The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-01-10
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10.
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

Senator Booth must be hardened bachelor
since "Oliva" writes of him that ga sigh
drawn fresh and pure from the deepest and
most capricious female bosom and applied to
the right place win have no more effect than a
Holman liver pad administered for lock-law,
while glance from the most brilliant eye fails
like sunbeam on an alligator's back.
Matthew Arnold has face somewhat spare
of flesh, with large features. His chin, lips
and nose are large, he wears mutton-chop
whiskers is near-sighted, and his somewhat
wavy hair is parted in the midnle
Mrs. f. Grant has appeared in Washington
in some quaint Eastern attire, presented to
her by her mother-in-iaw-a dress of some
wonderful Oriental fabric, and number OF
Hindoostanee ornaments, including bangles
which almost concealed her arms from wrist to
elbow.
Army men at Washington are much inter-
ested by the fact that Gen. Grant has at last
made known through the authorized state
ments of Mr.. John Russell Young, that he
was the originator of the march to the sea.
and that he communicated his plan to Gen.
Halleck. This matter has long been In DIS
pute. In the same way Gen. Grant mas de-
cared that the campaign of the cumberland
Gen. Halleck. The records in the War De-
partment clearly show these movements to
have been planned by Gen. Grant
General Garfield will not take his seat in
the Senate until the 4th of March, 1884, when
he will have completed his eighth term of con-
tinuous service in the House. He entered the
House in December, 1868. There is only one
member of that body who anteaates him and
~ hoca al hao Ind
Kelley of Pennsylvania, who began his Con-
gressional career in 1861. In age, however,
General Garfield does not rank among the
veterans. He was born in 1881. During his
fifteen years service in the House lie has been
chairman of the committees on Military Affairs,
Banking and Currency, and Appropriations,
and has been member of Ways and Means
and several other important committees. He
came to the House directly from the army
along with Schenck, Farnsworth and two OF
three other general officers who consented to
run for Congress in 1862 because they thought
the war would certainly be over before they
would be called upon to take their seats in
1868. His present district consists of the coun-
TICS of Ashtabula, Lake, Geauga, Trumbull
and Mahoning, in the northeast corner of Ohio
1t is said to fara smaller percentage of illit
eracy than any other Congressional District in
the country.
Mr.. Ole Bull has appeared in new charac
ter at reception in Boston-as lecturer on
philology. The Spanish language, he said, is
beautiful; the English is istiff, like the Eng
lishman himself. TIE Englishman says mai
is a nal-not big nail, or little nail; but
the Spaniard puts on his words beautiful
twist land Ole Ball illustrates by gesture to
express his meaning better). The English are
military and quick. In spanish you s,,ast spin
Spaniard cafsfiitt grandiose and Hexibie The
,,pord E.I: eop'ov-,- ,itAation in a few
him; he will have to jump, jump, the Mboffff
time 1t must be spun out so his system anf
nerves will feel good.
Ii there be parents who give themselves un
easiness over the too slowly developing matri
monial prospects of family of daughters, le
them envy Mr.. Stout of Raritan Christmas
came to him in the form of triple wedding,
when three bridegrooms from three New Jer
sey towns took each his own from among the
three daughters and departed with the parental
blessing The officiating clergyman is said to
have risen to the extraordinary demands of the
occasion with grace and impressiyeness 1t is
also related that latter listening to few gen.
eral observations on the nature and design of
marriage, each couple was separately united in
the order of the daughters ages" The local
reporter touchingly dismisses the event with
this comprehensive sentiment: MAY sunny
skies be theirs, and balmy winds watt them
over life's broad ocean to the beautiful shores
beyond"
A fortune teller has brought a foolish wo-
man to her grave, in San Francisco. Mr. and
Mrs. Schneider had been married about twelve
years, and had been contented and happy. BY
frugality and industry they obtained the
homestead where they resided. A year or two
ago they invested in mining stocks, and lost
considerable money. A short time since they
were induced to sign two documents, which
they did not understand, because written in
English One related to mining stocks, the
other to improvements of Hamilton square.
One Friday night Mrs. Schneider, accompa-
MED by her husband, visited woman profess
ing to be fortune teller. She told Mrs
Schneider that in consequence of her unfortu-
nate transactions in stocks she would be beset
with great trouble; that great, dark cloud
was hanging over her home, and that she
must be aware of another woman a friend of
hers who would make fortune in stocks and
marry rich man. These statements greatly
affected very nervous woman. She swal-
lowed great deal of cold poison-enough to
kill har-hefora morning