The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-02
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

Mr.. Donald G. Mitchell (''Ik Maryel'O is in
failing health. He has been under medical
treatment in Boston for several weeks but has
been advised to return to his home near New
Haven.
Eugene Schuyler is reported to be the most
popular American official who has ever been
in Rome He has been elected to divers clubs,
and is a guest at endless ambaSSadorial dinners
and cardinals breakfasts.
Senator Conkling has lately arrived with his
wife at the Riggs house. She has made no
stay i'll Washington for near five years. She
is greatly changed since her last visit. Then
she was quite SLENDER and had quaint, old
fashioned, and almost spirituelle style OF beauty
She suggested at once an old-fashiOned por.
trait of handsome matron, with her regular
features, clear complexion, black hair, and
bright, dark eyes. She has now grown stout,
and wears panied expression, as of one who
has conquered trouble by patient endurance.
She is pale, almost to sickly pallor, but her
features and bearing have preserved their un-
mistakabe type of high breeding, which yet
has no suggestion of the arrogant hauteur
which is her husbands most striking charac-
teristie. Washington Letter.
A slight girl, !ressed in black, with a sad
fuce, explained to Rochester news-gatherer
the other morning how it happened that she
engaged in draw poker on a railway train.
"You see," she began, latter we left Buffalo
found that in some way I had lost my money,
and what to do didn't know. I had my tick
ct in another pocket, and that helped matters.
Two gentlemen in the section just ahead of
me were playing cards. 1t was poker. | be-
came quite interested in the game, for you see
[ often play it with my brothers for corn, and
they say L play pretty we'll. Pretty soon l
made some remark about the game, and then
tlotya OH r 1p5t iIyat scat IN,
Just for the fun of the thing l said yes, and
never had such luck l guess they let me win
the first two or three times because was
lady, but after that they played for what they
were worth, and so did L. And you never saw
the equal Of the cards held. They called me
once, and all had was three aces and two
mines" SIS that good hand?" ''Well, l
should say SO. 1t was good for IS that time"
"How much did you win in all?" ooh, some
where between $40 and 500 haven't counted
it yet"
An old Virginia, New, stage driver says that
he has been more exasperated and chagrined
at his failure to run down hog than by being
robbed by road agents. He says he has gone
with rush down a steep grade with ive-ton
stage and sx-in-hand after a hog, and just at
the moment when he expected TO capture the
flying grunter under the forewheel it would
lurch TO one side with grunt of satisfaction at
its narrow escape. He never succeeded in run
ming down hog except in one instance. In
that case the hog had just succeeded in dodg-
ing train of cars coming out of a tunnel, and
was too much startled to escape. He ran
it down, but upset his stage and killed two
passengers, besides manning two for life.
y Justice in Charlotte, S. c., was dumb
founded recently to see pretty little woman
dragging man after her, enter his office and
walk boldly up to the magisterial desk. She
,I,o
about his neck, and ever and anon gave both
scarf and neck an energetic jerk Justice Da-
wilson was informed by the far one, who
| spoke in meliifuously sweet tones, that the
man had failed TO put III An appearance on the
| day fixed for their wedding. 81 want him to
| be fined Tor disappointing me-" SHE added,
land I've great notion to sue him for breach
! of promise" The shee2sh-ootling swain
| screwed his courage to the stickng-pont Just
! then and inquired whether it wouldn't be bet
ter To have a wedding right there. The dam
sci consented and Judge Davidson snilingly
married theIn
The present year is to be celebrated in Rus
sia as completing the first twenty-five years of
the cars reign, and the industrial exhibition
which is to be held at Moscow in the coming
May will doubtless be as popular with the
Russians as even that of 1872. But such an
anniversary brings with it an ominous suSges-
ton of the grim old proyerb, evil awaits the
| czar of twenty-five years." which Russian his
tory has so strangely verified. Ivan the Terri
| bie's first twenty-five years were brilliantly
| successful, but after 1868 came the loss of all
his Western conques.s, the successive deaths OF
! three wives, the murder of his son and heir,
and the fastening of frighIful disease upon
| himself. Peter the Greats Turkish reverses,
and the deplorable death of his son Alexis,
came after TIE twenty-tifth year of his reign.
| The twenty-sixth year oil Alexander Us raw
| aged St. Petersburg with fearful inundation,
| while formidable plot against himself
the twenty-sixth year of Nicholas began the
| intrigues which led to the Crimean war; and
| the present cZar, now just about to pass the
perlous limit, sees his wife dying by inches,
| his throne undermined by rebellion and for
| eign war looming on the horizon