CURRENT GOSSIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6003, 12 February 1881, Page 3

CURRENT GOSSIP.

laSy '*!"*- £15 ' OCO> The most dwant way in. whlcli ladles' UP " coUed -»tfier low The Ee:in of Carlisle is about to marry ttic poo' Th ■ D Hol ¥ on ' P Si" TT De:m Is 83 old. The suuement that the Queen is going' to WiU^icJ > Pr, reS ' entatth ' ; weddi *S oil-race "lUiamot Pniasia, is incorrect. ' The Duchess of Edinburgh is the member or tae Royal r amfly who if the least wS Mdthe °£. Thirteen relicts of Brigham Youn a live one house Lively times all the veir round. . IIC1 lC onl •. rust,c * Thesigcr left his chief Co.erk a .egaey of 10C0 guineas. A little over a year ago the STawab of Sahawulpur, oil attaining his majority, married his iii o cousins, ami subsequently falliwr m with a convict iu the State" prison, marneu her also. GlaJ stoae having being asked, some Uk , time ago. if he did not consider Tcmryche greatest genius o£ the age. reuliei ia the negative, and added that without'a doubt Disraeli merited that title. Sir Edward Bates, the unseated Conservative member for Plymouth, sent £250 for distribution to the poor of the town on the marriage or his dau-hter. The Mayor declined to participate m tile distribution. ■ -^. r - i-d"-ard Baines, who has been knighted, is said to have commenced life as a reporter for his ratner s journal, the Leeds Mercurv, and m tuat capacity was present at the massacre -Hanchester in the year ISiS. iue Cambridge memorial in favour o£ , '"3 rce to women, who have tulnlled the collegiate as weU as the other conditions ot graduation is to be pressed on V'° < -' li:1 - u e oc the Uuiversitv at an earlv date. " A German newspaper lately gave its readers the tollowin:* interesting piece of - information I—' 1 The Iter. Pelham Dale has been com:nitted for contempt of court to the prisonof Hollo way. Holloway is a town near London, famous fo:r its pills Madame Mod jeska ge :s her marvellous conception of dying wholly from her imagination. It is said that she once .'made an engagement to go to an hospital to see a person die, but . when the time came she could not do it. She has, of course, read a great many medical books on the subject, having studied death. by violence aud disease oulv in that way how faithtully, none ueed be told who haveseen her 44 Constance" and her <4 Adrieune." " The Princess Louise is not going back to Canada this winter/- says Lloyds Newspaper. Atlas iu the \\ orld says the same 'liing, yet diuerently, thus :— 44 X have reason, to believe that an illustrious lady declines to return at this stormy season of the year aud spend another winter in the inhospitable climate where she suffered so much last year ; and I think she is quite right. Independently of the ice and snow, the society to be had there is not: such as one so illustrious and so graceful has a right to command. I regret to hear that this opinion is not shared by the highest authority in the land." It is said that during the coming "winter • wonderful satins are to be worn- in New Vork. A celebrated dry-goods establishment in that city is already displaying a satin costing £I*J per yard, which, is thus described ;—lmagine a ground of the softest, creamiest satin, covered with clusters of huge (lowers, embroidered in pearls; here and there, where the leaves turn, or the flower hides the petal, there is a transient shimmer of gold, just a shading, as it were, of.fine gold embroidery. livery. inch of the ornamentation is done by hand, and the efftct is exquisite/' The material of a modern dress made from this satin costs £300. Mine. Blavatsky, whose mediuinistic exploits at Simla have recently been so much talked about, wherever she goes, and at all ti'i.es, his in close attendance upon her a servant youth of singularly reticent, and observan: habits. His anticipation of the waDts and wishes of his mistress seems to come to him instinctively, and that he is possessed of an unusual share of shrewdness and 'cute penetration may be clearly enough seen by close observation. He, dwells upon every word that falls from his mistress whether at the dinner-table or elsewhere ; and is in fact a first-class medium," capable of anything short of slipping unnoticed .from the house for the purpose of concealing iu a flower-ted in the garden a brooch iu two . papers.