Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-11-19
Famous Kisses.


iof the irate churchman. ''How
madam" exclaimed he, Gam / Il
be treated in this manner? / kis!
the Queen, my mistress, and shall
| not kiss you, who are only !
Duchess?' and, without more ado
he, despite the resistance of the
proud little Portuguese Princess
kissed her thrice on the mouth, be.
fore he released her, with an ex.
ultant laugh. The doughty Car
Idinal 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
making his trihmphal progress
through England, certain country
ladies, who were presented to him,
instead of kissing the royal hands
in their simplicity held up their
pretty lips to be kissed by the
King-a blunder no one would
more willingly excuse than the
lover of pretty Nelly Gwynn. A
great poet, the countryman of
Chantier, had, two centuries later,
the honor of being publicly kissed
in the stage box by the young and
lovely countess DeVillars, but in
Voltaire's case the lady gave the os-
cularity salute, not of her own free
will, but in obedience to the CON-
mand of the claqueurs in the pit,
mad with enthusiasm for the poets
sMerope."
Georgiana, Duchess of Devon
shire, as our readers will remem.
Der, gave Steel, the butcher, kiss
for his vote, nearly century
since; and another equally beau
tiful woman, Jane, Duchess of Cor.
don, recruited regiment in SINH
lar manner. Ducan Mackenzie.
a veteran of Waterloo. died in FL
gin, Scotland, December, 1866
He delighted in relating how he
kissed the Duchess, in taking the
shilling from between her teeth, to
become one Of her regiment-the
Gordon Highlanders, better known
rs the Ninety-second. The Scot
tish veteran Of eighty.seven has not
eft one behind him to tell the
same tale about kissing the blue
eyed Duchess in the market place
If DuthiIl. The late Daniel o.
Jonnell hit upon a novel mode of
securing votes for the candidates
le had named at a certain election.
which test, considering the consti-
utional temperament,of his coun-
rymen, is said to have proved ef-
ectual. He said in reference
o the unfortunate elector, who
hould vote against them, LET no
nan speak to him. Let no woman
alute him!" Gilbert Stuart, the
'ortrait painter, is said to have
nee met a lady in the streets of
}oston. who accosted him with !:
All! Mr.. Stuart, | have just
cen your likeness, and kissed it,
ecause it was so much like you"
And did it kiss you in return ?"
Why, no. "Then," said the
allant painter, sit was not like
le."
Chevalier Bunsen. who rose from
n humble position in life to great {
onor was a man of vast saviOr,
ut, of little erudition. Asa theo-
,gian, the character to which he /,
lost aspired, he was severely crit
ised by the celebrated DR.. Merle
'Aubigne. The two sarans met
Berlin, at the Evangelical Alli-
ice, held several years ago, BuD- {
N kissed Merle. OF course the S
,lite Genevan could but return t
Ie compliment. Great was the /
10 about the fkiss of reconcile C
ion," as the Germans called it,
uch to tbs annoyance of DR..
erie, who had no idea of compro- r
ising solemn writers Of theology b
|, kiss. Besides, he said, he r
the English custom in g
ssing to the German. A delicate a
timation that, but the professor
cant nothing. sa oa
At Boulogne, during the recep. o
IN of Queen Victoria, June, 1856. "
of English ladies, in their o
xiety to see every thing, pressed b