The Portland daily press., 1876-11-16
Men and Women.

Sir Thomas More refers to Mistress Anna
| Boleyn as ''the brown girl with wart ON her
| neck" Miss Dickinson has left out the wart.
Augustus now compliments Angelina upon
the perfection of her toilet, by assuring her
that she looks as fine as hired girl.
The Princess Alexandra is one of the princi.
pal heirs of the late Queen dowager Josephine
| OF Sweden. The estate is worth five and a half
millions.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is living in o
pretty little cottage at Hartford, and is as
sprightly and full of enthusiasms az a bright
young girl.
Edward Matthews of New York, whose in.
come from 1865 to 1872 was nearly a million a
year, who claims to be worth three and half
millions, is liable to be thrown into bankruptcv
by his creditors
Senator Jones, the golden, was recently in
Atlanta, looking at his property there; and.
says the Atlanta Constitution 10 lofty burst
OF approval and adjectives, he sis fine-looking
gentleman and favors the ol1-time Southern
planter
Mr.. Robert Browning is now in his 65th
year, and is full of vitality aud vivacity. he is
of medium hight, erect and broad-shouldered
bis hair and beard are white, his large gray
eyes have youth in them still. He is bright
companion, teller of comical stories, and as a
talker not at all giver to the incomprehensible
Dr. Lange, the great commentator, has been
professor for fifty years. His parents were
peasants and he used to sell milk when boy.
Falling in love with young lady of high fami-
ly he resolved to make something of himself so
he might win her. He borrowed books and
studied, and soon became known as brilliant
scholar. In later years he married the girl of
his early choice
The under secretary OF state, who is appointed
to I'LL tie place Of Cardinal Antonelli, is prob
ably only temporarily promoted. 1t has long
been understood, so far as the intention of the
Court of Rome can be known to outsiders. that
his successor was to be Father Bsckx, the
superior of the order of Jesuits, who has done
so much to revive thesspirit and strength of
that organization in our time, and who ia
known to be in sympathy with the religious
and political ideas of Antonelli. If it be so he
will be the first of the once omnipotent order
or Jesus to rule the councils of the Vatican,
otherwise than secretly, for many long years.
Father Beckx is probably more than the equal
OF Cardinal Autonelli in ability, but is of hum
be origin and unprepossessing manners
What Meissonier miniature of brilliant life
Dan Sickles has led! He is only ffty-fye
years old, and yet he was man of celebrity
before there was any Republican party, any
Lincoln, Fort Sumter, Bull Run or John
Brown. And surviving every calamity, includ-
ing two marriages, trial for murder, the loss
OF leg in battle and the defeat of Jay Could
he has been talked of for Congress, and is all
the while brigadier-general on the retired list
OF the regular army. He has been in diplo-
macy, reconstruction, strategy and tragedy-a
perfect Santa Anna of American life, He
killed the author of 'The Star Spangled Ban
ner, conducted the great engagement of the
ineficiency, bearded the Spanish crown and
recognized the Spanish republic, beat Fernan-
do Wood in civil politics, and survived war,
rivalry and modification. The preservative
force OF the man is what Mirsbeau claimed to
have ''toVours Paudace. IN. Y. Graphic.
1t is rare, says NJ. ID. Conway, to meet a YER
liable Hindu lady in England. The Brahmin
law still imposes pains and penalties on per-
sons of caste who travel abroad, and few brave
their enforcement, though it has grown to be
easy to compromise with a little money to the
priests But he has met two Hindu women of
high caste, one of whom, Pothum Jamakum-
nah Ragaviah, has published book about
England at Madras. She tells her country
women that her early preiudices are all dissi-
pated; that she was pleased at everything, was
welcome everywhere, and comes to the concu-
sion that, if the British representatives have
done wrong and unwise things in India they
haven't been moved by il-will, but through
Ignorance and carelessness and that the Eng
lish people, at all events, are not to blame.
The story of bargain of President Grant is
related by Harper's Magazine. Just before the
close of the last session of Congress the Presi-
dent while driving one day was so struck by
the appearance of horse prancing before
butchers cart. that he straightway sent for the
white-aproned parsonage, and bought his horse
for $3.50. Subsequently, after driving out with
Senator Conkling, the President said, 'Come
to the stable and look at new horse I've
bought" Mr.. Conkling, who is a Judge of
horses, looked him over thoroughly, poked him
here, punched him there, and did all that a
Senator and horseman should do in such a case.
'Where did you get him?' asked the Senator.
81 bought him of butcher replied the Pres
ident. "How much did you pay for him?'
"Two hundred and fifty dollars' answered
Gen. Grant. 'Well," responded the Senator,
''he may be very good animal, and doubtless
is, but II it were my case, L think / should
rather have the money than the horse" ''That
is what the butcher thoughtf' replied the Pres
ident.