The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

The long literary partnership between
Henri Meilhac and Ludovic HALEY gave
rise to many misconceptions as to the
share of each in the works they produced
"Meilhac," says the Saturday Review,
with his mercurial temperament, his
utter absence of conventionality, his
fondness for practical joking, and above
all. his ready-somewha too ready-biting
wit, was generally credited with having
contributed the greater part of the bril-
liant and quaint conceit, and so forth.
Halyey who looks like a Hebrew prophet
as we imaigne Isaiah or Ezekiel to have
been and who is, in fact very serious,
was supposed to have conceived and elab-
GRATED the plots The very reverse was
the case. As rule, the plot originated
with the restless man, the topsy turvy
dialogue with the sedate and imperturbed
one."
1t is said in Virginia that one Grand
Army post in Pennsylvania has expressed
disapproYal of the proposition to give
Col John S. Mosby a political office I'M
der the present National Administration,
but that some of the most prominent and
influential Grand Army men in the
United States are in favor of granting
Col. Mosby's application.
David B. Hill is an ardent admirer of
the National game, and spends many of
his spare moments in watching contests.
Senator Mason recently asked Senator
Nor gan, of Alabama, how long he could
talk on subject of which he knew abso-
lutely nothing. "Well,'' answered Nor
gan, with smile, "if it was a matter
about which knew absolutely nothing,
10 81 .ix.1- III tt,or, txrn
days."
Captain Eli A. Kahler, of Detroit, who
enlisted during the Civil War as drum
mer boy, and was mustered out Cap
tain, will soon be rewarded with gold
medal by special act of Congress g
William Allen Butler, the chief pro-
moter of the latest great transcontinental
railway scheme. in which three big trunk
lines figure, is the man who in antebellun
times created the famous Flora Nc
Flimsey in the celebrated poem, Moth
ing to Wear" Mr.. Butler is now a sue
cesswful lawyer in New York.
Lieutenant Colonel D. L. Huntington,
Deputy Surgeon General, U. S. A., will
sail this week for Europe to attend the
sessions of the International Medical Con-
gress, to which he is delegate, at Mos
cow, commencing August 49,. DR.. Hunt
ington will read q paper on the UNITED
States Army Medical Museum and
Library"
Russell Sage has not, within the mem
DRY of the Oldest broker, taken vacation
during the hot weather.
Senator Mills owns 1000 acres of the
richest oil territory newly discovered in
Texas.
Senator Hansbrough, Of South Dakota
who is soon to marry Miss Mary Chap
man, is one of the men who took Horace
Greely's advice and went West and grew
up with the country. He was born in
Illinois and moved from there to Cali
fornia and then to South Dakota.
Colonel David b. Henderson the we'll
known Iowa Congressman, will be COM
PEELED to have one of his legs amputated
at the knee joint. Colonel Henderson
was shot In the left foot at Corinth and
the leg was then amputated as the ankle,
but has troubled him ever since,
President Mckinley, by going up into
the tower of his hotel, can look into
Queen V.ctorias dominion to the north
ward. catch glimpse of the White Noun
tains far to the eastward, look directly
upon the big chain of the Green Noun
tains near at hand in Vermont, and then
to the westward can survey all the giants
of the Adirondacks-Mt. Marcy, Mcintyre
and Whiteface.
Ex-senator Mcconnell, who has just
been appointed Indian Inspector, has had
a varied career in politics. When he went
TO the United States Senate as the first
representative.in the body of the new
State Of Idaho he at once took an active
part in shaping legislation, and spoke
often in debate. 1t is said that his dis
regard for the customs Of the Senate in
this respect disugsted Senator Edmunds
and caused that veteran legislator to re.
tire to private life. Mr.. Mcconnell has
been by turns miner, stock raiser, mer-