The Portland daily press., 1880-03-06
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

1t is said that the title of Lord of the
Aisles'' is about to be conferred upon the illus
trious Mr.. Brown, the sexton of Grace Church.
New.York city.
Miss Emma Abbott, the opera singer, having
been told of some criticism upon the warmth
of her acting in love scenes, responded: ''I de-
test the conventional, STACEY, stupid, love-
making scenes, SO often depicted by women
who were never in love and know nothing of
the passion. Think the more vivid and life
like the representation is the better 1 have
been in love and know what l am acting /
forget Emma Abbott in vivifying my charac-
terS.'
The anti-Bonapartists are fond of telling a
story about the late Emperor. He was arguing
with a parsonage one day, when the latter sud-
denly lost his temper and cried out in yio-
lent tone: "You call yourself the inheritor of
the Napoleonic legend! Why, you've nothing
of Napoleon about you.'' ''Alas!" murmured
Caesar, with sad smile, 81 have his familyl''
"Let me look at revolver" said man
who walked into store at Sandstone, No.,
and weapon was shown to him. ''Show me a
cartridge" he added, and he carelessly loaded
one OF the chambers. Excuse me for using
TINS minute, he further remarked and shot
himself through the brain.
nAl' rrdiCiS IdrkHlan, historian, is an erect,
slender, energetic person. fifty-six years old
When student at Harvard and only eighteen
years old, he determined to write French
American history, and straightway began to
prepare himself for the work He has ALWAYS
been greatly troubled with failure of sight. and
has been obliged to employ secretary While
at work on The Conspiracy of Pontiac he
was not able to endure daylight at all and
apt 10 "a a,,I
write.
When Alphonse Daudet, the author of Sido-
ME and The Nabob, first arrived in Paris from
Languedoc he was sixteen years old; he had in
his pocket forty sous, in his heart no end of
hope, and in his head determination to take
to literature. He wrote some charming verses
which were so highly thought of at the Tuiler-
les that the empress recommended him to De
Morny, who took the youth as a secretary, so
that the character of De Mora in The Nabob
had the advantage of being studied from life.
Daudet has finely cut physiognomy, full of
dlstlnctlon, flowing, pointed beard, and flow
ing hair, overshadowing his forehead wit its
wavy locks. The expression of his short
sighted eyes is genial and benevolent. He is
man whose modesty approaches tmidity
Miss Nora Perry tells good story about
young Englishman, who, being introduced to
an American girl who was carrying home
volume of Spencer and another of Emerson to
her father, naturally supposed that they indi-
Gated her own tastes, and began making him
self agreeable by talking with great profundi-
ty. At the first pause he was met by this re-
sponse: you want to talk Spencer and
Emerson Mr.. =, you must come and see nv
father. don't know anything about 'em; not
thing. "Oh, then, you are not-you are
not'-thoroughly at sea to find his precon-
ceived notions all astray. 'No; am not the
Boston girl OF whom you have read, who wears
glasses and knows all about Spencer and Oar
win and Emerson and the rest of the wise
men,; and the quivers of mirth at the corners
of the mouth broadened into little burst of
laughter, wherein the Englishman presently
joined
Adelina Patti takes only one real meal on
day when she expects to sing in the evening.
AT IL o'clock she is served with meat and eggs,
but very rarely vegetables; Bordeaux and selt-
zer water accompany these substantials Then
she takes nap two hours long, after which
she goes ont driving. When she returns she
sits down at the piano and practices. Just be-
fore leaving for the opera-house she takes a lit
tie consonanae, but no dinner. After the per-
formance she eats substantial supper. She
never utters word on any morning until she
has drunk her cup of chocolate. That done
she then tries her voice by summoning her
maid with the full force of her lungs.