The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-15
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

j. Il. Harrison is about to begin revival
meetings in Talmages church in Brooklyn.
According to Mr.. Talmage, Harrison has late
ly converted $500 people in Baltimore, 900 in
Washington, and 200 in Philadelphia.
Professor Curtius, accompanied by govern
ment land surveyor, has gone to Greece to
complete the archaeological exploration of Olym
pia. For this purpose the Emperor William,
has granted the sum of $4,000 marks (about
S20,000)
Miss Lillian Carpenter, the daughter of the
Senator, is said to have charming voice.
She has spinning wheel which belonged to
her great-grandmother and she sits beside it
when she sings for her guests Marguerites
spinning-song in Faust
Frederick Douglass is described as having "a
grand head thickly covered with snow-white
hair" and age is beginning to tell ON him.
He is devoted to his wife, who is a full
blooded negress, although he has a predomin-
ating share of white blood in his veins. He
engaged himself to marry her while he was
slave. He is very generous.
Six years ago Nathan G.. Vrooman, New
York Central railroad employe at Syracuse,
was sunstruck. February 18th, this year, he
was oblige to quit work and go to bed on ac
count of pains in his head. He at once fell
asleep, and continued so almost without in
terruptlon fer three weeks, being aroused oc-
casionally to partake of food. At the end of
that period he awOke, and seemed we'll and
cheerful. Ten days later the sleepiness re-
turned, and he has lain so ever since, having
tasted no food for the past ten days.
When Adelina Patti was younger than she
is now, one evening, after a dinner party, she
asked Hector Berlioz, one of her guests, to
write something in her album. Berl:oz ex-
claimed: "Write music in an album! Surely
you are joking?" Adelina replied: "Indeed 1
am not. Write something, if only two lines.
1t is your autograph 1 want" Berlioz still
hesitated. Adelina added: Come, now, grant
my request and will at your choice kiss YOU
or send you one of my cooks pies. You know
what excellent pies he Makes Berlicz took
the pen she held out to him and wrote in the
Good gracious What does that mean?''
Bring the patty"
MIR. Francis Murphy has received from di-
vers Philadelphia friends the gift of a house in
that city. Mr.. Murphy took possession of his
new home on Saturday, for the first time in
ten years gathering his six children together
under one roof. "The last time they were to-
gether," says The Record "was a year after
Mrs. Murphy died, and when the father had
given up his life of dissipation, and had begun,
in feeble way, to preach temperance. He
was too poor then to support them, and placing
the girls in an orphan asylum and the boys on
he had saved $40 he removed the girls from
the asylum and placed them in Christian
homes, where he maintained them.'
The present King of Portugal, when still on
ly heir apparent, never failed when he came
to Paris to visit Rossini. The Prince would
call early in the morning ,Ewould sit at the pi-
and whi1o RocSipi fba
would with his right hand, play the most pop
ular airs of Rossini's operas. Rossini would
| gladly have escaped this early concert; but as
he was Indifferent to everything and everybody
he encouraged the Prince with smile. One
| day the Prince exclaimed: "COnfound it, the
| right hand goes well enough! but this left
hand!-all it can give is two notes invariably
the same" Rossini replied good-naturedly:
"They are the tonic and dominant" The
| Prince responded: plague take them what
ever their names may be! 'Tis always, time
| nj gravely replied, his eyes twinklng as they
used to twinkle: "Prince, that left hand of
| yours shows the firmness of your Royal High
| ness's character"
Prince Won Bismarck said recently to a
friend: "When 1 was Minister to St. Peters
burg was one day obliged to wait for my
sleigh. was in Newski Perspective, which is
the most frequented street in st. Petersburg.
walked up and down the banks Of the Neva
| to avoid attracting attention. While 1 was
taking this exercise a low fellow, q moujikt
| iostled me violently, and as rebuked him for
| 1t he began to rail at me, and showed he in.
tended to be still more insolent. As my diplo.
matte rank forbade me from quarrelling with
the blackguard, and as my sleigh might appear
at any moment and attract attention to me-
seized the blaokguard by the throat, shook him
two or three times and sent him rolling head
long into the gutter. This violence produced
the effect expected. shall never forget the
tone in which he said: Gracious master, beg
your pardon. acknowledge my fault This
is the way in which Sclaves, both nations and
individuals, must be treated. Their insolence
must be violently punished and they will thank
you for the chastsement while, under similar
circumstances, German would bawl his lungs
out, feeling that law was violated in his per
son."
A curious letter, said to have been written
by Napoleon 1. to his father when the future
Emperor was mere child and a pupil at the
military school at Brienne, has just been pub
lished in France. 1t is dated April 5, 1881
and runs thus: Father, if you or my pro
tectors cannot afford me the means of living
more honorably in this house, bring me bach
home at once. am tired of proclaiming my
indlgence, and of seeing the sneers of insolent
scholars whom nothing but their fortune ele
Yates above me, but there is not one who il
not a hundred, pixies below the noble senti
ments which animate me. Is your son to re
main the laughing stock of few paltoquets
who, vain of their own means of enjoyment
insult me by smiling at my privations? If yor
are unable to afford me any improvement O
my condition here, take me away from Bri
enne, and put me into some mechanical posi-
ton. From this offer you may Judge of my
despair. Please believe that my letter has moi
been dictated by the vain desire of indulgins
in expensive amusements, which 1 have NJ
taste for. only want to be able to show tha
have the means of procuring them like my
companions. Your respectful and affectionatt
son, Bonaparte."