The Portland daily press., 1877-08-20
Men and Women.

lion. WIN. nj. Evarts has eleven pretty
daughters, and in reference thereto. an uprelia.
BILE correspondent says: ''When Mr.. Eyarts
travels with his family he charters a car. Bnt
he don't like to 60 to sleeping-car agent and
say, give me twelve lower bert BIS and one up-
per, because the agent always asks him II IL Ia
theatrical troupe, and if they have arranged
for special rates. So he charters sleeper and
says nothing more about it. OF course when
Mr.. Evarts presents that pass for the Hon.
VIM. Evarts and family, there is ripple Of az
cltement, but he has learned to bear this with
equanimity, and frown down sany giggling
that may appear on the part of theconductor."
OF the wife of Alma Tadema, the artist. a
London correspondent says: Her personal an
pearance explains some of the features of his
work. She has yellow hair of the richest color.
her eyes have also a primrose tint, while he:
complexion has pale bloom of its own. most
ly resembling white rose. Both are artistsr
EMiss Melissa Sheridan, of Sheridan, Yamhill
county, Oregon, got on the trail of a panther
that had dragged off one of her fathers sheen.
Instead of deciding, after mature reflection,
that she hadn't lost any panther, she followed
and treed him with her dogs. and put bullet,
between his eyes. He wasn't her first panther
either.
Mary Mapes Dodge, editor of St. Nicholas, is
handsome brunette, below the middle size,
and quite stout, the embodiment of viyscity
and merriment. She Is vertable humorist.
seeing everything at droll angle, and telling
stories that keep her hearers in q gale of laugh
ter. So rarely is she serious that strangers have
no conception Of her depth of feeling and
strength of character. She has two boys, ar
rived at mans estate, and no one who did not
know would suppose that they belonged to her.
She was married very young, and is now but
little over forty.
Alexander Dumass daughter Collette, aged
seventeen, is shortly to be married to Louis
Denayreuse, the well-known dramatic author.
The prince of Wales's young daughter Louise
is getting old en- ough to go to afternoon enter
tainments with her father. He appeared re-
Gently in an aristocratic garden party leading
the small maiden, who wore navy blue gown
and the most prettily demure air in the world.
His children are fresh, bright-looking young
people, not beautiful but interesting. Prince
Albert Victor has just been seriously III with
typhoid fever, which he is said to have con-
tracted at Sandringham in the same way as
his father did few years agc-in consequence
of imperfect sanitary arrangements.
That King Alfonso of Spain has mind of
his own and will marry his cousin Mercedes
seems to be the reluctant conviction of his ad-
visers, and the ministerial newspapers have ac-
cordingly announced his August visit with tho
Montpensiers at the royal palace of La Grauja,
adding that "the year will not close ere an
auspicious event be realized, which will please
all the friends of the dynasty" The high
Catholic and monarchcal party have opposed
the match from fear of the probable liberal
influence of Father-in-law Montpensier; and II
Is said that the motive of many opponents
powerful, if not ministerial is that this mar.
riage with an Orleanist princess would block
the alliance with France they hope for when
Napoleon Nv. comes to his throne by MacMa-
hons expected coup d'etat There is a deem
interest felt in French affairs by Spanish poIi.
ticians, and that is but fair, seeing how uncere-
noniously France has dipped her finger in the
Spanish trencher upon occasion.
Mr.. Charles f. Browne-otherwise Artemus
Ward-once wrote a bright letter to a little
eight-year old friend of his in Elmirs, and the
Gazette of that town now prints this letter for
the first time. He tells his dear Amelia
how much he misses her. "Why didn't mt
you in bottle and bring you down with meP''
he says "Bus L am always forgetting some
thing. The other day 1 went off and forgot
my aunt Sarah, and she's good deal bigger
than you are. Mr.. Ramsey is also very for
getful man. He frequently goes off and for
gets ms washerwoman. like you
very much l shonld like vou inst as we'll 10
you were twelve years older L am very singu-
lar about some things. You spoke to me about
a boy who is my rival. 1 should feel very sor
ry to kill that boy, but he may drive me to it.
am in hopes that he will take himself into