The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-14
Men and Women.

| Elihu Burritts capacity for hard work is
illustrated by this extract from letter written
| five years ago to decline an invitation to lec-
ture: II feel that am played out as a lectur-
| er, especially before American audiences.
Then expect to go to England next summer
to see old friends once more, and to look after
my books, new and old. L have Just sent to
London my 'Sanskrit Grammar and Reading
Lessons which will probably be put to press
about the 1st of July, and must bs on hand TO
correct proofs etc. Then am deeply in NV
| pathological work. have finished the Sang
| CRIT Hindostanee and Persian SERIES and am
| about half way through with the Turkish, in
| the end expecting the four languages will be
Then intend to take mp the Semitic family,
or Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Ethiopic, and
do the same by them. Thus, you see, 1 am be-
ginning work which should occupy a long
life, and am in its evening hours'
A Council Bluffs, girl, on suicide intent,
asked for morphine in drug store The clerk
suspected her purpose, and sold her powerful
emetic: She returned an hour afterward, ex-
pressed her opinion of man who would de-
ceive distracted girl in that way, and de-
manded her money back.
Dr. j. G. Holland, Editor of Scribuer's, Is to
be the poet at the forty sixth General Conveu-
tion OF the Psi Epsilon College Fraternity, to
be held at Yale chapter May 9TH and 6th The
occasion commentaries the fortieth anniver-
sary of the establishment of the Yale chapter.
The orator is the Hon. Benjamin X. Phelps,
yale 1881 The chaplain of the convention
is the Rev. Henry NJ. Dexter, d. D., editor of
The Congregationalist' Mr.. Francis NJ. Finch,
yale 1o49l. author of "The Blue and the
Gray" "Nathan Hale" etc. writes the con-
vention song. The Hon. Chauncy NJ. Depew
% tOa aafp
ton banquet. Governor Andrews of Con-
nectcut, will preside.
"Atlas," of the London World, says, "I was
wrong the other day when stated that the use
of what may bs called live iewelry' originated
with an American lady. That was only true
OF its present shape, and in connection with
live beetles. The idea itself, undoubtedly
an original one, belongs to Mime. Musard, who
startled Paris, some ten years ago, by appear.
ing at representation de gala with live snake
around her shapely arm The snake was bound
with thin chain to q splendid diamond brace
let, and at once became subject of intense ex-
citemert to the audience. Several weak imi-
tations in the shape of live lizards, etc., made
their appearance in the following days; but the
fashion did BOT take, and it soon died out It
Is not q subject for congratulatioa that IL
should be revived now. as 1t is obviously q
cruel one."
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt is about to 90 Ia for a
new species of excitement. Actress, author,
aeronaut, painter aud sculptor, she is now &C.
ing to try lawsuit, and 1t is said that she iu-
tends pleading her own cause. Some small
person has iDtim ated that, having got other
persons to paint pictures and TO make groups of
ststusry, she has boldly signed thsm and ex.
hibited them as her own work. She has de-
termined to prosecute b)th writer and editor
for libel. She looks upon it as the more serious
that she got reward at the last salon, aud the
article would insinuats she had obtained il by
fraud.
Mr.. Hamerton, in his new Life Of Turner,
quotes Mr.. George Inness, whom he describes
as an intelligent and accomplished American
artist, as having said of the Slave Ship that it
is the ''most Internal piece of cap-trsp ever
invented. There IS nothing in it. IL has as
much to do with human affections and thought
as ghost. 1t is not even a tine bouquet of
color. The color is hsrsb disagrees Die and
discordant " The Pail Mall Gazetie ie, in nottic-
ing the book, quotes this remark, and quietly
adds, "rhis is criticism with vengeance"
MIR. aamerton hImselr, thinks it is '1nterest-
ing for its frankness." Turner's main object
in painting the picture, continues Mr.. Ham
erton, was to produce an effect of lurId splen-
dor which could only be attained by lavish
use of vermillIon and yellow ochre, colors which
ties, and which, for that very reason. were
avoided by the Venetian masters.
The chief Democratic candidates for Speaker
are totally unlike. Mr.. Randall is below me-
dau height, his neck is short, his face of the
square type and smoothly shaver He has .
square, prominent lower jaw and thin straight
lips which are ordinarily compressed. He
marshals facts and arguments with ability, but
his voice is harsh, thin aud unmusical He is
trifs nesr-sghted, wears glasses and has
fallen into the habit of carrying his chin high
in the air, and his head perked little on one
sid,. Mr. Blackburn is tall and why. his is
a genuine Kentucky frame. he Is as gaunt,
almosS as Hsnry Clay, aud nearly as all. He
ia i'm the prime of life, just turned of forty. Mr..
Randall spends most of his time in his little
den in the basement of the Capitol aud gives
himself little relaxation. MI. Blackburn, like
sIl Kentuckians is fond of horse and his long
noustache may oflen be seen streaming be-
hind his ears as he spins along the road behind
some fast stepping thoroughbred
Senator Logan IS member of the Me- hodist
church. He used to bs Catholic, as his faith
er, an Irish doctor and horse-trsder, W tn too
thick brogue to be cut with a knife, was be-
fore him. When the Senator was known at
Murpbysboro, down in JACKSON county, ILL.,, as
"Jack," he passed for q regular "daisy" on