The Portland daily press., 1878-11-27
Men and Women.

amounts almost TO grace and is the only per-
sonal charm that her subjects claim for her.
Lieutenant Simon Bsyne, French cuiras-
sier, who died few days ago, was the author
OF very neat mot when he was taken prisoner
by the Germans and sent to Cologne, where
the commander ordered that captive officers
should salute all Prussian officers. General, )"
said Beyne, Gin France we always salute first,
and we have had prisoners there from all parts
Of Europe and ought to know how prisoners
are to be treated
quiet-looking man with pleasant face,
lron-gray whiskers and hair and the plainest at
tire-that is Mr.. James G. Fair, Of Nevada, the
possessor of an agreeable income of $500, coo
month. he superintends the working of the
three Bonanza mines. while his partners, Flood
and Mackey, attend to finance. He has Just
been taking months vacation in the Ease-it
is the first time in seventeen years that be has
stayed away from the mines so long
| Alfred Tennyson is said to be extremely fond
OF smoking the long clay pipe called in England
"churchwarden"-suc a pipe as the elder
Weller and his grandson are smoking in one of
the illustrations in the early editions of Master
Humphreys Clock. The venerable poet has
/ Aousu uOA uOluiuS duOut tWeutJ pOunuo Oh
| tobacco, and in upper chamber, with this
| box near, and a long "churchwarded'' in hand
he will talk by the hour to chosen crouies
Professor Huxley has been speaking recent
| ly as Manchester on the subject of the decay of
nations, in the natural decadeucs of which he
did not believe-that theory, he was inclined to
think, having been invented by cowarls to e1-
cuse knaves. So far as the old English stock
| was concerned, his bslief was that it had as
mneh vitality and power as two centuries ago,
| and that after pruning and wedding there
woul1 be products as good as there were b.
| fore. The weeds he recognized were three
dishonesty, sentimentality and luxury.
There is pretty story told of Alexaudfe
Dumas, fls As he and one Of his friends
were returning from the theatre few evenings
ago, in Paris, they met poor old woman who
was holding out her hand for aims. As Dumas
gave her something his friend remarked how
often people were deceived for most begaars
were bumbugs. my dear fellow" said the
author of "La Dame aux Camelias," "when an
old woman holds out her hand to you for aid,
you may give without fear, for it is almost
always proof that she has the misfortune to
have no son."
Charles Warren Stoddard has met joaquin
Miller's pink countess, and says, ''Pinkl Pink
from the roses in the blonde hair to the tips of
the dainty toes; pink trimmings on a white,
gauzy something, that only half obscured an
undercurrent of the deepest pink that ran all
through her. Pink lips, pink esrs, and gloves
of the pnkest pink imaginablel 1t was, In
short, too good mean too pink-to be truep'
He has also seen the countess's boy, Little
Sunshine" and of him he remarks, Buchanan
Read once painted this child, floating in space,
and called him the Evening Star He was
star that never set without disturbance, and
it took two able-bodied lackeys to keep him
within his sphere"
clever little passage at the expsnss Of q
member of the Belgian Legation is current in
Washington. A youug attache recently
reached here fresh from London, his last sta
tion, and greatly vexed over what he was
pleased to call his exile. "At all events," he
was 10 the habit of saying, and the remark
came to be widely quoted, II shall speak no
English in Washington. L learned it in Lon
don and don't intend to spoil my accent
Time passed. The attache was at reception.
Some friend of his asked bright young Ameri-
can woman to permit him to present the at
tache to her. ooh dear, no" was the reply,
and it has travelled over Washington, 81 could's
think Of such thing. learned my French
in Raris and it would ruin my accent to talk
with a Belgian
Mr.. Bryant used to say that gentleman
should never talk of his love affairs or of his
religion. So far as 1 know, he practised as he
preached. There was no subject which for
many years appeared to occupy more of his
thoughts than religion, none about which he
seemed more willing to listen, but of his own
spiritual experiences he was singularly reti-
cent. lido not remsmbsr to have ever heard
him define his creed upon any point of theolo-
gy or give utterance to single dogma; neither
do believe such an utterancs can be found in
any of his writings; though 50 profound were
his religious feelings and convictions that they
found expression in series of exquisite devo-
tional hymns which trust may some day be
given to the public. In matters of religion his
modesty was as conspicuous as 10 everything
else; he was never betrayed into citing his own
example or his own opinions as au authority to
any one else.-John Bigelow.
Mark Twain, when younger than he is now,
had to report q reception at Mrs. Fremont's,
and had orders to give full descriptions Of all
the dresses. A young girl told him the names
of the goods worn by the ladies, and he mis-
spelled them after the manner of his kind, and
offered to describe her own dress, but she de-
clined. Presently" she says, ga tall young
miner, who is now 0 millionaire, living in
France, called him outside, and he come back
to me trembling, and 1 may safely say, pale
from fright. Miss, he stammered, that
wretched pirate in the light trousers says
must give you good notice or he'll take ths
drop on me tomorrow; so please tell me what
you have got on told him, and the next
day he reported me as wearing tiara of dia-
mOnds and a costume from Paris. was then
but little over twelve, and was wearing the
first long frock of my life. My tall escort was
satisfied, and subsequently remarked III At he
knew how to put young lady before the
world as she should be. Boston Transcript
A tramp's queer romance is reported from
Lebanon, o., pathetic in its details aud cruel
in its termination. A young woman at West
chester, Pa, had lover at Wilmington, Del,
some years ago, and her father smiled on the
suit until William Uddsrzook was hanged for
butchering Goss, to get the insurance on his
life, and it was known that the lover was .
relative to the criminal. Then the father for
bid the suitor to come to his house, which
tnreW tne uauBnter lnto au iuSane melancholy,
and angered the young man into a course of
dissipation. The old man finally sold his
Pennsylvania ho ne and moved to Ohio, but
the maiden was true, and few afternoons ago
threw herself into the arns of tramp who
came to the door to beg for bread. It was
the missing lover, who had a sad story to tell
of downward career and of wanderings, in
which he had been to the South African dia-
mond fields. The young woman was too glad
to find her lover to recoil at his .sgs or at the
story of his dissipation; but when the father
appeared on the scene he was possessed with an
insane fury, and beat the tramp so that his
life was despaired of. After going for the
doctor tine father became insane and the
dau ghter was with difficulty persuaded to leave
the wounded man long enough to allow the
doctor to attend him.
News and Other Items.
The time is at hand when the country minis
ters the last puest having retired from the