English Gossip.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 22, 2 August 1887, Page 4

English Gossip.

(Cujpisgs rnoM as Esoush Socibt* Paper.) It is not true that Buffalo Bill has been urged to occupy the Bulgarian Throne. In fact, the throne will bare to be repaired before it <can be used ; it is terribly split up the back, and hornets have built a nest 'under it. A few days ago a Swedish P-rince got on it to see if it would fit, starred the hornets, and is now in the hwpi’ tai. He is delirious and talks wiklly About Russian intrigues. By the way, Prince Henry, we hear, is congratulating himself on the dinner for “Distressed Foreigners" having come off better, with him for a chairman, than it did when Prince Chistian of Schleswig Holstein accepted that post a few years back, and a very unlucky interruption took p lace during the after dinner toasts. The handsome Battenberg is probably unacquainted with the exact nature of the catastrophe, as it was hushed up as carefully as possible at the time; but the facts, an eye-witness tells us, are as follows : — The toast of the evening, “ Success to this excellent Society, ” &c., &c., had just been proposed by Prince Christian, when up jumped a certain civic knight, who can make smart after dinner orations, but does not always remember to count his glasses of champagne on these occasions. “ I rise to second this toast," called out Sir ——, a little impeded by hiccoughs, but still quite audibly to his fellow guests, “ the institution is an admirable one, and no one can testify better than His Royal Highness, our chairman, how liberal the English people in coming to the aid of impoverished foreigners, especially as he himself has been a recipient— but at this point, the worthy knight was forcibly pulled down off his legs again, and hustled out the room with all possible speed ! Prince Christian bore himself calmly and made believe not to have understood a word of Sir ’s inebriated exordium ; but from that day forward, it has not been quite so easy to secure a German Prince as chairman for the festival of that society! Nothing comes amiss to the Battenbergs, however ■ a.nd if the incident in question bad to himself, the other night, it is to be, doubted if it would have put him in tiie least out of countenance. Gre.’t Britain and her revenues are to Lim as a Heavenprovided eacheque?, as he regards them somewhat hi th,® spirit of the small child, who, looki. ’’g at the portrait of a group of bean ’° n an ornamental pomatum jar, aske. a pensively, “ And do the bears stand st.ul to have the grease taken out of them, then . ’ England stands very still, an'd is a succulent source oi grease to many German wheels 1 A correspondent obligingly sends us the following good thing about the Drawing Room. , Where he got it, we know not. K ought to be true, but we fear it is not. A high-born English lady was driving to Buckingham Palace, when her gorgeous chariot with a coat-of-arms on it was blocked by a common vulgar eab. The lady, who was old, and thin, and haughty, projected the upper half of her half-clothed figure through tlhw window and yelled in a vinegary treble : “ Clear the way, fellow. How dare you obstruct my carriage ? Don’t you know who I am ? Don’t you see my arms ?” Then the cabby looked angrily round at the yellow gorgoti and retorted: “ Yes, hi does and hi thinks 'em werry scraggy.” The lady hastily drew in what looked like two long unhealthy sausages with a hand and a bracelet at the end of each, and the subject was allowed to drop.