The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-20
Men and Women.

mcu anu WOul6us
Senator Ferry is out Of danger, and slowly
convalescing. The causes of his illness are
said to have been last years long and weary
ing session, the activities of the campaign, his
responsibilities as Vice-Presdent pro tenn, con-
sutations and interviews, constant occupation,
and, lastly, his brothers dangerous illness and
his business cares
Gov. Chamberlain, late of South Carolina,
has arrived in New York, and is ready to enter
upon the practice of his profession. The
younger bar OF that city has not in many years
received an ADLER reinforcement. 1t Is q
noticeable fact that one of the young lawyers
in Gov. Chamberlain's new Office is the son of
George Fl. Pendleton. The law mukes just as
strange bedfollows as politics
Countess Marie Won Bismarck, daughter of
the Prince, it is said, is to be married to Count
Lehindortf, one of the handsomest men in
Berlin, and the fsvorite aid-de-camp of the
Emperor, who for several years has never gone
anywhere without him. The Countess Marie
is now nearly 20 years old. Her former
betrothed, Count 'Ealenburg, died of typhoid
fever in 1875.
By the death last week of the Grand Duke
Louis Iii. of Hesse daughter of Queen Victoria
attains sovereign rank. The Grand Dukes
brother, Prince Charles, has waived his sue
cession in favor of his son, Prince Louis of
Hesse, who now becomes Grand Duke of
Hesse as Louis ". The new sovereign was
born in 1887, and was married in 1862 to the
Princess Alice of Great Britain, now Grand
Duchess of Hesse.
Here is room for the ladies truly. Madame
Schliemann has just read paper before the
Royal Archaeological Institute in London,
grave paper, paper on an abstruse subject,
before which the mere average man may well
lower his uninformed head In admiring bu.
mility. 1t is all about 'The high Culture of
the Ancient Greeks, the long series Of Agents
which contributed to it, and the Reason of its
Decay"
The Queen has made three new Field.Mar-
shals-Sir William Rowan, aged eighty y-eight
who served under Moore at Walcheren, in the
Peninsula and at Waterloo, and commanded
the Canadian garrison 1885; Sir Charles
Yorke, aged eighty-seven, who fought in the
Peninsula and at Waterloo and in the Caffre
war, and has for the last two years been Con
stable Of the Tower, and Lord Strathnarin, aged
seventy -four, who served in the Crimea and
got peerage for aiding in suppressipg the
Indian mutiny.
Mrs. Mary Clemmer praises the feminine
letter writer's of Washington. She says: 81
never heard one utter an unkind word of
another, and I never in private or public
uttered an unkind word of any one of them
all. If among other classes of workers of
men or women there existed the good will,
sympathy, and assistance which mark the
intercourse of the women writers of Washing
ton, the malice, uncharitableness, and 'cuss-
edness' of this world would be considerably
diminished"
The other day the occupants Of an omnibus
going along Piccadilly in London, were very
much struck by the reverential and knowing
looks bestowed by the conductor every now and
then, upon gentleman emo longer young,"
whose broad-brimmed felt hat bespoke man
superior to convention. When the object of so
much regard left the omnibus with friend,
the conductor with an excited and triumphant
Look at his passengers, said: There, do you
know who that is? That's Muster Carlyle, the
great writer
When Gov. Vance was canvassing the North
Carolina mountain district for Congress in 1859
he found at one of his appointments an i'm
mense audience, and one ingenious mountain
eer who had taken advantage of the occasion
to set up menagerie exhibition with one rat
tlesnake in glass case. The exhibitor stood
at the door and drummed up his audience
with set speech, while lone fiddler added to
the interest Of the two.headed snake show
within. After the speaking was over in the
Qvlninp tho nhal
shanty, put down his ten cents and walked in.
His disgust was great when he heard the man
on the outside cry out: "Oh yes ladies and
gentlemen, come this way and see the greatest
curiosities in the world, the two-headed snake
and Zeb. Vance both for ten cents-come this
way" etc.
This was Joseph Mazzlni's idea of Life
with large Las rehearsed in hitherto I'm
published letter: "Life is an aim-an aim
which can be approached, not reached: 1t is
not mine, now, to give definition of the aim;
whatever it is, there is one, there must be one.
Without it life has no sense. 1t is atheistical
and, moreover,a an irony and q deception. Life
is no sinecure. no recherche du bonher to be
secured, as the promulgators of the theory had
it, by guillotine, or, ss their less energetic
LVHoWoAo na'o ~, uy railway SuhEcsJ stluSHueSs,
or contemplation. Life is, as Schiller said, "a
battle and march; battle for Good against
Evil, for Justice against Arbitrary Privileges,
for Liberty against Oppression, for associated
Love against Individualism; march onward
to Self, through collective Perfecting to the
progressive realization of an Ideal which is
only dawning to our mind and SOUL"
The supply of disagreeable men and of agree
able women seems to be equally limited in Lon
don. Everybody has heard the story Of the
eleven men who agreed to invite the most
churlish fellow he knew to dine, and who
found their company to consist of exactly
twelve persons when they met. Each had in
vited Sir William Vernon Harcourt, who re-
Gently married the eldest daughter of the late
Mr.. Motley. parallel experience has Just
befallen three members of the new Orleans
Club at Twickenham. They agreed upon a
dinner of six in all, each of the three agreeing
to ask the married lady of his acquaintance who
came nearest to his ideal of what was charm
ing, the only limitation being the club rule
that such ladies were to bs sin general soci-
ety." The husbands were not necessarily ex-
cluded, but if otherwise engaged so much the
better. The dinner was to take place on the
following day, so there was no time for COM
pairing notes: but each man thought he was
sure of an acceptance. The 18th came, but the
three men dined alone. Each had been re-
fused; and, curiously enough, each had re-
ceived the same excuse, viz: that the husband