The Portland daily press., 1877-10-31
Men and Women.

ASA uAU UVAAOMs
The two United States Senators who ever
served the longest terms, were both North Car
olinans by brth-Benton, of Missouri, and
King, of Alabama. The former served thirty,
the latter twenty-nine years. 1t is related, in
reference to Mr.. Kings extreme courtesy, that
when he presided over the Senate the two Sen
stors from Arkansas pronounced the name of
their state differently, and that he punctlious-
ly observed this difference. He invariably
recogn zed the one as ''the gentleman from Ark
an-Saao," and the other as "the gentleman from
Ar-kdn-sas'
A glimpse of General Sherman waiting for
breakfast at a Cincinnati railway station:
Bright, searching eyes, whiskers almost white,
a pleasant smile lurking about the corners of
his mouth, and hair, which, when he doffed
queer-shaped head-covering, cross between a
Scotch cap and a turban, looked as though the
mice had been playing at hide,and-seek amid
its thick Businesses, and stood straight up as if
n rebellion at the oppression of that blue
travelling cap. The General says that we have
the best army in the world, considering its
strength-but that we need more soldiers.
Certain good people are always lamenting
that the young in this generation have ceased
to be young: that the least sentimental
women whom they know are about sixteen
years of age; and that so far from the fantas-
tic old excuse for Juvenile delinquencies hold
ing good-that "boys will be boys the worst
feature of the age is that boys won't be boys
any longer. We are quite of a different opin-
ion from these croakers. Instead of growing
old prematurely, we think that, like all higher
animals, the human race, on Darwinian prin-
cipes, takes little longer time to develeop
nowadays than it did in former times Novel
lists, indeed, persist in describing ''sweet seven
teen" as the climax of womanly beauty and
wisdom, just as our old poets described May as
the month of roses The novelsts refer to
past generation (when girls became COASTS at
that age, and Mrs. Langtree would have been
reckoned passee, and Mrs. Shelley was writing
Frankenstein in what ought to have been her
schoolroom), just as the English poets copied
from the Tuscans, who really possessed Rose di
Maggie. But it is a fact that English girls are
not now to be met with out Of the pages of a
romance who, three years under twenty, ex-
hiblt all the tull-grown charms of twenty-five,
combined with a good deal more prudence and
knowledge of life and les conyenances than is
generally acquired at fifty. On the contrary.
sweet seventeen" as we behold it, is unfinished
and green as gooseberry.-u unless. indeed, il
happens to be in the deplorable rotten before
ripe condition of miscalled ''girl of the
period. London Spectator
The following concerning "Ouds," from the
the Tauchnitz Quarterly Record, will be new to
most of our readers" 'Ouida' is the non, de
pl1n,e of Miss Louise de la Rame AS she is
known to the world, so she has been known to
her friends from baby by the name 'Ouida,'
an iufantine corruption of her baptisma al name
as Boz was in Charles Dickens's childhood.
Her present abode is Villa Farinola, most
beautiful place somewhat less than three miles
from Florence. Authorship of some sort or
other has always been the qualification of
natural impulse, and at four years she wrote in
printed characters little child's story. She
has always been something of a student When
very young she was trained to masculine modes
of culture and of thought by her father who
had lofty and polished intellect. AS a child
she acquired sm altering of algebra and math-
ematics, and delighted to trace on ancient maps
the campaigns of Alexander and of Caesar.
Ehs love OF study has never left her, and she
adds to it great and revereut love for all the
ats. She has, as her novels conclvsively prove
strong belief 10 race and enjoys what the
Westminster Beview, in aa article upon her
called remarkable freedom from the bonds of
any kind of prejudice. Ouida is not tall; she is
slightly built, fair, with an oval face, and
large eyes of dark blue; her hair, of a golden
brown color, which used to hang loose over her
shoulders, is now braided a la Catogan. In her
habits of thought fer powers of description
AMI her keenness Of tongue Ouida has been
compared to George Sand. She forms her
opinions rapidly, defends them keenly, and
,abandons them but seldom. At all periods of
her life she has had an individuality of her
own and if in 'Pascarep she struck deeper
chord,it was not that it had up to that time been
non-existent. LOlidsa is not insensble
the popularity she possesses, nor is she un-
grateful for the many testimonies to that popu-
larity which she receives. The compliment
perhaps which pleased her more than any was
when Balwer-Lytton told her that he had
read every line that she ever wrote; and amongst
her valued Epapers. is a letter of eight pages.
written by him not long before his death upon
Folle- -Farine,' which he considered one of the
triumphs of modern English romance"
"There is vast difference in the conduct of
man and woman in new clothes. When
woman gets new suit, she Immediately
prances down town, and for hours will walk
contentedly along crowded thoroughfars, re-
eeiving fresh impulses of joy every time anoth-
er woman scan her wardrobe. But man is
so different! He won't put on new clothes for
the first time until it is dark; then he goes
down town so cautiously as to almost create the
impression that he is sneaking along. If he
sees crowd on corner, he will slip across the
way to avoid them if he can; and when he goes
into his grocery, he tries to get behind as many
barrels and boxes as he can. All the time he
is trying his level best to appear as if the suit
was six months old. and all the while real
ICES that he is making an internal failure of it,
-Danbury NeaoS Man,
Sitting Bull is described by the correspondent
of the New York Herald as stout man, five
feet and eight inches tall and weighing 40
pounds. He is forty-eight years old, slightly
gray, and brave. ambitious and fanatcal, hay-
ing long cherished the belief that he is ordained
as the Indian who must wrest from the whitas
the county of his fathers. He is said to take
the first part of his name from peculiar man
ner of sitting, and the latter from his stnbhorn
manner and rage when goaied. He is a full
blooded Teton Iudian, the Teton being branch
of the great Sioux nation.
The Polish ladies are very beautiful, perhaps
the most beautiful in the world. They retain in
middle life the freshneJs of girls and make me
tnlnk OF New England women lowing scarcely
kaow to what air of superiority and the possess