The Portland daily press., 1880-03-20
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

The vie man to whom Colonel Servsosse,"
the hero OF 'The FOOLS Errand' is described
as writing for advice is said to have been the
late Henry Wilson, and it is stated further
| that the letters from him published in the
book are matters of fact, not Of fancy.
Senator Bayard is tall and slender; his head
is small, but well proportioned; his eyes are
deeply shaded by overhanging brows His
diction and his gestures are agreeable, but an
unpleasant voice goes far to spoil his oratory.
He never writes his speeches before delivery,
speaking with the help of a memorandum pad
lying on his desk.
Agnes Herndon's kiss isn't to be compared
with Emma Abbotts kiss. 1t lacks the divine
atatus. Abbott's kiss reminds one of the gur-
gle of maple sap out of the nozzle OF a five gall
Ion demijOhn. Herndon's kiss sounds like the
explosion of peanut. bag."-Kansas City
Times.
Austin DobSon wrote no poetry until he was
twenty-five years of age. This is the way in
which he dedicates an American edition OF his
poems to an American poet: "Dear DIR.
Holmes-Once a couple of words from you
which you doubtless have forgotten, but which
L shall always remember-made me very proud
and happy. Permit me then to inscribe this
American edition of my verses to you as
token OF respect and gratitude"
Two gushing Boston girls were walking one
day in the suburbs of the Hub, when they
stumbled on little old-fashioned milestone,
forgotten in the march Of improvement. One
of them stopped, and parting the grass, discov-
cred the half-effaced inscription, 'I. m from
Boston," upon which she exclaimed ecstati-
caliy, Here is grave, perhaps of some young
glrl, who wished it written on her tombstone,
I'm from Boston How touching! so simple,
and so sufficient!'
Miss Jennie Horn was just going to "run
across the way" and so stepped out bare
headed and with apron on. But instead of
going across the way, Miss Horn slipped
around to the Moravian Church, which she
entered by the back door. Her lover, William
Collier, and Rev. Mr.. Ciewell were there be-
fore her. The knot was soon tied, Mrs Jen-
ME flew back home, and with blush chasing
Its shadow among her dimples, baked the
bread for dinner. This was in the town of
Uhrichsville, Ohio, where, ON the afternoon of
the same day, Henry Horn, the BRIDES broth
er, chased both bridegroom and preacher
down the main street with shotgun. Mr.
and Mrs. Collier left that afternoon on bridal
trip, Mrs. G. still being bareheaded-
phia Press.
Recently one of the childfen of the princess
royal of England. now the wife of the heir of
the German emperor, had been ailing and
with maternal solcitude the princess person.
ally supplied the little invalid with many of its
requirements. This innovation on German
court etiquette produced utter dismay, and was
brought to the notice of the empress, in an
swer to whose expostulation the princess repli-
ed, If my mother, the queen of England and
empress of India, can carry milk in to one of
her children, who likes it so much more be-
cause given by her, think may do so with
out forgetting my position
A writer in the Argosy gives the true his
tory, from letters written from St. Petersburg
in 1905, of the heroine of Nine. Cotter's "Ellz-
abeth, or the Exiles of Siberia" which had
worldwide fame years ago. The young wo-
man who actually walked from Siberia to st.
Petersburg to beg the emperor to pardon her
father, banished by his predecessor, was Pau
lima Lupuloya. The emperor pardoned her
father and pensioned Paulina, but her consti-
tuition was broken by fatigue and exposure
and she died at twenty-five, after having been
honored to the utmost degree by the grandees
oil the capital. She was amiable, sensible and
modest. 1t somewhat detracts from the ro-
nance of the story to learn that her fathers
crime was of vulgar order. He was SER
want of the Empress Catherine, and used his
opportunities to steal q quantity of plate.