The Portland daily press., 1877-04-25
Men and Women.


let is sixty-four; Alexander Dumas. fifty.three: :
jules Verne, fifty; Sardou, forty-iye, and
HaleVy, forty-two years of age.
Miss Smith, daughter Of the late DIR. William
Smith OF Virginia, who, as recently wrote
yeu' is the implacable foe of death, which she
regards as an unnecessary mistake, has pro-
Vided IN her will that in case she shall ba mur-
dered BY men, accident. or disease, her body
shall be given to the college of surgeons Miss
Smiths idea is not new. Over the door Of
house at at Crickdale. Wiltshire, was once the
sign: Shoes mended according to the most
ton Immediately restored, SO as to prevent the
complaint ever returning. N B. The person
must not be dead. ."-COnaody Cincinnati Com
naerciM Letter.
Countess Won Vose, in her Recollectjons a.
the Court of Prussia, gives the following pic
ture of Napoleon. The entry in her diary,
July g. 1907: "a quarter of an hour later came
Napoleon L received him with Countess Tau
enzien at the foot of the staircase. He is ex-
cesslvely ugly, with fiat, swollen, sallow face; !;
be is very corpulent, short and entirely with
out figure; his great round eyes roll gloomily
about; the expression of his features is severe;
he locks like the incarnation of fate. Only his
mouth is well shaped; his teeth are good also.
BE was extremely polite
A correspondent sends the Londou Truth the
following historical parallel: In 1761, Mr., Pitt
resigned the Premiership. having just created
his wife peeress. In 1868, Mr.. Disraeli re.
signed the Premiership, having just created
bis wife peeress. In 1866, Mr.. Pitt created
himself Earl of Chatham and Viscount Pitt,
and held both the Premiership and the Prvy
Seal. In 1876, Mr.. Disraeli created himself
Earl Of Bsaconsfield and yiscount Hughen.
den, and held both the Premiership and the
Privy Seal. In April, 1878, Lord Chatham de-
lvered his last speech in the House of Lords,
In April, 1878, Lord Beaconsield-Ab omen.
AsJohn Broughman sat the other night in
the Union Square Theatre behind a lady who
wore one of the new tall, tower-shaped hats, he
was reminded of story about Bsteman, the
| mapager. Mr.. Batemap, who is . big man
with rich crop of hair, he said, was sitting in
the theatre one night with his hat on, shutting
out the view of the stage from the gentleman
IN the seat behind him, when the latter, touch
ing him lightly on the shoulder, politely said,
beg pardon, sir; but will you please take
your hat off?' Mr.. Bateman promptly COM
piled with the request, but had no sooner done
so and thrust his fingers through his busby
hair, making it stand up like wall, than the
stranger tapped him on the shoulder sgain and
said, beg pardon, sir; but will you please put
your hat on again?'
King Victor Emanuel is most cruelty de-
| sciibed by a correspondent of the Pilot of Bos.
ton, who does not credit that potentlte with
single personal charm. A large heavy face,
with thick bull neck, which his shirt collar
| seems COMPRISING to suffocaton; huge bushy
mustaches which spread across both sides of
the face almost to the ears and which are dry
and lustreless from hair-dye; pale, grayish-blue
watery eyes; thick little pug nose turned up
at the tip, and tinted hair cropped close to the
skull like prize-6ghter's s, constitute the prom
inent features that strike your attention ct the
first glance As you examine him more closely
you find he is thickly built, that his hands are
purplish-red in color, and fat and podgy like
those OF. an overgrowD baby. His face is
| thoroughly animal, and almost wholly devoid
| of intellectual character.
Sir William Grant, the very learned Master
of the Rolls, was native of the county OF Banff
and for a considerable time represented that
county in Parliament. Though most forcbie
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his time, at the bar or in Pariiam. Mt, he was a
remarkably silent man. He was the most On.
tient of judges The story is we'll known of bis
hearing an elaborate and lengtheaed
argument for two days on the meaning Of an
act of Parliament, and when the counsel I'm.
ished, simply saying, "Gentlemen, the act 10
repealed" On one Of his visits to Banff he
rode out few miles into the country, accom-
panied by few friends. The only obserya-
tion that escaped from him was in passing .
field of peas-"Very fine peas" Next day he
rode out with the same cortege, and wss equal.
ly silent; but on passing the same spot he mutt
tered "and very finely podded too"
Dumas says that his father was ideal. but
that he himself is real, and he adds: "My
father began to write inspired by an idea; be-
gan to write inspired by a fact. When sit
down to compose . new play, I take ninety
seven sheets Of paper. Then divide them
into five lots; the first, second, third, fourth
lots contain twenty sheets of paper each; the
fifth lot contains only seventeen sheets. The
first, second, third, ard fourth lots are for my
first, second, third, and fourth acts. write
fast, stopping occasionally to see to count the
sheets still remaining for the act II find
them greatly diminished while have still .
| great deal uDsaid, 1 say to myself: Double
quick-s.ep, now, friend The seventeen sheets
| are for my fifth act Experience has taught
me two things: First, that the public cannot
bear more than twenty pages in any one
act secondly, that the last act should
always be the shortest act OF the play, and
should never, under any circumstances, fill
more than seventeen sheets of paper"
Phillips Brooks has for years, says Q cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette. been con.
sidered as one of New Englsnd's greatest
preachers. But it is difficult to say Just 10
what respect his power manifests ITSELF Some
say in his style of composition, still others in
| his appearance. 1t has been said that sermons
which are read are generally ineffective; but
this will not bold in the case of Mr. BROOKE
He reads every word, but in mastery man.
ner. At what breakneck pace he goes! The
manuscript glows and burns under the intense
FIRE of earnestness with which the speaker
reads You are electrified. You cannot pen
him up by any rules of elocution; his delivery
would be condemned by any such rules. yet he
carries you along with him, and he leads often
by green pastures and still waters; and fire.
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quence, filled, as he is, with the great RESPONSE
bility of his calling. His style Of writing is
simple and beautiful. Most OF his illustra-
tions and metaphors are taken from the Bible.
They are strikingly tasteful and appropriate
always. Besides all this. Mr.. Brooks is man
of the people, great worker among the poor
of Boston.
fhe Pope is said to be witty, like most OF
his clever fellow-countrymen. Many of
his witticsms are historical, as when,
on being asked by devout lady, who was
tearfully lamentling the misfortunes of the
Church, if he did not fear the "Bark of Peter, %
he replied that he was under no apprehension
on account of the Bark, but he felt soma
doubts as to what might be the fate of the
crew. When Cardinal Antonelli told him on
one occasion that he had been recommended to
try the Bagni baths for his gout, the Pope,
jestingly alluding to the well-known false re-
port of Antonellps brigand origin, said he
said he thought his eminence would do we'll to
| act upon the advice for be had heard IL said