The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-27
Men and Women.

Men and Women.
Miss Alice Kngsbury, once an actress, is
gaining renown as sculptor in San Francisco.
Wagner is out $4,000 by the Bayreuth opera.
This is spoken OF as the deficit of the future.
Mr.. William Castle has seeded from the
Kellogg opera troupe, and is now preparing to
appear 10 italian opera.
King Louis Of Bavaria has returned as un-
expectedly and mysteriously as he vanished.
The ministers were discussing his absence in
the council chamber, when he walked in and
said: Now, gentlemen, to business"
Italians are said to be very much ashamed of
Verdi because he took no part W batever in the
recent enthusiastic ceremonials attending Bel
lini's refinement in Cantania. Wagner, on
the contrary, said that it wonld please him to
be present, and they are proportionately pleased
with him.
One of the curious articles in the Woman's
Department at Philadelphia is shutter from
the window of Mary Phillipse, the naughty
damsel whom George Washington wooed in
vain. Delicate flowers on background of
gold have been painted upon it. and it is now
waiting for some wealthy relic-hunter to come
along and claim it.
Oscanyon, the well known Oriental lecturer
and late consul general of Turkey in New
York, is to have seat in the new senate about
TO be formed by the Turkish government as one
of the representatives of the Armenians who
are to have ten members in that body. Mr..
Oscanyan was not long ago elected a member
of the national assembly of the Armenians.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson has been devoting him.
self, as far as his dramatic engagements will
permit, to oil painting, ard his talent is bear
ing fruit. An enthusiastic English admirer
says he bids fair to become as famous in one
department of art as in another. Some of the
greatest painters have passed high encomiums
upon his works. 1t should be understood that
his studies in oil have been of comparatively
recent origin, although he has long had reputa-
tion for skill with the pencil.
It's well that Herr Wagner can afford to
have fun poked at him. for the satirists are in-
defatigable. The last story is this: "Some one
was anxious to obtain ticket, and discovered
that friend of his had one, which he twas
willing TO sell, but it seemed to be in very
bad position, and the price demanded very
high one, to which the would-be buyer de-
INJURED. Nonsense" replied the friend, sit
Is the best in the whole house." "How sop
1T is next the door,"
The inquiry into the assassination of Gen.
Prim, which began in Madrid December q,
1870, has just come to an end. Eighteen
judges have been killed under it, and the doc
uments amount to 1900 folio pages. One
hundred and twenty persons have been impli-
Gated, of whom forty have been dismissed ex-
eulpated, ffty-four have never been arrested,
six have died during the inquiry. and TWEEN
ty are still in prison. But nothing like
piece of positive proof against anybody has
been found.
Even the great charm which the Crcassan
women have SO long exercised on the Turks is
owing less to their beauty than their intellect
ual quickness. They seldom have good fea-
lures, but are slender, generally fair, with deli
cate pale compilations, and as these charms
are rares they are highly valued by the rich
Turks. The Circassian women are also very
quick at learning all sorts of needlework, en-
broidery and weaving besides singing, playing
on the either, and relating stories. 1t is true
they are accused of desire to domineer and
the widest jealousy. Thus homogeneous mar
riages would suit them best. Their under.
standing and their sagacity they have often
enough shown, when they span invisible
threads between the seraglio and the Caucasus
and prevented the subjugation of free tribes by
Russia. If they were to receive instruction
they would soon be the real masters of Turkey.
Those in the harems always know how to ad-
vance the interests of their relations, who con-
stantly pay them visits The sale of the young
girls is looked upon as an act of fatherly ten
derness, as the children are taken from mud
huts and placed in magnificent palaces. From
their earliest youth the girls are sewed up in a
sort of leathern armor, that they may remain
slender. Nature revenges itself however, by
terrible corpulency, which few escape, after the
birth of the first child. The features of the
Circassian women, as far as I am able to
judge, or have heard, retain traces of beauty
much longer than the Turkish. When 1
pointed out to Mustapha and Allah the bless
ing instruction would be to the Circassian
women, they shook their heads in disapproval.
The men must learn something first, they con-
ered.-London Standard.
Quaint and unworldly as Charlotte Bronte
was, she could hardly be classed under the
head of peculiar. In a letter to friend,
hitherto unpublished, and written before her
brothers death and the imagining of "Jane
Eyre" she says: 'My curiosity is a little
pivued about that countess you mention. What
is her name? you have not yet given it. can
not decide from what you say whether she is
really clever or only eccentric. The two some
times 60 together, but are often seen apart. 1
generally feel inclined to fight very shy of &C.
centricty, and have no small horror of being
thought eccentric myself, by which observation
L don't mean to insinuate that 1 class myself
under the head clever God knows that more
consummate ass in sundry important points
has seldom browsed the green herb of
his bounties than.I. o Lord, Nell, I'm in dan
ger sometimes of falling into self-weariness
As to society, don't understand much about
it, but from the few glimpses 1 have had of its
machinery, it seems to me to be very strange,
complicated affair indeed, wherein nature is
turned upside down. Your well-bred people
appear to me, fguratiyely speaking to walk on
their heads, to see everything the wrong way
up-a lie is with them truth. truth lie. eter-
nal and tedious botberaton ls their notion of
happiness, sensible pursuits their ennui. But
this may be only the view ignorance takes of
what it cannot understand. 1 refrain from
judging them therefore, but if was called up-
on to swop-you know the word suppose-to
swop tastes and ideas and feelings with - for
instance, l should prefer walking Into a good
Yorkshire kitchen fire and concluding the bar
gain at once by an act of voluntary combus.
ton"
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