The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-18
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

There is another astonished ELglishman
making tour of the West-George Jacob
.Holyoake the veteran English reformer and
radical. He is enchanted" he says "this is
a marvellous country" and it has tremen-
dous future; and he adds, 1.-The beauty OF the
women and the comeliness of the men have as
tonished me, for that is not what we have been
led to expect" From this he hastens to infer
that the "human race generally is improving"
Victor Hugo, says a report from Rome, is
trying to persuade Garibaldi to renounce his
italian nationality and become citizen OF
France He reminds him that he was born at
Nice, and that Nice is now French
CITY. Garibaldi at this moment is very
much annoyed by the refusal OF the
italian Government to annul his unfor-
tunate marriage, and this is cited as a reason
which may possibly lead him to accept Victor
Hugo's invitation. But it would be an extra
ordinary thing if he did. If Garibaldi has
been anything he has been an Ital-
ian, not only when it was personally agreeable
to be so, but when it was something quite the
reverse.
A characteristic story of the late William
M. Hunt is told in the Art Amateur. A young
critic cne day rashly ventured to suggest that
Millet, Mr.. Hunts venerated friend, "missed
it, in not choosing now and then more ele-
waited subjects for his pictures than the coarse
French clodhoppers he loved to paint. "My
God! man, what is nobler than man wrest-
ing and wringing his bread from the stubborn
soil by the sweat of brow and the break of his
back for his wife and children!' cried Hunt
with dilated eyes and quivering fist raised
above his head, as If to strike the trembling
wretch to the earth.
The Rev Mr.. Cook has written letter in
support of a woman's temperance movement
are - Ia,
(which rumsellers fear more than the direct
influence of women in determining temperance
legislation, it is a combination of womans in
fluence with that of the pulpit. l rejoice in
any practicable union between the ministry
and woman's movement for home protection
against intemperance. MASSACHUSETTS
has already given women the ballot on educa-
ton, and thus indorsed principles which VIII
lead ultimately to giving her vote on temper
ance. Not woman suffragist myself, am
yet in favor of trying the experiment OF both
the temperance and the education ballot III the
hands of women"
Mr. Thomas Bayley Potter, NJ. p, in his
speech at the Merchants Club dinner, in Bos
ton, the other evening, said that the day is fast
approaching when America will be the largest
branch of the English speaking race in the
world and he wished that the greatest possible
bond of union should exist between these two
great members of the Angio-Saxon brother
hood He thought that, without doubt, in the
near future, some bond would be formed be-
tween the two countries, the precise nature OF
which he did not know, but which, he could
not doubt, would be for the general good, not
only of the two countries, but OF the whole
world. When he left England all was gloomy
the depression of trade, the almost universal
failure of the crop, the temporary defeat OF
their arms, had tended to the general detection
in all classes. When he arrived here he could
but be struck with the contrast. Here he found
business reviving in all its branches. and a
sensible people sensibly devoting themselves to
the arts of peace, and receiving rich reward
therefor. At the conclusion of the dinner Mr.
Potter was unanimously elected the first hon.
orary member of the club.
President Hayes's house at Fremont, Ohio,
is described by correspondent of The Enquir-
er of Cincinnati as a prim, smallish red-brick
building, with its gable-end to the driyc, two
stories high, and dropping back to a lower con-
tinuation of the same, with small painted
frame conclusion across the back. There seem
to be no angles or wings anywhere about it,
more than if brick had been set up on its
side. Around the front or principal part is a
plain veranda, ON all three sides, few steps
above the ground. The plainness and hunting
lodge look of this little establishment are con-
sonant with the natural sward and aboriginal
trees about it. There is fower-garden, cut
out from sight until one has walked far around
to the rear, where is seen in the woods, un-
fenced and unguarded, aconsiderable parterre
of flowers and plants 1t did not appear that
this dwelling cost more than IS, 900 to $12, 600
Inquiring, to be sure of the place, of village
rustic, he shouted: "Just you drive right in,
and don't say nothin' to nobody. Go right in
the gate; drive clean around his house, and
look at everything"