative crossness; but let
him cat molasscs gingerbread and fool around the
coahod for half hour. and he will nestls his dear
little dirty face close up to your clean shirt bosom
and be just the lovingcst cunningest little rascal in
all the world"
A young lady of shclbyville. Ind. recently died
while two physicians and their partisans in her fam
lily quarrelling loudly and bitterly over the
right of precedence in treating her. The of
right Of precedence is still undecided aud the two
physicians ana the two branches OF the family
still lighting The girl buried day before yester-
day.
Kinglake the historian Of the Crimean war. casts
his eyes down when his photograph is taken, and
this gives him mild and retiring appearance. Peo-
pie will hardly believe that he is years old
The effect that his sarcastic studied and circumlocu-
tionary rhetoric had upon the court of Napoleon III.
probably retarded his work. if 1t did not, through
the influence Of the English government, wholly dis
courage him.
Thomas Hardy, who is the only rival OF William
Black for the honor Of being the most popular of
recent English noyelists. is thiryeight years old
and educated in provincial village. becoming,
might fancy from his figures of speech, the
apprentice of q country architect. In London. how
ever, ne became student under Bloomfield and
disciple of tho Gothic school. lie prizes In
architecture and studied to be art critic Finally
he chose fiction.
New Haven Regisicr:"It Is amusing once in
while to notice the in which amateur will
help along joke. The HERALD p. I. lew days
ago asked the question, What did the paper
collara OF course long array of questions fol-
lowed from the newspapers all over the country,
each referring to article Of wearing apparel.
Whom did the shirt cuff? What did the neck
ticy &C., until some squibblcr caps the climax by
asking. in all innocence. What did the catnipY
Words fail u.s."