The Portland daily press., 1880-06-02
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

j. L. Trowbridge, the popular author is SO
| years of age. He led the life of a farmers boy
until he was Is years DID, and taught himself
Latin, French and German without a master.
He began at the age of 16 to write for country
papers. "Cudjo's Cave" which he wrote dur
ing the war, had sale Of over thirty-seven
thousand copies. He has lived in suburb of
Boston for many years.
The crown princess of Germany is disliked
by Bismarck, who mortally offended her by
saying, when her son Waldemar died, that he
(the chancellor) had been always against the
marriage of the crown prince with daughter
of Queen Victoria, because he knew the un-
healthy blood of the English royal family
would spoil the magnificent Hohenzollern race.
Prince Waldemar had bad constitution and
a scrofulous affection. The daughters of the
crown princess are handsome, healthy and
finely grown, but the sons want muscular fibre
and take after their mothers side of the house
Prince Henry was sent to make a voyage
round the world, which it was hoped would
give him physical tone.
Prince Lucien Bonaparte has written letter
concerning his family to an English friend in
which he says, "Of the four brothers of Napo-
only two who are represented by living de-
scendants. Cardinal Bonaparte being Charles
Lucien's eldest sons son, and Lucien being
Jeromes eldest brother the cardinal is incon-
trovertably, whatever may be pretended to the
contrary, the sole and real chief of the Bona
parte family in the ordinary sense OF the word.
Prince Napoleon Jerome, and after him his
two sons, thanks to Napoleon I'LL, and accord
ing to the constitution of the second empire,
whose fall the prince now accepts by his adhe-
sion to the Republic, was undoubtedly the i'm
mediate heir of the emperor, and after his
death and before his adhesion to the new rule
the chief of the imperial dynasty.
The cardinal, repeat, is the only chief Of my
family, and all its other members can only
succeed to him in this qualification, in the fol-
lowing and no other order: 1. Napoleon, COM
monty called Charles, brother of the Cardinal;
2. Louis Lucien, the eldest living son of Lu-
Glen, brother of Napoleon l.; 3. Pierre Napo-
leon, his youngest brother;4 Jerome, son of
Jerome, eldest son of Jerome, youngest broth
er of Napoleon l.; 5, Jerome his son. 6,
Charles, uncle of the last; T. Napoleon Jerome
the only living son of the first Jerome; s. Vic
tor, his eldest son. o. Louis, his youngest son.
The Duke of Wellington had his peculiari-
ties, like all great men, When his elder
brother. the Marquis of Wellesley, died, Count
DOrsay was engaged in painting the portrait
of the<Iron Duke. The day after the death,
the Duke presented himself as if nothing had
happened and taking his accustomed seat said:
''You have heard of the Marquis Wellesley
death, very agreeable man when he had his
own way"
An educated Chinaman in indianapolis de-
nies the statement that severe prohibitry laws
are in force in China against the Chinese be-
coming American citizens. He says: "Few of
our people desire to became naturalized Amer
lean citizens. You must understand that we
Chinese are proud of our religion and proud of
| our country. We are the oldest nation in the
| world and the most populous. A Chinaman
would lose the respect of his people were he to
| give up his Chinese customs and become an
| American. His parents would disown him,
and, perhaps, when he returned to China,
would have nothing to do with him. That,
| you see, is a serious thing to most of us. Sup
| pose you went to China to live for a number of
| years, or the rest of your life, would you want
| to become Chimanan and give up citizen
| ship in this country? Of course not. Well,
| that's the way with most of us?'
Queen Victoria's attitude at the recent drawing
room is described by young lady presented to
her. ~ was very much disappointed" says the
| lrreverent young lady; "she seemed so small and
insignificant. She did not smile at all, but
looked very cross. She did not take the slight
est notice of me, beyond holding out her hand
for me to kiss, nor say anything. My aunt had
to courtesy as she passed the Queen, but she
did not take any notice; but the Prince of
| Wales and others spoke to aunt. l didn't
like kissing her hand at all. And Pm very
| glad it's over.'
Hon. w. E. Chandler is described by the
| Chicago Journal as slender, narrow-shouldered
and nervously hung together. His head is
| small, and his hair has scholarly clay" Ii
is gray but not very, and so is his short full
beard and his eye-at least as much as can be
seen behind the glasses and frown he always
wears. His eyebrows, especially the vertical
| low wrinkles over his nose, are always con-
tracted, and give him an expression of fierce
Iless-something as if he meant always to talk
to the point and did not want to be troubled
with trihes, for they might make him nervous.
His hands are very scholastic-white and slen-
der. He wears Prince Albert coat, always
buttoned, and white necktie-his tout enSem-
bic being rather that of a professor i'll college.