The Portland daily press., 1877-11-07

vitality. His eyes blaze beneath his shaggy
eyebrows. and his white hair rolls off his noble
forehead in lion-lke way.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is writing
monograph on the late Mr.. John Lotbrop Mot
ley. The manual work of tbis-as of every
thing else he writes for publications. done
with broad gold pen fixed into aquill handle.
The doctor says be has used this pen for twenty
years, keeping steel pen for writing letters
and that sort Of thing" He writes only in the
morning, and gives about three hours day to
literary work. He does not care to write
longer than that, and is said TO dislike very
much what is called contract work" He
seldom reads now what is not Immediately use
fol to him and is no devourer Of novels. He
told writer for the Boston Herald the other
day how bis chief works happened to be writ
ten. Elsie Venner was written with a purpose,
bat most of his books had their origin in some
felcitous idea which came to him in happy
moment Of the Autocrat, he satd: "When
Mr.. Lowell was editing the Atlantic he ap-
Piled to me to write something for it. 1
thought was a tile out of fashion, and did
not m uch fancy the job. / sat down, however,
and wrote a l amber, and that number was so
well received that wrote away until l had
finished the series. l did not write my novels
for the market, but to develop some idea IF
mine.
Intermarriages with the "psle face at
Standing Rock Agency are quite frequent.
The interpreter, a white man, has an Indian
wife. He has been with them ten years, and
is man of intelligence ard quiet, gentle ways.
One of the daintiest of feet wearing a number
one boot is owned by young half-breed glrl
of sixteen years, the daughter of Mrs. Gal
pin, an Indian woman, now the widow of a
white man. resident of this agency. Mrs.
Galpin never speaks word of Euglish, de-
clines to do so, though she understands it very
well. She is woman of superio mind, and
highly respected by both whites and Indians.
She has four daughters. Two of them are mar
ried to white men, one of them is Mrs. HaI-
mon, the wife of Capt. Harmon, pos.-trader at
Fort Lincoln. Mrs. Harmon has fiue face,
and her dark eyes and hair with her pale vel.
low complexion, give her most striking ap-
pearance. She has good figure, and is de-
cidedly handsome woman. She and her sis
ters are well educated, with easy, graceful
manners. Miss Annie, the youngest, and the
owner of the pretty little feet has also dainty
hands. She is as crown as berry. with large,
saucy black eyes, regular features, and dash
of style that is very charming. The family are
Catholics, and the daughters were educated at
a convent.
BelzoDi, many years ago, told this odd story
of the carnival at Lisbon. A mask in the merry
crowd threw an orange at the carriage OF the
Turkish ambassador, which struck him full in
the face; and that dignitsry, after slight de-
lay, appeared before the Portuguese minister
of foreign affairs to complain of the indignity
thus publicly offered him. "Oh," said the min
lister, such is the custom of the couptry on
these occasions, ard l hope your excelency
will pardon it, "Be it so," answered the
Turk politely, "but was about to add when
you interrupted me, that Immediately drew
my pistol and shot the fellow dead, for that is
the custom of our country, and have no doubt
from the remark you have just; made, that you
will overlook it,"
The New York Sun prints this: ''The posi-
ton which Thackeray especially coveted was
that of Master of the Charter House, his old
school. to which be sent PendenDis, Rawdon
Crawlev, and the Newcomes, father and son,
and which il alluded to in nearly all his books.
The Masters Office is quite distinct from the
schoolmaster's and analogous to that of the
Warden Of Winchester and Provost Of Etop.
He lives in spacious mansion hung with splen-
did portraits Of former governors, aud the
eigbty-foHr pensioners-one of whose number
il will be remembered that Col. New ,ome be-
came-are especially under his control. Thack-
cray would have been kind and sympathetic
friend to these 6isappointed old fellows. The
school division of the Charter House has now
been removed into the country, the Master and
the old men remsiuing 10 their old quarters,
bnt the whole surrounding district has been so
completely metamorpbosed since Vanity Fair
was written as to be scarcely recognizable.
Merchant Taylors' School now occupies the
Charter House ground; it is day school only
The Charter House, which has an iecome of
nearly 100000 year, has removed to splendid
quarters at Godalmiug in Surrey
The true and pure Parisienne, completely de-
veloped, is an extraordinary being. 10 this
strange hot-houss of Paris the child is already
a girl, the girl woman and the woman mon
ster-a charming and fascinating monster.
Hers is body often chaste, with soul pro-
foundly refned-and blase. In the midst of
the great Partisan whri, 10 the salons, in the
theatres, in the shows of all sorts, all nations
and all ages have passed before her eyes and
appealed to ker intelligence; she knows their
customs, passions, virtues, vices, revealed and
poetized By art in its every form, and all this is
f-rmenting together, day aud night in her over
heated brain. She has seen everything, guessed
everything, imagined every thing, desired every
thing. She is at the same Instant frantic for
everything and tired Of it. Sometimes she be-
haves well, som. times III, but not because she
hap any special lisiug for good or evil; rather
because she has dream of some'hiug above
the good and below the bad. This iOnocent
tbiog is of'en only separated from orgy by
caprice and from crime by opportunity
taue Feuillet.