The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-02
AhOut, Women.

Did my mustacbe trouble you?" said Blobbs
to his sweetheart. "No, l only felt little
down in the mouth" was the answer.
Jenny Lind fi1ds consolation in the fact that,
Notwithstanding the loss of her voice, she can
make just as good bread as ever. Her genuine
successes were always in the East.
Nine. Nilsson looks little stouter than last
year, but the change is considered an improve
ment The more there is of that sweet singer
the better.
The Grand Duchess Constantine is beautiful
aud spiritueHe. correspondent declares her
to be one of the most bewitchngly lovely
women in Europe.
George Elliot Mrs. Lewes) is said to look
like picture of Lorenzo di Medci. with her
large, thin features and penet rating eyes.
Her manner is rather abrupt. and casual &C.
quaintauces do not take to her.
Near Knoxville, the other night, young
girl, who was ur expectedly interviewed by the
family as she was about clipping with the OBJ
ject of her virgin affections, knocked tie old
man down, laid out two brothers with cis-
tern pole, kicked the hired man in the stom-
ach. and got away with her lover, and s'made
the rifle
Queen Victoria has presented to Mrs. S. Ted
veil of Mineola, L. l.. half-length portrait of
herself inclosed in a bronze frame and contain
ing the following inscription: I'm recognition
of the gift by Mrs. Tedwell of an old family
letter, dated 1774, in which is most interest
ing description of the children of George III,
written by their governess, Miss Planta.'
Mrs. redwell discovered the letter among her
deceased husbands papers. 1t contains per
sonal description of the six princes and three
princesses in King Georges family, all of them
praised for their beauty and princely depot
ment. Mrs Tedwell sent the letter to the
Queen. and has received reply from Bucking-
ham Palace, returning thanks for the letter,
and advising her of the present of the fl AIMED
photograph sent through the British legation
at Washington.
Mrs Hooper. in her letter from Paris to APP
pleton's Journal says: "Apropos of George
Sand and her contributions to that periodical
1.-THE Revue DIES Deu1 Mondes), we are told tina
some years ago she quarrelled with the edit r
and only consented to write for it again at
rate of compensation heretofore unheard of in
the annals of the ReUue--it paying worse,
probably, than any other periodical of the same
repute and prosperity. The terms she exacted
were one thousand francs 1.-TWO hundred dolars)
per printed sheet of the Reuue-which, as a
sheet consists of sixteen pages, was only
twelve dollars and fifty cents per printed
page-by no means an exorbtant price when
the celebrity of George Sand as writer is tax
en- into consideration. Her only English-writ
ing rival, George Eliot, could probably COM
mand four times as much. But the price was
an un-heard of one for the Revue to give, ard il
was not without many groans and signs the
publishers contented to her terms. 1t is well
known rule with the editors of the Revue des
Deur Mondes never to pay for the first article OF
any author that appears in their pages, no mat
ter how great or how we'll founded the renown
of the author may be-"