Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-02-09

GOSSIP ABOUT RoYALTY.-Since the last visit
of the Royal Family to Balmoral, Scotland,
many anecdotes of her Majesty have been told
in the small dwellings Of the mountaineers in
the locality. A correspondent Of the Banf
Journal says
Taking walk on the hills day or two
ago, entered small dwelling, where | had
not been long entered before the inmates dis
covered me to be Southron. Having ac-
knowledged such to be the case, a long crack
followed; not only the departure Of Victoria,
but also her external habiliments, were dis
cussed by male and female occupants with the
most rigid exactness as to forms and appear
ance. They informed me, with expressions of
surprise, that many a laird's daughter is more
grandly dressed = and then they repeated with
great warmth, Aye, and she has nae pride,
either, for she enters a. the houses of the poor
in the neighborhood of Balmoral; and should
it happen to be diet time when she visits them,
she always partakes of a small quantity of
their homely fare no matter how homely it
be- The old man assured me that, on an oc-
casion of her doing so, he himself was present,
and had the dignified honor of handing bread
and cheese to his Sovereign, of which she par
took most heartily. On expressing my as
| tonishment. he continued AYE, and that's no
| a.. She thinks naething, when she is out on
her visits, o making purchases in the shape o
butter and eggs and taking it home hersel
He informed me that in no few cases the royal
table was furnished by dairy articles, not only
purchased by herself but taken home in her
own hands"
THEORY OF HUMoR.-To see a young officer
of fourteen years of age come into company in
full uniform, and with such a wig as is worn
l,rr n fob Ia oil aIy and
in years would make everybody laugh. be-
cause it certainly is very unusual combina-
tion of objects, and such as would not atone
for its novelty by any particular purpose of
utility to which it was subseryient. 1t is a
complete instance of incongruity.
Add ten years to the age of this incongruous
officer, the incongruity would be very family
diminished make him eighty years of age, and
celebrated military character of the last
reign, and the incongruity vanishes | am not
sure that we should not be rather more dspos-
ed to respect the popularity than to laugh at
it. As you increase the incongruity, you in
crease the humor.
If a tradesman of corpulent and respectable
appearance, with habiliments somewhat osten-
tatious, were to slide down gently in the mud,
and decorate pea-green coat, am afraid we
should all have the barbarity to laugh. Ii his
hat and wig like treacherous servants, were TO
desert their falling master, it certainly would
not diminish our propensity to laugh but if he
were to fall into violent passion, and abuse
everybody about him. nobody could possibly
resist the incongruity of pea-green trades
man, very respectable, sitting in the mud. and
threatening all the passers-by with the effects
of his wrath. Here every incident heightens
the humor of the scene the gaiety Of his tunic,
the general respectability of his appearance,
the rills Of muddy water which trickle down
his cheeks, and the harmless violence Of his
rage But if instead of this, we were to OBJ
serve dustman falling into the mud, it would
hardly attract any attention, because the
opposition Of ideas is so trifing, and the incon-
gruity so slight-Syiney Smih
"REMINISCENCES OF a BEREAvED MOTHER
By Professor T. c. Upham. is no affec-
ton more interesting, more strong, more sa-
cred than that of mother for her children.
The practical development Of this divine affec-
tion, in the Joys and sorrows and labors which
result from it. are witnessed on every side but
think have never read and never known OF
f,,ll 'and olonuart avy,raaSinp nf thor,