The Portland daily press., 1877-12-13
Men and Women.

Men and Women.
One CT the critics says: Miss Thursby re-
| minds me of pearl-a milk-white pearl,
| frosty, pure, Opaque. Her face is pale, her
stage dresses pale, her manner unimpassioned,
| her execution faultless.
A poor woman once called on Theodore Bar
| riere, the French dramatst, and after telling
him tale of suffering, got ten francs from
him. After she had gone he saw something
| sparkling on the table near where she had sat.
He examined it "A tearp he said, "a real
| tear! should have given her twenty"
Senator Lamar wears spectacles, pushed up
| at times on his forehead. which is growing
somewhat wrinkled. His brown hair, origin
| ally in thick locks, is gone where it is parted
| and on the crown. His moustsche and guatee
are gray, like Gordon's. He dresses plainly,
sits off wearily and austerely, has his speech
before him and his books piled up, and finally
begins, He starts off softly an6deferentially,
and advances with logical cumulativeness, and
all at once yields from weariness Gordon
| is the most martial looking man in the Senate
He has heavy scar under his left eye, reach
ing down to the cheek, and his figure and tenn
pCAuAAOuI dl0 q ASHtCA - lOuR, 5tEdy lOCh
from his thinning, black hair relieves a fore
head otherwise too high. His goatee is gray.
His manners are always studiously courteous.
According to Paris Journal, Donizetti was
really the inventor of the Ulster. One day, at
Paris, he sent for his tailor to measure him for
an overcoat. The tailor found him at the piano,
suTrendering himself to the rapture of compo-
siton. Nevertheless he was persuaded to quit
the beloved instrument aud deliver himself up
to the man of tape and chalk. The tailor
made the first measurements, then, STOPPING,
began to take the length of garment. "To the
knee, sir?" he said, timidly. Clover lower"
said the composer, in dreamy voice. The
tailor brought the measure half way down the
leg, and paused inquiringly. 'Lower, lower"
'But. sir. you won't be able to walk. % "Walk?
Walk? Who wants to walk? D--n it, sir with
an ecstatic lifting of the arms,) never walk
L soar"
The residence of Editor Dana of the New
Sun, at Dosoris, near Glen Cove, L. l., is an
old Long Island place, formerly owned by Har-
ry Walter Livingston, who made it stock
farm. 1t is virtually an island, connected with
the mainland by causeway, and much money
has been spent upon it by Mr.. Dana since he
bought it a few years ago in the way of inn
provements of new and costly character He
| takes great interest in agricultural pursuits,
and particularly in the raising of fine
poultry, for which he received several prizes at
a recent Queens county fair. The origin of the
curious name the place bears is as curious as
| the name ITSELF The original occupant was
Dutch settler who received it as part of his
wifes dowry. As he was bit of a classical
| scholar he christened it Do Uxoris-ths wfe's
| gift-a name which the neighbors in no great
timesuccessfully corrupted into Dosoris.
| The Earl of Beaconsfield is still the most in.
| teresting public character in England. Mr..
| Jennings says speaking of the Norfolk-Howard
l weddng;-Mr. Disraeli seems now to be looked
| upon by the nobility, whom he has incessantly
| denounced and caricatured as their guardian
| angel. He must be present at their marriages;
| if he were eligible he would undoubtedly be
| asked to christen their children. 1t was Curl
GUS sight to see him at the Oratory last Wednes-
| day, his face half sunk in the Astrakan collar
| of his coat, yet bis eyes keenly obserVant as
ever, few things escaping them. L: was pretty
too, to see him kiss the hand of the bride and
| afterwards of the Princess Louise, who smiled
and seemed pleased at the courtier-like grace
| of the prime minister. Then he went to the
wedding breakfast and made happy allusion
to the presents up stairs. What would he have
said had he spoken his thoughts concerning
one of those presents-the necklace formerly
worn by Mary Queen of Scots, (which has ever
since been in the possession of the Howard
family" as the newspapers say with awe?
Mrs. Clemmer pictures Senator Elmunds as
the Vermont Nestor, who, though scarcely fifty,
looks as old as the hills. Dyspepsia having
merked him for its own in his prime. rotundity
is denied him. Pain may have edged his mind
| while it thinned his muscles. 1t is sharp as a
briar, but not acidulous. He rarely shows
temper or emotion. Bat he penetrates point
to the last nerve of the sensitive bone and holds
it with grip that is pitiless His head is bald,
his face long, his beard gray and flowing, and
he looks as if he might have been lawgiver in
| Israel. or even have presided over the Eleusnian
mysteries. This is what he is in the Senate
In domestic life he is most genial and admira-
i ble very lover to his gentle and gifted wife,
the friend and companion of his youthful
daughters OF Patterson, she says he is 9
blonde with not a high, but strongly psrceptive
forehead, straight, heavy eyebrows, deeply
sunken eyes; rugged nose, mora indicative OF
force than refinement; half sardonic mouth
that looks out bitterly from under its encirclinl
moustache. His attitude and aspect indicate q
man of positive power, feeling and intellect
| Not of the highest calibre, certainly; yet of q
| force potent enough to push him above the
| average lsvel of success And of Conover, she
| says contemptuously, like the little sand-ppel
| OF the beach, he has taken on the hues of his
native sands in creeping out from New Jersey
| He is sandy-looking little being, whose pres
| ence indicates that his existence means moth
| ing in particular. Perhaps no human creature
is so poor in makeup that he cannot do harm
but the Lord allows many to live who are in
| capable of any positive good. By his aspec
| such one seems Conover. Born in 1910 he il
| the very youngest Senator; but he does not lool
| young He is entirely bald, his head is fiat
his features plebeian, the entire expression o
| the man inanimate and weak. The only posi-
tive force 10 him is his devotion to himself ant
to his own interests. The world may wag as i
will; he is always for Conover and, in the in
terests of that small person, has now taken hi
seat on the Democratic side, supported by th'
| backbones OF Gordon and Bayard, and tn
bandana blasts of Thurman when he blows hi
bugle in the little apostats's cause.
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| An Eaelishman who sacrificed his own lif