The Portland daily press., 1877-06-13
Men and Women.

Hampdeu. The sixth dau ghter of the great
patriot, Mary Hampden, married twice. By
her second husband (Sir John Hobartl size was
the ancestress of the presen. Earl of Buck:Dg-
hamshire, the father of the famous Turkish
Admiral, who also owns the estates of John
| Hampden.
1t IS related of Thomas a. Benton that q
gentleman whose guest he was went up to his
room on the morning after he had made a
speech, taking newspaper containing a very
| laudatory notice of his remarks. "Hays Won
read it, sir? Does it do justice to the subiect?,
asked the host. 81 know all about it, SIR" re-
piled Benton, with great dignity 81 wrote it all
| myself"
Malherbe was very generous, but, one is sor-
| ry to learn, not religious. He gave a beggar
some silver, and the beggar assured the poe.
that he would pray for him. "Pray do not
trouble yourself to do that my friend" replied
| Malherbe; Judging from your own condition.
| should hardly think you had much credit
with Heaven" This was rather wicked. and
reminds one of that queen of Spain who lost
ner husband, and who was SO grieved and 30
| indignant against the celestial powers that she
forbade her subjects to believe in God for six
whole months ito give Him lessou."
Monsieur Theirs has a beautiful library
lighted from the top, where he sits at work
with some 10000 volumes massed around him.
Els 80 years have hardly slackeped the rate of
his labor He is up at the first peep of day.
| light and brews his own coffee, and is closeted
with Mr.. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire when the
busy quarter round about him is still silent.
He is a great economist of his time and health.
L % tuio in he
day. His drinks are milk and coffee. and he
eats plain meats. When he wants to gather
strength for long effort in the tribune, copi-
GUS glass of coffee appears before him.
Madame Wagner-says Mr.. Conway not
beautiful, but she is of distinguished appear
ance, aud with her ample blonde hair decked
VT roses, she might be called handsome
She has a refined and intellectual appearance
| and is much younger than might have been ex-
| pected in one who has been so long subject of
conversation in Europe. She is learned in Ian.
guages and in music, entertaining in conversa-
tlon, and has made many warm friends
From the first the royal family have taken
| deep interest in the concerts, and Wagner has
been received by the Queen. On one evening
the Prince of Wales, having to leave, sent for
| wagner and expressed his delight in the music,
and his regret that he must 90, having made q
promise (and the Prince never breaks a prom
ise) to visit the Aquarium in time to see Mime
Zazel shot from a cannon.
The girl the Russian officer leaves behind
him when he goes to the war Is his wife, Ear
| ly marriages are very common in Russia, and
very large proportion of the officers of the army
even those of lower grades, are married. In the
i nj ia
Ger is not permitted to marry until he attains
certain rank or satisfies the military authori-
ties that either he or his bride can afford to un-
dertake the responsibilities of domestic life.
In Russia, as the Pail Mall Gazette explains
there is no regulation of this kind; and, as the
pay OF the Russian officer is notoriousy very
meagre, il. follows that most of those who are
married are in a state of extreme poverty, and
can with difficulty provide their families with
even the Decessaries of lfe Moreover. very
many of the subaltern officers of the Russian
army are quartered for long periods with small
detachments in out-of-the-way and miserable
villages, where they must perforce live without
any society whatever, save that of peasants
and their own soldiers
In the Gothic archway leading through the
cadets barracks into the quadrangle, at the
West Point Military Academy. there appears
and vanishes at regular intervals, from morn
ing until the hour of retiring at night, quaint
old figure attired in the undless costume of
| United States soldier. With upright though
somewhat feeble bearing the figure pauses ex-
actly beneath the centre of the arch, and facing
| the parade grounds, raises a horn to its lips,
blows call and retires with the regular mo-
tion of an automaton. This is old Bentz, the
bugler of the Academy, who has been in ser
vice here since 1884, nearly forty-four years.
In winter and summer, through all sorts of
weather. the old trumpeter has made the hills
echo with the notes of his instrument, obedf-
ent to which generations Of cadets have moved
to and fro, from class room to study hall or
field or quarters. The old mamie is now
sevsnty-one-is looked upon by the lads as
part of the place, and they could not imagine
the Academy in existence without him.
Don't wear white crosses, nor black dresses
nor caps with lappets. Nobody has any right
to 60 about in an Extensively celestial uniform,
as il ii were more your business or privilege
than it is everybody ito be Gods servants But
know and feel assuredy that every day of your
lives, you have done all you can for the good
of others. Done, 1 repeat; not said. Help
your companions, but don't talk religious SEN
timent to them; and serve the poor, but for
your lives, you little monkeys, don't preach to
them. They are probably, without in the
| least knowing it, fifty times better Christians
than you; and, if anybody is to preach, let
them; make friends of them when they are
nice, as you do of nice rich people; feel with
| them, work with them, and il you are not at
least sure 1t is q pleasure to you both to see
each other, keep out of their way. For mate.
rial charity, let older and wiser people to see to
1t; and be content, like Athenian maids in the
| procession of their home goddess, with the hon
or OF carrying the basket,-Ruskin's Letter to
Young Girls.
This is the portrait the Philadelphia Times
gives of Senator Lamar: A face that might
have come ont of one of Vandyke's pictures,
and needs only the setting off of wide-brimmed
plumed hat and velvet doublet to make the
vairsemblance complete; strongly emphasized
features, heavy dark moustache, which would
be fierce if it had an upward curl, but slopng
downward is gravely romantic: pointed beard
on chin, large hazel eyes, straight hair between
brown and black, worn so long that 1t falls
: down over the coat collar; lofty forehead, q
form of medium height and well-shsped, save
for the STOPPING shoulders; sober suit of brown
broadcloth-the care with which the coat is
buttoned and its velvet collar revealing a tenn.
perate love of dress in its owner. He is of
French ancestry, as one can plainly see, for his
face never came to him from English parent
age. Intensely Southern In his political in-
stincts. Lamar is nevertheless broad liberal and
T national in his views. In all the Southern del
egaton no one is less a bourbon, no one more
sensible and progressive. Very few men In
Congress are as well educated or as we'll read in
standard and current literature. Finally, he
has good quality that comes with his French
blood and is too rarely found in Americans of
middle age; he is gallant toward women and
fond of their society.
Mrs. Fawcett delivered lecture on Thursday
to the pupils and friends of. the Royal Normal
College and.Academy of Music for the Blind
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