The Portland daily press., 1876-11-06
Men and Women.

Sidney Lanier, the sweet singer of the Gen.
tennial. is still writing thoughts that seem to
have been twisted out of shape by a whirl.
wind.-Brooklyn Argus.
Boucicault has received over $4,000 from
'The Colleen Bawn," which he wrote in three
days, and thus obtained the neat wages of
$50 900 day.
RuskiD, now in Venice, has been treated
with unusual courtesy by the directors of the
Academy. Large pictures were taken down
from the walls and placed in room where he
could examine or sketch from them at leisure.
Commodore Vanderbilt has read most of the
newspaper obituaries of himself, and is per.
fectly satisfied with them, but is afraid he will
not receive as good treatment ia the new series
when published.
Joseph Marryat has just died at London aged
eighty-six. He was the author of History
of Porcelain and Crockery" that is generally es-
teemed one of the most valuable works on the
ceramic art ever published
Mr.. Val Prinsep is commissioned to proceed
to India to paint great historical picture of
the proclamation OF the empire at Delhi. The
artist is to receive $4,000 for his work and
e., 900 for expenses.
Miss Emma Abbott, the young American
singer who has been kindly received in Eng
land, has a small figure, an interesting face,
and voice somewhat thin in the middle regis
ter, but clear and effective in the highest
notes.
Paul Nicart, Partisan manager, is dead.
He was frequently imprisoned for debt One
day Dumas went to the Jail to see him. 'He
has just been set at liberty" said the keeper.
Very WELL" said Dumas. taking a chair, 'T
will wait for him.
An original autograph MS. of Salvador Rosa
was displayed at a late banquet in Italy.
Signer Palizza, the Italian painter of animals,
held the time stained treasure on a platter
before the sixty artists present. The manu-
script contains an original unpublished poem
of Salvador Rosa, and has for o century been
kept in the private library of the Borromeo
family.
Mrs. Chamberlain, the wife of the Governor
of South Carolins according to Miss Grundy,
was clerk in the United States Treasury De-
partment prior to her marriage. She was Miss
tngersoll, and remarkably beautiful girl.
She was married about six years ago. Her ia
ther, who died before the war, was at one time
district attorney in Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Talmage was painfully but not seriously
injured while delivering his sermon before an
immense congregation last Sunday morning.
He had Just successfully accomplished the
double summersault over the pulpit, and in
making the flying leap from the reading desk
to the or gan loft, he missed the second trapeze,
falling across pew aud injuring his legs so
that he was unable to conduct the evening per-
formance.-H -Ha,ckeye.
William Morris, the poet lives in charm
ing house in London, frightened by wife who
is very beautiful, and three pretty children.
His study is reached by three flights of stairs
and is a bare room, hung with Jumps of tobac-
co. aud having for writing purposes curious
old hacked table and an ancient ink horn.
Herein the Earthly Paradise'' was written.
The shaggy y-haired, kind faced poet never looks
handsomer than when his little ones are dar c.
ing about him and climbing over him.