CURRENT GOSSIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6296, 21 January 1882, Page 3

CURRENT GOSSIP.

Mr. Sotiikkn's widow is dying. The Killer of Denmark lias Knighted four Jews in Jutland. Mr. Parnell has been learning carpentry during his imprisonment. Every Austrian cavalryman is trained to he a fair cross-country rider. George Eliot's grave has been kept heaped with flowers ever since she occupied it. The mania of the future says a financial writer, is not likely to I e gold, but diamonds. Mr. Adams, the projector aud publisher of Bradshaw, the English railway guide, has just died. London World say .s that great travellers are, with a few pleasant exceptions, great bores. Paris is to be tlie permanent residence of Hobart Pasha, who will visit Turkey thrice a year. It is again rumoured that the musical author Mr. Arthur Sullivan is to be knighted. A writer having excited the wrath of Mr. Browning, "1 should like, : ' said the poet, " to rub that man's nose in his own books." It is proposed to revive the peerage of Lord Hatherley, in order to reward his nephew, the Transvaal tin'itcr. Sir Evclvn Wood. •. * The Shah of Persia became captivated by the Princess of Wales while in England, and he every year offers the Prince a tempting price in exchange lor her. It is reported that M ustafa Pasha presented Mile. GriSvy at licr marriage with a pearl ornament of the value of 10,000 fraucs, which had belonged to the Bey of Tunis. The question Can the old love?' 1 seems to be satisfactorily answered by the Earl of Mount Cashel, who, in his 00th year, is about to lead the widowed Mrs. Moleaworth to the altar. There are more than twenty thousand people in America descendants of one Richard Lyman, who landed in Boston two hundred aud fifty years ago, from High Olgar, near London. The Marquis of Londonderry has lately entered into the retail coal trade in London with marked success. He sells liis coal thus without the intermediation and expense of a middleman. One of the teachers in a New York riding school is said to be a nephew of Prince Bismarck. Many of them are of noble French or German families, compelled to leave the army on account of debts. The farmers of Scotland arc much better organized than those oi England, because, says an English writer, they have longer been accustomed to dispute the power of landlords at the polling booths. Telephonic "at ho.nes" arc the last fashionable affair in Paris, some grand lady inviting friends to her drawing-room to listen to a performance going on at a great theatre which has teen tolephonically connected with her house. There not being already plaids enough in all the tartans of all the clans, the Prince of Wales has been bending his mighty intellect to the invention of a new one in scarlet, green, and white, and his family have all been wearing it. Clement Scott, the well-known London dramatic critic, got £IoUO damages for libel from the Referee. That paper accused him of blackmailing Admiral Carr Glynn, Adelaide Neilson's friend and heir. The Admiral flatly denies that it w;:s anything but a business transaction. The first case on record of a suit of breach of promise of m image is said to have been brought by & infarct Gardvnur and her daughter Alice against -John Keche, of Yppeswyeh, in 1-15'2, he having, after receipt of money on condition of marrying Alice, married one Joan Bloys, " ageyno ali good reason and conscience " Kaffaclle -Monti, the sculptor, who has just died, won his iirst fame from liis veiled statue, and often repeated t!io effect of making form and features show as if under a transparent veil, which was but a clever copy of wet muslin over the clay nio-lel. All his later years were spent in ornamental modelling for the great silversmiths. '1 lie former employer of the present Lord Mayor of London, wanting a parcel taken to his house, and no porter being handy, was so pleased by the good-nature and want of pretension of a senior clerk who carried it for him, that he took him into partnership, and the clerk is now the head of the firm. Hogarth ouyht to have known cf it. It is rumoured that the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise arc to be removed from Canada to Ireland, replacing the Earl and Countess Cowper at the head of tho viceregal court in Dublin, gratifying the Irish people with a royal ruler among them in person, and also the Princess by a nearer residence to the centres which she prefers to Canadian wilds. Joe Jefferson has performed the role of "Rip Vail Winkle" over 3200 times, and his share of the receipts has averaged 400 dollars per performance, which would make his total receipts from this character over a million and a quarter. Ili3 share in ono season reachcd the sum of 115,000 dollars, and in six and a half mouths of one year he received 70,000 dollars. The Czar has been suffering from extreme nervous excitement of li e, as lie did just prior to the Dantzic meeting. He is said to bo constantly changing his resolutions, reproaching now his ministers, now his intimate friends, and charging them all with egotistical and interested motives.. Among those against whom Alexander llf. is stated to be especially embittered is the Grand Duke Vladimir.