LADIES’ GOSSIP.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5197, 17 November 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

LADIES’ GOSSIP.

The niece of a.peer has just married the sou of a road laborer, who had succeeded in raising himself to the position of a banker’s clerk. The scene of the alliance was a certain ancient little town, in the west of Lancashire. , When a Brooklyn boy sees a young lady who has improved upon nature by the application of art, and whose face is a picture fresh from the hand of the painter, he nudges his companion, and shrewdly exclaims : “ Jim, she’s only a chromo.” Mdlle. Titiens has recovered to some extent from the effects of another operation which was performed recently, although at onetime she had become so low as to give rise to great anxiety. Messages of inquiry have been received from the Queen, the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, &c. , Indianapolis is. agog over the elopement of the youngest daughter of John H. Hill, a prominent citizen, with Dr, J, W. Younge, a noted renegade and bigamist, recently out of the Illinois State Prison, where he had been con-, fined for forgery. The infatuated girl wrote a nonchalant letter to her father for his forgiveness, which she seemed to expect as a matter of course, but the stern parent : advertises to the public that he utterly repudiates her and casts her off. , • The following singularadvertisement appears 'in a Yorkshire newspaper, :—“ Two young gentlemen are desirousof forming the ae-. quaiutancp of two ladies of, means, age about 22, who will bo agreeable to, accompany them on short trips, on Sundays, payin'] their own expenses. A, strict privacy and honor will be observed by them concerning replies ; attenr tiou will only bo given to those sending bona fide names and addresses. Replies, may -bo. sent singly or in couples.” ; . An accomplished and charming young lady was married,by ; her parents, to an old man, who was as disagreeable as he was rich. Grief and melancholy soon brought her to the edge of the grave. . As she lay at the point of death, she resolved, to leave all her little savings, amounting in all to'about, £IOOO, to a young friend, in order, as she said in her, will, that the latter^more fortunate than herself, might, he able to marry the man of her choice. And what did the . young .legatee, dp, but, after ,a decent interval, marrythe old widower. , A -humorous, friend, of ours (says an ex-; change) used to he particularly enthusiastic on the classic subject of osculation. He declared thatthere were few “ sciences” ah difficult of acquisition. “People," said he, “will kiss;

yet not one in a hundred knows how to extract bliss from a pair of lovely lips any more than he knows how to make diamonds from charcoal.” He used to relate bis experience of a good-night’s kiss, imprinted on the bps of his inamorata after having escorted her to and from a New England forfeit party, where the poor girl, being the belle of the evening, had been kissed, and, as he expressed himself, “slobbered over by all and sundry. He declared that in one chaste salute he could discriminate “nine distinct aud separate flavors, , namely, “onions, tobacco, peppermint, gin, la«er beer, brandy, musk, and camphor.” 'There is, after all, no country like Ireland for original ideas. Who but an Irishman would have thought of having a torpedo exploded in honor of a bride % In a recent number of the Queen, at the marriage of A. Hamilton Duttrie, Esq., 8.N., to Mias Agnes Batt. when the happy couple started for their wedding trip, they were rowed across Lough Swilly iu a coastguard boat, the bride, having pressed an electric clock-work machine in connection with a torpedo, which had been placed at some distance from the shore, the projectile exploded, transforming the dark waters of the lake into a fairy fountain for the nonce. This, it is presumed, was meant as a delicate hint to ithe bridegroom—who is a naval officer—-that he might be blown up literally in a professional way, as well as figuratively in a matrimonial sense. It is confessed that a naval man, and therefore liable to be torpedoed at any monient, should prefer not to be reminded of one’s too possible end on the wedding day. Silver jewelry has been aud continues quite the rage, aud the earrings made in this metal are certainly more artistic than their golden brethren, which seldom include the delightfully graceful and becoming “tassel” earrings, of which there are so many various patterns iu silver. The lighter the workmanship of silver, the more becoming are the ornaments. Very pretty designs are daisies looped together by the stalks, a necklet of looped silver daisies, to match with pendant of one large marguerite ; or silver fuchsia bells, with necklet of fuchsia leaves, and pendant of two or three blossoms. Filigree jewelry in gold and silver is becoming fashionable again; but, though inexpensive, it so easily gets broken .or discolored that it can scarcely be considered good value. Beyond the Atlantic, fashion has declared in favor of silver, shell, and onyx jewelry. In the former bangles still retain Jieir place more than ever, covered with. ; dangling ornaments. ; These sometimes are made of French gilt ; others have pretty little, - pencils attached, . making them not only useful but ornamental. —British Trade Journal. The Future Queen op Spain. Princess Mercedes, Ring Alfonso’s future bride, has been very strictly educated by the Duo de Montpensier, and carefully protected from the evil influences of Queen Isabella’s Court. She is always simply dressed in black, ; and has never indulged her admirers with bird a eye views of the awanlike expanse of neck and shoulders, which, Punch says, need but one more struggle to emancipate themselves entirely from the trammels of dress. She possesses much firmness of disposition, aud very different tastes to those of her mother and sister-in-law. Since the marriage has been practically decided on, the Princess of Asturias has been sulking with her brother, and singing and playing the most dismally lugubrious ditties and nocturnes mdancholiques.—London Examiner. . ■