Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-09
From the Galaxy]
Interesting Anecdotes Relating to
kissing.

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 churchman.
"How, ma 'am,'' exclaimed he, "am to
be treated in this manner2 kiss the
queen, my mistress, and shall not kiss
you who are only duchess?" and with
out more ado, he, despite the resistance
of the proud 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 of
it also. When Charles the II. was
making his triumphal progress through
England, certain country ladies who
were presented to him, instead of kiss
ing the royal hand, in their simplicity,
held up their pretty lips to be kissed by
the king-a blunder 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 honor of being
publicly kissed in the stage box by the
young and lovely Countess de Villars,
but in Yoltaire's case, the lady gave the
osculatory salute not of her own free will,
but in obedience to the compands of the
claqueurs in the pit, mad with enthusi-
asm for the poets "Merope." .5t
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, as
our reader vii. remember, gave Steel,
the butcher, a kiss for his vote nearly a
century since, and another equally beau
tiful woman, Jane, Duchess of Gordou,
recruited her regiment in similar man
ner. Duncan Mackenzie, q, veteran of
Waterloo, died in Elgin, Scotland. De-
cember, 1866 He delighted in telling
how he kissed the Duchess in taking the
shilling from between her teeth to be-
come one of her regiment-the Gordon
Highlanders, better known as the 92d.
The old Scottish veteran of 'S7 has not
left one behind him to tell the same
tale about kissing the blue-eyed Ouch
ess in the market of Duthill.
The late Daniel o 'Connell hit upon
novel mode Of securing votes for the
candidates be had named at certain
election, which test, considering the con-
stitutional temperament of his country
men, is said to have proved efectuaE-s
He said in reference to the unfortunate
elsctor 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 of Boston, who accosted him
with, "Ah! Mr.. Stuart, I have just seen
your likeness, and kissed it because it
was so much like you" Sand 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 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 a BARRIERS shop to
be shaved. When the operation was
completed he stepped up to the barber's
wife-who happenedto be present-and
giving her kiss, remarked: "There,
now, You can say you have been kissed
by a member of the royal family" The
barber, greatly incensed by what he
chose to receive. as an insult, seized the
Prince, and helping him out of the shop
with his foot, exclaimed: There, now,
you can say that you have received 2
royal kick from an American freeman"
Chevalier Bunsen, who rose from an
humble position in life to great honor,
was man of vast sauoir, but little cru
dition. AS theologian, the character
to. which he most aspired, he was severe
ly criticised by the celebrated DIR. Merle
DsAubigne. The two sayans met at Ber-
lin at the Evangelical Alliance held sew
eral years ago. Bunsen kissed Merle;
of course the polite Genevan could not
but return the compliment. Great was :
the ado about the "kiss cf reconcilia-
tion,"" as the Germans called it, much to