The Portland daily press., 1877-03-01
Men and Women.

"Aios Duuu letCuer, Tue writer OF hlSmet,
is young lady still in her tweDties, very
sparkling in her talk, pretty. and thoroughly
accomplished in several languages
Mrs. JEANNE G. Carr, deputy superintendent
of public instruction in California, is making q
reputation for herself by her active exertions
in the county institutes and other educational
affairs.
President Eliot of Harvard College is in favor
OF taxing the parents of children who 90 to
high schools to pay certain proportion of the
cost of maintaining them. He would have
grammar schools for the poor, and open the
high schools to all who could not afford to pay,
but he would impose a tax of $40 or $50 year
upon the children of wealthy parents.
The Sultan is the husband of one wife, and
the Sultana is credbly reported to be a Belgian,
very pretty, very clever, and once pupil of
Mme. Elise. 1T is not the first time that q
Western woman has held the Padishah in
sway. The Sultan, who is somewhat of an in
genuous youth, is reported to have inquired Of
his wife if she had ever met Lady Salisbury.
''She was no. of my set," was the reply.
Mr.. j. Raymond, it is reported, says that Mr..
Clemens thought Col. Sellers pathetic part,
and wanted MIR. Lawrence Barrett to play it.
l This appears to be something like joke. Mr..
| Raymoa is also said to declare that the funni-
est thing in the feast of turnips to his immedi-
ate friends is the fact that he never eats vege-
tables; he "detests them as some people do
| cats"
Victor Hugo had something to do with the
| starting of the Revue des Deux Mondes. He
| suggested to Buloz the purchase of periodical
&C A. l. e.-I
but 100 subscribers. 1t was then simply a re-
| pository for travellers tales and tenth-rate
l geographical articles. Hugo wrote paper for
an early number of the new series, and re-
ceved 100 francs for il, Buloz remarking,
/ That's franc a subscriber
Miss Emile Schaumberg, of Philadelphia, is
the American belle in Paris at present. Mrs
i Hooper, who is blessed with fair allowance OF
enthusiasm even for her generous nature, says
the young lady was the most beautiful woman
| at President McMahon's ball A grand dinner
was given in her honor by resident of the
American colony Thirty guests were present.
and Mrs. Hooper never saw the like Paris be-
fore.
The following sympathetic story is told in
the English papers of Mr. Robert Lowe:
when on the continent, in the enjoyment Of
his long vacation he aud a friend in the course
of walk came across man who appeared to
be lying asleep on the ground. As they re-
l turned they found the man In the same posi-
ton, and his companion going up to the body
/ exclaimed, Good God, the man is deadp Mr..
Lowe coolly took his friends arm, remarking,
Come along; custom of the country; no busi-
l ness of ours
Hon. John Young Brown of Kentucky has
a bright little boy, about ten years old, who
is now with him at Washington. He attended
matinee on his own hook at the National
Theatre, the other day, and at sudden COM
motion in the audience he heard that the Pres
dent had entered a box with his family.
Bound to see all he could, he went around to
the Presidents box, opened it and entered,
i announcing himself as John Young Brown,
| Jr., of Kentucky. The President received him
cordially, introduced him to his family, and
the youngster saw the rest of the performance
from the august sanctuary of the private box.
Once, when Mr.. John McCulloch was play
ing Prince of Morocco in the Merchant of Ven-
Ice, his brother actors played merry trick up
on him. They prepared for the casket scene
with Portia jack-in-tbe-box, so attached to
| the lid of the casket that when it was opened
the grotesque thing would fly up The grace.
ful prince walked up to the table, bent over the
box, turned the key, and the next instant .
particularly ugly jack with a red woollen cap,
bounced into the royal visage, and inflicted an
agonizipg blow upon the royal nose. The
audience was rather more delighted than was
Mr.. Mccullough
Scene-United States Supreme Court room,
while Senator Howe was speaking on the Lou
isiana case. Mrs. Tyler, widow of President
Tyler who occupies q seat next to Mrs Howe,
says to lady friend on her left: 80, my gra-
cous! when will that tiresome old man get
through?' Mrs Senator Howe (who is un-
known to Mrs. Tyler, sharply-"There is no
law to compel people to remain if they don't
like it." Lady friend of Mrs Tyler cloud
enough to be heard by Mrs. Howe)-'That lady
evidently doesn't know that she is speaking to
the widow of President Tyler" Mrs Eugene
Hale (who sat on the left of tn Q last speaker
and loud enough to be heard by Mrs. Tyler, to
a lady friend>-"And Mrs. Tyler probably is
not aware that the lady on her right is the wife
of Senator Howe" Here the curtain fell.
The Washington correspondent of the Ceve-
land Herald tells the story Of Charles O'Conor's s
wooing in the following interesting paragraph:
The young and beautiful widow of Commodore
McCracken of our navy returned from abroad
after her husbands death, and finding her
financial affairs in a complicated state, went to
MI O'Conor to get his legal advice in disen-
tangling them. Mr.. OConor, upon examiua-
ton discovered that the Commodore had died
insolyent, and the beautiful widow was left to
the cold mercies of selfish world without
penny to call her own. This he was Obliged to
break to her, whereupon she held up her hands
in piteous dismay, crying, "Oh! Mr.. O'Conor,
what shall do? l who have lived in luxury
all my life!' Madam" said the great lawyer,
the best advice can give you is to marry
me-" Whereupon they were married
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