The Portland daily press., 1880-05-26
GOSSIP
About Men and Women.

Mtesa, monarch of wide region in Africa,
OF which Stanley has much to say in his book,
has sent six black ENJOYS to London, with the
African kings compliments to Queen Victoria,
requesting her to express to them her desire as
to the status of missionaries in his kingdom.
The ENJOYS also have orders to request a sup
ply OF rum and rifles, and as an inducement TO
their request being granted, to announce their
masters wish to embrace the Christian relig-
ion, provided he is permitted to retain the
worship of his idols-the great snake the lord
lion and the great elephant. With these slight
exceptions he is willing to become q good
Christian.
1t is said that many higher title has been
within the reach of the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts than the one she at present enjoys At
one time the gossips set about an absurd story
that she was going to be married to the Iron
Duke Of Wellington. The late Sir Robert
Inglis, wondering much at such rumor
bluntly asked the Duke if he had really Of
fered to marry her. 81 said," growled his
Grace-and his Grace growled awfully in his
last decade-'that she deserved to be duch-
ess; did not say l would make her one"
THE Duke should have said could not
would remarked the Baroness dryly, when
the queer story was repeated to her.
Robert Collyer saw Thoreau, the eccentric
Massachusetts, philosopher and naturalist, in
1861, and says he was rather slender man
but of fine mould, and with presence which
touched you with the feeling of perfect purity,
as newly opened roses do And it was a clear,
rose-tinted face he turned to you, delicate to
look at as the face of a girl and great gray
eyes, the seer's eyes, full of quiet sunshine. 1t
was strong face too, and the nose was espec-
tally notable, and his voice was low, but still
sweet of tone.
The last personal sketch of Mr. Gladstone
and his habits appears in the Paris Figaro,
which says: "When in office he is conserya-
tive and with the Catholics; when in opposi-
ton he is liberal and against the Catholics He
resides at his seat at Hawarden, which be-
longs to his second son. Mr.. Gladstone's son
s vicar of the adjoining parish. Mr.. Glad
stone leads the life of gentleman-farmer.
He rises early, and is very abstemious. He
chiefly eats fish, because that diet stimulates
the brain. He takes two glasses of Bordeaux,
because that wine is tonic of the cervical
matter. He takes one glass of port because
that is the orators wine. Mr.. Gladstone, it
will be seen, is logical even in his naodus riuen-
d. On Sundays he reads the lessons of the
Presbyterian rite at church. People go from
five leagues round to hear his fine sonorous
voice. Afterward he puts on his stout wooden
soled boots, with nails as big as those on old
Minister becomes wOod-cutter.
Thurman often appears to be distracted
while presiding in the Senate, starts off with
an Ger ah," asks the clerk, "What is it?'
and with another ser ah," puts the question.
After few weeks of practice he will conduct
business quite as well as almost any other Sem
ator could do, except as to rapidity. Nothing
but coal on his back could make him hurry.
Washington Letter.
The Princess Hussein Pasha, whose husband,
the youngest brother Of the present Khedive
of Egypt who exiled him, is in Naples, spends
her time in her palace among her slaves read
ing Zola and other French novelists. She is
-twantu-fnrr ues.s oIa, - -~s-y- charming. and
has fine voice. She is the only grand dame
who takes horseback exercise. She rides IN
the evening with her brother in the country
round about the pyramids, wearing an English
habit and Turkish veil. Her favorite room
is all gold and white, save where a blood-red
cashmere robe is thrown upon a divan. Her
chief eunuch is giant of seventy-four
A New York letter tells the following story
of Marimon: "She only accepted two or three
invitations while she was here, and one was at
the house of a wealthy widow who affects mu
sic. After the elegant dinner was over and the
party had returned to the parlor, the hostess
asked the prima donna to sing, in manner
that admitted of no refusal Indignant, but
while hesitating what to say (for she speaks
only few words of English), the sounds of
hand organ were distinctly heard from the
street. With dramatic gesture of he- hand
toward the window, Marimon said: Madame
will find out of door one who will make music
after she will give him dinner