The Portland daily press., 1879-11-06
Place Aux Danes.

The pretty poem "a Night Oh the Tete
Noir'' in Harper's Magazine for November,
was written by Miss Josephine Harper,
daughter Of j. w. Harper, Jr. 1t was sent
anonymously, accepted and paid for before her
father knew anything about it.
A young lady who didn't admire the custom
in vogue among her sisters of writing letter,
and then cross-writing it to ilegibility, said
she would prefer her epistles without an
overskirt"
Mile. Sara Bernhardt is at present devoting
herself to painting with great ardor, for the
moment neglectng sculpture She is engaged
upon picture for the next Salon; it repre-
sents young girl picking the leaves from
some roses, while Death is leaning toward her
to seize her in his grasp-a poetic but unpleas-
ant subject.
A lady named Perry, living at Springport,
laughed herself to death recently.
Miss Bijou Heron is now in n London con-
vent school, and writes to friends that she is
well and happy
Never be too warm in your praises of lady's
friends. Friendship should be encouraged,
not discouraged.
A woman's political club has been started
in London called the Summerville club. 1t
numbers 1000 members.
Prentice Mulford, writing of Queen Victo-
ria's court ladies' says that their faces are aris-
tocratically scraggy, sallow thin and bloodless,
and that he should have taken them for
prize show of elderly spinsters.
The Cincinnati young woman who shot her.
self because her young man died, is recovering
and the Western newspapers are administering
good advice to her, the general tenor OF their
counsel being that there aye good fish in the
sea yet
The Zulu women are sold in marriage for
certain number of COWS. The bridegroom fur
nishes the COWS, and his prospective father-in-
law takes them. In civilized countries the
sale is made for other considerations
Nina Sonntag, sister of the famous Henri
eta, who in her youth was also celebrated as
an opera singer, has Just died in the convent at
Morienthal, where, crossed in love, she took
the veil some 40 years ago. She was buried
near her sister in the small church of Morien-
thai.
Reynolds used to court Miss Lancaster at
Jeffersonville, Ind, but finally transferred his
attentions to Miss Brown. That enraged Miss
Lancaster, and she has twice shot Reynolds as
he has passed her house on his way to visit
Brown, who has thus lar been able to nurse
him through his injuries.
The ladies of Pennsylvania having succeeded
ington occupied as his headquarters at Valley
Forge, have now started movement to buy
the 1000 acres adjoining in which the old
breastworks are still in good preservation, and
hen erect soldiers home there.
The dowry OF the future Queen Of Spain has
been paid into the National Bank of Vien-
na. 1t amounts to 54,O00OO0 At her mar
riage she is to wear bridal veil of Brussels
point lace with the arms of the different coun-
tries into which Spain was once divided. 1t is
the gift of her aunt, the Queen Of the Belgians.
The young lady's bridal dress is of silver cloth
embroidered in garlands with sparkling white
Jet. Many of her new costumes are copies OF
the fashions of the time of Louis XIII. One
of them is OF blue embossed velvet and opal
colored satin, trimmed with fringes of small
pearls intermingled with silver lace. Her cam
brio handkerchiefS are worked with the arms
of Spain and Austria in gold thread.
A spirited woman put an end to duel near
Berlin three weeks ago. Principals, seconds,
and an army surgeon were on the ground and
the pistols were loading, when the lady sud-
denly drove up in a swift drosch&y to the place
of meeting stepped up to her husbands sec
ond, snatched a pistol from his hand, and di-
recting it toward her own bosom declared she
would kill herself unless the projected duel
were Mt once given up. The whole party re-
turned peaceably to Berlin.
Lydia Thompson announces that she will
never act again. She is wealthy and tired of
the stage. She was at first dancer in London
theatres, and it was not until about fifteen
years ago that she made her mark in burlesque.
She came to America in 1869 with the first
company of British blondes seen here, opened
at Woods Museum and achieved an immedi-
ate success. The result of several prosperous
seasons here was large fortune. She has
grown-up daughter and is probably about forty
Years old Her present husband, Alexander
Henderson, was formerly an officer in the
British army lie retired from the service to
money and popularity to begin with, he has
been remarkably successful, and now controls
three theatres in London.