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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 758, 3 February 1870, Page 3

Within a very short time five young women in Louisville, Illinois, have been seriously poisoned by the use of imported face-powder containing lead. In each ease the cosmetic caused paralysis. Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, according to the Court Journal, gets £SOO from " Macmillan" for her artiole on Byron, besides the sum she is said to have received from the " Atlantic Monthly " for an article on the same subject which appeared at the same time. Disraeli has recently been quoted as an authority on evening dress. Here is what the ex-premier says on the subject: "Evening dress is a style of costume sanctioned by society for enabling ladies to display their natural beauties with a pro* fusion worthy of a Grecian statue." Mb J. R. Seeley, Professor of Latin in University College, London, ha 3 been appointed to the chair of Modern History at Cambridge, vacant by the resignation of Canon Kingsley. Professor Seeley, it is understood, though never authoritatively stated, is the author of Ecce Homo, the book which created a good deal of contro" versy some time ago. The Telegraph con» aiders that Mr Gladstone has done a bold act in miking this appointment. Ifc is no longer any secret that Mr Seeley is the author of Ecce Homo 5 and in the opinion of Lord Shaftesbury, Ecce Homo is " the most mischievous book that was ever vomited out of the jaws of Hell." The Fashionable High-heeled Boots, —The Lancet, in an article on this subject, remarks that " the custom of wearing high boot-heels, and those, too, so much smalierthun the actual heel of the wearer as ta afford.no solid support, but only a balanc-ing-point, is a source of much mischief, because it throws the centre of gravity of the body so far forward that a free and gracefully erect carriage is impossible, and there being no support to the heel, ladies are very apt to twist the ankle suddenly by overbalancing themselves j and then the effect of driving the foot constantly forward into the toe of the boot is to produce a very ugly and painful distortion of the great toe-joint."