MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 3666, 21 November 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A lady correspondent writes from London to the ‘Australasian’:—“The taste for silver ornaments has almost reached the mania I have seen several of the new designs from Thornhill’s, which are very pretty and ingenious, but of the last conceivable inutility. A belt has been made for Lady Sebright, at a cost of 30l) guineas, which is the handsomest i have seen, and has created quite a sensation at Wiesbaden, where she is, as usual, the best uresie I woman in society. This belt is mounted on blue velvet, and consists of clasps and bosses of chased silver of quite marvellous workmanship. From it are suspended by exquisitely wrought chains more breloqus (toys, gewgaws) than I could count, and all in the same precious metal, and wi ought in the same artistic and perfect style. A revolver in its silver case, a dagger, a scissors-case, a tnany-bladed knife, a thimble-case, four smelling bottles—including salts-flagon and vinaigrette—a compass, a corkscrew, a hand mirror, two combs, a pencil-case, a notebook, a purse, a cigarette-case and matchbox a paper-knife, a watch, an almanac, pincushion, and drinking-flask are among the trifles with which X can charge my memory that are suspended from this amazing girdle. The beauty of the workmanship, and the grace of the forms are truly admirable. I have also seen some beautiful designs for keys; the prettiest are in the shape of flowers, the stem forming the key. The imitation of flowers in frosted silver, andinoxydked silver, for dress trimmings, is one of the latest, most expensive, and least successful fashions of the day. The last of the noble blades of this season, the young Gountess of Pembroke, wore a dress for her “goin<r away, which was trimmed, as were the mantle and bonnet, with heart’s-ease in oxydised silver, ‘ J

American papers state that a Mr Hepner of Reading, Pennsylvania, who is not sixty years old, has been the father of forty-one children. He married in Germany in 1840 and his wife, in the eight years she lived' bore him seventeen children— twins twice and triplets fonr times ; bat not one of the seventeen are living. His second wife, also a German, in her nine years of married life had fifteen children, twins being born five times in succession ; only two of the fifteen are now living. In 1858, having emigrated to the United States, be married a third wife, by whom he had nine children; only three of them are now living, Bo’ that thirty-six of the forty-one children have died.-‘The Times.’

Golfers will be interested in the following account (from the ‘ Fie'd ’), of a foursome lately played on St. Andrew’s Links, N B • “Thursday, (August 20th) witnessed a most exciting and interesting golf foursome arranged we understand by the Hon. John Kollo, and several other gentlemen at present residing in the ancient uty. The combatants were Jamie and Davie Strath, against Tom Morris, sen. and jun. The game, which was for L2O a-side, consisted of two rounds thirty-six holes. Play began. at half-past eleven o clock, in presence of a large and fashionable assemblage, many of whom had come a considerable distance. Jamie led off with a beautiful swipe, followed by one equally as good from old Tom. The first hole fell to Anderson and Strath, who, however, lost the second hole, being twice badly bunkered ; they continued thus to give and take, and. at the end hole Anderson and tdroth stood out up in the home coming. The Morrises were unfortunate, and their opponents gradually worked a-head, and the first round ended in their favor by three holes. After an hour’s interval for luncheon play was recommenced, the spectators being largely increased. The sire and son were in better form, and in the outgoing took three holes against one gained by the opponents, and the other five being halved, the lead which Anderson and Strath had accquired in the opening round was thus reduced to one homeward bound. Both sides exerted their utmost for the mastery, and the match was repeatedly squared. So close had the contest come that neither side secured more than one hole of an advantage, at the dykehole the game was squared, and, the second last hole being halved, the excitement grew intense, victory depending upon the play of the end or final hole, In playing out Anderson and Strath had the advantage, and Jamie the hole, and thus the match, but only by a single > ut. woman’s waltzing ways. A Put-m-Bay correspondent of the Cincinnati ‘Times’ furnishes the following lively description of the style in which girls from different States and localities waltz, as shown by the hops at that pleasant resort : “People may say that a waltz is a waltz, but it is a mistake, as much as to say that a dog is a dog, for there are dogs and dogs, and there are waltzes and waltzes. With one person it is the poetry of motion ; with another it is about as awkward a performance as putting yourself upon a level and going through the motion of running upstairs would be. A Kentucky girl is a natural waltzer, and she does it with, a charming chic and abandon. An Ohio girl’s waltz is exsy graceful, and ‘melodious,’ If she happens to come from Cincinnati, and across the Rhine, she swings dreamily round and round in the endless ‘Hutch waltz.’ If sbe comes from Chicago, she throws her hair back, jumps up and cracks her heels together, and carries off her astonished partner as though a simoon had struck him, and knocks over all intervening obstacles in her mad career around the room. If she is from Indiana she creeps closely and timidly up to her partner, as though she would like to get into his vest pocket, and melts away with ecstasy as the witching strains of the ‘ Blue Danube ’ sweep through the hall. If she is from Missouri, she crooks her body in the middie like a door-hinge, takes her partner by the shoulders, and makes him miserable in trying to hop around her without treading on her i\o. 9 shoes. If she comes from Michigan, she astonishes her partner by now and then working in a touch of the double shuflle or a bit of piveon wing, witn the waltz step; and if she comes from Arkansas, she throws both arms round bis neck, rolls up her eyes as she floats away, aud is heard to murmur ‘ Oh, hug me, John !’ ” ’