The Portland daily press., 1877-11-09
Men and Wemen.

The prospective senator from Indiana, Mr..
Vcorhes, is a tall blonde of the Titan coloring,
with heavy red moustache and imperial. He
has rosy face and the sort of figure which
looks imposing on wagon or a hogshead at a
mass meeting.
The late Senator Morton is said to have read
newspapers more than books. He often felt
the want of a more general acquaintance with
literature but never pretended to knowledge
he didn't possess, nor was unwilling to ask Tor
information. His favorite poetry was "Para-
disc Lost" He was firm believer in revela-
tion, but once said to the friend who was with
him in Europe that he was afraid to investigate
the sources of his belief, to subject it to the
attacks of an acute and well-informed skeptic
On his death-bea he said, as well as he could
for his failing breath, that he had tried to live
right, which was the only accepted preparation
for death, or words to that effect. He had
much veneration. He once said that he did
not approve of sacred illusions in political
speeches.
Mrs. Schenck, the daughter of Jere S. Black,
is one of the most beautiful women sver saw.
She is tall, slender, dark complexioned, with a
dark crimson glowing in her cheeks, big, dan
gerous eye, black as coais-eyes trained to deal
destruction by their delicious glances; regular
features, iron clad hair, an animated face-a
woman who in her prime OF life has more than
her girlish beauty, combined with the ease
with which years of society, travel and adm1ra-
tiou has given her-a woman who will always
he surrounded by devoted followers, whether
she remains the widow Schenck or becomes the
stenmother of the dazzliOg blonde who now
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-Chtgago Tribune.
Walter Bagehot used to study human nature
at Crabb R0binson's breakfasts. Robinson Kept
his guests waiting for hours. talking on all
sorts of subjects meanwhile. Bagehot, having
some experience of this habit, was accustomed
to take his breakfast beforehand, and he coald
in this manner study and enjoy the impatience
of the other guests at his leisure.
Among the actors performing at the Toledo
Adelphi last weed was an Indian Princess
named Neoskleata. The Toledo Commercial
saws she is descended from a line of great
chiefs of the Mohawks, and is the princess of
her tribe. Her father, grand father and great
grand father all were head chiefs of this nation
which Office descended from father to son. Her
father was Chief Oronhy ateckha, who died on
the Grand River Reservation, some ten years
ago. She is also the sister of the great temper
ance advocate, DR.. Oronhyateckha, of London,
Canada, who was educated at the expense of
the Prince of Wales. Neoskleata is self-edu-
Gated. This is the first season of her dramtic
career, and she promises to become good act
ress. She has sung often in public, ard is said
to have voice of peculiar sweetness.
ho Enn EuOania a rurinlNa
apeciote ia told by Belgi,n gentleman, who
had it from one of the aides de camp OF the
Prince of Wales. He told him that when
Queen Victoria accorded an interview to the
Empress on the arrival of the latter after her
flight from France, the kind-hearted prince
was so touched by the tears and the despair of
the royal fugitive that he was obliged to leave
the apartment in which the audience was held
The emotion of the empress on first beholding
the queen was wholly uncomfortable. Throw
ing herself into the kind maternal arms of her
royal hostess, she cried amid tears and sobs,
"Oh! it was all my fault-Louis did not want
the war-but 1 would have itr' A singular
corroboration of the words of leading Repnb-
licau paper after the 10th of May last, 1T was
a woman who brought about the war of 1870"
In his domestic affairs the late Prussian
Field Marshal Won Wrangel showed the same
iron courage and the same notions of honor
which marked his military career, and it is said
that when his only son, who was a subordinate
officer in the army, was implicated in some
misdemeanor, the General paid whatever
money forfeit the lad had incurred and then,
handing him pistol, said tersely: "For
Prussian officer who has disgraced himself
there is Io way but this" Obedient to the
suggestion, young Wrangel put the muzzle of
the weapon to his head and blew his brains out
before his fathers eyes. The General wit
messed the deed outwardly unmoved, and new
| er mentioned the offenders name again.
In conversation lately with San Francisco
reporter, Mr.. Stuart Robson, the actor, spoke
of dinner party which he had attended in
| England, where he met Charles Reade, whom
he describes as "a fine, portly, handsome old
| gentleman, seemingly of sixty-fve. He was
| deaf of one ear, and asked me to sit on the
| other side so that he could hear me better. de
had large head, shaped like Daniel Webster 5
| and strong one for liquor. He drank brandy
| every time we little fellows took champagne,
and wen we left the table, all a little uncertain
on our legs, he walked off as well poised as a