The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-20
Gossip
About Men and Women.

Sir Evelyn Wood had a surprise for the
Empress Eugene after the vessel started-no
less than some slips from the famous willow
that overhangs the tomb at st. Helena, in
which the great Napoleon were first inferred.
These slips, it is intended, shall be planted on
the spot where the body of the ill-fated Prince
Imperial was found.
Mrs. Florence, the actress, has her own no
tions about dress, and does not entirely submit
to Worth. She has reduced the matter of
packing her stage dresses to science. Two
large trunks have been made especially for
her. One of these franks contains nine trays.
trunk has nothing in it beside the nine dresses.
1t is the duty of Mrs. Florence's French maid
to pack this trunk, and every dress is put in
its place after each performance.
Lord Beaconsfeld, accordings to a leading
liberal newspaper in London, has had three
main aims in public life. The first was to al
ter theHBritish Cons titutIon in, the sense of
bringing it back to the theories of Bolingbroke
and the theories of Georg-, ILL.,, of whom he
has never disguised his admiration. The sec
ond to reconstruct the map OF Europe, and to
write below this artistic performance the his
toric record, "Beaconsfeld tecit." The Treaty
of Berlin has but partly satisfied his ambition
in this respect. The third, and perhaps most
dearly cherished object of all, was to transfer
Asia by system of conquests, annexation and
protectorates.
During the last winter, writes correspon-
dent of the London News, 81 several times
conversed with that accomplished writer and
profoundly religious man, NJ. .Renan, The
author of The Life of Jesus always speaks
with atfectionate reverence of the church in
which he was brought up. Nevertheless, it
appears to me that he has forever quilted Ro-
Ranan ic sniff fro,
rheumatism. Theslast time l saw him his arm
was in a sling, and the sharp pains;and swell
ings in the wrist joint and fingers were accom-
panied by fever, from which he has never been
entirely free since he was in the Holy Land.
Within the last year he has quilted his well
known dwelling in. .the Rue st. Guilaume, and
Is now living on the first floor of an old house
IN tSe Rue Tournon, in the immediate vicinity
OF the Luxembourg, and between a vast and
silent Courtyard and shady garden. The
ceilings arr high-pitched and the rooms spa
clous. everywhere except in the salon the
walls are hidden with books. There they are
adorned with paintings by the illustrious AIRY
Schetfer, Madame Renan's uncie. and by her
father, Henri Scheffer, the painter q the ar
rest of Charlotte Corday, which for .aanv
years was in the Luxembourg, and now adoflS
the cabinet of M. Cochery. NJ. Renan works
in roomy chamber between fireplace, in
which at all seasons big logs burn, and win
dow commanding view of the garden.
Thick carpets are laid down on the floor, and
on the big tables and desks there Is a litter of
of books and papers with which tidy maid
servants never interfere"
Prince Bismarck is more than six feet three
inches high, and is by no means thin. He
wears uniform, and the lappes of his coat, of
d bright yellow, overspread his immense
chest He writes at his desk nearly all night
long, and then he sleeps until about noon.
The Earl of Dunmore, now in this country,
owns 10000 acres in Scotland. lie is at pres
ent gone to Montana, and intends buying SO v
eral thousand head of cattle in Texas and hav-
ing them transported to his ranch during the
coming Summer. 1t is his further intention to
import two or three hundred bulls of his own
favorite breed, and he is sanguine of raising a
stock of cattle second to none. His ultimate
plan is to ship beef to England preserved by
the refrigerating process.
The recipient of the prize of 500, from the
Mary Smith fund, given this year by the di-
rectors of the academy, for the second time, is
Mrs. T. A. Janvier whose figure piece named
"Oldfashioned Music" has commended itself
to the Exhibition Committee as the best paint
ing by resident Philadelphia artist for quail
tiles ranking as follows, aud according with
the original terms of the award; First, origi-
nality OF subject; second, beauty of design or
drawing; third, color and effect; and lastly,
execution. The decision, which was made to-
day, was not without much of previous favora-
BILE comment upon other paintings of good art
value and comparing well with "Oldiashioned
Music"