The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-05-29
Gossip
About Men and Women.

The recipe for the following dainty is said to
have been inherited from Alexandra Dumas
the elder. The dainty is called ARchois Monte
CriSto. "You take Spanish olive, and you
put rolled anchovy in the place of the kernel;
then you put the olive into an ortolan, the orto-
Ian into quail, the quail into pheasant the
pheasant Into turkey, the turkey into little
pig; you roast the latter for five hours; then
you cast away every outward envelope to the
dogs, and you keep only" "The Oliver"
"You glutton, the anchovy"
The treatment by General Logan of the
proposition made to him by Congressman
Lowe that he should go to some quiet place
Colonel Forney the reply of John Van Buren
to some irate person whose honor had been as
sailed to that extent that it could only be salts
fed with Mr.. Van Buren's gore Mr.. Van Bu-
rem, after reading the challenge of the man
whose feelings had been hurt, handed il back
to the second saying, with a cool smile, "Take
it back, my dear friend, to Mr.. -, and say to
him that would do anything for him that is
in my power; would freely give him this ugly
sore ON my leg If could get rid of it, Good
morning, Sir!'
Colonel Higginson who had personal knowl-
edge of Fl. d. Thoreau, declares that both
SldllllIlS anu lOhcll HdNe uOu6 Jnb Qudlut
New Englander injustice in emphasizing his
eccentricities and not placing sufficient stress
on his vigor, good sense and clear perceptions.
Colonel Higginson says that as q companion he
was essentially sincere, wholesome and enjoy
able. Though more or less a humorst nurs-
ing his own whims, and capable Of being tire
some when they came uppermost, he was easi-
ly led away from them to the vast domains of
literature and nature and then poured forth
endless streams of the most interesting talk.
His home life was thoroughly affectionate and
faithful-he never made his whims an excuse
for mere selfishness His lifelong celibacy, the
colonel says, was due to the noblest unselfish-
ness-an early act of lofty self-abnegation
toward his own brother, whose love had taken
the same direction with his own.
The decoration conferred by the sultan upon
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, in recognition Of
her efforts to relieve the sick and wounded is
the grand Gordon of the "Chafakat," or Turk
ish Order of Mercy, female order of knight
hood-a broad white ribbon with edging of
crimson and green, like the Mediidiie. The
Chafakat collar is q necklace of curious work
manship, with star set in diamonds and en-
eralds-not embroidered but real. Lady lay
AID is the only other Englishwoman who has
received this handsome tribute of Turkish graf
itude. In addition to the Chafakat, "a. HAM
i'd" who writes big round hand, has present.
ed Lady Burdett-Coutts with pair Of remark
able vases and q carpet which made the calm
and generally impossible Turkish ambassador
open his eyes with amazement.
The literature of the Camden elopement has
the merit of simplicity The clergyman's
daughter, age twenty-five, who has run away
with house-painter, respectable but poor,
sends this brief statement to her father: beg
your pardon for leaving you in so abrupt
manner, but did because you opposed my u
Mon with the only man ever loved. shall
always love and honor you, dear father, but
there is greater love and higher duty owe
to the one who now bears to me the most sa-
cred relation on earth. We are married, and
no power on earth can part us. am happy
and contented in my choice, and am sure ev-
erything is just as God ordained it to be. Your
loving daughter, NELLIE" On the envelope
were these words: 1--WE were married this
morning in Germantown by q minister of the
church." The word "the" was underlined as
the daughter desired to express to the father
the fact that the marriage ceremony was per-
formed by clergyman of the same denomina-
ton to which he himself belongs. The clergy
mans opposition did not arise from anything
that could be urged against the character Of
his son-in-law. He merely contends that the
young man is uneducated and is incapable Of
supporting his wife as she has been accustomed
to living since her childhood surrounded by
everything for which her heart Graves.