The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-04-17
Men and Women.

Men and Women.
Adelaide Nelson denies that she is dying of
consumption, and says she has the lungs of a
race horse.
A curious monthly dinner has recently been
founded in Paris, that of the Kissed Authors.
The members dine on the 10th of each month,
and ouly those are eligible who have made at
least one dramatic failure.
Miss Ellie Sherman, the Generals third
daughter, is just finishing school, and is de-
scrbed as beautiful and witty. Her younger
sister, Rachel Sherman, is tall and sta tuesque,
with power Of conversation and a repose of
manner said to be remarkable in a girl of
sixteen.
An acquaintance of Miss Kate Claxton says
that she seems to have premonition that she
is to be burned up. All her friends have tried
and are now trying to dislodge the idea from
her mind, but in vain. have heard her say
that "Fre and fame will always follow me,
and my life will be yielded up in tragedy
more terrific than any eyes have witnessed on
the STAGE"
Mrs. Hayes, it is noted, has large hands and
feet, large waist. a large mouth, large eyes,
and radiant smile, and has it is said, what all
these possessions indicate-a generous, sympa-
thetc nature, and exceedingly good sense.
"Her eyes are deeply set, and are of that pecu-
liar gray which does not mean a twilight depth
of blue. They are decided gray, admitting of
all the steel tints from that of cold metal to the
gleam and glitter of the polished ore.''
M. D. Conway writes, cdr. Rost, the libra
rian of the India House. who can speak and
read more languages than any man living. told
me that the best scholar in Zend (the least ex.
plored of ancient tongues) is an American
Professor Whitney. Max Muller told me thai
the best living scholar in Anglo-Saxon is an
American-Professor March of Lafayette Col.
lege. who, by the way, has acceded to the re.
quest of the Early English Text Society to edit
Lord Tollemache's MS. of Orosius.
Bertha Won Hillern has beautiful fyure
She has a long and steady stride. She has a
long step and firm tread. She looks in per-
feet health. She walks with her mouth shut,
with no painting and no hurry. Her gown is
short and blae, her stockings of the same heav-
emily color, her boots are without heels, her hat
is small aud gray. Her face is frank, iptelli-
gent and pleasant. Her hair is light and mas
sive. Round and round she goes with the reg.
ularity of machine. She is very attractive to
everybody who sees her.
Prof. Marsh some time ago read a newspaper
item to the effect that there had been found
near village in Switzerland fossil 'pterodac-
typ with the wings in perfect preservation.
The Yale professor knew that among all the
fossils of this animal none was known with the
wings preserved. He instantly repaired to the
telegraph Office and sent message to Swiss
naturalist: "Buy the new pterodactyl and
send to Yale College" The naturalist obeyed,
paying for the fossil a little over $1,000. Soon
after it was sold kilograms poured in from
every museum of the world-Boston, Berlin,
Paris, St. Petersburg, London-askipg the
price, requesting photographs, &c.; but it was
already Cd the way to the man who said buy
it.
Vice President Wheeler greatly enjoys the
social life of the White House, and pets little
Fanny in the grave, absorbed way of lonely
! and childless man. Mrs. Hayes has a re-
served room, prophets chamber" where
the Vice President wonld be more than well
come to come and live; but that is orly talked
of as one of the pleasant, impracticable things.
He remains, when in the city, at his old quar-
ters, Mrs. Rhiness on Twelfth street, where
first knew him, and where he and Mrs. Wheeler
had the same pleasant parlors he now occupies
for the last four years of her life They are hall
fall of her parting soul. When Mr. Wheeler
is away from the city he thinks he never can
come back to them, but when here he can con-
tent himself no where else.-C0rrespndeR
Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Talmage, according to the correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, can hardly be
called pulpit orator. He says Talmage's SER
mons read much better than they sound 1t is
no exaggeraton to say that he bawls and brays
in delivering his truths He is the most sensa-
tional of all the Brooklyn clergymen. He
seems to have no control over his tongue or his
limbs. His delivery, which is without notes, il
marked by the most absurd grammatical blum
ders. He swings his arms like crazy crab
He describes how a man leaps over precipice
by backing to the rear of his ample stage and
then, with short run, leaping high into the
| air, throwing both hands high over his head
| and coming down on the platform on his heels
| with jar that makes the tabernacle tremble
| He initiates the writhing Of the sinner in the
bottomless pit by twisting his limbs into most
| uncouth shapes, standing his stiff red hair on
end, and making the most frightful grimaces
with his great clumsy mouth.
On the whole, says Mrs. Clemmer. the most
formidable looking member of this official COM
pany 1.-THE cabinet] is called the handsomest
| man in the cabnet-the new attorney general,
Charles Devens of Massachusetts. His hail
has receded from the top of his head, leaving a
| superb dome of brow unrelieved. The barber
has cut bis side locks in perfectly straight
| line down his temples, and he sports military
moustache and beard as pugnacious and dem.
onstrative as Kaiser Williams. His nose is
well cut, but its bridge is "prodigious;" so are
his ears though neither are too large for the
man himself, who looks like an emperor. Hi.
eyes are dark, full and powerful, with an ex
pression:in them that is half fastidiousness and
half discomfort. fancy that there are very
few things in this world that would or could
come up to this gentlemans standard of perfec-
tion. contemplate his countenance and cease
to wonder that he never married. He is over
six feet high, of splendid proportions, and wears
a tall, stiff, aggressive collar, which heghtena
the grandeur of his appearance. He has the