CURRENT GOSSIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5997, 5 February 1881, Page 3

CURRENT GOSSIP.

The Romans considered it indelidite for aothe- ife ' m ' the P resence o£ The Duke of Argyle's youngest son, Lord SMSE'." ■"■■^.■Wγ. Three hundredjpounds was offered Wsara Bernhardt by a 2*cw York photographer for the exclusive right of -taking her , ' in the otates. . ..:..■ The Duchess of Westminster, whose death was announced by cable the other day, was one of the beautiful daughters of theDuchcss of Sutherland. When Miss Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, tnd the original Alice m Wonderland,» was married the other day she wore among her ornaments a horseshoe of pearls, the gift of Prince -Leopold. ; Prince William, the eldest son of the Crown lnnccof Prussia, commauds a corananyof the Grenadier Guards, aud elicited universal admiration durinjr the late manceuvrcs for the thoroughly soldier-like and practised way iu which he handled his men. Mr. Thomas Cook, the well-known excursion agent, has presented a site and proposes building a memorial hall and school in connection with Archdeacon Lane Chapel, Leicester, in memory of his daughter who was found dead in her bath a short time since. It is not improbable that Her Majesty may visit Gerniany next year, as it is reporte'd that the Queen made a promise to her grandson Prince \Y llliam to be present at his weddhi" m February next. It is twcnty-tivo years since Her Majesty paid a visit to the Prussian Court. Mrs. Kings Fort, an English lady who recently took her degree at the Paris facultv of medicine, chose as the subject of her thhe de doctoral vegetarianism. The subject of vegetable alimentation is at present attracting considerable attention iu French medical circles. $ ~ . Miss Eva Sothern, who is shortly to make her debut at the Olympic, London, is the only daughter of the celebrated actor. She is a very handsome girl, slim and elegant in figure, with a fair skin, brilliant complexion, and profuse golden hair. She is quiet and ladylike in manner. The eldest sister of the bride and the sister of the bridegroom of course walk together. When there are only three bridesmaids, they form in a lino behind the bride, the bridegroom's sister being in the centre. Groomsmen arc unknown in good society; only one best man is usual. The sons of the Prince of Wales will have seen a good ileal of the world before thev arrive at their majority. The route mapped out for the voyage of the Bacchante includes Maderia, Hio de Janeiro, Monte Video, the Falkland IsUs, San Francisco, Vancouver's Island, Honolulu, China and Japan. Paintings on hat brims is the newest freak of fashion. The Countess de Paris was the first to have the coat of arm? painted on her bonnet aud strings, and now some cf the Velasquez-shaped black felt hats are elaborately ornamented with flowers, birds, and butterflies by the best Parisian artists.

France has just invented a new occupation. A man goes about the streets of Paris bearing a small tray, a pack of carcU, a set of dominoes and a dice box. With this stock-in-trade the man, who styles himself " L'Amateu-," goes to the houses of invalids or idle persons, and for a small fee plays games with them. The height, or depth, which uunkeyisni has attained in London is illustrated by the fact that a " Horgan of Serciety" announced that it was about to publish "a pretty picture of the Baroness Burtlett-Coutts at breakfast on board her yacht the Walrus." Another journalist suggested that the companion picture should be "ill. Ashmead-Birtlett in his Morning Tub." Mr. White, the celebrated Congregationalist minister of Kentish Town, London, who has been proposed as one of the Merchants* Lecturers in the King's Weigh-house Chapel— one of the few great prizes amongst the Congregationalists—has met with opposition on account of his heterodoxy upon th 3 question of eternal punishment. Mr. White believes in the fiual extinction of the wicked. During the hunting enjoyed by the Emperor of Germany and his Court recently, there were slaughtered no fewer than 552 deer and wild boars. To this total His Majesty himself contributed lIS head, arid the Graud Duke, Vladimir eighty-eight, the others making a score in delicate proportion to their rank, as deftly pre-arranged by the royal forestor-in-chief. What would Kimrod have said to this kind of hunting '!