, 1876-02-13
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
"What My Lover Said'---Bea-
tricc's intended Husband.
A Leap-Year Episode in Nevada, and a
Short Honeymoon at Mobile.
Easy Aritllulotic-.- What Woman Did..-
4 Collection Of Feminine Jo.
c0sities.
WHAT MY LOVER SAID.

In Tho orchard path hc met me-'
In the tall, wet grass. with It's faint perfume
And triud to pass. but he nsale no room;
So atood and b1uBhed till the graas grew red,
With my face bsut down abovs it.
While be TOOK my hand. ss be whisp'ring said
lHow the clover lifted each pink, sweet head,
To haten to all that my lover SAID;
Oh tho clover in b1oon-l 1oyeitD
In the high, vet grass: went tho path to hide.
But could not pass upon either Ride,
For found myself, when sainly tried
In tho arms Of my steAdfast lover.
and he held ne there, aud he raised my head.
While be closed the path before me-:
And be looked down into nS eyes and said
low iha leayes bent down from the bouehs oerhead,
To listen TO I'LL that my lover said:
Oh the lea7es hanging low1y Ger meD
Had be moved aside iittIe way,
could surely then have passed him;
and would lot have heard wi'at ho had to say,
Could only aside bavs cast htns.
It wAs amost dark, and the moments eped.
And the searching uight-wind found us
But he drew me nearer aud softly said
t!low tha pure, sweet wind grow still. instead,
70 listen to all that my lover said:
Oh the whispering wind around uaD
an sure he knew, when he held nc fast,
That must be all unwilling;
For tried to so, and would have passed.
As the night was coming with its dew Ut hst
But be c1a6ped me closer when would have 1el,
And he made me hear his story,
And lia soul came out from his hps md said-.
GLOW The stars crert out where TIC white moon led,
To listen to all that my lover said :;
Oh tho moon and atara In gloryn
I know that the Rra.s and leaves Will not tell.
And 1'm sure TINT the wiud-precious rover
Will carry hs secret 10 safely and well
That no being sl1all eyar discover
Ono word of tho many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips Of my lover
Shall never reveal what q fairy like spell,
They wove round about us that night in the dell,
In the path through the dew laden clover:
Nor echo tho whispers that rnade my hesst swell
As they fell from the lips Of my loyer.
n. q. N Neu York Kuea.n9 Post.
The PRINCESS SEAtH'Se.s sASe DESIGNATED 3os'
1t has been telegrspbed (says the Philaaelphz
Press) that Queen Victoria ia about to announce
the intended marriage Of her youngest daugh-
ter, Beatrice, and ask for the usual outfit and q
life allowance OF $40, 600 Per aDpum for the
bride, who is 10 her 18th year. According to the
Act Of Settlement, whereby William and his wife
were confirmed as joint soveregns OF England,
no member Of the Royal family can marry
Catholic without forfeitipg his or her statue.
Under the Royal Marriage act. passed in 1772,
no Euglish Prince or Princess can marry under
tha rank OF royalty except by special permission
Of the Sovereign aud the Parliament, which was
granted in 1871, when the Princess Louise was
welded to the Marquis OF Lorne, q sub
iect, though heir-appareut to Scottish Duke
dom. In consequence Of the above ressric-
tions as to religion and royalty, the members Of
the reigning family Of England have to look
abroad for Protestant alliances. With the ex~
coption Of two marriages, With DANISH aud
Russian princess Germany has supplied Prot
estant bachelors aud maids. It has been re-
Gently declared that the selected husband OF the
Princess Beatrice Is ''the Prince Louis Of Bat
teuberr, now in India with the Prince OF
Wales, and. although the London Telegraph has
contradicted this report, contradiction from such
a source is not conclusive. We do not recoileet
that any such young gentleman Was member
OF the Princes suite, DOE that he Was mentioned
among his companions. After much search
through Murray's Haud-Books. the Atmqnachds
Golhd, and an old volume Of German genealogy,
We discovered in Lippincott's Gazetteer. that
there is town called Battenberg 10 Hesse-
Darmstadt. With . popn)stlon OF 95l.-a place 70
small thar tt Is not even named by Murray; and
in an old volume Of the Atn,dnach dc Gotta ne
found that cadet OF tue Hesee- DArmstads
house hao married in 1851, ''Julie, Princess de
daughter Of the late Count de-
Haucke, and that Louis-Alexandre, born in
May 1854. was the eldest Of four sons there
from. This young man is probably the desig-
mated husband OF the Princess Beatrice It may
be assumed that, whatever his descent. he ia not
oyerstocked With wealth but this does not mat
ter much, seeing that Parliament will provide
large annual allowance, that Victoria will give
*the happy couple a tent-fEee furnished pal
ice, AID that when Leopold. her Alaiesty's un-
lie, married the Princess Charlotte, then heir
ess-apparent to the British crown his worldly
possessions consisted Of an allowance Of 81, 800
year from his father, than Grand Duke Of
3axe-C e-Coburg-Saalsneld.