The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-16

thoroughly satisfied with them. Every time
have beard you 1 have been dissatisfied
| with myself"
Perhaps one Of the grandest compliments
4 ever paid by one human being to anot aer
was that rendered bv Nicholas. the En-
peror OF all the Russias, to Nile. Rachel,
| the celebrated French actress. When she
/ was introduced to him she knelt: but the
emperor raised her, and himself falling on
! one knee, said THUS should the ROYALTY
Of ra1k pay homage to the royalty of
genius"
EXPLOSIVE COMPLIMENTS.
There is another form of compliment, not
so delicate in quail Y as the foregoing.
though often very amusing, which may be
termed the hyperbolic. The exclamation of
the dustman to the beautiful Duchess Of
Deyonshire is a case in point: Lord, love
your grace, said the man, ''let me light my
pipe at your eyesn'
Though sodfferent, still of the same class,
are the following poll she1 lines, said to have
been written by the father Of the late Lord
Palmerston on presenting a white rose to a
lady:
If this fair rose offend thy sight,
Il on thy bosom wear;
Twill blush TO find Itself less white,
And turn LancaStrlaa there. .,sy
Or if thy ruby lip it spy, fr%
As kiss il thou mayst deign, -
With envy pals twill lose its dye
And Yorkist turn again.
Compliments with express high approval
by implication are especially noteworthy.
When the great Duke of Wellington said
''he always slept well when Stapleton Cot
ton was on guard" he paid a sterling COM
pliment, which must have gratified that
ofiicer-if he heard it-as much as pro-
motion in rank would have done.
A little absurdity about a compliment
often gives it point A Spanish lover is
reported to have. said to his mistress:
Lend me your eyes; l want tonight to
kill man.
CHARITABLE MRS TOM MOORE.
Mrs. Moore, the wife of the poet, was
noted for her benevolence to the poor in
the vicinity of their country residence. On
one occasion guest obseI we'd: II take it
for granted that no one is dying incur
neighborhood. or we should not be favored
with Mrs. Moore's company.
Not long ago, when brief matrimonial
engagement was broken off, a near relation
of the gentle man, one who fully appreci-
ated the high qualities of her from whom
the sometime lover was slndered, said to
the young lady: "You have only lost an
ideal; he has lost reality" a very sweet
compliment this, under the circumstances,
1t seems to us.
One more little anecdote we will give,
and it is a husbands compliment to his
wife. They were visitors for few days at
country house, and on being shown into
their room the lady, who was rearer 40
years of age than 3 0, prepared to take
off her bonnet. Now, be it observed that
lookingglasses vary very much in quality;
some distort and some fatter the counte-
nance.
These different qualities in glass-making
are no new things, for we may remember
that when Queen Elizabeth was dying she
asked for true glass, into which she had
not allowed herself to look for twenty
years. The glass that was on the dressing
table on the occasion to which we refer was
delightful one-that is to say, a "fatter-
ing" one, and, as the lady saw herself re-
Elected in it, she merrily exclaimed: 90,
what charming glassl | look about is in
it." at is just like my eyes, Them the
husband promptly replied.
On the whole, we think that well-ex-
pressed, well-applied compliments have
their uses, and that society would be very
dull and life very bleak without them