Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-05-07
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


An artist who Is painting the nine muses. can
find only eight girls in New York who are beau
tiful enough for models.
Princess de Metternich has 80 servants in her
dining-room and kitchen, her head cook gets
5000 gold annually .iand say an exchange ig-
norant Of the dguife1 position of chief cooA-tte
pickings and stealings are as much more.
It's estimated that a million Of francs are lost
and won at cards every day in Paris The caris
alone cost eight thousand francs per night.
In Philadelphia grave yard on the heal-,oue
Of an infant i found this inscription;
short lived joy
Vas our little boy.
He has gone on hi sh,
So don't cry.
Among the Cuban refugees who lately arrived
at New Orleans from Havana. Is a belle aad
heiress, whose wardrobe is rather exteus i've
two hundred dresses, with shawls, bonnets ant
diamonds and jewelry TO match.
A real English Court costume is composed Of
a dark single breasted coat with standing lar
embroidered with gold lace on collar, cuti-, and
lapels: white waistcoat without c0l.ir; tr0. >er-
ike coat; with gold lace down the outer seam>;
cooked hat, sword, White tie This for iercfs-
For dawng-rooms, ssme with breecEes. six
stockings, AMI buckles.
majestic looking Turks in Constan'inuple. but a
of little ability He has but one wife, but
keeps at his own palace an English mistress,
whose beauty to said to be 50 great thai when
she visits the women Of the Sultan'- harem none
Of them can be compared with her.
Madame Olympic Audouari. acc riding IN the
French papers. is anything but aimirer Of
the American men, such As she saw here during
her recent visit 10 this country. The Americans
smoke, she said, they chew, they spit, they put
their feet on mautlepieces AMI tables; ard #
they call themselye democrats. the word has. on
their lips, precisely the sane sense as aristocrat
has elsewhere.
The latest novelty in suits growing out Of
matrimonial relations Is reported from Beieville.
Illinois A NJ. File suei Mr.. Eislefe for ffy
dollars commission for securing husband for
the daughter Of the latter The case WIS thrown
out Of court, but Mr. Ei~lede thought it advisa-
bic to give the old file ten bushels Of corn and
pay his costs.
Here is an extract from the old Massachusetts,
Colony Records, showing that breach Of promise
used to be less costly than it now is In the Cen
eral Court, at Boston, April !. 1853, IL was cor
dered, that Joyce Bradwck shall give unto Al
exander Becke the sum Of twenty sh.llincs fer
promising him marriage without her friends
consent and now refusing to perform the same
An imaginative fashion correspondent says the
last toilet Of Eugene, worn at the PrIvy Coun-
ell, was " grave, rejecting robe, which
hues Of steel met rays OF stuiious brown, the
ensemble being FURNISHED armOr This very aI-
prOpriate suit. uniting sober contemplation with
invincible ideas. was trimmed down the front
with black lace bows from the throat 10 the
ground; it was male Of saltana satin. AMI the
neck tie in front was a lappet Of black silk ~
The style of buildings in Chicago is best de-
crihed by the Times of that city; &" There are
not ten prominent buildings in Chicago that are
not burlesques upon what should be, and the
sight Of which would not cause the architects Il
the Augustan era TO turn in their collins could
they be permitted to look upon them. We are
as far from what We should be as hash is remote
in quality from perfect-dinner In fact hash
is a term which best Describes eleven twelfths Of
our buildings. They consist Of the odds. ends,
and remnants Of what WIS served up by the az
tistic caterers of an earlier day"