, 1868-09-25
A Chapter ON Kisses.


ton of the irate churchman. How maddm,'
exclaimed be, 'am l to be treated in this
manner? l kiss the queen, my mistress,
and shall l not kiss you who are only a
duchess p And without more ado, he de-
spite the resistance of the proud little Port,
uguese princess, kissed her thrice on the
mouth before he released her, with an ex-
ultant laugh. The doughty cardinal was
apparently of one mind with Sheldon, who
thought to skiss ladios' hauJs afas- 81 s;-l;Psy
as some do, is like little boys, who, after they
eat an apple, fall to the pairing When
Charles IL. was making his triumphal pro-
gress through England, certain country lad
les who were presented to him, instead of
kissing the royal hand, in their simplicity
held up their pretty lips to be kissed BY the
king-a blunder no one would more readily
excuse than the red haired lover of pretty
Nell Gwynn. Another poet, the country
man of Charter, 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 command
of the cldqueurs in the pit mad with enthus-
iasm for the poets Merope."
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, as our
readers will remember, gave Steel, the butchI
er, kiss for his vote nearly century since,
and another equally beautiful woman, jane,
| Duchess of Gordon, recruited her regiment
| 10 a similar manner Duncan Mckenzie,
a veteran of Waterloo, died in Elgin, Scot
land, December, 1866, He delighted in re-
lating how he kissed the Duchess in taking
the shilling from between her teeth to beN
come one Of her regimeut-the Gordon High
LADDERS, known as the 92d. The old Scot
tish veteran of eighty>seven has not left one
behind him to tell The same tale about kiss
ing the uecyed Duchess in tue market
place of Duthiil The late Daniel O'COn-
nell hit upon a novel mode ofsecuring vol es
for the candi ates he had nominated at a
certain election, which test, considering the
Constitutional temperament of his country
men, is said to have proved effectual. He
said, in reference to the unfortunate elector
who should vote against them, 'Let no man
speak to him; let no woman salute him!
Gilbert Stuart, the portrait painter, is said
to have once met lady in the streets oil
Boston, who accosted him with. 'Ah, Mr.
Stuart, have just seen your likeness and
kissed it because it was so mnch like. AND
did it kiss you in return why, no. Then
said the gallant painter, st was not like me.
Some of our readers, who are not so young
as they have been, may remember the fam
GUS Yankee kiss, and kiss of the last king
of England before he Games to his estate
q. While in New York, the prince called at
barbers shop to be shaved. When the op'
toI ha or nm In
BARRIERS wife who chanced to be present, AM
giving her kiss, remarked; There, nov
you can say you have been kissed by mem
Der of the royal family The barber, great
" incensed by what he chose to receive a
an insult, seized the prince, and helping hir
e out of the shop with his foot, exclaimed
There, now you Can say that you have re
0 ceived a royal kick from an America
. freeman
e The Rev. Sidney Smith says: 'We ar
in favor of certain amount of shyness Whe
a a kiss is proposed, but it should not be to
3, long, and, when the fair one gives it, let
K be administered with warmth and energy
let there be a soul in it. Ii she close ht
Is ewes and sigh Immediately after it, the etfet
n is greater. She should be careful not
't slobbor kiss, but give it as a hummin
ot bird runs his bill into honeysuckle-dee
II but delicate There is much virtue in XII
ID when we'll delivered. We have the memoI
to of one we received on our mouth, whlt
ID lasted US forty years, and we believe 1t W
"a be one of the last things we shall think
ID when we die
n At Bologue, during the reception of Que'
ne Victoria, June 1885, number of Engli
IN ladies', in their anxiety to see everythln
lg passed with such force against the soldie
ed who were keeping the line. that the latte
lie in some instances. were obliged to give wa
er aud generally were-to use the expressi
d. of our poicemen-'impeded in the execute
'r- of their duty The officer in comman
observing the state Of affairs, shouted OF
n sone roll of the drum-if they don't sta
ed back. kiss them ALL After the first SOU
At of the drum, the English ladies took
nd flight If they had been French, said
* Partisan journal, 'they would have remain
'as to a woman ~4-a
De- ---->Os77777(----~-
ID. THE ANTIQUITY OF WHITTLIEG.-Eyi
,er writer on America, from Basil Hall to 5
nd Slick has noticed the extraordinary Gust
,es of that country in passing their time in wh
ess tling. The judge on the bench, the speal
70 in his chair, the orator at the bar, the sci
ha. tor in the hall, the squatter in the far W.
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