The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-19
Gossip
About Men and Women.

The English think that Rev Joseph Cook
of Boston has one fault which he would do
do we'll to correct; he reads so tapidly that it
is ifficult for an audience to follow him. The
Echo says: "Mr. Cook does not allow his
hearers the tenth part of second to weigh
the exhct meaning of some unaccustomed
word. AS the English people are not all met
aphysicians or theologians, Mr. Cook as a lee
turer would do well to accommodate himself
to our deficiencies"
Garabaldi as mere politician, the London
Times says, is nothing. His mind is full of
vague, impracticable fances, picked up at the
feet of the widest social tn sorists, and tossed
in brain far too active for the patient solution
of social and political problems. He is at the
mercy of schemers and plotters who trade on
his vast influence for their own personal
ends, and if he were listened to seriously he
might soon throw away in council all that he
has gained by the sword. But as a man of ac-
tion he has more than once shown himself ir-
resistible. Hiss is the faith that Overcomes OBJ
stacles by sheer force of will coupled with sim
geneSS OF purpose and with strange magnet
ic influence which has shown itself so potent
in all his enterprises.
The Empress Elizabeth OF Austria begins
her days work and her amusement with a cup
she goes to the stable to see her hunting pets
then she receives her steward and makes ar
rangements as to presentations. interviews,
etc. AT l she takes a beetsteak and a couple
of glasses of Hungarian wine, after which her
lady .in-waiting tells her the news and reads to
her paragraphs from divers newspapers. She
dimes at six and then dons her riding-habit and
goes to the large circus which is connected by
a covered passage with her private apartments.
trains him with wonderful skill and bodness.
When some animal unusually wild and spir-
tied is to be conquered, few appreciative
guests are invited to come and look on at the
daring Empress's proceedings.
The other day the door of the police clerk s
room in Montreal slowly opened and man re-
nowned in sporting circles entered to make a
complaint. He was shabbily dressed, his face
and figure meagre, and he showed signs of dis
sipation and suffering. This was none other
than Jim Ward, at one time the crack shot of
the world. He beat Bogardus and Payne in a
championship match, and carried all before
him for years. One of his arms is off
at the elbow and he used to shoot
over the stump. Now he is without friends
and is dead broke. He once had plenty of
money and unlimited credit. He held the
same position in the sporting world that Han
Ian docs now. To-day he is pauper. He
had charge against James Carroll for rob-
bing him of $4,000 add against his brother for
stealing from him $4,000. He hadn't money
enough to secure the costs, and was in a pitia-
BILE state generally.
A number of philanthropic women, with
Chief Justice Waite at their head, have asso-
ciated themselves together in a woman's relief
association, which is to be national in its ulti-
mate scope. The first active society under the
general association has just been organized in
New York city, and with practical good sense
begun its specific work, namely, that of pro-
viding the life-saving stations with a proper
supply of clothing for persons rescued
from ship wreck. The Government
makes no provision for this.
A young lady who says she is young and
handsome writes: "The man for me to love is
vastly my SUPERIOR man who will
compel my spirit to bend its knee to his; who
will command my soul to stand still and shine
on him, as Joshua commanded the sun; who
can trample my will to the dust" ect. She
should have no difficulty in finding such man
-one who will not only command her soul to
stand still, but who will also command its
owner to g up first in the morning to build
the fire, split kindlings and carry up coal, and
whose language will make her hair stand on
end when he comes home and finds dinner fif-
teen minutes late. There are lots of men who
will bend her spirit for her, and also make her
back bend over washtub while they go down
to the saloon and discuss the best method of
saving the country from the hands of its pollt-
ical enemies.-Norristown Herald.
The Princess Louise, it is again declared,
will not return to Canada and it is added that
the Princess. who is frankness itself, makes no
secret of the disappointment to which she has
been subjected in herjendeavor to throw little
refinement into the tone and manners of the
Canadian Viceregal Court. The Princess who,
was always regarded as the artist of the Royal
family, finds herself completely isolated from
all artistic life at Ottawa. On her return from
Germany the Princess did not go to Balmoral
but to her flther-in laws at Inverary, and
while she was there saw no one but her BROTH
er, Prince Leopold, who is devoted to her.
He is said to have been much troubled by the
difference in the family brought on by the
PrincessS resolution not to return to this Con-
tinent, and is supposed to have visited her to
induce her to go to her mother at Balmoral.
The committee of the American Board ol
Foreign Missions was waited upon at the Con
gregational Building yesterday, by a stranger
to all present, who, after expressing his JOY
that Mr.. Garfield was to be the President oi
the country for the next four years. suggested
that he wished to manifest his thankfulness by
presenting SZOUU 10 tne American DOarQ. Wltn
that he took otu roll of bills and counted out
the $4,000. One of the gentlemen inquired
"What name shall we place with this gener-
Gus gift?" 1T is of no consequence" was the
reply. "But it would be favor to give prop.
er credit for the gift" "Well," replied the
gentleman, after pause, ''you can credit it to
a Massachusetts man, or perhaps Western
man. "But we should prefer to give it some
more distinctive lcredit " added member
''Oh, see," responded the generous giver;
"put it down as coming from an old friend Of
Cyrus Hamlin. You can acknowledge it in the
Missionary Herald. And now 1 think of it,
he added, 'why not suggest in your columns
that the business men of the country should
make a free-will offering to your funds as ex
pressive of their gratitude. will be one of 90
to make the gift $5O,OOO." With this "and
nothing more" he quietly withdrew.-Bostor
Herald.