The Portland daily press., 1879-07-04
Gossip
About Men and Women.

stitious person in some respects, and had an
especial aversion to the numbers six and
eleven, always Withdrawing his horses in races
when they were classed under one or the other
of these numerals, and considering them un-
lucky i'll every respect. By curious conci-
dence he expired on the eleventh day Of the
sixth month of the year, and at eleven O'Clock.
Bayard Taylor's daughter, Miss Lillian Tay-
Tor, has translated into German the play of
'Masks and Faces" and it has been success
fully produced at Berlin.
Mr. Walter Francis Brown q young Ameri-
can artist in Paris, is making the illustrations
for book which Mark Twain is preparing on
Europe and Europeans, and which is expected
to be the best thing he has ever written.
At St. Paul, Kitty, daughter of the banker
Mann, married a journeyman plumber whose
acquaintance she made as he soldered up a
frost crack in her fathers water pipes last win
ter. She evidently thought he would get the
pay for the job, which would transfer the for
tune from her fathers pocket to his, and mar
ried him so as to keep the money in the
family. Noble girl! Detroit Post.
The missing manuscript lecture of Bayard
Taylor on German literature has been found in
box of the authors papers and will doubtless
soon be published with the rest of the series.
French newspaper is "inclined to explain
the immense enthusiasm which Mile. Sarah
Bernhardt is exciting in London by the fact
that she is more or less medieval figure.
Look at her, for instance, in 'Ruy Bias She
seems like one of those diaphanous slender
and tall ladies that Burne-Jones love to paint
anc that the elite OF the disciples of culture love
to admire. In the general appartion we do
not notice the hollow cheeks, the splendid but
deathly-looking teeth, uncovered from time to
time by nervous movement of the lip. Her
large eyes, of changing blue color seem to
eat up her oval face"
There are now living six HarechdIes de France
Mime. la Mar6chale de Suchet, Duchess DIAL
bufera, the doyenne of her class. She has been
a widow since 1927, and lives in magnificent
hotel next to the British Embassy in the Fau-
bourg St. Honor6. The garden of her hotel
which was given her by her uncle, the king of
Spain, in 1908, goes through to the Avenue Ga
brielle; Nine. la Marechale Regnault de Saint
Jean d'Angely; Nine. la Marechale Pelissier,
Duchesse de NIalakoff; Mme la Marechale
Mel Mime. la Marechale de MacMahon, Ouch
esse de Magenta, sister of the Due de CaStries;
and, finally, Mime. la Marechale Canrobert
who was Miss Macdonald, and is the young
est marectale of France.
The San Francisco Alta says: George c.
Perkins, the Republican nominee for governor
of California, is a good specimen of a common
product in the State,-a self-made man. Thir-
ty years ago he arrived here as poor boy year
by year he bettered his own fortunes, becom-
ing q clerk in a store, country merchant,
State senator, wealthy man and steamship
owner and commanding the confidence Of
those about him i'll his honesty, his zeal and
his capacity. 1t is impossible to know him
without admiring his business-like frankness
He thinks clearly, decides promptly, and says
yes or no in unmistakable terms, respects him
Cn1f aud 10. 4,NI,a So.
ly qualities. He has no interests not in harmo-
ny with those of the State.'
An English journal makes the following
comparison between Rachel and Sara Bern
hardt. Rachel, too, was a mighty mistress of
drapery and pose, and she was as sober and
self-contained, with all her intensity, as Sara
Bernhardt is en,portGe and unmeasured. But
there is something more touching and pathetic
In the quality of Sara Bernhardts art-in pose,
management of dr..pery, and gesture In these
also, what We chiefly feel is the grace and fra
gility of the woman and it is this, in contrast
with the tre of her passion, and the freedom
with which she gives it rein, which constitutes
the charm OF her performance" This was
written after the complete representation of
''Phedre." OF Mile Bernhardts Dona Sol in
Hermann" the accomplished critics of the
Academy and Atheneum speak in the highest
terms of praise. On the other hand, the Spec
tatorS writer seems to have been disguised
with the performance.
The Hamburg correspondent says that the
death of the prince of Orange has caused con-
siderable anxiety in Holland regarding the sue
cesson to the throne King William III. is
sixty-three years old, and the only other living
members of the Dutch branch of the Orange
Nassau family are the kings uncle, Prince
Frederick, brother-in.law of the German en-
peror, who has no sons, and Prince Alexander
of the Netherlands, a sickly young man of
twenty-eight, unmarried, and obliged to live in
the south of France on account of his weak
health. If the king should have no more chill
dren, the younger line of the house of Nassau
will in all probability become extinct, and the
crown of the Netherlands will pass after the
death OF the present king to the elder line,
that of the Grand Duke Adolphus of Nassau,
who was deprived of his throne in 1866. This
family also is not numerous one. Duke
Adolphus, who is sixty-three years old has only
one son, who has for more than twelve years
been morganatically married to the Countess
Natalie Won Merenbuag, q daughter of the
Russian poet, Pushkin. The possibility of the
extinction of a house which has been so init
mately connected with the history of the Meth
| erlands during the past three hundred years,
| and which has essentially contributed to the
establishment of the independence of the coun-
| ty, Iidu HOb DtlOft DeeH GOIlltDlDldlcu. itllu
| the Dutch look forward with alarm to tho
| prospect OF the throne passing to the dukes OF
| Nassau. Since the war of 1901, when the Dutch
warmly sympathzed with France there has
| prevailed among them a fear of Germany,
| which is continually manifeSting itself, and the
| accession of a duke of Nassau to the throne of
| the Netherlands would be viewed with dislike,
| not only because he is German but because it
| is thought his accession might give Germany
| pretext for realizing those designs of conquest
4 which She iS SuDOOcp1 IN have lOOU nutprtainpO a
with regard to Holland
Late English journals contain, i'll their South
African correspondence, abundant evidence
| that young Napoleon was permitted to carry
| his life in his hand through every hazardous
adventure suggested by his reckless courage.
| On May 16 he went out on three-days' patrol
with Colonel Butler, the most venturesome
| commander in the field. 1t was Colonel Butler
| whose rashness brought on the bloody fight at
| Zlobani, from which the staff escaped, riding
| two on a horse, and leaving thirteen officers
| dead on the mountain. Four days later, on
| May 20, young Napoleon, with three British
officers and twenty-five mounted Basutos at
! tackled kraal garrisoned by sixty Zulus. The
| Basutos at first ran away, but were rallied, and
| captured the host. 1t is said that the prince
| behaved throughout the assault with bravery
! amounting almost to rashness. Finally, to
| close the list of his successful adventures, Ton
May 21, according to a report from Newcastle
/ in-Natal, the prince imperial while riding out
| of camp in company with several officers, was
| surrounded by the Zulus. Upon this occasion
| the party saved their lives by forcing their
| horses down a krantz or rocky descent, and
| galloping back to camp.
| The Cumberland News gives a thrilling ac-
count of the heroic deed of the engineer, B. F.
| Pritchard, in the recent accident OH the Pitts
burgh division Of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road. He saw just ahead large piece of rock
that had rolled down the side of the mountain
upon the track. Quick as thought he sprang
| from his seat, without relaxing his hold on the
throttle, iammed it shut and put on the air
brakes. The next instant the engine went
crashing and grinding over the rock, was
| thrown from the track and turned over and
over When the train-men and passengers
reached the battered wreck which had mo-
ment before been splendid piece of machinery
the form of the brave engineer was found
| standing erect, as if his engine was running