The Portland daily press., 1876-11-30
Men and Women.

'E. Marlitt," the German novelist moat
| widely read in this country, is exceeding.
ly deaf and is one of the most retireing of per-
sons. She has hardly an acquaintance in the
little town near Gotha where she lives.
A Philadelphia paper describes John Rogers
the sculptor of genre statuettes, as "the Michael
Angelo OF America, in miniature" 1t would be
supefhuous to enlarge upon the intelligent
felicity of that title.
Inc brilliant young French painter, Henri
hegnault, when describing his feelings after
nrst seeing the Alhambra, with its rich colors
stepped in the splendors of Spanish sunlight,
SAID; For days could do no work; saw
nothing but fire.
madame Essipof-the new pianist-is Rus
sian about 2S years old. She has bright and
gracefuI manners and speaks several languages
nuently. Her eyes and hair are dark, and her
arms and hands, while they are tensely mus-
cular, are beautifully formed. 1t is said that
since her arrival here she has been going
through her remarkable musical feats with only
nine hugers-one being temporarily disabled.
On vacancy for soprano occurring at
Broadway Tabernacle, ard public trial being
announced, quite congregation of applicants
assembled in the church at the appointed time.
For three hours the singing went on. "Angels
ever bright and fair" appeared to be the favor
to selection, and the words "Take, oh! take
me- were delivered with q pathos which
seemed to make touching appeal to the hearts
and pockets of the committee.
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was recentlv
charged by the Pail Mall Gazette with respon-
si5ility for the 'untoward event. of Nayrino.
The old diplomat at once addressed note to
the paper disclsiming the responsibility, and
closing with the remark: II aspire to no share
IN Whatever merit may attach to ihe adoption
OF so triumphant but unexpected a measure;''
which is precisely the feeling on the strength
of which the great Eltchi has been held respon.
sible for the battle.
Dom Pedro fairly won Dr. Schliemsnn's
heart by the special and technical acquai ,tance
ne showed with the topography of the Troad
during recent visit 10 Hissarlik DIR. Schlie-
mann writes. "His majesty delighted the COM
pany by his citations from the Iliad, which he
appears to know almost entirely by heart"
From the enthusiastic doctors account the en-
peror seems to have pottered about like born
antquary. He fixed with his pocket compass
the exact direction of the paved road descend
ing from the Scaan Gate, paid q special visit
to one OF Schliemann's local heroes, Constan.
tine Kolobos, and corrected an oficious copsul
in some reference to the "Iliad."
Among the gifts to the late Colonel Colt, of
Hartford, Conn.,, which were given by foreign
dignitaries and which are still kept at his form
er home in Hartford, are gold snuff box, set
With diamonds, from the Sultan of Turkey;
a diamond ring fIom the present Czar, an
other from his father, and a third from
Charles Albert King of SARDINIA. There are
also Turkish orders of nobility, twenty-four
medals of homer from kings, queens and yari-
GUS societies, and presents in gold and silver
from the two kings of Siam.
Copey's portrait of Gen. Warren, the origi-
nal MS. of Warren's Address-written in q
neat round hand-and his sword of Bunker
Hilf'' are among the chief treasures of the Rev.
olutionary Relic exhibition just opened in the
Old South Church in Boston. The collection
is graced also by Rembrandt Peales portrait
OF Washington, and by relics of Revere, aud Of
the Quincys, Adamses, and other Revolutions
ry digntaries. Boston writer's on the exhibit
ton note that It was through the window of
this oldschurch that Warren leaped to the plat
form where he gave his famous address on
British policy-the doorway and the church be-
Ing crowded with angry British soldiery.
Goethe loved the vintage of Johannisberg;
Humboldt Sauterne; Tslleyand, Chateau Mar
gaux. Richelieu was devoted to Medoc and
Rubens to Marsala. Frederick the Great like
good many other persons, had particular
affection for Tokay. Napoleon preferred
Chambertip, but liked black coffee even bet
ter. Peter the Great thought Madeira the best
of wines, but regarded brandy as superior to ell
other drinks. Rabelais thought that ''the
divine bottle" never looked more admirable than
when filled with Chablis Marshal SAKE had
decided prediction for champagne, while the
severity of CromwelPs countenance is said to
have occasionally relaxed at the sight of pipe
of Malmsey. The Emperor Charles v. would
plan his campaigns and devise more stringent
laws for the repression of heresy over fagon
OF good Alicante wine. His rival. Francis L..
consoled himself for the loss of everything but
honor with acup of Xeres, or, as we should say,
a glass of sherry.
Dr. Charles Mackay, aged sixty-two, is pass
ing his healthy and comfortable latter years.
says Mr. M. d. Conway, in a charming house
in the beautiful old castled town of Dorkipg.
He is about to publish volume of personal
recollections, wherein, among other good things,
is given an account of the dinner conversation
between Hawthorne, Mackay and Douglass
Jerrold, also mentioned by Hawthorne in his
note book. 1t was at this dinner that Haw-
thorne so wounded Jerrold by calling him sac
rid" Mackay says that Jerrold remarked to
him some days after that Hawthorne was one
of tie heaviest and most awkward persons he
had ever met; ''but he means well, as all
clumsy people do" DR.. Mackay breakfasted
with Beranger, and describes him thus: "Ber-
anger had broad, capacious forehead, very
bald forehead, and good-natured, benign, but
somewhat sloveny appearance Such religion
as he had savorsd of paganism, and his poli,i-
cal faith was ultra-repubican. He was the
most Partisan of all the Parisians 1 ever met;
the most unmtigated badaud, living in Paris
for the sake of Paris, and with no thoughts but
such as Paris inspires. He had evidently no
love for natural scenery, and confessed as
much. He had never seen a mountsin in his
life, and, worse than all, did not remember to
have seen the ocean or heard the solemn music
of the shore. In short, he had seldom been
fifty miles beyond the octroi of Paris, and was.
he said, always unhappy when away from the