The Portland daily press., 1875-10-20

Mary Kyle Dallas, who is filling the place
once occupied by Fanny Fe n, is said to draw
a salary of $500. Miss Agnes Fleming, Mrs.
E. d. Southworth, and Mrs. Dupuy Ia southern
writer of note, y each average from $4,000 to
$4,000 per annum by their literary work.
Grand Duchess Schneider has beaten M.
Bertrand, manager of the Varieties, in law
suit; but she gets ouly 5000 francs damages,
instead of the 10000 she wanted, which Lucy
Hooper thinks will leave the third floor of
Srhneider's new hotel unfurnished for while
yet
Aune Brewster, the correspondent, had a
narrow escape from death during a recent Al
pine excursion. Her foot slipped on shelf of
rock, and below her lay glacier and death,
when she was luckily caught just in time by
one of the guides.
In Holt County, Missouri, the early lover
catches the BRIDE Alice Carson engaged her.
self to Mr.. Wheeler and Mr.. Kretzer, naming
the same day and hour for her wedding with
each. Mr. Kretzer was so fortunate as to
reach the church with his clergyman shortly
after Miss Carson had become Mrs. Wheeler.
Agnes Alice Beck with, the English girl who
recently swan five miles in an hour and nine
minutes, is surpassed by Emily Parker, who
made seven miles, the other day, in one hour
81 minutes and 30 seconds. Pretty good for
English damses; but there is Boston girl, ac-
cordng to the papers of that city, who, if she
would, could give them odds at any distance.
Mrs. B'acktord, the heroine CT the Russian
diamond scandal, is the observed of all observ-
ers in Paris, and is said to have already avowed
her intention of dethroning Cora Pearl. Her
faultless figure, almond-shaped eyes, refined,
half-melancholy expression, and painted lips
are already familiar to the loungers of the gay
Capital.
Tennie G. Claflin. who is now in Chicago
confirms the report that she is studyisg. for the
stage. She intends to make her debut in
Chicago-say at the Academy of Music, with
such a company as can be gathered for the
occasion. She will try Lady Macbeth for a
beginning, and if this easy part fits her well
she may devote herself to something which
will make larger drafts upon her ability.
Teresa Titjens has a good time in New
York on those evenings when she does not
sing. She visits the theatres in turn, appear
ing conspicuously in the boxes. Her eyes are
gray aud slightly prominent, her mouth curved
and firm, and her abundant hair of dark brown,
dressed la Pompadour, gives her the appear
. ance of being taller than she really is. Her
manner is both dignifed and suave, and a
foreign accent betrays itself bat r,rely in hsr
speech Titjens is credited with forty one
years in the encyclopedias.
Miss Fanny Davenport has been talking to a
st. Louis editor about the drama. She denied
that she relied for success wholly upon skill
and taste in dressing, although she made that
an accessory, and added: 4" 1t cannot strike you
as strange that 1 should be sorry that my skill
as dressmaker should be made to oveIshadov
my love and devotion to my art, which l love
and reverence almost as a religion! That l am
tolerably good dressmaker has been already
admitted, and now 1 am desirous of securing
some higher recognition of qualifications which
think possess and which believe to be far
higher and worther."
AS rule, women in English society, are re-
markably natural-negatively natural, mean.
English girls are particularly simple and un
assuming. They are innocent of all effort to
impress or astonish. AS all womankind does
and should do, they make themselves IS pretty
as they can; but as to personal superiOrties,
their educators do not lay enough stress upor
such things to make them ambitious to excel
in that way. All young ladies are taught a
certain mode of department, which - pexcel-
lent so far as it goes. The chief precept of the
code, whether inculcated openly or by the ST.
lent feeling of society, is that each young lady
must do as the reA. That "young English
girl" who is the theme of the novelists and
magazine bards and artists, easily merits all the
adulation she receives Does not all the worli
know, is it not almost an mpertnence to say
that for dignity, modssty, propriety and sense
and certain soft self f-possession, she has hard
ly her equal anywhere? But the British maid
en- is taught that ambition in character is not {
desirable thing. The naturalness and propriety
which accompany this state of mind are moi
particularly admirable 1t is very different
from that propriety which is the result of ele
walton of character, of conclusions intimately
known and constantly practised. Inn
pressions of English Social Lafe