The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-12-23
Gossip
About Men and Women.

We take pleasure in passing along the gal
liant reply Of a husband who was told by lady
in the presence of his wife, that his wife was
spelling him: "She has right to spoil what
belongs entirely to herr
Boston has new charge to make agains,
Mrs. Langtry. At dinner in public restau !.
rant she tilted back in a chair and rocked her.
self took off her hat and PLAYED with the featb-
ers, and used her knife and fork in gesticulat-
ing.
The widow of Chief Justice Hardin. of
Kentucky, has been found living in the ut
most restitution in a room in an abandoned
hotel in Louisville. About her only means
| OF subsistence is the sum of seven dollars a
month, which she receives as the rent of a
house IN the country given her by the Ken
| lucky bar.
| George Conklin, the lion-tamer, says that his
only invariable rule of action is to keep his
| eyes upon the eyes of the animal 'sThere'-
one kind of animal, " ne adds,-..I will not per-
form with, and that's a cross-eyed one; for he's
like cross-eyed woman; you can't tell wheth-
or she's flirting with you or with the man on
the other side of the street."
A prominent legal gentleman of New York
met Oscar Wilde at dinner night or two
since, and asked him what his real opinion of
New York was. now that he had lived there
nearly year. "Well, sir" said Mr.. Wilde
formed, and it is that it is very good place for
one to stop fer dinner ON ones way to Yoke
hama
"Oh! why don't you name your beautiful
little dog Lilly Langtry?'" asked Oscar Wilde
of New York belle. Because" murmursd
the young lady, This name is jack
Mr.. John g. SAKE, the poet, still resides in
Albany, at the home of his son, and is an in
valid. The disease from which he suffers is
neuralgia, affecting the great nerve centres.
and accompanied by chronic dyspepsia. The
result is considerable physical pain and de-
gree of emaciation. AS exaggerated statements
have been made concerning the gentIeman's
condition, it is well that the facts be thus cor
rectly given 1t should be added that no i'm
pairment OF mental strength is Characteristic
or consequence of the disease, and that. of
course, the reports abont Mr.. SAKE having extr
perlenced softeping of the brain have no foun
dation in fact. The poet reads Regularly but
feels lndisposed to writing; snll. in couversa-
ton, his logic, fancy and analytic abilities are
SHOWN TO be as marked as at any time. His
many friends and admirers, regretfing 10 learn
OF MS Illness, will, nevertheless, be gratifed to
know that the impressi MS concerning any dis
oroer or decay OF the mind of the sufferer are
The Philadelphia papers generally confirm
the Judgment of unprofessional critics-that
Mrs. Langtry is less of beauty and more of
an actress than she has been reputed to be.
The handwriting of Governor-elect Cleveland
completes for illegibility with that of the late
Horace Greeley.
.Aprcpos of civil service reform, the follow
ing story is told: A young relative once went
to Chief Justice Chase to ask him for govern
ment place. "I'll give you half dollar to
buy an axe" answered the chief justice, but
| won't get you government Office I've
ruined two or three young men that way, and
| don't expect to ruin any more"
They say that Ben Buffers wrinkles are fill
ing up, and that he is renewing his youth at
the fountain of gratifed ambition. If elected
president his gray hair would probably disap-
pear, and his form return to its proportions Of
thirty.