The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-12-19
Men and Wemen.

Men and Wemen.
ga polite man." said the Duo de Morny, sis
one who listens with interest to things he
knows all about when they are told by person
who knows nothing about them."
Mary Clemmer says: Mrs. Murat Halstead,
the mother of eleven children, looks to be no
older than thirty-five, and her "Titian hair
which has been theme for painters and poets,
Is seven feet long and, when flowing loosely,
trails behind ber on the ground like robe of
gold.
Olive Logan writes: SIT Is really the fact
that jaunty English girls are now raising the
hat by way Of acknowledging bow, the same
the gentlemen do. The hat used ia the little
round felt Oxford, which looks we'll enough on
top of pretty young face, but is powerfully
hard looking affair on the poll of woman who
ranks in that large and increasing army of the
has beens'"
All the fools are not dead yet you know, but
confess the following little anecdote would
have staggered my credulity did I not know it
to be perfectly.true. A gentleman who COM
bines the elocutionary art with that of the
sculptor, in feeble way was calling on lady
the other evening. "How do you manage to
get the right facial expression?' she asked, re
ferring to his statuettes. "Very simple" be
said. "I read poem expressing the passion L
desire to portray; then, as my face expresses
rage or love. plunge head foremost into mass
OF putty have at hand. This retains the i'm
preston, and there you are."-W Walsinghanl
An old gentleman who was once intimate
with Washington Irving, says that one day,
twenty years ago, he found some men at work
on q tract Of land adjoining Sleepy Hollow,
and hearing one of them addressed as Van
Tassel, and thinking of his friend Irving's
legend of Sleepy Hollow, he inquired of this
man if he knew Katrina Van Tassel. "Why,''
said the man, 81 ought to know her; she is my
sunt Kate" Some reference being made by
by the gentleman to Irvng's story of her court
ship, the mau said Indignantly, "Has that
Wash irving been writing lies about my aunt
Kate?r
The Spanish Duke di Medna-Coelt Is pro-
ICY Of ancestry. He is four times duke, eight
times marquis, and six times a count, with
out reckoning minor honors. An ancestor Of
Mediua-C@li boasted that h. came by lineal
descent from the family Of the Virgin Mary.
In consequence of this assumption, he pre-
served in the most conspicuous place of his
principal drawing, room, a picture, represent
ing Medina-Celi of the Herodian period in
the act of saluting, hat in hand, the Holy Vr-
gin. The latter is depicted, according to the
style of art of the period, with ribbon issu-
ing from her mouth inscribed with the courte-
GUS injunction, "Put on your hat. my cousin. I"
In former days there used to be a picture in
the Chateau of the French Ducal family of
Levis-in other spelling, Levin which Noah
is shown to US entering the Ark with his mis-
celianeous following. Among the human beings
is gentleman with a deed-box under his arm,
inscribed with the legend "Papers relating to
the Lewis familyP' That must be said TO ca p
the Duke d Msdina-Celi.
William Pitt Kellogg as his prsnomen i'm
plies. came Of father with public ideas. He
was born in Vermont while Pitt Fessenden
was growing up in the next State to the east
and Pitt Cooke, brother of Jay Cooke, was q
, boy at Sandusky. The mama of William Pitt,
in America always implies Wing parentage,
for it was Pitt who collared Napoleon, and, like
young bulldog, hung to France, greatly pleas
ing the old FederalistJ. The Louisiana Sena-
tor is slight man of military carriage, weigh
ing about $50 pounds He has an animated
and adaptable face, hair originally in black
riuglets, and now gray above the forehead, a
rather bony face, of an olive skin, and darkish
eyes, which ara drawn down, half-shut, at
times, or he closes one and flashes the other
while he takes rifle-sight on the subject of
discussion. Rapid, animated, confidential,
Oanara11v uainu Uood h1f
as if off guard or indulging his humor, break
ing into the broadess Vermont utterance aud
pronunciation. Kellogg's talk is even less no.
ticeabe than his energy of action, which is un-
tiring. He can go without sleep almost for
weeks, can keep his temper in all this insom-
mia, and bis fneSse has backing in physical
courage Washington Cor. Cincinnati En-
quirer.
A Constantinope correspondent OF the New
York Times writes: II saw the Sultan at the
Selamlik on Friday. He ia a goed-looking
young maa with strongly marked but decided
ly handsome features. His face was haggard
and had tired expression about it, as though
the cares Of sovereignty weighed heavily upon
hi mind. Unlike his predecessors he busies
much, some people say too much. with the af-
fairs of state, and insists upon knowing every
thing that is done and on giving his opinion
upon questions of detail which might advan-
tageously be left to his ministers. The portrait
of his brother-in-law Mahmoud Damad, first
chamberlain of the palace is less flatteriug:-
A more brutal looking, vulgar cad, it has, for
tunately for me, never been my lot to gaze up
on. About five feet six inches in height with
bow legs and splay feet, shoulders of immense
breadth aud an abdomen more expansive even
than his shoulders, stupid, thick-lipped, fiat
nose face, surrounded by struggling black
beard, Mahmoud Damad represents the type Of
the ogre of our nursery tales, and it Is difficult
to conceive either the passion which he once in
spired in the fair Emineh, or the partiality now
shown towards him by her imperial brother.
But the fact exists, and the recent abortive at.
tempt to put him out of the way has only in
creased his power.
If there be anything that Mr.. Whittier hates
it is 50 scene''. At one of the great Bostor
fairs was lady who for long had been an ad
mirer of the poet, and when she discovered thai
he too was there, she besought a friend to
bring her into personal acquaintance with him.
The friend consented. Whittier was caught in
passing, hurried and unexpectant; in the centre
of a curious crowd the introduction was spoken
Whittier bent his head in smiling greeting,
when without warning the food-gates of femi-
| nine gush were opened and Mrs. Blank between
sobs and tears tried to tell Mr.. Whittier tina
| for years she had cherished him in her heart
and that she never-sniff, sniff-never thought
to have the happiness of meeting him; that she
| could "kneel at his feet" and here a whole
| torrent of tears and shifts. 1t is easy to pic
| ture the shy, reserved poets misery. OF quite
| different order of emotion was that of Don
l Pedro when he met him. As he entered tht
| drawing-room after the company were assem-
bled, he looked about in vry eager unroy a
fashion, and inquired with great earnestness
"Where is Mr.. Whittier?' When White
himself appeared before him to answer thi
question, the enthusiastic Emperor flung hi
arms about the poets neck and gave him
regular Brazilian hug, 10 which Mr. Whittier
partially responded by tiiuging one arm owe
Dom Pedro's shoulder.
The Supreme Court in Iowa has decided in
case appealed from court of that state, tina