The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-22
Men and Women.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton protests against the
practice OF publishing caricatures of famous
pictures. 1t does not require very much wit to
make them, but they often succeed in estab-
fishing an association of ideas which il Is yery
difficult to get rid of.
Joseph Smith, Jr, son of the founder of the
Mormon church, is preaching in California.
He denies the headship Of Brigham Young.
He says he has from 1900 to 5000 personal
followers, aud that the headquarters of the re.
formed church are at Plano, Ill. He repudi.
ates polygamy and also "blood atonement.
A Rome correspondent of the Independence
Beige says that Cardinal Antonelli is growing
infrm and peevish. He is much bent, and
there is little left of his remarkable appear
ance but the fiery, large black eyes. His
cheeks have grown sallow and lank. and his
face wears an expression of gloom and fretful-
ness which indicates his keen sorrow at the loss
of political power.
Ida Steele, water nymph of Bloomington,
Ills, has challenged her sex generally for a
ten-mile swim down the Mississippi river. A
Miss Pauline has accepted the challenge, and so
has third young lady; and one match, it is
stated, will certainly come off at an early day.
It is predicted that there will not be steamboats,
enough to contain the crowds that will flock to
see the sport.
The pope is reported to be wonderfully well
and bright. At an audience recently he mo-
tced each person separately, inquiring about
those he had not seen before, and he was very
curious about the age of lady whose stature
was rather dwarfsh, asking whether she was
Nuar nI~o TT
stick, giving his left hand to be kissed; bat he
told SMALL boy of the party to kis hiss foot
'it will not hurt you to stoop.'' The pope is
wheeled about the Vatican gardens in Bath
chair.
An American princess is about to be mar
ried at Stuttgart to an English gentleman
named Heneage. She is no less person than
Agnes Leclerq, formerly of Baltimore, who in
1862 married Prince Felix Salm-Salm, then
brigader in the Union army and afterwards an
aide-de-camp OF the unfortunate Maximilan of
Mexico. The romantic adventures of the Prin-
cess in Mexico where she saved the life of her
husband after the fall of the empire have been
chronicled by herself in an entertaining book
Prince Felix, restored through her efforts to his
position in the Prussian army, fell galantly
fighting at Gravelotte. His widow has since
resided in Germany.
Victor Hugo begins an address, or srather q
proclamation in relation to the Bulgarian out
RACES, with the startling postulate: "To muir
der man is crime; to murder people is
question:! He concludes: "What is happen
ing in Seryia proves the necessity of the United
States of Europe What Europe re-
quires is European nationality, one govern
ment, one immense fraternal arbitration, de-
mocracy at peace with itself, all the sister ma
tions having for their city and capital 1ar; In
that is Liberty, having Light europe. There
one word, the Unitedeport. 1t was only truth
is the goal .o-day, thanks to the executioners
,SoSeryia, it is evidence. To the thinkers are
added the assassins-the proof was given by
the monsters. The future is god drawn by
tigers"
Mr., NJ. d. Conway chronicles change in
the ways of the English demolselle. He says
in the Cincinnati Comereial, 'T think, indeed,
considerable change has come over the young
English girl in recent years,a doubt wnetn-
or Nathaniel Hawthorne, were he now wriung
about England, would remark go mucn ner
reserved, folded-up look and manner as con
trasted with those of the American glri III ner
teens But however budlike the English girl
NAV be when at home, she can hold her own
on the Continent against any American girl 10
susb, dash, Irritation or adventure of any kind.
| And T fear that all her folded.upness when she
GETS back to London only implies that she is
little hypocrte, as her father and mother are
big ones"
Horace Vernet was once invited to the studio
of very couceited and handsome young Mil
anese painter, who considered himself every
thing that was brilliant and charming, ana
whose airs were prodigious. Vernet' VINO
came becanse he was always ready to give
counsel 10 students was inexpressibly bored by
tbe M;,snese, who talked of art in the most
gushing fashion, and at last, with stage
nose and flourish, concluded thus; "When l