The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-12-28
Men and Wemen.

galantry OF the American man, why, my dear
Jennie June, the best friends have in the
world are American men, and if / haye not
married one 1t is because love too many Of
them.
In person Senator Ferry has all the grace Of
one of Michigan's stately pines, yellow-bearded
blue OF eye-a majestic specimen of Anglo
Saxon of the purest type, As yet he Is in the
hey-day of manly mischief, and the damage he
may do Ia the future can only be estimated by
impartial posterity.-OliUiG.
Father Curci, the expelled Jesuit, Is a little
man of seventy, thin, small and bent; pale and
wrinkled, with the visage of an ascetic; long,
thin nose, large, thin-lipped mouth, and
piercing black eyes full of intelligence. He
wears an immense three-cornered hat, and q
robe pieced, dsrned and threadbare with age.
He is decidedly of opinion that in order to be
bishop, as some bishops go, it is by no means
necessary to be a theologian.
The Hon. Timothy o. Howe, according to q
Washington correspondent, sis the worst
speaker and the cheapest thinker in the Senate
tie rises to nothing with deep accent and q
powerful eye. He says nothing with splendid
content. He shakes his head and throws back
his shoulders and emphasizes his butts and
ands, its and articles, and is tedious without
any relief. He folds his arms across his breast,
whines as if he had struck bonanza OF pathos,
runs out his forefnger and emphasizes again;
then he scratches something under his armpt,
and bellows before he has caught it. He seeks
great occasions to blow morphine at man
kind"
Observation and experience of the past few
years have convinced me that the present stag
nation in business is caused by the limited
number of controlling minds capable Of de-
velopiDg the resources within their reach. As
the public taste improves the wants of the
people should be met. To curtail in the use Of
luxury by those who have plenty of money Is
false economy and perversion of wealth from
its legitimate channels. The lady who pays
$50 for bonnet helps to develop and sustain
one of the most useful and beautiful arts, and
at the.same time provides an occupation for the
little errand boy or girl who could never be
taught anything more difficult than to carry .
message faithfully and xpeditously.-Jennie
Collins.
Harlan IS stout, heavy man, who has the
appearance and high color of a man fond of
good living. His head Is large and three
quarters bald. What hair he has Is scanty
gray. His forehead falls in nearly straight
line toward his nose, broken in the middle by
the deep crack of wrinkle. His nose is straight
and rather inclined to sharp point His
mouth is thin-lipped and small, under which is
pugnacious double chin. The rich, beefy red
of his face extends upward to the top OF his
skull, where CLEANS bright light that relieves
the pink. He wore his new robes easily He
rested one of his fat cheeks upon his right
hand and listened intently to the reading of
every decision delivered to-day WASHINGTON
Correspondence of Chicago Times.
Shelley had the strange lack of practically
proverbially ascribed to the poet-nature. A
curious story illustrating this has lately been
related of him. All who have ever read "Epip-
sychidion" must be familiar with the name of
Emilia Viviani, the beautiful italian lady who
was immured by her father in the Convent of
st. Anne, at Pisa, where the Sheleys lived at
the time, and whose hard fate inspired the poes
with such burning indignation. With his usual
ardor in the cause of the oppressed. he at last
bethought himself of a most singular scheme
for liberatiug the unfortunate girl Lady
Mountcashel, friend of the Godwins, wao was
residing at the time near the Shelleys, seems
occasionally to have dressed herself as a man,
and to have thoroughly looked her part Nov
Shelley urged Lady Mountcashel to introduce
herself into the convent in her masculins char
acter to woo and marry Emilia, and thus res
cue her from the prison in which she was Ian.
gushing.
| Daniel Webster once went to Monticello to
visit Jefferson, and afterwards in describing
the great Virginian to his friend Harvey, he
said that Jefferson was a tall, gaunt light
haired, lght-complexioned man, and not 4 per-
son of impressive aspect. Mr. Webster said
that very much!of the early prejudice which he
had imbbed with his political opinions in
youth, when hs considered Jefferson great
hereto, was dispelled when he came into per-
sonal contact with the aged statesman, and saw
him in his home. Jefferson's great simplicity
| impressed him. Mr.. Webster believed him to
be sincere man, very true to his convictions,
| and was. convinced that much of the abuse
heaped upon him By the opposite party, which
had accused him of being demagogue and an
anarchist, was unjust. Mr.. Webster said once,
| in speaking of Jefferson, that he had more
| deeply impressed his opinions and theories, as
well as his practical ideas Of government, upon
| the legislation and destinies of the country,
| than any man that had lived.
Prof. Jowett the famous Greek scholar, 10
| Master of Balliol College, that one of all the
| Oxford colleges which is credited with sending
| out the most thorough, practical, and brilliant
scholars, and which really leads the colleges of
the world In appearance he is like the college
digntary of the old school. He has . very
large head, covered with snowy hair, aud
crowned with the trencher-cap. His face is re-
markabe for its small and gentle features, Its
clear smooth skin, and Its general look of
plumpness, comeiness and rotundity. He is
sixty years old, and though he has read, and
thought, and written as few have done for forty
| years. he is fresh and untired after it all. He
| is the most hospitable Of hosts, and entertains
the most eminent guests-companies more no
ticable than any others which could be fouad
out of London. He is a pleasant, and some-
times brilliant talker, but he is little given to
monologue. Controversial and acrimonious ut
terances seldom fall from his lips. Mr.. Jowett
may be said to create his own Secretaries. The
youth whom he at present employs in that ca
pacity is the son of his butler, Knight; his
predecessor was the son of the college porter;
both were educated to such pitch by the Re-
gius Professor of Greek that they were able to
attend his lectures on Thucydides.