Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-09
INTERESTING ANECDOTES REEA
TING no KISSING.
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When the Cardinal, John of Lorraine
was presented to the Duchess of Savoy. she
gave him her hand to kiss, greatly to the
indignation Of the irate chuIchman.
" How, madam exclaimed he, cam to
be treated in this manner? / kiss the
| Queen, my mistress, and shall I not kiss Won
who are only q Duchess ''and without
more ado, he, despite the resistance of the
prond little Portuguese princess, kissed her
thrice on the mouth, before he released
her, with an exultant laugh. The doughty
cardinal was apparently Of one mind with
| Sheldon, who thought to kiss ladies hands
after their lips, as some do, is like little
boys who, after they eat an apple, fall to
the pairing When Charles II, was ma
king his triumphal progress through En-
gland, certain country ladies who were pre-
sented to him, instead of kissing the royal
hand, in their simplicity, held up their pref
iy lips to be kissed by the King-a blum
der no one would more willingly excuse
than the red-haired lover of pretty Nell
Gwynn. Another poet the countryman of
Charter, had, two centuries later, the hon
or of being publicly kissed in the stage
box ~ the yosng and lovtly Countess lie
Niliars l.1 in Noltaire's case, the lady
gave the osculatory salute not of her own
free will, but in obedience to the command
of the ctaqueurs in the pit, mad with en-
thusiasm for the poets " Merope."
Georgiana, Duchess of Deyonshire. as
our readers will remember, gave Steel, the
butcher, kiss for his vote nearly CEN
fury since, and another equally beautiful
woman, Jane, Duchess of Gordon, recruit
ed her regiment in a similar manner.
Duncan Mackenzie, veteran of Waterloo,
died in Elgin, Scotland, December, 1866
He delighted in relating how he kissed the
Duchess in taking the shilling from be-
tween her teeth to become one of her regi-
ment-the Gordon Highlanders, better
known as the Ninety-second. The old
Scottish veteran of eighty-seven has not
left one behind him TO tell the same tale
about kissing the blue-eyed Duchess in the
market place of Duthill. The late Daniel |
OConnell hit upon a novel mode of Sc
curing votes for the candidates he had
named at certain election, which test,
considering the constitutional temperament
of his countrymen, is said to have proved |
eflectual. He said in reference to the I'M
fortunate elector who should vote against |
them, " Let no man speak to him. Let no
woman salute him p Gilbert Stuart. the |
portrait painter, is said to have once met n |
lady in the streets of Boston, who accosted |
him with: All Mr.. Stuart, / have lust |
seen your likeness, and kissed it because it |
was so much like you. And did it kiss |
you in return" Why, no." Then"
said the gallant painter it was not like |
me-.
Some Of our readers, who are not 80 |
young as they have been, may remember |
the famous Yankee kiss, and kiss of the |
last King of England before he came . |
his estate. While in New York, the |
Prince called at a BARRIERS shop to be |
shaved. When the operation was COM
pleted, he stepped up to the BARRIERS wife, |
who CHANGED to be present, and giving her
a kiss, remarked: "There, now you can /
say you have been kissed by member of
the royal family" The barber, greatly |
incensed by what he chose to receive as an
insult, seized the prince, and helping him /
ont of the shop with his foot, exclaimed
There, now you can say that you have
received a royal kick from an American /
freeman.
Chevalier Bunsen, who rose from an |
humble position in life to great honor, was |
a man of vast sauOir but little erudition. As a |
theologian, the character to which he most |
aspired, he was severely criticised by the |
celebrated DIR. Merle D'Aubigne. The two |
Swans met at Berlin at the Evangelism |
Alliance held several years ago. Bunsen |
kissed Merle; of course the polite Genevan
could not return the compliment. Great !
was the ado about the kiss OF reconcilia
lion, as the Germans called it, much TO I
the annoyance of DR.. Merle, who had no I
idea of compromising the solemn writers 1
of theology by a kiss? Besides, he said, /
he preferred the English custom in kissing +
to the German. A delicate insinuation I
that, but the Professor meant nothing /
wrong.
The Rev. Sidney Smith says; We are
in favor of certain amount of shyness |
when kiss is proposed, but it should not /
be too long, and, when the fair one gives
it, let it be administered with warmth and |
energy-let there be soul in it. If she |
close her ewes and sigh Immediately after |
it, the effect is greater. She should be /
careful not to slobber kiss, but give it as
a humming-bird runs his bill into a huny |
suckle-deep but delicate. There is much |
virtue in a kiss when well delivered We /
have the memory of one we received in our /
mouth, which lasted us forty years, and We
believe it will be one of the last things we
shall think of when we die.
At Bologne, 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 instances, were |
obliged TO give way, and generally we're
TO Use the expression of our policemen
impeded in the execution of their duty. "
The officer in command observing the state |
of affairs, shouted ont, zone roll of the |
drum-if they don't keep back, kiss them |
all. After the first sound of the drum, |
the English ladies took TO flight. aft they |
had been French, said Partisan journal, !
" they would have remained to a woman"