The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-14
Men and Women.

The New York Tribune says that Mr.. Schell
at Saratoga Smiled like the the whole Medit.
erranean Sea, from Joppa to Gibraltar"
The widow of Henry Kingsley, the novelist,
is. it is said, left entirely unprovided for, and
subscription in her behalf has been raised by
one of the Oxford (England) Freemasons.
Mutual friends of Mr.. Lathrop and Mr.. Haw-
thorne have examined the formers book with
special reference to the papers of the elder
Hawthorne which lis son objected to have
used. They have assured him that these pa
pers were not used.
has been seriously i'll, and is ordered 10 the
baths of Linnen burgen-T in Germany.
His Elaine, which hangs near RothermePs.
o-..J-s-.s q. tho Exposition, is one Of the
most interesting pictures in the American de-
partment.
1t is said that Madame Adelina Patti contem-
plates breaking with Gye and joining Mapleson
as soon as the new opera-house in London is
completed. She has refused to engage with
Gye beyond year. and has advanced her terms
to 250 guineas night for the next season. If
she should join forces with Titians and Nilsson
at the new opera-house, Gye would probably be
compelled to close Covent Garden.
The fashionable young men of Newport were
amazed to see Lord Randolph Churchill wear a
velvet coat at o'clock dinner. He associate
with the Prince of Wales, and what be does in
way of dress must be correct. Lady Churchill,
it will be remembered, is daughter of Mr..
Leonard Jerome. She the now the
most admired woman in Newport, having
enjoyed the distinction Of receiving kiss from
the Queen of England.
HE (Rufus Choate) was six feet in height.
with a powerful chest and shoulders, an gaunt
frame. His hands and feet were large, and he
walked with rolling gait His face, Of bill
ious, coffee-colored complexion, was deeply cor
rugated with wrinkles and hollows, and his
eyes, large, deep'set and wonderfully express
i've. His hair was black. curly and luxurant.
He was generally attired in ill-Gtting, slouch-
ing garments He shrieked, raved, swung his
fists, and distorted his body into unnatural con-
tortions, and poured forth his arguments with
startling force and velocity; but with the ar
rangement, detail, and wide command of Ian
guage Of born orator, utterly forgetful of
himself in the abandon of the momens, his
whole soul being thrown into the cause he had
undertaken to present.-Albdny Ld1o Journal.
Although Victor Emanuel is physically Wig
orous, rising every morning at five and taking
stroll in his garden before breakfast, he is
not without superstition. He had not been
long in the Quirinal Palace before he discov-
cred trap-door in his bedroom. 1t communi-
Gated with vast gallery, in which the King
and his attendants walked for twenty minutes
without fnding an outlet. 1t seemed, how
ever. to lead toward the Castle of st. Angelo.
His Majesty declined to investigate the matter
and ordered the trap-door to be bricked up.
Soon after he discovered secret door in the
wall, which communicated with a secret door
leading up to the Ioof 1t, too, was bricked
up, but since this discovery we are informed
that whenever his Majesty sleeps at the Quiri-
nal two huge black dogsalso sleep at the foot of
the royal bed. They obey no one but the King,
never bark, and would strangle, without any
parleyipg, the first person who entered the
room.