The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-01
Men and Women.

The great-great-grandmo her of one of the
attendants at the Illinois deaf-mute asylum
was daughter of King Charles XII. of Swe-
den, and tie inmates of the institution are so
stuck up about it that theg won't speak to any
body.
the correspondent limited that it seemed strange
that the Turks did rot cross the river and occu-
py Kalafat the General replied that they we're
acting 70 self defence and were not inclined TO
invade Roumanian territory. The number of
troopsin in ard around Wddin at that time was
10000, and an additional force of $4,000 men
was expected from Sofia.
Petof Sander, the great Hungarian poet, is
the subject of romance as startling as was
ever put between the boards of book. In
stead of being killed in battle with the Rus.
slams, as was reported, he is still living, pris.
oner in Siberia A man just returned from the
mines states having seen him, and affrms his
identity. The illustrious poet would be now
only 56 years of age. 1t is understood that
Count Andrassy is instituting inquiries.
Princess Demidoff, a young Russian lady
wearing the full uniform of a hussar and
mounted on magnificent charger, rode though
the outskirts Of Bucharest not long ago. She
Is the daughter of the honorary colonel and
proprietor of the regiment who is reported as
spending S5O,000 year upon it. No Russian
cavalry is 50 well mounted, the ho-ses ayerag-
ing 16 hands, comprising chestuuts whites,
browns and bays respectively.
Col. Mosby, ex-guerilla, is described by a cor.
respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette as a man
OF medium height and thickness, with light
gray, nervous eyes, and hair of subdued mouse
color, Just beginning to shade down into gray,
when be was young and ardent it was proba-
bly, enraged rat color. He appears ever to be
looking for somebody, and if your eye meets
his you at once fancy you are the man he is
looking for, or that he means to watch you.
should, perhaps, call it an inquiring look; but
whatever it Is don't exactly like it, if the war
has been over twelve years"
"At eighty years of age," says ths Journal
des Debats. IN. Theirs shavss himself He
dexterously and deliberately strops his razors
and shaves without cutting himself With his
face covered with lather he smiles and con-
verses with his friends in the most comfortable
manner, leaving his mirror at times to discuss
matters more CLOSELY or to triumph oyer the OBJ
iections of his collocutor." Whersupon the
Gaulois amably remarks: "What a personal
man is M. Theirs. He must attend to every
thing himself-even his beard!"
Lizzie Mcpherson is Sln FranciscJ's pet
heroine, just now. A little child fell in front
of heavy wagon in a crowded street. The
daring young woman bounded to the rescue.
The wheel was on the point of grazing the
childs head, and to have stopped to lift the lit
tie one would have been to lose the moment
there was left to save its life. So she unhesi-
tatingly put her foot in front of the wheel, and
with her hands held on to the spokes until the
wagon was stopped. The child was picked up
unhu1t, but the savior had her foot crushed.
and from pain and excitement combined,
tainted away when her deed of bravery was
doEe.
Clara Morris prints letter in regard to the
current report that elf she remains any time at
home in quiet she sinks into such state of ut
ter depression, both physically and mentally,
that she cries nearly constantly, and is worse
off than when kept up by the excitement of
the stage" Shs says that this is entirely un-
true. and adds: "God has seen fit to give me
a brain a, strong as my body is weak. 1t is
true have often acted when wholly unfit for
woIk, but even mine enemy will not accuse me
of being actuated by vanity. That do not
give my reason for 50 overworking myself is
not because cannot, but because do not wish
to do so at present"
The character of the Sultan may be esti-
mated from the following incident related BY
the Corstantinople correspondent of the New
York Nation: he suffers from decayed
tooth, and having been advised to consult
dentist summoned one The dentist advised
the extraction of the tooth, and, at the request
of the Sultan, explained the modus operandi.
The Sultan summoned slave and dire cted the
dentist to shoS him how it was done. The
slave lost his tooth, but ths Sultan was up-
nerved at the sight of blood aud deferred the
operation on himself. 1t is stated on the best
authority that the dentist has already been
summoned eight times, and that eight slaves
have lost one or more teeth each, but that the
Sultan still suffers from toothache. This Incl
dent might well serve as parable to illustrate
the way in which Western Europe has dealt
with the rotten fabric known as the Ottoman
Empire.
Osman PAsha, the commander of the Turk
ish camp at Wddin, is a genial gentleman,
short and stout, about so years oflage. A Cor
respoudeat of the London Telegraph, who
called upon him on May 8, found him sitting
crosslegged on long sofa, and clad in a drab
suit of European clothes. The room was white
washed, no pretense of any ornament in It, no.
table but one little one for his ink a nd tobacco
The windows looked upon the Danube and
halafat, and one could see the Roumanians
making batteries and earthworks opposite
Without the aid OF glass. Two or three Off
GERS were sitting on the opposite side of the
room on chairs put in line against the wall.
Whenever servant brought the General any
paper to sign, he did so by linking little seal