GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLIII, Issue 6627, 18 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS.

throne on which the Queen sat"at the ) opening of the Liverpool Exhibition is offered for sale. As a work, of art, it is certainly a very second-rate affair) , but the receptacle which has once ' contained Boy alty has a value ie dependent 1 of mere intrinsic considerations. At the i opening of tbe law Courts, when the i Queen had left the hall, the company, , some of which was fairly select, literally , swooped down upon the very commonplace chair which had served as a throne, and ' half an hour after the ceremony there was a long guewe of people patiently waiting their turn to sit on the sacred spot. A new etory about a certain " representative Australian." He called recently at Higholere, Lord Carnarvon's seat, and and sent in his card—accompanied, if you please, by hia cartede-visite, which by the merest chance happened to be in his pocket at the time. And by one ot thoße unaccountable accidents which somehow or other do come off occasionally, he also Bad in his pocket a copy of the menu of the banquet given to him by an admiring public just before he left Australia. That he sent in too. What did Lord Carnarvon doP Why, Lord Carnarvon simply screamed with laughter, and told James to show him in. The death of the Marquis of Ailesbury raises to the peerage one of perhaps the most extraordinary specimens of hereditary rank that even recent days have seen (writes tbe London correspondent of the Liverpool Post). Lord Savernake, who now becomes the Marquis of Ailesbvuy, distinguished himself a few years ago ty constantly appearing in public as a costermonger. He wore the usual stiff cloth, j cutaway flash coat, with rather Large pearl buttons; the tight corduroy breeches, with bell bottoms j the gaudy gipsy neckerchief, and the small peaked cap in whioh the well-known London character disports, and he also drove a small cart of the coster type. Among his other idiosyncrasies was his marriage, when he selected .as the future Marchioness one of the young ladies whom Mr John Hollingshead nssd to produce in the burlesques of the Gaiety Theatre. An actress named Lottie Jackson was charged at the Westminster Police Court the other day with being dressed in male attire and with assaulting Amy Dumas in a railway carriage. Her explanation was that she had got herself in this scrape through jealousy. She suspected -the fidelity of the gentleman to whom she was engaged, and with the intention of following him, and seeing in what company he got, she assumed the garb of a male. She was so far successful that she discovered that her suspicions were well founded. Sfre found him paying attentions to two other young ladies, and followed him to the railway carriage where the fracas took place. Mr D'Eyncourt allowed her to be discharged. The eight hours' movement initiated in Newcastle some time ago is rapidly spreading over the kingdom. Edinburgh ; and other cities have shown themselves in favor of the eight hours or three-shift 1 system, and negotiations are going on between the labor representatives in those centres of industry and the chief promoters of the movement at Newcastle. A large and representative meeting of workmen was held recently at Newcastle, delegates representing about twenty-five thousand men engaged in the chemical, railway, engineering, and kindred industries being present, and it was unanimously resolved to form a Labor federation of all the workmen of Tyneside for the purpose of furthering the eight hours* movement. An Executive Committee of twelve, with power to add to their number, was appointed to carry out the details of the resolution. J ,^ The annual report of the St. John Ambulance Association issued yesterday states that during last year 11,703 " first aid " certificates and 1635 " nursing "certificates have been awarded, while a total of 5130 medallions have now been granted. These figures show a substantial and satisfactory increase in results. Several members ot the Boyal family, including the Princess of Wales, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, hare presented certificates and medallions to cl&esbb at various , meetings held during the year. The list of new centres includes Jerusalem, where the Turkish governor, Baouf Pacha, is \ President. The Singapore centre has eni rolled many Chinese members. The , report contains synopses of the efficient . and daily increasing work carried on by i the Metropolitan Ambulance Corps for the t transport of sick and injured patients. j

A wealthy bachelor, inhabiting a suite of seven rooms in the immediate neighborhood of St. Tames* street, has just paid £11,600 to a firm of upholsterers- and decorators for famishing and decorating his dwelling-place. This profligate outlay seems the more astonishing when one hears that two of the rooms are occupied by servants —Truth. It is probable that one of the Court functions during the celebration of the Queen's Jubilee will be a Chapter of the Garter at Windsor Castle, over which her Majesty will preside, and it will be followed by a State banquet to the Kcighta in St George's Hall. The Knights of St Patrick and of the Thistle would be invited to the banquet, and also the G.C.B.'s. A giant is coming to London. He is an Austrian. He calls himself Winkelmeier. He is Bft 6in in height, and is one of the tallest men who have lived since the days of the Anakin. He is very much taller than Maid Marian, under whose outstretched arms the ballet nsed to dance at the Alhambra. But she died before she had finished growing, and Winkelmeier will never be any taller. He is said to have nothing to recommend him to notice except his sue, being, like most giante, without any particular intellectual energy. A rare opportunity is offered to curiosity collectors of the more snobbish kind. The

The fortune of the late Baron Meyer Eothschild, of Frankfort, is estimated at fifteen millions sterling. The art collection, which is one of the largest and finest in the world, is left to the Baroness Louis* for her life, after which it is to pass to Lord Bothschild, so it will find its ultimate home in Xngland. At Stonehouse County Court on Friday, a defendant was allowed 133 yean to pay off a debt. The amount due was 4841165, and he is to pay this at the rate of 3s per month. The circumstances were rather equivocal, a portion of the claim being for goods supplied, but most of it for interest. The defendant is a baker in poor circumstances. The Industrial Exhibition whioh was opened in Bingle Halt on the occasion of the British Association meeting in that town, has now been dosed. Upwards of 8,600,000 persons have visited the Exhibition, or an average daily attendance of more thrtr 6250. in addition, 30,000 school children have been admitted free. The largest number of visitors recorded in one day was 12,000. The total receipts have been £11,000, and tbe expense about one-half that sum. It has not been decided what shall be done with the Eurplus, bnt the idea which finds most favor ia that it should form the nucleus of a fund for the establishment of ail iinlustdial umsenni