Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-04-09
HOME AND FOR EICN GOSSIP.

queen victoria salary Is only EDl,uuu
year. The rest is all for leather and prune.la.
Calico balls and parties have been.the most
popular dissipation in Brooklyn fashionable circles
this season.
g Hard Times barties are he'd in Wiscon-
sin. Bean soup, crackers and dried herrings
constitute the g refreshments
Chinese jewelry is the latest hobby with New
York flshionables, and is having great run.
Brigham Young has fixed the legal length Of
Mormon ladies, dresses. They may extend to
the top of their shoes.
In Paris the talk ofthe day just now IS the
excessive gambling going on at a WE'LL nova
eercIs. A very well-know diplomatist Is sad
to have lost 10000.
Wagon Box, Mike, Fatty, and Stomach were
the four leading bellies at a late squlw ball, en-
Fort Benton.
In New York last week a matrimonial engage
ment in high life was broken in consequence #
the parties having dispute as to who shouli
pay for the wedding cards.
The beauty Of Queen Victoria's family Is de-
veloping in Her Majesty's grandchildren. The
eldest son of the Prince Of Wales bids far to be
perfect AdOnis.
King Ludwig Of Bavaria designs to give his
Russian bride pearl-neckace worth hundred
thousand forins, as a wedding present.
The princes sNletternich, ,tt;a recent reception,
offered her guests cigars, and led offin the smo-
king herself
Anthony Trollope says American women are
clever and pretty, but exigeant and hard. They
fear nOthing-neither you nor themselyes-sni
talk with much freedom as if they we're
men.
Three bachelors in an Iowa town played
novel game of cards, the other day. The loser
was to marry during the year, or support the
other two bachelors for the following year.
Montoua editor, describing young laiy
from New York, says she is =. all sorts Of lovely
girl, sharp as a frosty morning, full Of tricks
ass a deer, andas happy as whole flock Of
snow birds.
\ eonfectioner at Bristol, England, made a
monster prize cake, which contained two gold
wedding rings, one gold keeper ring, one gold
locket, one gold brooch, set with turquoise
stones, two silver thimbles and a pieces Of
siver.
| A court ball at the Tuileries costs from sixty
/ to eighty thousand francs, and the four enter
tainments given every winter at the palace Of
] Prince Metternich cost, together, over two hun
drel thousand francs
| The women of the Turkish harems have dis
carded velvet jackets and trousers for stays,
I shiney boots, long trains and chisnons. Their
dress in general is a caricature Of the fashions
| of Paris.
! The cure for the Grecian benl has been DIS
covered by a farmer in Monroe county, New
I York. who had Al daughter AFT cted by this ter
rihie malady. lie dipped her in coll wafer,
and laid her in the tih III straighrerei into
I plSce.
Gustave Dore occupies one or the most spa
cious and magnificent hotels in the Fanboug s..
Germain, Paris. The walls Of the chief saloons
are hung with some Of the painters most eharac-
teristic works.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, in a lette. to Mr.
Henry James, inviting him 90 repeat his lecture
I on - Woman" says: % As the Chairman Of
the Committee on art and Literature Of the New
/ Englani Woman's Club, I, am commissioned
The Postmaster at New Lexington, Perry
county, Ohio, is described as a druggist and den
I tist; keeps grocery, dry gools, boot, and
| shoe store in a silversmith, ieWellsr, painter,
| cabinet maker, and when times get little dull.
| gets out patent for some invention.
| \ novelty introduced at recent ball in Paris
I was a trail of flowers beginning in the hair sul
AMI falling down to the bottom Of the train after
I being caught in some fanciful and graceful wav
either round the bosom, on the waist, or in a
/ sash.
The fivorite color Of ex-Queen Isabella is light
brown. She thinks that dresses Of that co,or
are most suitable to her complexion, and she
has ordered all the rooms which she will
cupy in her new place to be hung with paper Of
I that color.
, 4 life size wax figure Of a living New Orleans
[ belle has been set up in the New Orleans Muse
um. She Is a member Of the most flshionahio
society," and is justly distinguished for her beauty
1t was manufactured in New York, from
/ brotype sent for the purpose The young hly
knew nothing Of the liberty thus taken with her
/ person.
| The female population Of Bsrmudas, as Mt
| many other maritime places. far exceeds he
I male, there being about four times as many Of
/ the former as Of the latter. As a natural con-
sequence. young gentlemen are in almost CON-
| ical favor and demand, and ofa new arrival the
/ first and universal question asked is ia; '' Is he
! married g''