CURRENT GOSSIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6829, 6 October 1883, Page 3 (Supplement)

CURRENT GOSSIP.

Mr. T. P. O'Cosmcir, M.P;, is eDgaged upon a novel. : The 'Queen of Italy cats under tho eye of a doctor, who tells her what not to eat. The King of Bavaria's new palace at Neuschwanenfitein is lighted internally by means of Edison lamps, whilst Siblochkoff lightß are employed for external purposes. Lord Harris, the criijketer, is the fourth Baron of Seringapataitt-and Mysore in the East Indies, and ol! Belmont, County Kent. He wan born at Trinidad.; in the Wi'ist Indies, in 1851.

The jersey Lily is very fondof money, but apparently not as uluch for its own sake as for what it will do for her. She is very extravagant, and must have the most luxurious things. Say what people may. of Arabi, ono thing ia patent—he had absolute away in Egypt, and might have robbed with impunity to his heart's; content; yet, when exiled, he left the country a 'pauper. In the recently proved will of the late Baroness Ashburton, the testatrix directed that she should be buried with all her rings, and that a plaster cast of her late husband should be placed in her coffin. Among the various accomplishment of Cardinal Newman th«i ability of writing plays is numbered, His Eminence has been engaged in adapting the "Pincerna"of Terence, and an amend ed and very much expurgated version of thai; play was performed by the students of the Birmingham Oratory. The Cardinal was present at the representation, and was was loudly cheered at the fall of the curtain. M. Olemenceau, now a. French Cabinet Minister, was in Paris when the Commune was established, but resolutely set his face, against that institution.' Consequently his arrest was ordered. A friend brought him news of the fact, and urged him to get other istrong friends around him to protect him, " I have twelve strong friends he to." Clemenceau replied, drawing a couple of loaded revolvers. "Make it known that the first 12 men who enter my house armed will need stretchers to go home on," He was allowed tolea.ve the city without molestation,

Not long long b afore hi 3 assassination Czar Alexander 11, expressed a desira to meet the Comte de Chambcrd, and sent him by a distinguished messenger, an autograph letter to that effect, saying : " lam Emperor and you are King. Each of us may advance half way to meat the other. " The Comte de Chambord read the letter thoughtfully, then rose and said to the envoy who had brought it; "If his Majesty the Emperor oomes to see me in my houai; he will be royally entertained but I cannot go out of my house to meet him. "It would," he added, resuming his seat, "'be againnt tradition for a King of Francto to go oui; of his way for any other sovereign." ' Trampette, Gambetta's famous cook, ;ia now liiving retired, in Touraine, where the ex-cooks of the ex-Queen of Spain and the Empress of Russiia are passing the evening of their lives also, Trumpette has had three toes oil his left foot recently amputated for gangrene. He was offered 60,000f. and a staff of twenty-five assistants to direct the feastings at the Czar's caronation, but declined. Cook, rest; thy cooking's o'er. Trum'pette's greatest feat, was the dinner given in December, ISSI, when Gambatta wa3 Prime Minister. Of 150 guests. 57 were diplomatists; tie dinner, was superb. The Turkish ambassador .was of opinion that Trumpette ought to be appointed, after hiß deatti, head cook in Paradise, and it was approved nem con. In speaking of state balls in England a London correspondent says : Many of the nobility are excluded not from caprice, but for cause. For instance, Viscount Mandeville, whose brutiahly intemperate habits make him unfit for any society bat the lowest; the Marquis of Blandford, who is shuned by all decentminded people as a libertine, liar, and wife-beater; the Hon. Walter Harboard, Lord Suffield's brothur, who, while a major in the Seventh Husssirs, was caught cheating at cards one night in the card-room of the Marlborough Club, and for which he got cashiered from the aimy, expelled from his clubs, excluded from court, aud cut by everybody ; the Earl of Aylesford and the Marquis of Huntly, who'sci exploits are of sufficiently recent ocqpr-, rence to preclude the necessity of recapitulation. The names of the Countesses of Stradbroke: and Euston, Lady Walsingham, Lady Bg->ont, sid-Lady Mary Craven have also been either refused a pi-;;--—-"r eraaedfrom the list of eligibles.