The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-07
Men and Women.


1t was shrewd remark of Macaulay's that
Milford was the first modern historian who I'M
derstood that men who wrote 10 Greek occa-
sionally told lies.
THAT fine old Roman five hundred and
nine" is what the New York Herald calls the
Republican candidate for Mayor of that city
1t puts mis- name In capitals-D1X.
The Burlington Hawkeye announces that
Wakeen Miller has come out for Tlden be.
cause, he says, he considers Tilden's letter
about the usufruct one of the finest poems on
the origin of man that was ever penned in the
English language.
President Chadbourne told the Freshmen of
Williams College that the notion of having
girs.admitted to the college for the sake of their
good influence upon the boys was unsound,
whereupon one of the students eagerly inquired,
'Don't you think it would have good Unfit
ence on the young ladies?''
Clara Louise Kellogg as the ethereal Mar
guerite at Philadelphia was Obliged to say aud
IDLY to the man with the calcium-light, "Put
out the light, will you?" This occurred when
Marguerite was standing on the steps of the
church, and engaged in pious meditatons. For
one might have thought her personating Othelo
with his famous line as cue.
A clever reporter captured Mr.. Murat Hal
stead in New York and obtained good deal of
information from him. He desires to have it
known that he was a plowboy by education
and journalist by instinct His earliest liter
airy achievement was the writing of stories for
weekly newspapers He began his, connection
with the Cincinnati Commercial at the age of
23,with the princely salary of $12 per week. Mr..
Halstead's father was North Carolinian, and
the Halsteads are still pretty numerous in that
State, as the Republican vote this year will
show.
The late Alexander Dumas happened to meet
Alphonse Karr in the streets of Nice, where
the latter had just established himself. An
invitation to dinner was passed and accepted,
at the appointed hour Dumas appeared at his
friends house with twenty-five acquaintance
whom he had picked up during the day. All
Were well entertained. During the dinner
Russian princess asked Dumas to write his
name on her goblet with her diamond ring
He complied. Thereupon the other twenty-one
preferred similar request; and at the close of
VIC ieStlFltlcS, pOOr MARI naQ TO Su1er the de-
parture of his friends with the cut-glass which
was borrowed for the occasion.
The death of William Abbott, 1.-THE king of
the Carboo gold mlnes," is announced from
Victoria, B. c. Abbott was one of a company
who struck rich pay on Williams Creek in 1861,
arriving at Victoria with 300 pounds of gold in
the fall Of that year. He was the ''lion" of the
winter of 1862, and spent his gold lavshly. On
one occasion he entered saloon and SHE'D
handful of $50 pieces at large plate-glass
mirror behind the bar, shatterng it. When
reproached by the bar-keeper, he requested him
to keep the "beast for the damage" On
another occasion he and another Cariboote
astonished Government street by throwing $40
pieces at each other until stopped by the police.
The throwing commenced with snow balls.
On his return to Carboo Abbotts good fortune
continued, and he has been known to stake
$4,000 OF hand at poker. After two or three
years prosperity Abbott got to the bottom of
his claim and his purse at the same time, and
was miserably poor at the time of his death