The Portland daily press., 1877-06-04
Men and Women.

When Lord Beaconsfeld was young he looked
like Dick Swiveleri now that he is old he re-
sembles Maj Pendennis.
One of the London wits says that the present
Sir Robert Peel reminds him of what DIR.
johnson said about Colley Cibber: "Taking
from his conversation all that he ought not to
have said, he was poor creature"
An apocryphal sort of story comes from To-
ledo to the effect that President Hayes when
an infant was loud-voced and unpleasant and
that when demonstrated with by disturbed
member of her household his mother drew
herself up with matrony dignity and said:
"Sir, expect he will be President of the
United States some day. That voice was never
made in vain.''
Mr.. Gladstone says that Wedgewood the
potter is one of his heroes, considering "him to
be, take him altogether, the most extraordin-
ary man whose name is recorded in the history
of the commercial world. Wedgwood not only
completely revolutionized the character of the
fabrics of his day, but he carried the manufac
facture of earthernwa are to by far the highest
point it had ever attained in any country in the
world
The Due dAudiffeet Pasquier wants to get
into the French Academy, and has announced
his desire in letter in which he puts this Pc
uliar spelling-'Accademie. Alexandra Du-
mas and Camille Doucet were sitting at the
bureau when the letter arrived. The duca
candidate in his first sentence spoke of his
taste for letters, and Dumas whispered 81 be-
lieve that he loves letters indeed; he puts two
where one would do
George Eliot, at the opening of the Grosve-
nor Gallery, is described by writer in Truth
as ''quiet and gentle, dressed in black, with
white cashmere shawl thrown square over her
shoulders. The face is powerful. Wordsworth
resembled a horse, the noblest Of beasts, and
George Eliot has similar characteristics. Beside
her stood her husband, G. II. Lewes, who
wears the worst of soft hats on the cleverest of
heads. His conversation is simply delightful"
Mrs. Catherine A. Warfield, well known as
the author of the "Household of Bouverie,"
died at her home in Kentucky, May "A. Her
death resulted Immediately from an operation
for tumor. The Household of BouveIie ap-
peared about twenty years ago, and was fol-
lowed by many other novels, none of which,
however, attained the celebrity of the first
"Ferne Fleming aud its sequel, "The Cardi-
nails Daughter" her latest productions, were
published only few months ago
George Washshington recently put up at the
Stockbridge .house.and has been brought
before the Brooklyn courts for desertng his
wife, Elizabeth. Andrew Jackson is police
man at San Jose, Ca :, and is also in the tolls
of the law for burglary at San Francisco. Sam
Adams has just been pardoned out of Sing
Sing, and William Writ heads gang of Phila
delphia burglars. Patrick Henry, Andrew
Jackson, Stephen a. Douglas and John G.
Fremont are on the tramp in various parts of
the country. William Penn is foreman of a
New Jersey fire company and is in trouble for
deserting his wife, and Horace Greeley keeps
hotel in Santa Barbara and has been arreste
| in South Carolina for chicken-stealing. Napo :
leon Bonaparte is on the New Orleans grand
jury, G. Garibaldi drives Chicago express
wagon, Thomas Moore is in the Dayton, Ohio,
poor house, and Julius Caesar keeps hotel at
San Jose. Cal.