CHIT-CHAT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 25 March 1881, Page 4

CHIT-CHAT.

A French woman cannot bring a suit for divorce without the consent of her husband.

To remove coffee stains, brush the coffee stains with glycerine, and wash out witli warm water.

At a bazaar in England £10 was given for a rose which had been in the fair grasp of the Princess of Wales.

It is rumoured in London society that there has been a serious rupture between the Queen and the Princess Louise. The most "romantic" reasons are given for the family jar.

The friends of Mrs Cross (George Eliot) are considering a suggestion that Dean Stanley be asked to permit the interment of the remains of the dead authoress in Westminister Abby. The Prince of Wales has entered upon his fortieth year. His royal and imperial mother is now in her sixty-second year, and has reigned forty-three years. Mrs Garfield, wife of the American President, refuses to have her face Photographed or engraved. Mrs Garfield assisted at the White House by a will be - '" lady of rare character and young English ... accomplishments. '-ivinces are Lady huntresses in French px-. - - c more numerous this year, inspired by - example of President Grevy's daughter, who is as devoted to sport as her father. Semi-masculine garb is adopted, consisting of black cloth Breton trousers, made very wide, and reaching below the knee, where they are met by high buckskin boots ; long Louis XIII. jacket, ornamented with silver dogs' heads, and thrown open to show the waistcoat, fastened by similar canine buttons j a felt bonnet, caught up at one side by two large silver dogs' heads, and cuffs, collar, and frill of old Mechlin lace.