The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-07-20
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pENo1L1NGs By LAMp-lIeHr.

r PENGlLlNGS BY LAMtsLl6HT,
What the Royal Blood Cannot Do
Tbe second wife of Charles H. of Spain one
day fell off her horse while hunting, and her
foot catching in the stirrup she was in the
most imminent danger of being killed. No
one. however. dared venture to relieve her, it
being against the law for any, save the chief
of the royal pages. to touch any part of the
person OF the Queen Of Spain, and least of all
her feet. At last two cavaliers went TO her
assistance, and having extricated her, at once
saddled their fee. est horses, and prepared to
leave the country, in order to save their lives;
but they we're pardoned by the king, at the
queens intercession. a. arr
When Queen Victoria was on visit to the
royal family of France at Eau, the Queen of
Belgium had been told that her Majesty of
England took every. morning at ten O'Clock a
glass Of iced water. Accordingly, on the day
after her arrival servant duly made his ap
pearance at the appointed hour, bearing on a
silver salver carafe and two glasses, which
he rendered to the sovereign. who declined the
refreshment with wave of the hand. The
Belgian Queen, seeing this, whispered to her
son, who was present. to pour out a glass of
water, and offer it to the queen this being
done it was graciously acce pied. the fact be
ing that etiquette would not allow her Majesty
4 to pour out the water for herself when ser
want was present : So, too. when the Queen,
Louis Philippe and the Duke of Wellington,
paid visit to Elton, upon the visitors book
being presented TO them, the King of the
French somewhat ungallantly took up pen
and signed his name at the top of the page
Etiquette would net permit the queen to sign
her name under any other she therefore
Q turned over the all but blank leaf and wrote
her name on the top of thenext one, and then
handed the pen to the Duke, who, by-the-by,
was SO excited-fancy the Duke of Yelling
ton being excited lat the honor done to him,
that he actually spelt his name Wegington!
s Tie qneen, now, as formerly, may not speak
to tradesman. She has been seen stand
ing not a yard away from one, addressing all
her inquiries to an equerry who repeated them
to the tradesmau, and again repeated to her
Majesty all bis answers.
What Half the Talk is Made o.
A cotemporary observes that, it is curious
with what unreserve ladies will talk to each
other aloud in cars and omnibusses, on thei
family affairs We heard a good dame, ths
other day, detail all the particulars of her fal
. bouse-cleaning and how the ball. which wa'
the only thing left undoue, ,oould have beer
finished, hes2t Sary-J Jane broke her leg
Then followed minute description of the
making up of her winter fannels; her picking
her preserving, ETC., which she wound up
when she stopped at last to take breath. b
asking her listener-a meek little body AM
how do you get along. my dear p The littl
body, overawed by the bustling notability O
her questiouer, had no such house keepin
prowess to relate. Her baby had had tn
measles, and some country cousins of her hu'
] bands had been making them long VISIT an
everything was behind hand. She had on
4 sympathy the poor little woman, for one glanc
into her worn face showed that she had don
what she could ,1. rr--
q How Old the Fans Are. s31
Perhaps the ,adies---or some of them-r
gard the parasol a modern luxury Nota b
of it. Parasols were carried in Egypt thre
Thousand years ago, and are represented upo
sculptures coeval with the Pharaohs IT
Egyptian parapluies, however, being built
a more sensible and substantial plan than Il
sun shades now in vogue, were too large al
heavy for the delicate bands of the dus
dame and demoiseles of the valley Of d
Nile, and were generally borne by their slav
The philantbropic young princess who fish
little Moses out of the bulrushes, is portray
in pictures, with big parasol over her hes
aud probably the widow Cleopatra, who. t
brownish, was particular about her compl
ion, kept hemisphere of silk betv cen the
and her beauty when she went down the @
nus to meet Marc Antony.
4 Fast Habits and Early Graves. sss
Lord Byron says Leigh Hunt, used to
about bumming all the morning, and reser
his serious work for the night He said b
self, in conversation with Lieut., MedV
that he largely used the inspiration of
! to keep up tired and Tagging nature. Sch
4 resembled him 10 both habits. What was
consequence Byron died at 36. Sch
lived on to 60. but with broken constitu
and shattered energies. The fire of ge