The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-03
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

Mr.. W. III. Mallock, the author of "The
New Republic" and SIS Life Worth Living?'
is sallow, dark-haired man of thirty-five.
He has retiring manners, and is a sort of re-
cluse, devoting himself to reading and study.
He does not look robust, having the stoop Of
excessive application.
Prince Leopold, the Queens youngest son,
who was born on April 7, 1853 has been pre-
vented by constitutional delicscy, from en-
bracng any profession, but has inherited be-
yond any of his brothers, his fathers tastes.
He was entered at Christ Church, Oxford, and
is member of the university and doctor of
civil law.
OF one mathematical work written by the
venerable and accomplished Prof. Pierce of
Harvard he himself says that besides himself
there is only one man living who could read it
and understand it; and of another work he
says that only one man besides himself has
read it and understood it.
A young gentleman somewhat numerous in
social circles took his sister, wee miss, to see
family the other day in which he is a regular
caller. The little girl made herself quite at
home and exhibited great fondness for one of
the young ladies, hugging heartily. "How
very affectionate she is" said the lady of the
house. Eyes, just like her brother" responded
the young lady, unthinkingly. Paterfamlias
looked up sternly over his spectacles the
young gentleman blushed, and there was con-
sternation in the family circle.
Martha, Mary and Margaret Devoe of Jessa-
mines county, KY, were born to the same par
ents in the same hour in 1927, and have grown
up to be midcle-aged spinsters together When
they were young ladies their father exacted
from them a VOW never to marry and never to
part until death. This promise they have re-
ligiously kept.
A writer in London paper, describing Mr..
James Gordon Bennett, the younger, at New
port, says that he is tall, thin, active young
man, the hair little touched with gray,
bachelor, with a shy, retiring manner. a firm
jaw and prominent Roman nose, which re-
minds you of a portrait of his father, and
would have pleased Napoleon. He listens
rather than talks.
The friends of Mr. Bret Harte will be glad
to learn of his promotion from the compara-
lively insgfcant and inadequately paid office
of commercial agent at Crefeld, Germany, to
the highly important position of consul at
Glasgow-the second city in point of popula-
ton in Great Britain and next to London and
Liverpool in point of consular emolument, the
salary being $3.00o year, and the duty not
too great. When Nathaniel Hawthorne was
consul at Liverpool one of his most uncon-
sailors rs--swearing them, as he says, ION the
office Bible, greasy 1ciH peijurieS." Doubtless
Mr.. Harte will have more or less of the same
lrksome duty to perform, but he will have the
compensating comfort of being in city where
the American language is spoken with some
degree of purity, and where he will be re-
ceived with the cordiality that is always ex-
tended to successful authorship, especially
when supplemented, as in his case, by excep-
tionally rare social powers.-Harper's Weekly.
From the Wall Lake Qa.) Journal: "Hast-
ings, Iowa, March 6, 1SS0.-Mr. Luther Sifford
Dear Sir: / saw in the Wall Lake Journal
an advertisement Of yours, looking for wife,
and being candidate for matrimony, | thought
l would make application through the columns
of the Journal. There is nothing small about
me, not even my feet. Mr.. s., you are recon-
mended to me by lady friend of mine who
has met you in her travels. / am a young
lady, aged nineteen, black hair and eyes, a
rosebud mouth and dimpled chin. will
now close, hoping to hear from you soon.
Sincerely yours, Miss f. ID. Inman. Coon
Valley, March 6, 1880"
When a boy, Grant thrashed big Cauuck
gawky for speaking disrespectfully of George
Washington, and wouldn't let the PROSTATE
foe get up until he had registered high and
holy vow of allegiance to the Father of His
Country.
The last authentic bon mot of Dumasf ills is
thus reported: Speaking of a belle of former
days, he said to friend, "Poor Madame de
-! Chatting with her the ether day, she
brought all my youth back to me, but, helds,"
the wicked man added, 'she did not bring back
hers!'
A Washington letter to the Philadelphia
Times thus photographs Senator Conkling;
Personally, Mr.. Conkling is perfect type of
physical manhood. His abstinence and tenn
perance in all things have given him a won-
derfully perfect organism AS in his younger
days, so now, he avoids the designations of so
ciety. He rarely goes to dinner parties, and
when he does he never drinks any wine. He
trains almost like an athlete; is scrupulous in
his neatness; is thorough master of fence and
an expert with the gloves. Few men 20 years
younger are better gymnasts. AT Washington
he lives very quietly at Wormley's hotel,
where he receives very few callers who do not
have business with him. He loves good horse
as well as does Gen. Grant, and is better
judge of one. He drives to and from the Cap
itol in light buggy, but he never drives in
the public thoroughfares He never drives
down Pennsylvania avenue, but takes one of
the side streets leading more directly, if more
obscurely, to his hotel"