The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-02-23

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Denman Thompson when at hotels often
registers as from Swanzy, N. II.
Judge Tourgee has not published anything
for several years, but new story is prom
ised shortly, entitled "Black lee"
Mrs. Frank r. Stockton does fully half of
her husbands work. She discusses all his
plots, writes at his dictation and frequently
adds portions of chapters. She Is i'll every
sense his chum as well as hepmat'.
The late Petroleum V. Nasty left an estats
worth million and half dollars The
world always pays more for the comic than
for The serious. Milton got $50 for Para
disc Lost" while Mark Twain received So
600 for "Innocents Abroad" Josh Billings
received $40, 000 for his magazine work atone
and his literary profits ran into the hundreds
of thousands.
1t is said that Hester Morris Of Wyoming
Territory was the first woman in the United
States ever appointed justice of the peace.
She was a tall woman. with profile which
closely resembled the portraits of Queen
Elizabeth. While she was in Office she was
terror to certain class of eyil-doers.
YES" the half-inebriated rough would
plead on his arrest, 'I'vo been beatin' my
wife again. know it; but don't send me
up fore Mis- Morris. rather so fore ten
men than that woman, rather be tried by
a man."
Great Britain at the forthcoming Woman's
Congress to be held in Washington between
March 20 and April /, is Mrs. Ashton w.
es,he. Mrs. Dixie is noT..oe al the art OF
lecturing. She has achieved well deserved
reputation in that line in her own country,
and ranks among the first of English lady
lecturers. She possesses good physical at
fractions, her delivery is good, her manner
fascinating in no ordinary. degree, and, be-
sides these personal qualities, which have
made her a fav0rite in society, she has ac-
quired considerable political experience.
Her husband was member of Parliament,
and brother of Sir Charles Dixie. As vir-
tual proprietor of the well known Radical
paper, the Weekly Dispatch, Mrs. Dixie
yields no small amount Of power and infu-
ence.
Mrs. Ole Bull has recently paid visit to
New York, and having been impressed with
the beauty Of the teakwood, ordered guam
tity of it. She has had designs made for a
mantel-piece and several doors, besides one
or two pieces of furniture, and these designs
are to be sent to China to be carved express
" for her. The wood will form a striking
feature of the drawing-room in the new
house she is building at Cambridge, Mass.
Another room, winch Sue calls ier NOrWe-
gian room, has all its wood decorations in
pine. Mr.. Thorpe and his wife, Mrs. Thorpe,
nee Longfellow, have just gone into their
new home at Cambridge, and are said to be
quite disconsoate at not having seen some of
the teak wood before finishing their house.
The New York Sun made very curious
mistake the other day. 1t printed two inter
esting descriptive articles, one on the sultan's
harem and the other on Trinity church. By
one of those strange and unaccountable per-
versities of inanimate objects the types of
the two accounts became mixed. The incon-
gruity that resulted is disclosed by the fol-
lowing excerpt from the harem article: "At
the Beiram feast the rose door of Paradise
opens, and the ladies of seraglso take place
in the long procession of carriages. Their
usual stir is heard near the door, as small
party appear They go direct to the clergy
room, where all but one seat themselves in
the nearest pews while he steps within A
few minutes later he reioins them, and a
moment afteward the Rev. Daniel /. 0dell,
another of the assistant ministers, makes his
appearance before the altar. He is in iull
clerical dress and bears an open prayer book
in his hand"