The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-11-20
Gossip
About Men and Women.

Curious chance brought face to face the 9TH
er day two famous persons, who had not met
before for many years, nor, perhaps, wished to.
The Due d'Aufnsle was going from Chantilly
to Paris, and as usual retained a private COM
partment in the train. Going to the train and
seeing a carriage marked reserved" he
took for granted that it was his own and
entered, only to find it occupied by two ladies.
With an exclamation of surprise he was about
to turn TO the guard for an explanation when
he recognized the supposed intruders as the
ex-Empress Eugenie and the Duchess de Mou-
chy, who were on their way to the death bed
of General Ney. The Due bowed and hastily
Withdrew in confusion, TO find his own COM
partment elsewhere.
Sir Garnet wolsely is fond, like Napoleon,
of addressing himself directly to the soldiers
under his command. "Now, my man." he
said, ''if you were told to tighten your kit by
half pound, what would you throw away?"
"The Soldiers Pocket Companion" an
swered the man, as he respectfully saluted his
commander.
When Hester Clymer was defeated for gov
ernor in 1866, D. T. H. Sheetz of Pottstown
registered vow to buy or use no more tobacco
until a Democrat was elected governor of
Pennsylvania. For sixteen years he and the
W6eQ were strangers, Dub laSb wednesday
morning he nearly bought out an entire tobac-
co shop. hinging the stock promiseuously
among his friends.
Charles I. Vansant, who was killed on the
Pennsylvania railroad the other evening, was
the hero of one of the most gallant episodes of
the late war. He bore the colors of his
regiment at Balls Bluff, and when, during a
desperate charge, his colonel was shot, he bore
him from the field, and then returned, amid
hail of bullets, to rescue the flag. Five times
was it captured by the rebels aud regained BY
a hand to hand struggle. AT last he broke
away with the flag and reached the river. His
enemies were at his very heels, bat he plunged
into the water, dived to the bottom, placed The
flag there under stone, and then swan to the
other shore and escaped. AfCerward he re-
visited the spot and succeeded in finding and
restoring to the regiment the flag he had
SO desperately defended.
Mrs. Margaret j. Preston, the well-known
Southern writer, sister-in-law of the late Gen
eral "Stonewall' jackson, is an untiring col
lector of curiosities. She has in her. parlor
what is said to be the first alpenstock ever
carried by an American to the top of Mont
Blanc, and q large picture, entirely composed
of woven spider webs, which at a distance can
not be distinguished from steel engraving.
Amadeus, Due 'Aosta, brother of the King
of Italy, and for couple of years King Of
Spain, is soon to marry the Princess Theresa, q
cousin Of King Louis of Bavaria. Amadeus
has been a widower since 1876.
Tue Duke of Newcastle, who is spending
few days in Boston, is grandson of the Duke
of Newcastle who was here in the suite of the
Prince of Wales, and Is but eighteen years old
After few days stay in Boston he will visit
and from thence to California. His tour is one
for observation, as well as for pleasure and
he~lth. He succeeded to the dukedom on the
death of his father, Feb %, 1879.