The Portland daily press., 1878-01-16
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Nine. Modieska, more than any other artist
except perhaps Ristori, is the high-bred lad
upon the stage. Her tall, plant figure has
graceful, gliding, siRuous motion, which show
no harsh lines, no crude angles; her face is tn
pure outcome of cultivated intellectuality. and
gives not the slightest evidence of gross er re
tlonship. As the Countess Bohemia she has al
ready been the recipient of courtesies from somt
leading families, though her imperfect Euglsl
stands somewhat in the way of extended socia
relations.-Jennie June.
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett, the author of "Tha
Lass O Lowrie's," was born in Lancashir,
county, England; is q woman of medium
height, blonde, rather graceful, and dresses il
good taste. She has blue eyes, which are gentl
and expressive, but nervous in their move
ments, and rarely remain fixed on the person
with whom she may be conversiug. She il
rather hesitatiDg in speech and apparently no
satiefed with her choice Of words or construc
tion of sentences. The expression Of her face
| is very winning, but would fail to give clever
| physiognomist an idea that she was either q
close student or had very analytical mind.
Mercedes, future Queen of Spain, will be
one OF the most beautiful sovereigus in Europe.
She is very pretty young woman of the pure
Spanish type, with very black eyes and hair,
fine features aud full figure. She receives
from the Duke de Montpensier, her father, q
dowry of S5,000,000, great quantity of dia-
| monds and a magnificent trousseau. Her sis
ter, ths Countess de Paris has sent wedding
| gift OF beautiful suite of jewels. The young
king gives his bride loads of Jewels and his DOT
trait set iu brilliants; aud the Pope sends a
wedding ring which he has blessed, and a rose
in diamonds.
The Rev. Samuel Longfellow, jast settled at
Germantown, Pa, is thus described: Mr.. Long
fellow is tifty-eight years ef age and less in
stature than the poet, with a noticeable resem.
blance to him. He has sandy gray hair and
beard. The latter part of his life has been
spent in Cambridge where he gave instruction
to his brothers. daughters, and at Portland in
the old Longfellow homestead. For number
OF years, since he left his Unitarian congrega-
tion 10 Brooklyn, he has not had regular
charge. He is the author of several hymns,
and in conjunction with the Rev. Samuel john
son compiled the "Hymns of the Spirit" now
used in many Unitarian churches
The Sultan has been greatly annoyed bv the
constant depreciation of Turkish paper money.
The Porte has been issuing promises-to.p paw
ever since the war opened, and their purchas.
ing power in gold has been steady diminish
Ing, He Intends to pay every piastre he saws,
and every Tark in ConstantInople knows that
he keeps his promises, bat the Mohammedan
greenbacks have fallen lower and lower. The
Sultan has finally resolved to put an end to this
depreciation of his paper currency. 1t can be
done, he thinks, by legislation; and accordingly
he has empowered commission to take evil
denee and report what repressive measures are
necessary to keep paper money from going any
lower. Let the commissioners send for cargo
of Democratic finance, fresh from the prairie.
very interesting book has just been pub
lished in Paris, called "The Correspondents of
Madame de Pompadour," who so long ruled
France through Louis XIV. In the volume is
this sketch OF her at Vers silles:-'The Mar
quise de Pompadour was above the ordinary
stature, SUelte (the word is Enthusiastically easy
supple, elegant The face was well suited to
her figure-a perfect oval; the hair rather
clear chestnut than blonde, the eyebrows of the
same color, the eyes sufficiently large, the nose
perfectly formed, the mouth charming, the
teeth fine, the mouth most delicious; and all
this set off by the finest complexion in the
world. Her eyes had peculiar charm, which
they owed perhaps to the uncertainty OF their
color They were without the animated eclat
OF black eyes, the tender languor Of blue, the
finesse of gray; their intermediate tint seemed
to render them suitable to every kind of charm,
and to the expression of the successive
emotions of a very mobile mind.''
1ic abo oh of sha - l. l..
in the style of highfown psnegyric. She was
of a well-balanced character, he tells us, but OF
an intelligence little above the common.
Mademoiselle Marie had the Greek idea of
private vengeanse, il she was not we'll yersed
in all of Medea's poison tricks. She had been
cruelty wronged by a French miner and a de-
sire for revenge famed up in her soul. She
went to spot where she was sure of meeting
her betrayer, and after few words of colloquy
threw in his face quantity of sulphuric acid
which she had concealed under her mantle.
The man was horribly disfigured, blinded for
life. and rendered permanently incapable of
doing any work; and the Procureur-General
caused the woman to be arrested. At the trial
she was asked, among other things what had
inspired in her the idea of SO cruel revenge,
the judge suggesting that the reading of novels
might have had good deal to do with it. The
prisoner declared that she had merely initiated
the conduct of young girl who had acted in
the same way, and whose story she had read
In public journal. The jury was pleased with
the girls manner, but the facts did not war
rant verdict of acquittal. They found her
guilty of assault, but declared that she had
tod dx1;@b
notion of preneditation is vague and shadowy.
The poet novelist of the Blank-Blank
school will find in the Black Hills char
acters for his romauces sitting astrad-
die of stumps, dealing cards, or shooting
anybody down on the spot. Petite Klttie, the
jig-dancer. with Roman nose and cold, gray
eyes, marrying three times and dying at twenty
eight, is promising heroine. She first spun
her delicate web about a good.natured German
miner, who was doing well with his wash. and
when he had poured $4,000 in gold into her lap
and confessed that his claim had petsred out,
she beat him over the head with bottle and
drove him from her door, To one and another
was she married, and when their money was
gone she got rid of them. Her third venture
was unfortunate. She said she would not live
with him, and he killed her and then shot him
self. Another nice girl is Calamity Jane, a
little creature of twenty-five, whose move
ments have an unstudied grace, and whose
eyes emit greenish glare whenever she is very
mad. She has been scout in the army, has
dressed in soldiers clothes, has gone horseback
over the mountains. and is now dancing in a
hurdy-gurdy house in Deadwood. Then there
is Monte Verde. with her dark eyes and tresses
who on her arrival in Deadwood stood upon
board and was borne through the town on the
shoulders of four strapping miners. and who
now deals sol" and dances jig with far-off
look in her left eye. Capt. Jack, too, Is poet
and musician, as well as a frontier scout
He rides his horse like an Indian, and he has
pathos in his voice, so that the miners, when
they hear him sing, do snivel like children.
Aunt Sally, a colored woman as broad as she
is long, rolls up her big eyes and mutters: "Ise
the first white woman as EN- come into these
'ere Hills" Foundation for humorous char
acter Finally, there is, or was, Wild Bill
who always made it point to kill his man
first, but who turned his back upon the door
one light, and as he stood at the bar, asking
his friends III their glasses were charoed oava