Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-08-07
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HONE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Mr., Perry, known a. the '' Washington
woman, claims to have been the means Of block
ing Smythe's confirmation TO Austria.
Gossips say that Prince AIbert's brother is in
England aud desirous OF becoming Queen Vic
taria', second husband. But the law Of Eng
land and the widows inclination are both in the
way
A French joker says that Prince Napoleon
went TO Constantinople 10 ask the Sultan what
WAS bis opinion Of the Koran and that his
Highness replied by drinking ,iz different kinds
of wine at dinner
Students Of euphony in New York are arsu
ing the question whether the word " hum is
actually shoutable. A correspondent Of the
Eruiny Post says that ''hurrs is American
and iiiomatie Hu1za i. British and iiiotic.''
Mr. Parton believes that the coming man Will
not drink whiskey. and the New York Sun
agrees with him on the ground that if the bbu-
lou- tendencies VI the present man during these
-'eeiterng days afford a criterion, there viii he
nothing left for his successor To- drink.
An euterprising lady in Paris hires babie-,
which she rents out handsomely dressed mp. To
members uf the dea. i-moa3s It being fashionable
fr the latter To drive out in the Boi- de Bau-
io-ue with their little ones. Twenty francs an
hour are charged fog the poor worms thus reutel
out
Some american hiie> at Copenhagen, who re-
Gently called ou -he Queen Of Denmark. were
not q little a-tdui,he'l TO see that She wore
cheap dress, and that, on rising to receive them,
She laii Oh her working table a cotton stocking
ou which she had been knitting
A paper, giving an account Of Toulouse,
France, says .' 1t j. a large town, containing
10000 inhabitants, built entirely of brick
Thi, nearly equal, the Old description of Albany,
Albany j. "a town Of : 900 houses and 2j.000
inhabitants, mos, Of them with their gable ends
to the street"
Leonard Jerome. the rich broker and horse
i,ckey of New York, Is abroad. At the races at
F9ntaiuebl,,u. he was taken in hand BY the
President Of the pari, Jockey Club. and mtrl-
duced TO the principal owners ofhorses in France,
IN Of whom expressed a great interest in the eff
fort he had made in America to improve the
condition Of the urf They finished by Offering
him some sort Of public demonstration Of re-
spec,. which h. however, thought best to de
cline
Juniu- Browne furu. shes the Chicago Tribune
with a sketcl Of George Ripley, formerly a
Unitarian miIisJer. later a Brook Farm Com
uunist, eliDr Of the .imsricaH Cyclopeiil,
with e. A. Iana, and for many years past liter
ary elitor Of the New York Tribune When in
the community he and Dana had only one hat
between them. He is well of deriving rs does
Dana. between three and four thousand dollars
a year from the sale Of the Cyclopedia. soon
after the Tribune was started he bought two
shares Of stock at the par value Of $1,000
each, borrowing the money Tor the pur-
chase. tie is now the owner Of fve shares
worth, according TO the latest quotations, sSl,-
80.
Mrs Ella T. Hobart, who oficiated As chap-
lain in the First Wisconsin Volunteer Artillery,
has been honorel by Congress in the passage Of
bill to pay her the same salary paid to men
who filed similar positions The Governor Of
Wisconsin declined to commission her until the
War Department should consent to recognize the
commission This Mr.. Stanton refused to do,
on account Of the sex of the applicant, although
her application was endorsed by President Lin
coin. and she has been unable to obtain pay for
her services until now.
The following WIS one Of the authorized regu-
lations Of the Sc city " Of Boston in 1883 '' No
garment shall be made with short sleeves, where
bv the nakedness Of the arm may be discovered
in the wearing thereof, and such as have gar
ments already made with short sleeves shall not
hereafter wear the same, unless they cover their
arms to the wrists with linen or otherwise and
hereafter. no person whatever shall make any
garment for women. or any of their sex, with
sleeves more than half an ell wide in the widest
part thereof. and 80 proportionable for bigger or
smaller persons" This "a regulation - is not
strictly enforced at the Hub now-a-days
4 German statistican reports that the Emper-
or Of Russia receives daily s25 200, equal to
the annual salary of the President Of the United
States Louis Napoleon sl4 ,24O day. Queen
Victoria, So ,2O7 the King of Austria, SlO,-
959 the King Of Prussia, Ss,ll0. The King
of Belgium has tie smallest salary, it being only
81 ,6iS day.
The following unpleasant story comes from
Paris - An august person (meaning the En-
peror) was surprised while strolling near the
Chateau Fontainebleau to perceive spring
which, on close inspection, he found to resemble
spring at Wiesbaden the water, too, had a
[ slight favor of broth, peculiar to the German
we'll The water was analyzed and favorably re
I ported on, and not a person in the chateau but
tasted the new spring The head cook having
since complained that a drain, into which the
/ kitchen slops were emptied, was out Of order,
the true source Of the Wiesbaden well was dis
covered, but no person has yet been bold enough
to inform the august person of his error"