The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-22
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Gossip
About Men and Women.

The Rev. DIR. Cuyler, in recent "reminiscences
as to Carlyle, mentioned that he heard him say,
''I wad like to see America. Ye may talk
about your Dimocraey or any other 'cracy, or
any Kind OF poleetical rubbish, but the secret
OF happiness In America is that We have gat a
vast deal of land for very few people,"
A Cincinnati man has been arrested simply
because he beat his three-year-old step-daugh-
ter with barrel stave In order to teach her
not to forget to say her prayers. They don't
seem to care for religion in the Paris Of
America.
The Homo Journal tells this rather good
story: A young, well-trained English girl
said to Newport swell, "You passed me
to-day without bowling to me; you frequently
do so." He answered, 81 beg your pardon;
that is impossible. / touched my whip to nv
hat to-day as usual" "Oh, do you cali that a
mark of recognition" she replied, elevating
her eyebrows slightly. 81 was in ignorance OF
the existence of such a custom excepting be-
tween men,"
The late Fernando Wood was six feet high
spare, and as straight as an arrow. His hair
was gray, and he wore a moustache as white as
snow. He had pale complexion, regular fea-
lures, and blue eyes. In his youth he was a
remarkably handsome man. He was married
three times, and leaves a wife and four chill
dren.
Prince Napoleon (Plon-Plon) is credited with
most modest and contented mind. "How
can want" he is reported to have said re-
Gently, "to be anything more in France and
Europe than 1 am now?" Am l not Bona
parte? Am | not also the son-in-law of the
great Victor Emanuel, the liberatJr and uni
Ter OF Italy?"
Lord Campbell fell in love for the first time
at forty-one, and though rejected wrote to a
friend: 81 can only say with Gibbon that
feel dearer TO myself for having been capable
OF this elegant and refined passion"
Michael Davitt is said to be strikingly hand
some. His height is about five feet, eight
inches, and he has slight, compact figure
His complexion is fresh and clear, with dark,
closely-cut hair and dark eyes, and he wears a
mustache and small side whiskers. His spare,
high forehead and clear-cut features give him
an intellectual. thoughtful appearance.
The streets OF Paris are becoming more and
more impracticable for the promenades of
modest girls. should they chance to be pretty
and styl;sh-looking. do not mean at undue
hours of the evening, or even after dusk. Men
well dressed and with the bearing and outward
aspect of gentlemen, will follow any young la
dy, no matter how protected, will stare at her,
whisper insulting compliments in her ear, and
otherwise indulge in annoying and insulting
manifestations.-Mrs Lucy II. Hooper.
Major Ben Perley Poore, the "father" of the
reporters gallery, went to Washington in
1927. He was born in Georgetown, now known
as West Washington, and he was very young
when he began in the national legislature to
report the news Of the Capital for New York
newspaper. He has lived in Washington al
most constantly ever since. he has very dis
tinct recollection of every Inauguration from
the time of John Quincy Adams.
The following is a en.picture of the Baron
ess Burdett- -Coutts: She is tall and graceful,
and has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Her
energy and vitality are extraordinary, and
when she is well, she defeats her age by doz-
en- years. Her hands are very small and deli
cate and have been modelled as specimens of
perfect beauty. She usually dresses in dark
velvet or silk of a well chosen and subdued
color. She wears no headdress in the morning
but in the evening she is to be seen in an An
got cap. She has an abundance Of most rare
and costly jewelry, but she rarely makes any
display OF it on her person. Occasionally she
wears tigers claw richly set, as pendent to
the gold chain round her neck. 1t was pre-
sented to the baroness by Sir Garnet Wolseley,
and she values it highly. The baroness is a
good horsewoman, and is fond of exercise, and
walks with an elasticity that many younger
woman might envy.