CURRENT GOSSIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6261, 10 December 1881, Page 3

CURRENT GOSSIP.

♦ Adelina Patti drives a four-in-hand. Daniel Webster's widow is still living. The Prince of Wales' youngest daughter is said to be a musical gonius. Lord Beaconstielcl kept a copy of every letter he ever wrote or received. " Bismarck has grown so stout that he can no longer occupy aa ordinary dining chair, and is obliged to sit on a low sofa. General Grant has accepted a position in the Board of Trustees I:,,- trie United Statee of the Standard Fire In:::r M c! Company of London. A Queensland evangeli.itr-cently announced as the subject of his s.-nn<.t,_-'ili o Larrikin of Old'"— bis modern paraphrase ol "The Prodigal Son." The hut new vorl, i,: •■ to Glalstonise." We Gladstonised in ti..- Transvaal ; we Gladstouiscd out of Cauda!:.. i-; we arc going to try and filadstonise P.r.ulaugh. Tile word is nut yet in ;i.o dictionaries, Out it needs no delmitiou. Iu Dean .Stanleys will Paul Emanual Loysou, son of i'ere Hyacinth-, gets £500. It will be remembered that bean Mauley was much taken with the ex-Uarmclite after his secession, and evwn wvn-. so far aa to be a witness to his marriage. Ovotcr shells, a Paris riper aays, are reduced to powder and u.-v.l ::l the manufacture of artiliciul s>elt:-:er w.u,;, so that the same shell may appear cuic- ~.i tuesame table or a restaurant, lirst in its natural state, next as part of the contents'.! a.-4,hon. _ Truth hears thac Cptain Lord Charles bcott, ~:,,) commands tiie liaeehante, in which are the Pnnee w" Wales' two sous, is engaged to bem:une;l 10..., .Australian lady, whom he only met t [ u , vUit of the r lying Si|uadron u> ih;.; , α-t of the world. Sir K. Watkiu- related iatelva toast which Daniel 0 Council felt oiiued to give an unpopular ministry: • Ooiuionion, 111 Irelaad, when we have a broken window, we stop it with an old hat. The said, tile soonest mended. I beg to prep-j.--.: t.ho health o£ Her Majesty "s ministers." The London World s.ivs:—'"Lady Avonmore,'the Hon. Mrs. Vi";\erUm, we "Theresa Longworth, is on her way huiuo fiom Xatal. Such, at any rate, I faucj, is the tact from 'Kate, the Critic,' liavii,: ceased her contributions to a Pietermaiitsburg paper. These papers, which, of course, excited great local interest, were descriptions 01 leading men and women of Natal society, written always with a very candid pen, bui otsucli unequal merit and style as to suggest a co-operative authorship." The father of Dr. .Schlieinaiin. the Trojan explorer, was a preacher iu a small German village, and although iie knew noGieek, was an intense lover 01 ll., :i :er, whicli he read almost every evening i» uauslation, to the dellglit of lii.s son, oft 11, a .ion sucli ail'eutiug passages occurred as Hector's farewell to Andromache, both father and sou shedding tears dehliemann himseii b.-s-au o study Greek iu his tlurty-fouitu year, and could read Homer, which, to i,e sai'e, is Greek in a very few months. Mr. Hepw-orth-s story with the exclamatory title is noticed by uie. Liu-rai-y World in the spirit of which it wa.-, named :-lts title is I 'l I!" We will only add tnat we opened it with V ? ?, werecoiiteiileu to read ltac skipped some S<i § which seemed r..t.,erstupid', tound it marked with r.u.ier '' and to bo without : ill recent literature, and are inclined to mark it as a hook wincii belonn-. in ()■ It does not easily yield •• '"an-i h.i,.iiy demands more than this ';. We d.) not mj.i.i to cast any upon it, but iiiwcvu- .-its oown to read it through will luw ti. ■; Ins aiieution to tlieta.sk. It is said, by these ,v.:,, .M,,,uld :•..„,w, tli.it the Emperor of all tiie llij.,i, lin „.,!., a tolerably happy life. JL-n.s-., ea, '.v. walks in the park, transacts i.;i:.i ; .e-., L..1 :,......, and after lunch receives dispatuues .u,.; drives in the cu.u.try. Jle dines IIL .even, and oiten spends the evening :d,.n; with the Km press and the elder eiuM.ci. Thu Empress is herself tl.e j::iiniin-., of eighty institutions. Rus.-ii-iu isal.'..i\., a,) iuiliu family, although the i.:ii:.ir".-u. >ml'u their tutors, speak French ..1,.: da\ au.i 1.,i,-ii a h the next. The Kmperor .., ,-, V.A-m*. and maintains two spleud,.; --li.jir., ;.: i!,e chapel ut Peterhot'. ile is alao pa.-.iionai...iy fon.l of flowers, and ii.is jus: imp ji te I ~over.il tliousaml pounds' worth of llowuring ahrubs tor one of his parks.