The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-22
Men and Women.


Charlotte, Werthers Lotte. bread-and-butter
Lotte, has just died at Basle, an old, old
woman.
1t is announced in the Springfield Republi-
can that Rev. Joseph Cook is to be married on
Saturday to Miss Hemingway of Fair Haven
Conn.,. sister of Mr. @. S. Hemingway, prin-
cipal of the Holyoke High School.
Secretary Thompson is graphically described
as thin, nervous little man with snowy white
hair, quick gray eye, and a wrinked face
without mustache or beard; he wears a rusty
suit of black and white necktie.
1t is reported that James Russell Lowell will
not be allowed to break his connection with
Harvard College when he undertakes the Span
ish mission. The authorities of the college
have refused to accept his resignation of his
professorship and will fill his place temporarily
during his absence.
christian Reid" the writer Of novels, is
Miss Fisher, of North Carolina. During the
winter months she resides at Baltimore with
her aunt and uncle, Judge and Mrs. Hairstone,
who before the War had the largest fortune in
North Carolina, and are even now enjoying
the income from million.
A descendant of Abraham, Sheikh Achmed
Hariril guardian of the Kaaba of Mecca-the
''House of Allah," most holy of all the Mahom-
etan holy places-has arrived at Pesth to pre-
sent the Hungarians with certain rich gifts in
recognition of their sympathy with Turkey
Among these are two splendid leopards for
Count Audrassy .!who, having no domestic use
for them, has given them to the Geological
Garden of Pesth.
Figaro says that while Cardinal Howard was
walking the other day through the galleries at
Rome in which are displayed offerings to the
Pope on his Golden Jubilee, he and certain
prelate reached the wine section. "Ah" said
the Cardinal,ss"we have wine cellar; we'll
furnished too" Then his eyes fell on table on
which delightful Bologna sausages were heape d.
"And buffet as WELL" he murnured Then
the prelate with him soothingly said in low
voice, "And twenty minutes for refreshments"
Alexander Dumas, it is reported, is growing
very stout, and his fuzzy hair is getting very
gray 1t is said further that since his election
to the Academy and the admission of his plays
to the boards of the Comede Francaise, he has
become almost insufferable naughty, and that
since the failure of his Etrangere on the
American stage, he has taken a very hearty
dislike to the United States in general, and to
our citizens in particular. He is just finishing
a piece founded on his fathers novel of Joseph
Balsamo, Memories dun Medecin.
Gilbert Stuart the painter rarely went to
church; he had the idea that people could
pray without going there. But one Summer
morning he concluded to 60, and when there
arranged himself very much at his ease,
standing and leaning over the pew when every
body else was sitting, t,king snuff, yet paying
great attention to the sermon. On his way
home he said, swell, do not think L shall go
to kchurch again." His daughter asked
"Why?" 'Oh," said he, 81 do not like the
idea of a man getting up in box and having
all the conversation to himself
Mr.. James Gordon Benefits friends, says
the New York correspondent of the CONNER
cial of Cincinnati, are writing to him to "come
home and stop this nonsense of affecting
exile. One of them. a noted man of fashion,
wrote him the other day that he must not
flatter himself that it was dangerous for him
to come back, or that people were still talkiug
about him. 'Ex-Mayor Hail. said he, bowed
you out long ago. He added: Il understand
you were not we'll received at court. You
would have been here 1t is now announced
that he returns in July
Molly Monroe, "The Arizona Amazon has
gone mad. She was a Prescott courtezan of
daring character who used to accompany all
the leading scouts against the Apaches, dressed
in buckskin shirt and pants and armed with a
Henry rifle, two six-shooters and bowie
knife, and heroically holding her own in a
fight wherever there was sickness or want"
says her enthusiastic biographer, she was an
angel" She was of of Eastern birth and good
education, was seduced and deserted by her
lover and so took to the wilds of Arizona,
where excitement, dissipation, drink and gam
bling soo2 told their tale upon her-morally,
mentally and physically.
Mile. Chanzy, the daughter of the governor
general of Algeria, has just been married to
the son of another French official, and one
detail of the ceremony is interesting. The
young couple signed the marriage register
with pen which once belonged to Plus TX.
When quite child Mile. Chanzy was pre-
sented one day to the sovereign pontff by her
mother. "Holy father" said the little girl
with the simplicity of her age, 81 should like
to take away with me souvenir of Rome"
The benevolent old man smiled at the infan-
tile demand, and taking up pen lying on
the table near him presented it to the child,
after blessing it, and said, "Take this, mon
enfante, it will serve to sign your act of mar
r;oro