The Portland daily press., 1877-05-05
Men and Women,

One of Ada Dyas' worshippers goes off in
this mad strain: ''Beyond the blue of her eyes
| and lustrous brown of her hair, the chaste
creaminess is nowhere broken, save where the
prisoned blood frets itself into red passion in
her lips, or kindes like pent flame in her rosy
palms."
Mr. j. Il. Wright of Boston has sent to the
Governors room in the Massachusetts State
House rare etching by Cipriana, the Floren-
tine artist, of the portrait of Algernon Sydney,
who was beheaded for high treason in London
in 1858. The peculiar interest of the picture
lies in the engraved explanation which accom-
panies it, showing whence Massachusetts de-
rives her motto Ense petit placidans sub Hber-
tate quietem When Sydney was the English
ambassador to the Court of Denmark it is
stated, he wrote in the royal album these lines:
'Manus hoec ininaica tyranais; Ense petit
placidana sub H5ertate ruietem'
The Pope has never been given to posing,
says the London World; he used to take his
snuff and unfold his blue-checked linen hand
kerchief with perfect indifference while seated
upon his throne, the centre of the grandest
ceremonials; but he might almost be conscious
OF the effect he produces as he pauses in full
sight of every one for moment on entering
the Loggia. He stands venerable figure,
clothed entirely in whte-no scrap of color
save the tips of his red slippers and the plain
gold chain and cross hanging from bis neck
the very picture of good old man, set on a
background of scarlet and purple draped state
ly cardinals and violet monsignori.
One of the daughters of the poet Southey-
his "little Bertha'-has just died at Leaning
ten, England, in the sixty.ninth year of her
age. Before her fathers death she married her
cousin, Rev. Herbert Hill, head master of the
Kings School, Warwick, who, in 1916, edited
his father-in-law's latest and posthumous work,
"Oliver Newman; New England Tale with
other Poetical Remains" 1t was this gentle
mans father, another Rev. Herbert Hill, to
whose good offices Southey stood largely in
debted in early life, and who sent him to Balliol
College, with the design that he should take or
ders in the Established Church.
Samuel L. Clemens MARK Twain) on SatuI-
day called on City Comptroller Vansant, of
Baltimore..to apologize for rudeness of which
he was guilty when lecturing at the Maryland
Institute some years ago. The subject of his
lecture was Roughing 1t, and in giving des.
cription of the border ruffiap, Mark Twain
supposing there was large number of persons
ON the stage, pointing towards it, said, 81 have
brought some specimens with me-" but on
looking around saw that only two people were
on the stage. being ex-Mayor Vansant and
Mr. Robert T. Baldwin. Mr.. Clemens apollo.
gized to Mr.. Vansant, who had not forgotten
the circumstance.
Excepting the Princess Mercedes, daughter
of the Duke of Montpensier, there is but one
Catholic princess in Europe available as wife
for the King of Spain. This is Princess Ma
thilde, eldest daughter of the heir to the throne
of Saxony by the daughter Of "Maria H. da
Gloria" of Portugal-a young lady in her fif-
teenth year. To the objection of the aversion
OF the French to any princess of German blood
being on the Spanish throne, the answer is
made in the fact that Saxony, like Bavaria,
although German, has by no means become
Prussianized by the war. 1t is said, however,
that the King admires Mercedes, and is deter
mined to marry her and no other.
A youth Of nineteen-Prn William Of
Prussia-entered France with the allied invad.
ers of 1915. He lodged in the house of a we'll
to-do citizen at Dizier who had pretty daugh-
ter. With this damsel-AugeEque Barnier-
the youthful Prussian struck up tremendou
fllrtation, and when he marched away to Paris
he left written on pane of her window, as
well as upon ''the red tablets of her heart"
these words, in German, 81 love thee-Wil-
liam." More than half century passed, and
when, in 1870, the Prussan guards rode into
Dizier, Angelique Barnier, a stout matron now
received certain of their officers into her house
and showed them the precious souvenir still
glittering where the Princes diamond had
scrawled it. The story was too good to keep,
and it travelled from lip to lip till it reached the
royal headquarters. King William went straight
to the house and presented himself before his
old sweetheart. "Angeliquer' he exclaimed,
"who could have dreamed you would kiss and
tell?'' The matron, in confusion, began TO ex-
cuse herself, and gallant old King caught both
her hands, kissed them-not perhaps as ten
derly as of old-and said laughing: '.Ah, well
my soldiers know that boys will be boys, and
Angelique, have never forgotten your!