MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 141, 23 July 1872, Page 5

MISCELLANEA.

The Princess of Wales has given up wearing a chignon. A Harvard student defines flirtation to be " attention without intention." Equal parts of linseed oil and lime water are invaluable rs a cure for a scald or burn, and every house should contain a bottle of the mixture ready for use. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says : "Women will not become men by external occupations. God's colours do not wash out. Sex is dyed in the wool." It is reported that a woman died recently in Indianopolis from the effects of the ravages of jute worms, which had entered her scalp from the jute chignons she had worn. Since Easter, Parisian modistes attire all ladies entirely in rose colour. One cannot wa'k ten steps hi the street without meeting with a 1 idy clothed from head to foot in soft shades of pink. The other day in Paris a young creature of sixteen had just left fc.ie vestry at the close of her marriage with an old man over seventy, w hen tiie latter was suddenly seized with an apoplectic fit, and foil down dead by the side of his terror-stricken bride. The carriage in waiting carried his cor] se to the bridal home he had furnished in the most extravagant style. This doting old man, who dreamt that a union could l.e happy between wrinkled old age and early jouth, left his widow a dowry of 400,000 francs on her bridal day. The daughter of the Welsh bard Jenan Ddu was married recently to the son of a shopkeeper at Hirwain, the bridegroom being in his 18th, and the bride in her 24th year. On account of this disparity of age the parents insisted on their separating ; a id the wife, in despair, threw herself into the Taff from a br.dge. The river having been swollen by late rams, and the current being very strong, she would probably soon have been drowned if a tine retriever dog, belonging to a gentleman in the neighbourhood, j had not leaped into the water, swam up to lur, and after a great struggle, succeeded in ; phie'ng her out of danger. Some curious dresses were worn at the ! late Carnival of Vienna. One lady repreI sented a French poodle. This dress was well ' conceived and carried out. An evening dress of white silk, covered with some s >fc stuff like fine wool, all in short airis, a wig of the , same falling on the uaek of the neek in rather I large curls ; the skirt of the dress only came | to the aiirde, round which was a ring of the (same curled wool, as also round the wrists, I the arms being left bare to represent the auij mal when shaved ; round the neck a diamond dog-collar necklace. Two other ladies ap I peared in shapeless dresses of a dusty mouldy | colour, over the whole of which were masses of ivy in all its different stages of growth, ■ from the oldest dead-looking bran/a to ths brightest and youngest shoots.