The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-11-03
Men and Wemen.

MIR. Julian Hawthorne has young daugh-
ter, new conner, whose name approaches as
nearly as possible that of George Eliot's latest
heroine; she is Miss Gwendolen Hawthorne;
1t is reported that when somebody asked
Mrs. Secretary McCrary if she had Mrs. Belk-
nap s carriage, she imme diately answered No,
you won't find any of that skasllduggery about
usP' Whence is this awful word, and what
does it mean?
The death of the Austrian woman" Marie
Antolnette, was remembered this year in the
performance OF solemn mass every hour,
from seven o'clock till noon, on the eighty
fourth anniversary of her taking off," The
first was performed on the spot in the chapel
in the Rae d'ADjou, where the unhappy
Queens body lay for twenty-one years.
Mr.. John Welsh, the newly appointed Min
lister to England, is somewhat tall and slender
person, with a pleasant face half hidden in a
gray beard; with large blue eyes and we'll
shaped head covered with profuse gray locks
He has the eye and manner of an educated
merchant; and has, indeed, been for most of
his life very successful business man.
The correspondents at Washington are just
now after the Senators. One describes Ben
Hill as "blue-eyed man, mild as May, velvety,
broad-faced and unassuming as field dande-
lon?' And another says that Senator Hoar
now looks "as if he fed on pomegranates and
drank bottled ambrosia. so round are his pro-
portions and so smiling his countenance.'
met yesterday the royal pair of Chiselhurst
and some time of the Tuile ries of Paris. The
prince has grown quite stout, and like his
father about the shoulders and chest He be-
gins to wax the ends of four and three-quarters
hairs OF progressive mustache, and silently
nurses promising imperial. Lately he has
been chiefly engaged in getting his photos taken
IN every possible presentable pose. These he
sends by the bushel to France to keep his
future subjects in pleasing memory OF him.
Lately about 20, 900 cartes were seized by GAM
beta agents and made the means of neat
bonfire, in which straw stuffed figure of i'm
perialism was gcriously roasted mid shouts of
lusty Frenchmen who would run from the
ghost of Bismarck.-London Letter.
lottery in Portugal is as good as a castle In
Spain any day. young lady, who has all the
qualifications necessary for making good
wife, advertises in the Portuguese papers for
proposals under extraordinary conditions She
is poor, but accustomed to certain degree of
comfort; and she has been left in a difficult
position by the death of lady who has been to
her as a mother. She desires to bring to her
husband marriage portion of $4,000. The
man who wishes to become her husband must
take tickets in lottery which is to be held. the
price of each ticket being So. When 5000 tick
cts have been disposed of, the amount due for
them will be collected and placed in the bank
of Wien, invested in the name of the civil gov
ernor of that town, it, as may be expected will
be the case, he will give his consent The mum
bers will then be drawn in the presence of the
judge of the district, the director of the asylum
of Vlzen and of the civil governor, who will be
present. on the occasion. The drawer of the
winning number will then receive, imme-
diately after the celebration Of the marriage
$4,000, and also the interest of the other $4,000,
which will form the dowry of his wife. Should
the winner be unable from any cause to marry
the person making this announcement. .he may
cede his right, or should the marriage not take
place at all, the sum subscribed shall be handed
over to charitable institution in Wien.