The Portland daily press., 1879-02-28
Men and Kuman.


in saying that consumption was never so fear.
fully rife in this country as when ladies wore
thin shoes and gauzy costumes, after the Greek
fashion That seems painfully true, and it wont
add to the consistency of the costume to put
rubber soes on Greek sandals either. Imagine
Venus 10 gums"
Capt. A. b. Tuttle, who has been imposing
on st. Louis No. reporter with his tale of
discoveries in the Arctic seas, which rival in
their imaginativeness Jules Verne's widest
dreams, and who says he is going to seek gov
ernment aid for further Explorations" is pro-
nounced an imposter BY the New London (Ct
Telegram. 1t says he figured disgracefully in
that vicinity about Is years ago, his home be-
ing at Mantle, got expelled from New Lon,
don Masonic lodge and "had the well-estab-
lshed reputation of being the most radical
desd-beat ever in this city"
The Boston Saturday Gazette says:-"We
know of g case lately occurring in our own city
which we cannot refrain from mentioning as
an instance of truly noble womanhood. A
young man, lately married to o poor girl, was
found, by the examination of the books of
certain organization Of which he was treasurer,
to be considerably short in BIS accounts Ex-
posure and disgrace stared him in the face, al
though his shortcomings were attributable
more to mismanagement than TO malfeassnce
10 tffice. AT this crisis In his affairs his young
wife stepped forward and paid the deficit in
fail, to the surprise and satisfaction of all par
lies concerned. She had been working girl
before her marriage, and the saving of her hus-
bands honor took the last cent of the accumu-
lation of several years of toll and economy
Soon after was married, says an English
lady, we had a new Brussels carpet laid down
in the dining room, and it began to unravel
like knitting. 1 sent for the man who had
supplied it,, and although he changed it, he
yet showed me that it was really partly my
housemaid's fault, and he showed me how.
Neither the housemaid nor knew that there
are two ways of the carpet pile, just as in vel
vet; but he asked me to stoop down and feel,
and found at once how great the difference is
and that if carpet is brushed against the
grain, it soon wears and looks scratched up.
How easy it is to teach this to housemsid,
and never have found one who knew it be-
fore l told her; and yet what expensive things
carpets are, to be left to the care of ignorant
and careless servants!
Judge Johnston, of Cincinnati states that he
was with Abraham Lincoln one day when a
committee came to ask the President to sus-
pend the draft until after his second election
on the ground of its unpopularity. Said Mr..
Lincoln, quietly. "What is the Presidency to
me if I have no country?'' Whereupon the
committee retired. The judge says also:
"Mr. Stanton told me the next day or so after
Lincoln's death that there was a time when
the members of his cabinet and he disputed on
questions of policy, but they go often found
themselves wrong and Lincoln right, he came
to have his own way, and they to have entire
confidence in his Inspirations ss they called
them. lie was man OF wonderfully clear in
SEPARATIONS, a man who employed no spies or
Others to collect stories, but judged of the pub
lie sentiment by inquiring into his own breast,
and asking himself what ought to be DONE"
Charles Dickens had that acute perception of
the comic side OF things which causes irrepres-
sble brimming of the eyes; and what eyes his
were! Large, dark blue, exquisitely shaped,
fsinged with msgni6cently long and thick
lashss-they now swan in liquid, limpid suffa-
sion, when tears started into them from sense
of humor or sense of pathos, and now darted
quick flashes of fire when some generous indig-
nation at injustice, or some high-wrought feel
ng of admir- alton at magnanlmity, or some
sudden emotion of interest and excitement
touched him. Swifr-glancing, apprecative,
rapidly observaut, truly superb orbits they
were, worthy of the other features in his man
ly. handsome face. The mouth was siDgularly
mobile, full Tipped, well shapsd and expressive;
sensitive, nay restless. in its susceptibility to
Impression that swayed him, or sentiment that
moved him. He, who saw into apparently
slightest trlfes that were fraught to his percep-
tiOn with deepest significance; he, who beheld
human nature with insight almost superhuman
and who revered good and abhorred evil with
Intensity, showed instantaneously by his ex-
pressive counteDancs the kind of icea that pos
sessed him. This made his conversation eu-
thraliDg, bis acting firsr-rate and his reading
superlative.- Recollectons of Writers" by
Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
A Londoner recently told reporter of the
Whitehall Review of one Of those awkward
contretemps which, happily, are of rare occur.
renee. He was travelling in Somersetshire,
and had for his companions a reverend gentle
man with his wife, daughter and maid. Con
versation after while becams mutual, and the
Loudoner opened the subject of education
among other things. Said he to the reverend
gentleman, "A curious question was put to my
sister when at school as test question at an
examination, 'What Is the name of the female
fox|-and curiously, although my sister had
been born and bred in the country, and her
companions at school likewise, none of them
could answer the question. The answer is
Vixen The Londoner had no sooner said
this than he observed cloud gather over the
lady g brow; the daughter blushed, the maid
looked confused, while the clergyman stared
hard at him. Ignorant that he had given utter
ance TO anything indeoorous, or likely to cause
this sudden change, he began to feel very much
embarrassed, and was only aware of the extent
of his iniquity when his clerical vis-a-vis
handed him card WHEREOF, to his horror, he
read, "Rev.-Fox,-R Dorsetshire."
He of course rendered profuson of apologies,
and avowed his entire ignorance of the name
previously (Which was a fact); but it was no
good, conversation was impossible after wards.
DR.. Schlemann resumed last October the ex-
huma:ion of the four prehistoric cities which
he found lying one above another at Hissarlik,
and the lowermost but one of which he has
identified with King Priam's Troy. After
carrying on his operations for q couple OF
mouths they were cut short by winter, and in
December he paid flying visit to London to
add TO the collection bearing his name at the
South KensiDgton Museum his third share of
the fresh finds. Among them may be named
pig in ivory, to match those in terra Gotta, and
above all dagger of meteo ric steel, found in
the royal Trojan house, the very first iron
turned up by him in any prehistoric city,
either in the Troad or the Peloponnesus. Ac-
cording to the last letters received by the
archaologist's friends in London since his re-
turn to his home at Athens he will resume his
work at Hissarlik on the 1st of March, and
continue it until the 1st of June. He has OBJ
tained from the Turkish Government permis-
sion To sink shafts 10 the large conical tombs
scattered over the plain of Troy, and known to
local tradition as those of the Homerlc heroes,
as well as in the village of Koun-Ksle. IL is
true, he says, that the six heroic tum ull
hitherto excavsted have given no result what
ever; but l attribute the failure merely to the
inexperlance of the excAvators, and feel conh-
dent that, if not more, shall at least find in
each tomb the Rey to its chrooology; nav,
venture 10 promise this even for those tumuli
ahlch have already been excavated.' AS to
Koum-Kse, it his firm belief that it covers the
RUNS of the aucient city Achilleion, mentioned
by Herodotus, Strsbo and Plny.
A SAD ACCIDENT In Eaton, N. H, on
the 2lst inst, William f. Thompson, aged 24
pears WAS Instantly killed BIZ the falling of n