The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
Men and Women.

London, reared in an atmosphere of Conser-
| vative clericalism, when the other day Mr..
Gladstone was pointed out to her at the funeral
| of distinguished friend; 81 do trust he isn't
come to maka disturbance"
Charming personal from a Parisian paper:
mile. Isabelle de Peyronnet, niecel of the
wel-known Minister of Charles X, is about
| to marry M. Brown, Peer of England. The
Browns are among the richest of English fam
lilies, and the word Brown is often used as an
expression for money ITSELF
Professor Virchow, of Berlin, believes that
an examination of the skulls of Bulgarians will
prove that his view is correct that the Bulga-
rians are not of Sclavic but of Turkish blood.
To throw light on the subject Herr Won Honika,
when he returns from his sanitary expedition,
will bring fifteen skulls of Bulgarians who
were killed by the Turks at Kadikioi. They
will be prepared by DR.. Marcovics and then be
subjected to examination in view of DR.. Vir-
chow's theory.
Harkl from Gold Hill in the Commonwealth
of Nevada, comes the glad tidings of the debut
Of the most remarkable lady pianist of this or
of any other age, cline, race, or previous con-
dition of servtude. She plays equally as well
editor very delicately, remarks, her "pedal ex-
tremities" are developed in the most marvel
lous manner, the toes greatly resembling fin
gers in length and style of action. The ad-
vantage gained BY this lady in her pedal per-
formances is that the reach is greater than
with the hauds--covering fully three octaves of
| the keyboard. In the rendition of military
compositions the effect is terribly striking and
ife-like-especially where the tramp of SOL
diers is initiated. The rising young artist, 1t
seems, is extremely solicltous that her peculiar
modus operandi cum pedIbus shall not be
made public, and it was only upon pledges of
the strictest secrecy with regard to the name
that the local editor was allowed to witness the
display already mentioned. If the fair artistic
were in less prominent position socially, the
public might have an opportunity of seeing
the greatest curiosity of the world. OF course
the length, breadth and thickness Of the lady's
understanding would be looked upon with as
tonishment outside of Nevada, but such things
are SO common there that they are not noticed.
jealous lover donned petticoats in Paines-
vile, Ohio, the other day, in order to kill ths
girl he had left behind him. When an aged
spinster, clad in a long black dress, heavily
veiled and gloved, alighted from the east-bound
train, and tottered into the omnibus, the
loungers about the station saw little resem-
blance in the figure to the light-footed Johnny
Blake, who had arrived on visit to Mary Dur
ban year before. The disguised Blake was
taken to the hotel and went to the dining
room and took supper. registering as Mrs.
Woodruff, st. Lonis." At noon on Friday, q
phaeton was hired, and the old lady hobbled
down stairs, and with the help of the driver
got into the vehicle. About this time, Mary
Durban, ccmpositor in newspaper office,
was going home to her dinner. The phaeton
stopped, "Mrs. Woodruff" sprang out, and the
gentle Mary recognized her discarded lover,
John Blake. She screamed. He embraced
her and brandshed razor, She screamed. He
draw revolver from his belt and threatened
to shoot her. She screamed. Sheriff Morley
appeared upon the scene aud overlook the
couple. The man in the petticoats then fired,
the ball whizzing by Mary's left ear. She
screamed once and again. The sheriff knocked
down his man and led him off to Jail The
blueeyed maiden went home to dinner, re-
turned in the afternoon to her case in the news
paper office, and set up with her own fingers
the account of this diabolical attempt to
assassinate her, smiling grimly at every adiec-
tive.
joaquin" Miller has found an appreciative
biographer in Mr.. Charles +. Richardson, who
gives sketch of the Poet of the Sierras in the
July Wide Awake. He was born in the Wa.
bash region of Indiana, Nov. 10, 1S41, and
named Cincinnatus Heine Miller. BE shed
this classical title when he began the editor
ship of the Eugene City Review, to which he
contributed poems signed "Joaquin"' nick
name he brought back to Oregon, where he
grew up as boy, after his attempt to make a
fortune as California gold-digger. His next
experience was as an attorney-at at Canon
City, in Grant County, Oregon, where he was
soon elected as Judge. After three or four
years of service in a judicial capacity, he
printed in 1869 small volume of the poems he
had written between the hearing of cases, and
circulated it gratuitously, winning golden
opinions from editors of papers in California
and Oregon. In 1870 Miller went to London,
and taking garret for his lodgings, produced
his thin volume in the handsomest typography
of the Chiswick Press. The Rossetti family
and other pre-Raphaelites were caught by the
"breezy freedom of the poet of the far West"
and prevailed upon the old publishing house of
the Longmans to bring out his Songs OF the
Sierras, in 1871. This made his fortune. Lord
Houghton clambered up Mller's attic stairs, to
find him sleeping under buffalo robe and his
long hair ''of curious tawny COLOR" his red
shirt, his rough trousers tucked into cavalier
boots, and his profuse display Of "barbaric
gold," soon made him one of the most notice.
able figures in London drawing rooms. Since
then Joaquin has assumed more civilized
apparel, and is now satisfied with nothing short
of cloth of the finest quality. Mr.. Richardson,
who knows him well, says that he has enough
eccentricites for dozen ordinary poets, and in
opinions, as in clothes. is not, in Emerson's
phrase, "The slave of yesterday" He calls
him part of the class which includes Shelley,
and Keats, and Swinburne and James Russell
Lowell-"a sunny and warm-hearted lyrist,
who tries to take the world for what it is worth
and to increase its happiness"
The --latest bit of sensational literature re-
specting John Wilkes Booth, represents him
as the rival of Robert Lincoln in love-making.
This story. which appears in the Occasional, q
paper published in Portsmouth, Va, is written
by Alexander Hunter, who gives as his author
ity Mrs. Temple, who was Booths friend in
Washington during the last year Of the war.
The two men are represented as having been
rival suitors for the hand of Miss Hale, the
Senator's daughter. This is one of the Incl
dents which Mrs. Temple relates: "The band
had just commenced to play one of Strauss
waltzes, and while was standing by the door,
locker on in Vienna, turned and saw John
Wilkes Booth He pointed to couple cir
cling in the rythmic measure of waltz 1t
was Bessie Hale and Robert Lincoln. As he
witnessed this scene Booths white teeth
cenched over the moustache and his face grew
very white, while his eyes blazed like
| fire. He caught me by the arm with grasp
| that made me vince, and caused me to utter
an involuntary cry, and hissed into my ear:
| "Mrs. Temple, see that damned villain? Oh,
| 1 could kill him-and his father too; and by
the Lord of Hosts, the sands of his life are fast
| running out" Booth is represented, further
more, as taking supper with the Hale's and
| Mrs. Temple at the National Hotel, two hours
before he shot President Lincoln This ia the