The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-28

The midshipmen of navy havea very good
time. Aa .f.aA t9 33
Secretary Sherman reads until quito late into the
evening.
Professor Theodore D. Woolsey. of New Haven. is
at the Everett House. ,,
Major Campbell and Captain viviens. of tho Brit.
ish army. have sailed for England.
The youngest daughter Of Secretary Eyarts will
make her debut this season. She is very pretty.
Vice President William A. Wheeler arrived at the
Windsor Hotel last evening. on his way to Wash.
ington. al ns si3s
Miss Kate Field sailed for New York on the White
Star steamship Britannia. which left Liverpool yes-
terday. ra esl
Kentuckian has q newborn mule with only ono
hind Log The animal ought to BIO named the cipher
despatch. ; ~ Htr eos e'
Mana. the inconstant. returns to her Baron. "Eus
a'ess reuenue" says he to q club friend. "CAer%'
asks the latter. enStrtts
At the Tayloe reception in Washington the wife OF
q New York Congressman considered as the most
beautiful woman tar s
Fashionable style of letter writing in the Partisan
Jockey Club :-"Istite uerias. je faiuse vicomte de
Ia Roche Trompette." "a
"Your intended is hideous." says frank French
friend True," says the fancee. sndis 81 tn savais
comdien remarqws quand IL M accompa0ne p
Boston girls walk great deal, wear short walking
dresses. carry large shopping bags and have plenty
Of circulating libraries. which they abundantly pa
tronize. "
Tho Wilmington IN CO. Post says that not one in ten
of the white families Of the South take any sort of
newspaper, and that where one is taken 1t must
give opinion and not news.
"Ias 1ne petite place Toto dams ccur Tata9' de-
mands an enamorcd French youth. "Ea Maurice ? ct
Gont,an ?" she cries. "Eh bien,' says he, "oa met
frois chepdur dur omnibus d,t,oatyt1' htiY'
A democratic leader remarked the other day that
tho party would not be sunk II 1t put out
enough headlights. ''That's the difficulty" said
bystandor; ''they were oil put out long ago.
We SOC in q telegram that ex-Secrotary Gorham, Of
the United States Senate, will hereafter send from
Washington to the San Francisco Chronicle telc-
graphic dispatches for which he will receive 5000
year.
now professor Of Greek to take the place Of the
late Professor j. G. Proctor, will be appointed at
Dartmouth College at the beginning Of the next
term. Meanwhile the work in that department has
been assigned to Professors Wright and Hitchcock.
Parisienne who prides herself perennial
youth having sent her note paper to be stamped is
asked to give her initials. "a. g. says she. "Oh,"
returns the clerk. 'cs NEST pas votre age queje
peynets de demander. &c son seuiemen"
1t is claimed that when General Bob Toombs. Of
Georgia. wrote his despatch, "Death the Union"
he had just been drinking spring water and was
anxious about the depth Of the spring. He refuses
to come into the Union. is worth half million doll
lars and is still the path.
The quinquennial prize for tho best work on the
physical and mathematical sciences has been
awarded to M. Houzeau. the learned director Of the
brussels Observatory. for his "Uranometrie GEN.
erale." which gives catalogue Of nearly six thou
sand stars observed with the naked eye. drawn up
during stay of thirteen months In the neighbor.
| hood OF the Equator.
"Frascuelo" francisco Sanchez). the celebrated
Spanish bull fighter. has far recovered from his
wounds that he will take part in the grand bull fight
for the benefit of the Murcians. There will be eight
bulls--four OF them presented by the Duchess Of
Santoha and three other celebrated stock breeders
Frascuelos chief rival. 'El Gordito." viii also take
| part in the fight,