Brevities.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2836, 18 March 1878, Page 2

Brevities.

(FBOM AMBBICAXPAMIES ):

Krerjbody is afraid of Bismarck.' Er<erybodj was ooce afraid of Louis Napoleon. 1 It isn't true that King Humbert calls Garibaldi " Joe," and that Garibaldi calls His Majesty " Huns." . Gustare Dor 6 gare a reception a few weeks since in Paris, which was attended bj the Prince of Wales. The settlement of Edwin Adams' estate lesfes for the widow $15,000 in money and one of the two houses at Long Branch; The Princess Mercedes, judging from her authorised photograph, is rather too much like a fat school girl. The ex-Queen of Spain got only 160,000 for her pearl aud diamond necklace. There were 262 pearls and 40 diamonds, with a sapphire'clasp. '"■ X The Prince of Orange, who is spoken of as a possible husband for the Princess Beatrice of England, is thirty-eight years old and the fastest royal sprig in Europe. Wales would like to hare him in the family as an Awful Example. Joe Jefferson says that every man should put on the bright armour of truth. Perhaps ; but the majority of men prefer going around in their ordinary store clothes.

The problem, "Ii Life Worth Living f" , discussed in a recent article in the Contemporary Beview, is thought by Punch to be in a great measure, a question of the liver.

Four listers in Pawlet, Vt., were married in one day recently, and all went off together for their wedding trip. It seems superfluous to add that their Pawlet them. -

"The Turkish braid" is the latest novelty in hair-dressing, but the Busman girls say you can't pla-it on them. The Marquis of Lome recently gave an order in Paris for a diamond diadem coating 990.CC3, as a gift to his wife, the Princess Louise. - -> .

We know a lady who is exceedingly disliked by her servants, but as she if reldom at home she cannot be sojaueh domestic bated after all, eh t V ..-, After the declaration—" This is, per- l haps, not the first mitten you 'bar* received, Mr Brown?" "But petfaaps the first you have, ever given, Miss Smith." ■ .- .