LONDON GOSSIP.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 713, 11 January 1877, Page 3

LONDO N GOSSIP.

•S.he London cone poulent of tbe Melbourne Argna fur-nhen the following items of recmt g'> sip m the great meffcrop^ :— We are often told of the triumphs of .sconce, but prob*bly no persona commit at times more egregious mistakes than ■those who have tue ma ifcjemeut of .meohaucal Jindei takingn. There was very licde novae made cmcarning the . steam n'i for (Jnauuel traffic tint were built too large to get into' the harbord ; -and I dare\ay as li'tle will be made about xtt.M S. Penguin, for whijh a set of very 'nice engints have been built, it seema only <they are not to be got into her at all. The answer <tt the engineers m both cases was probably tbe sanu as that of the Yankee gentleman, who, boasting of the wonders of hi* great country, said that •oven the bees were aa large there as small birds m England. "But how, then*, inquired a sceptic, " do they co»fiive to .gee into the hivest?" "Oh, darn'em, that's their look out." i roineraoer, som* years ago, the marriage of a great umn with a great lady m 4his 6ountry making a considerable sensation. Tho bridegroom, Captain Batevan American, was s«ven ftset aud a half high, •and the bride, Miss Ann Swan, of Nova Scotia, an inch taller. She was rather pretty, except fora sudden receding ofjthe <chin, whioti gave her a foolish look, Some enterprising iuterviewer haa bean admitted rot-ilence m America, which ho |Ba* I desoribes :— lt is 30ft by 40ft, aud one sWy high. The rooms are JBft high, nnd no doorway les3 than Id t. Taeir btditeads are 14ft long, and Stt wide. Thair table is 4ft hign, and all -Other furniture m proportion." These aro really dimensions such a* we have not been familiar with since the days we read *»f • Jack the Grian* Killer.' A very, very wicked journal remarks on the large quantity of luggage belongiua to the Duchess of Edinburgh that is being shipped from Dovei to Calais, and Jntuta that it is a signal of what it calls a • judicious separation.'