Little Falls transcript., 1885-01-30
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peraonal Matter.


Personal Matter.
s The most juvenile jjt,,pe divorce suit yet re-
ported has been instituted id Philadel-
phia. Melissa Amelia Evens, whosls
only IA years old, wants To belreleased
from her marriage with 1 Smith r.
Rhodes, not yet q, on TIE ground that
she does not know what she married
him for, that heS deceived her in stating.
that he owned brick house, whereas
hewass q ibricklayer's apprentice, re-.
coiving only Sc week. and that since
the Ceremony e5has cruel treated her
and not given her enough to eat. Tt is
too bad that she has found that the
blessed institution known as natrimony
is such sham and fraud.
Mr.. Gladstone generally dresses
plainly, but, like thajaloe, blooms once
il the hundred years or SO. When that
event occurs the splendor Of his bios
soming calls for detailed record. On
his first drive into sEdinburg ii from Dal-
many-the morning was bright and
sunny-he flashed upon the town like
ray Of light, and sat among his sombre
companions like bird of paradise inl an
ayiary Of iackdaws, clothed g. like Ten
ny;ssons party in thepool, "sin white sa-
mite" or what might have been coat
of that material his waistcoat was also
white, his trousers aloyely layender, bis
tie the hue of The pale primrose, while
in his buttonhole he sported q rose
larger, than d ;canliaow'er, but less in
size than drumhead cabbage. Add to
this hat of yeritables white, not the
dubious drab which is the common wear,
but as white as whitewash, and you
have tho figure which showed in the
Scotch capital as tie sun in Turner's
sea pieces shows from, surrounding
clouds.
Carlyle's portrait of Webster, has been
printed already, but the following ver-
sion of it is somewhat new: II will
warrant him one Of The stitffest logic
buffers and parliamentary athletes any.
where to be met With ina our.S world at
present-a grim, tall, broad -bottomed,
yellow skinned, m an,. with abrows like
precipitolls cliffs, and huge, Black, dull:
wearied, yet UNIV eariable7looking eyes
under them; anorphous projecting
nose, and the angriest shut mouth l
have anywhere seen. A droop on, the
sides of the;upper;hp is quite >mastiff-
like-magniicent to look upon; it is SO
quiet withal. 4 guess I should like i'll
to be that mans nigger However, he
is right clever man in his way, and
has husky sort of fun in him too;
drawlss in a. handfast tdidactic manner
about 'our republic institutions,'' &C.,
and so'playss. his part &et3s 1
In view of Arthur Orton's release,
October "a, one Of his friends has set
tied upon him q life annuity Of e100,
in hopes Of keeping him. from exhibit
ing himself on the stage, as he has
threatened Exchange. Ii some Of
the friends of the numerous ambitious
lady operatic and theatrical amateurs
would do the same for those stage
crazed females, q grateful public will
hold ti1em id kind remembrance. re f%
Many of the principalcities of France
sent workmen aouts to America TO visit
the Boston exposition. Marseilles
among the number voted {, ,0O0f to di-
vide amongst three delegates. It now
appears that the latter group, instead
of embarking for America, stayed in
Paris as q more preferable alternative
than crossing the Atlantic and making
excursions TO- Boston. One of the del-
egates, it is assured, is so charmed with
the capital that he still remains with.
IN its boundaries.
There are .rumors Of hard feeling
among the principals of the Emma
Abbott opera con- company, PAN because thaman-
agement will not allow them to sing in
italian. Sig Campobella (who is a Mr..
CampbelD Sig Fabrini ,{who IS d Mr..
Smythe), and Mile. Laura Bellini (who
is Miss Woolwine) are particularly out
Of sorts, and are said to seriously con-
template leaving the Abbott organiza-
ton and setting up grand italian op-
era companysof their own. Mr.. Charles
Pratt, one ofthe managers of the opera
company, tells us that the craze to sing
in italian is not onfined to the princi-
pals of the troupe, but extends to the
chorus singers. "We have" says he,
"a Miss Dusenberry, from :SsP Pel1am,
Mass, d Mr. Swartwout, from aberdeen,
Conn. "a Mr. .Beanb loom, from Bain bridge
N. Y, and Mr.. Checkerbury, from
Walpole, VT, who had never been out
side their native villages and never sang
in nything but ySabbath-school con-
certs and cantatas bef ore they joined us
this season, yet they bothertus continu-
ally with their, opportunities to be al
uadatn nr.;n u Itol;a1a- - Z. ; !.