Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-29

&C mi anton OF natCre In ali her freaks and
seeIiI Is while WordswoTi follows her Se
an appetite. showing her solemn mpois AMI
Impressions.
Woodwork said once. In a crowd. Mr.
Wordsworth and n lazy were walking, when
the stCck-tove was cooling. A farmers wife
coming by said "Oh, / do like sto x tovas!'
Mrs. Wordsworth, ~ al her enthusiasm for
Wcrdsworth's beautiful address To the stock
dove, took the old woman to her heart
"Bat," continued the woman, some like
'enn In pie; for my part, there's nothing
like 'em stewed in onion ="
LCchart told Hayden that "Murray had
paid Byron tl6.o00 for his works and that
Murray rad made flO0 600 by their sale He
made f25, eco or one edition."
BYRON AND HIS WoMaNKIND
hs! don rays, "Dr. Washington told me
Lord Byron was perfectly justified in leaving
his wife, and that, II 1 knew all the circum-
stances Of the case, should think So" Sir
John Hobhouse lord Broughton) was of
opinion that Lady Byron was not fitted for
byron. There was nothing between them
out pecunlary necessity, and that was the
sole cause OF their separation" That this
was an absurd statement will appear by
such things as this Col. - was at Byron g
house in P1ccsdilly, Lady Byron in the
room, and luncheon was brought in-veal
outlets, etc. She began eating. Byron turned
round in disgust1he had an aversion to see
women eat-and said, COMMANDING
beastn' and taking up the tray, threw the
whole luncheon into the hall. LADY Ryroo
cried, and left the room. Byron toll Miss
Ba1llle, who repeated the story TO Haydn
that, the very morning he and Miss Mill
banke were married, and were driving lone
through the grounds, and all the tenants and
peasantry were cheering, Byron said to her
"What could have induced you to marry
me?" GOOD heavens!" said Lady Byron,
because loved you" No." said he, ''you
nave spice of Mother Eve. You married
me because your friends wished you not TO
do SO. You refused me twice, and will be
revenged." Byron told John Scott that after
his separation from Lady Byron he went to
rout, and was regularly cut by all The
women OF fashion. AS he leaned against the
mantel-piece and they were sweeping by, a
little, reo-haired, bright-eyed coauette came
eXquisitely fnsolent said, "You had better
have married me; 1 would have managed
you better"
Mrs. Leicester Stanhope said the Guiccfoli
used to watch Byron through a telescope
when he went out riding. So, one day, sue
asked him why he did not take the GuiccioIi
out with him. He drawled out in his usual
way, "ConSider, consider what a fright she
would look in a habit" ''Do you think her
handsOme?" Lady BlessingtOn asked him.
"Handsome!' he replied, ''she is a horror, she
has red hair" (Which was not true) She said
then, why don't You take her out wal K
ine?' He answered, because she shuffieS
like duck, and am lame; pretty couple!"
"Do you ever tell her this?'' she asked
Eyes" What does she say?' ''She scra-a-
atches me-" replied Byron. Hayden adds:
81 met the Countess Guiccicl subsequently,
and she was certainly not handsome. She
had small eyes, large nose, long upper lip,
and weak mouth and chin"
Hayoon ulu not 1--we very Tar into the reign
OF Victoria, having committed suicide In
1916, nor does he seem To have had very
high opinion of her. Uf her dull sort of pride
he tells tins story: One day in lSH-2S, when
she was Princess Victoria, and the Queen OF
Nurfemburg was making a visit To Eng
land, Sir Thomas Hammond, being in at
tendaI &c on the queen was present at lunch
con. AS he sat down the Princess Victoria
bowed to him, but, being bent forward he
did not see IL. One of the royal family said,
The princess bows To you" Hammond
looked up; her face was as red fire. He
bowed, but khe never noticed him then or
again. the year after her acceS sion ne at
tended the leyee, nut her majesty did not
notice him, and he passed on to tue duchess
OF Kent, VINO said, My dear, don't Won
notice Sir Thomas Hammond, your Oldest
friend." She bent her head slightly and
said, 81 am happy TO sec Sir Thomas Ham
mOnd."
Sir Eardly Wiimot once told Hayden that
the queen knew a little of everything, and
nothing thoroughly. He used TO see her,
when princess, often drawing from wretched
prints not worth siXpence. He asked her If
she knew HOubraken's heads? She had
never heard OF them. He found her on an
other occasion reading PhCedruS. He asked
her If she knew Taritus. She said they told
read the "Agricola." She proposed she
would, and dId so, and the next time ex-
pressed great delight. He complained To Sir
John ConrOy OF her not having the means TO
acquire finer taste in art than the misera-
bic prints put before her were likely to
create. "This bore out Sir johns remark TO
me-" writes Hayden, "as the princess and
her mother were leaving my exhibition room
Of 'Xenophon.' 'They know nothing of hign