The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-11
hIssiug.-.InterestIng Anecdotes ReIu-
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ting Thereto.
FTUH The GALAXY.
When the Cardinal John of Lorraine
was presented to the Duchess ofSavoy,
she gave him her hand to Kiss, greatly
to the Indignation of the irate church,
man. "HOw, madam" exclaimed he,
"am to be treated in this manner? |
kiss the queen, my mistress, and shall
| not kiss you, who are only "A duchess?"
and without mere ado, despite the re-
sistnuce OF the proud little Portuguese
princess, kissed her thrice on the mouth,
before he released her with an eXultant
laugh. The doughty cardinal was aP-
paTentlY OF one mind with Sheldon.
who thought TO kiss ladies' hands af-
ter their lips, as some do, is like little
bows who, after they eat the apple, fall
to the paring." When Charles II. was
making his triumphul progress through
England, certain country ladies who
were presented to him, instead OF kiss
ing the royal hands, in their simplicity
held up their pretty lips to be kissed by
the klng-a bluuder no one would more
willingly excuse than the red-halred
lover OF pretty Nell Gwynn- Another
poet. the countryInan of Chartier, had
Two centuries later the honor of being
publicly kissed in the stage box by the
young and lovely Countess de Villars;
but in Voltaire's case the lady gave the
osculatory salute not OF her own free
will, but in obedience TO the commands
of the cldmOlTS III the pit, mad with en-
thusiasm for the poets "Metope."
GeOrgiana, Duchess OF Devonshire,
as our readers will remember, gave
Steel, the butcher, kiss for his vote
nearly century since, and another
equally beautiful woman, Jane, Ouch
ess OF Gordon recruited her regiment
| in similar manner. Duncan Mac.
| kenZie, II veteran OF Waterloo, died at
| EIgin, Scotland, December, 1866. He
delighted in telling how he kissed the
| Duchess in taking the SHILLING from be-
tween her teeth to become one of her
| regiment-the Gordon Highlanders,
| better known as the 92d. The old
Scottish veteran OF eighty-seven has
not left one behind him to tell the same
I tale about kissing the blue-eyed Ouch
ess in the market place OF Duthill.
The late Daniel O'Connell hit upon a
novel mode of securing votes for the
candidates he had named at certain
| election, which test, considering the
constitutional temnerament OF his
| CuunLrymeu, is said to have proved ef-
fectual. He said, in reference to the
unfortunate elector who should vote
| against them, LET no man speak TO
| him. Let no woman salute him u
Gilbert Stuart, the portrait painter, is
said to have once met lady in the
streets of Boston, who accosted him
with, "Ah. Mr.. Stuart, l have just
seen your likeness, and kissed II be-
cause it was so much like yon.n And
did ii kiss you in return?" "Why, no."
''Then," said the gallant painter cit
was not like me-"
| Some of our readers who are not so
Young as they have been, may remem-
ber the famous Yankee kiss, and kiss
OF the last King of England before he
came to his estate While in New
| York the Prince called at BARRIERS
shop to be shaved. When the operation
was completed, he stepped up to the
| barber's wife, who CHANGED to be pres
/ ent, and giving her kiss, remarked:
",Hhere, now, you can say you have
| been kissed by a member OF the royal
! family" The barber, greatly incensed
| bv what he chose to receive as an in
suit, seized the Prince, and, helping
him out of the shop with his foot, eX-
claimed: There, now, you can say you
have received II royal kick from an
| American freeman"
CheVHlier Bunsen, who rose from II
humble position in lite 10 great honor.
was IA man of vast SuUOiT but little
erudition. As "a theelogian, the char
acter to which he most aspTed, he was
severely criticised by the celebrated DIR.
Merle D'Aubigue. The two savans met
mt Berlin at the Evangelical Alliance,
held several years ago. Bunsen kissed
Merle; of course the polite Genevan
could but return the compliment.
Great was the ado about the kiss OF
reconciliation" as the Germans called
IT, much To the annoyance of DIR. Merle,
who had no idea of compromising the
solemn writer's of theology by kiss!
Besides, he said, he preferred the Eng
lish custom in kissing to the German.
A delicate insinuHtion that, but the
II foo. stVNf nj In NJ
The Rev. Sidney Smith says: I'VE
are in favor OF IL certain amount OF
shyness when Il kiss is proposed, but II
should not he TOO long, and when the
fuir one gives it, let it be administered
with warmth and energy-let there be
soul in il. If she closes her eyes and
sigh Immediately after il, the effect IS
greater. She should be careful not to
slobber a kiss, but give it as hum
ming bird runs his bill into a honey
suckle-deep but delicate. There Is
much virtue in kiss when well deliv-
cred. We have the memory of one we
received in our youth, which lasted us
forty years, and we believe II VIII be
one of the last things we shall think of
it when we die"
At Bouiogne, during the reception of
Queen Victoria, June, 1855, number
of English ladies', in their anxiety to
see everything, pressed with such force
against the soldiers who were Keeping
the line THAT the latter in some in
stances, were Obliged TO give way, and
generally were, TO use the expression OF
our policemen, "impeded in the eXecu-
ton of their duty" The officer in
command, observing the state of af-
fairs, shouted out, zone roll of the
drum, if they don't keep back, kiss
them ALL" AT the first sound of the
drum the English ladies took to flight.
''It they had been French" said Il Par
isian journalist, They would have re-