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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 57, 9 March 1868, Page 2

' How heavily you walk !' exciaimed a watchful spouse on hearing her husband tumble up stairs late at night. ' Well, my dear,' was the gruff response, 'if you can get a whiskey barrel up stairs with any less noise, I should like to see you do it.' A good story is related ot the Emperor Francis Joseph, who is well known at Vienna to dislike the present exaggerated decollete style so fashionable amoiig ladies belonging to the great world. A certain Princess X was the star of Vienna during two successive seasons. Her features were not in strict accordance with the classic line of beauty, but, en revanche, her neck aud shoulders were faultless — only one saw somewhat too much of them. One evening at a court ball the Princess's costume was all but innocent of any corsage, and the little tbat her dressmaker had added to her skirts was not particularly useful, as tbe lady complained of cold and constantly shivered, and as she passed the Emperor, shrugged ber lovely shoulders completely out of this lilliputian corsage, saying, 'I ara so cold — b-r-r-r!' The Emperor beckoned to one of the equerries in waiting, and gave him an order. 'In a few seconds he reappeared with the Princess's : opera cloak, which ihe Emperor took from him and quietly placed on tbe shoulders of the fair frilleuse.