The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-10-24
Men and Women.

Many people think that the occasional and
exceptional .brilliancy of Thomas De Quincy,
in some if not all of his writings, was caused
by excessive use of opium. Mr.. Lathrop, in
the November Atlantic, dissents from this view
and thinks the drug prolonged his life for mary
years.
During the visit of President Hayes to Prov
idence at one of his temperance repasts story
was told Of President Grant when once his
health was proposed In acknowledging the
courtesy he simply rose and bowed his thanks
but said nothing. AS the company were pre-.
pared to enjoy a speech, something of an awk-
ward silence followed. In order to revive the
spirit of the occasion, Governor Van Zandt of
Rhode Island promptly arose and said, "Allow
me to propose the health of NUNS cabinet"
The point was well taken, and was received
even by the President him self with laughter.
At the conclusion of the story, Secretary
Evarts, who sat near by, quietly remarked,
every true; in the late administration it was
NUNS cabinet; but think this is Extra dry"
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont says in Harper,
that year after she was married, her father
sent for her one morning and, pointing to her
old place at the end of the library table, said :.
81 want you to resume your place there; you
are too young to fritter away your life without
some useful pursuit. So back she went obedi-
emily to her mornings of work and readings
and translations. Her father made her his
companion and friend from the time almost
that she could begin to understand.
Senator Douglass monument is at length to
be pushed rapidly to completion. A new and
stronger foundation is to replace the present
one. 1t is sixteen years since the Little Giant
of the West died in Chicago at the early age
of 45. He was Attorney General of Illinois at
%; Secretary of State at q; Judge of the Su-
preme Court at 2S; elected to Congress at 80,
aud served four years; elected to the United
States Senate at 81, and served in that body
until his death. He IS the only person who
ever entered upon third term in the Senate,
served fourteen years and died at the age of 45.
Chief Joseph, whose surrender with the rem
nant of his band brings the Indian war to a
close, is now in the full vigor of manhood,
about forty years Of age and is model of war
rior chief-tall, we'll formed, of bold bearing,
dignifed demeanor, and every inch a leader.
He has a naughty scorn of white men, and has
been in the habit of despisng any of his own
His father, old Joseph, was not a Nez Percee,
but Cayuse chief, who became the leader of
portion Of the Nez Perce tribe which was dis
satisfied with the treaty of 1857, and the ranks
of his adherents seon swelled to considerable
proportions by the disaffscted from other tribes
The disaffection towards the whites was greatly
increased by the preaching Of Smohalla, cum
ming Indian known as "The Dreamer" who
had received a smattering of biblical lore from
the missionaries, and took advantage of the
knowledge thus gained to work upon the super
4 stition of the Indians. His grand theory, based
upon Gideon's victory over the Mdianites, was
| to the effect that the Indians could eventually
| triumph over the whites, and drive them from
| the country, despite the great odds in favor Of
l the whites.
A light-hearted, impulsive young lady, writ
ing to friend over the arrival of her eigh-
teenth birthday tells it in this joyous style:
Darling j, 1 must write you to-day to tell
i that at last am splendid eighteen! Think OF
| it-splendid eighteen-not timid fifteen, win
| ming sixteen, blushing seventeen or even bold
| nineteen, but-splendid eighteen! L shall COM
l mence to live from this day forth. l shall love
4 verybody and everybody will love me.
A Boston correspondent of the New York
| World says: "Yet like to hear Cook speak.
1t is grand sight to see him in the agonies of
language, and everybody hanging upon his ut
terance as they were in an agony of thought
The magnetism of the man is remarkable. He
tells you with the flash of his eye and the fling
ing about of his arms when ne is leading you
up to the point of applause-and you do appiauu
in spite of yourself. Then you stand IN mute
wonder at the adroitness with which the man
makes complex the simplest truths 1t takes
an entire course of lectures, involving perfect
torrent of metaphysics, metaphors, quotations