The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-02
Men and W0man

| 10A' ooiipner, armstrong q Co. Portland I:
| Loring, Short s. Harmon
Men aud Women.
The young Miss Sherman, who ia about In
marry Senator Cameron, 'thas fresh, blush
rose face, sparkling dark eyes and brown
| locks
Mime. Modjeska told a reporter in Boston the
other day that the correct spelling of her name
| Is Modrzejewska pronounce it Mod-jes-k -ka %
said she, touching the d. lightly and accent
ing the second syllable, and you will get It lust
right"
Another pen portrait of George Eliot: "Her
face is long, pale, with sensitive mouth. Her
eyes are vivid, warm, blue-gray, full of depth,
now keenly perceptive, now dreamily intro
spective, always full of sadness. Her hair.
worn low. gives womanly effect to a finely
intellectual forehead. Her general expression
is that OF weared sensitiveness."
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg told reporter In
st. Louis last Saturday: "You may say, il Won
please, that there never will be any truth in
any reported engagement of Miss Clara Louise
Kellogg to marry anybody. am in love with
myself, and do not think shall ever get mar.
rled." She continued: 81 have one noble
ambition which intend to accomplish before
die, If possible, and that is the establishment
In New York of Conservatory of Music to
which young American girls can 90 to have
their voices tried and passed upon, and if found
worthy, at which they can receive q musical
education without having to go abroad for IT,"
Colonel bob" Ingersoll and Mrs. Van Cott,
the revivalst happened to be in Buffalo last
week, and the latter was reported as speaking
OF Ingersoll as "a poor barking dog" There
upon the Colonel wrote her the following note:
my Dear Madam: Were you constrained by
the love of Christ to call man who has never
injured you "a poor barking dog? Did you
make this remark as Christian, or asa lady?
Did you say these words to illustrate in soma
faint degree the refining influence upon woman
OF the religion you preach? What would you
think OF me if should retort, using your lam
guage, changing only the sex Of the last
word?'
An English sporting paper gives some fur
ther account of Miss Thompson, the eccentric
American woman who recently had her marc
shod with gold in Edinburgh. From this It
appears that she is wealthy New York
woman-worth some s5OO0OO-who has for
years been worried almost to distraction by the
persistent advances OF fortune-hunters. One of
her admirers was dashing and handsome
fellow, whom she at last told she would marry
IT he would procure horse to beat her favor
ite mare, each to ride in the race in person.
He accepted the challenge, and close race re-
suited, but she won, and to reward her mare
had her shod with gold as before recounted.
1t is related of Garrett Davis, when he was
in Congress, that one afternoon as he was tax
ing nap in his chair, his next neighbor gave
him punch in the ribs, and said: "Wake ND,
Senator, your name has been called" Half
asleep, the Kentuckian arose, and asked the
Vice President what the vote was on. The Vice
President told him the name of the bill, which
was for the benefit of Kansas railroad.
'Ah!' exclaimed Davis, now wide awake,
but L want to know before I vote the amount
OF stealage in this bill" A Senator who was
engineering the bill rose and said in meek tones:
III the Senator from Kentucky will permit me
will state that have thoroughly examined
this bill, and assure him that il it contains
any opportunity for stealage cannot find it."
"All right, Mr.. President" responded Mr.. Da-
Wis in his shrillest tones, "If the Senator can
not find any stealage in the bill. am sure there
can be none. Ivote ayep'
1t was customary to the habitues of Tam
many Hall (the present Sun building) and of
the Pewter Mug" a barroom kept BY q poll
ticlan named Brown in Frankfort street, in
making bets upon election resu Its, to stipulate
that "Horace Greeley should decide" Mr..
Greeley might repel an unwsry stranger who
approached him to speak of any ordinary topic
or If followed up might say, ''See Dana, "Ask
Ott," RIPLEY will tell you," "You better see
Frye" anything to shove the inquirer ont Of
his way; but let the visitor approach him with
'Mr Greeley, what was Gen. Jackson's ma
jority?" and he was unusually civil-so much
so that the visitor might be mistaken for an
old friend whom Mr.. Greeley was delighted to
welcome. Election figures constituted Mr..
Greelsy's tender spot. On this point Mr.. Fry,
in little speech made during the war in
New England social party at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, said he didn't think there was any ulti-
mate danger of the country, even If the Con-
federates did gain battle or two, for Mr.. Gree
ley had asserted in his hearing that If anything
ever happened to this Republic it would be be-
cause something was wrong in the "Tribuus
Almanac" "and you all know" added Mr..
Fry, that is an impossibility."
traveller 10 Deadwood says that he saw
such picturesque tournout as this: 'The half
breed horses in harness were shaggy, unksmpt
fellows; and the loug-haired saddle pony
hitched to the rear of the wagon by a
striped horse-hair lariat ttugged and pulled, now
this way and now that, as though the expe-
rience was new one to him. Upon this wagon
was pile Of elk deer and antelope; while from
on top, and frowning upon you was the ugly
mug of grizzly" The driver "sst with care
less ease and grace using Bruins broadside for
seat; one leg crossing the other; q little mocca-
sined foot resting on the side of the wagon box;
one gloved hand holding the lines, and the 9TH
er csressing the polished barrel of revolver
This attractive person was a young woman Of
the following description: "Rather small of
stature, with an exquisitely rounded and beau
tiful figure, showing to advantage in the soft,
ornsmented buckskin suit. The face was one
hard to describe; it might belong to a we'll
developed beardless youth. or in other garments
and places, to a comely lass of twenty. In the
finely rounded outlines, ripe red lips and dim
Pied chin, lurked suspicion Of fehininity
which was heightened by the big brown eyes