The Portland daily press., 1876-11-10
Men and Women.

1t is feared that Mr.. Edwin Adams, the actor,
is dead. He was at last accounts dangerously
i'll in Australia.
The home of the Shermans at Washington
will have only one young lady in it this winter
Miss Lizzie Sherman. The younger sisters
are all at school.
Nine. Essipoff, who is pronounced greater
than Won Bulow, and whom Rubinstein calls
his equal is described in a private letter as
"most beautiful woman and full of pluck
Herr Auerbach, the German publisher, son
of the novelist intends to print a German
translation of Mr.. Bayard Taylor's Book for
Boys, published here by the Putnams. Mrs.
Taylor is making the translation.
Mr.. Horace Capron, ex-CommissoLer of
Agriculture, who went to Japan. there to Or
ganize an agricultural department, received for
this service $4,000 year in gold. Now be is
going to live in Washington, and has built
beautiful house filled with rare and costly
Japanese furnishings.
Mr. Whittier is 6S years old and most
quaint, kindly and refined person. using habit
ualy the Quaker ''thee' and "thou." Mr..
Longfellow is year older and wears well the
dignity of the gentleman and the poet. MIR.
Lowell is 81, and has the look of the critic
rather than of the poet.
Prof, j. Hammond Trumbull of Hartford,
who knows more about Indian dialects than
any other man in this ceuntry-and who with
his swarthy face, his black hair and glittering
eyes, looks like a cultivated Indian himself
has book in press 1t has to do with the
strange old "blue laws" of Connecticut
Mr.. William W. Corcoran of Washington is
now in much better health than he has been for
several years past. His vision, supposed to be
lost, has been in great measure restored. He
has bought several pictures at Philadelphia for
his art gallery, and has not altogether given up
his efforts to secure the Castellani collection
a heavy debt does Washington owe to this ju-
dicious and unselish old man.
Tojettis pathetic picture of Elaine is on ex-
hibition in Boston art gallery, and visitor
was discovered before it the other day using
her handkerchief frequently, and apparently
deeply affected, A sympathetic woman on the
same bench at last remarked that the subject
was as painful as it was beautiful. "La!
faint that replied the weeper; I'm just
comm down with the influenzyp'
Mr. Tennyson is now &c years old-a man
still in his prime of thought and capacity for
work. The only i'll he's heir to is an annual
hay fever He is six feet in height, Is broad
shouldered and raw boned, but Iot stout. His
hands and feet are enormous. His face is long
and somewhat resembles that of Dante, save
that it has not the rigid mold and expression
of the great Florentine, and the nose is not so
aquiline. His hair is long and very black, his
complexion olive. Once upon time. in speak
| ing of Mr. Tennyson's personal appearance,
Buchanan Read called him ga dilapidated Ju-
piter''-a piece of description at once pctur-
esque, acute and humorous
Miss Winnie Ream is making her statue of
Farragut. She set up the model in the navy
yard, and on the way to the Capitol it was
broken, which gave clever Miss Ream an
opportunity to work in the Capitol for sew
| eral weeks under the eyes of a startled multi
| tude. Congress gave a committee of three
| persons-Mrs. Farragpt, Gen Sherman, and
| Secretary Robeson-the power to select the
| model, and naturally enough Miss Ream's was
chosen, Mrs. Farragut liking her personally,
| and Gen. Sherman admiring much her and her
work. Secretary Robson declined to accede
| to this choice There is a faint suspicion that
| the bill arranging for this committee was
| framed by somebody who knew what the ma
| ioritv won1d saw