MISCELLANEOUS GOSSIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5842, 7 August 1880, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS GOSS IP.

.»- Rkal flowers are a fashionable dress ornamerit in London. Tweuty.four to thirty ia now tho fashionable ago in London. Ono of Dickens' sone is a member of the Canadian Northwest Mounted Polioe, and has been stationed at Fort Walsh for four years.

It is rumoured that Princess Marie, of Hnnover, siftur to Princess Fredcrikn, will follow tho ktter's example, and marry a commoner, J.kuteuant-Colonel Vogclor. , Tho rnueh-discupßPd ilartmann is a man 30 yeats old and of middle h.right, having a fair complexion, a slender frame and Jarco grey eyes. He is tho Bun of a uierohanti o? Archangel. M. Chevrcul, now completing Lie uinetyllfth year, is dclivciing hi ß eouri-o of lectures en chumiatry in tho Muat-um of Natural Uia-l-M-y, Paris, with all tho vigour and tuthueiasm of a man in middle life. Tho Czar is the only crowned widower and Victoria tho utily crowned widow among the JCuropean potontato?. Alfoneo and LlirUtine of Spain arc the youngest woJded. couple, William and Augusta of Germany the oldest. Young men iu Melbourne are adopting tho practice of wearing tho colours of tlu-ir'foot-ball clubs, as a kind of " order" on iho breast of their coats. This is absurd enough, but tome young Imlioa aro (porting tha colours too in tlie same way. In Paris, tlio men, who having bocn dovelopiug rings, cravat pins, and wrist buttons to an unusual exteut for some tuno uaet aro no*- wearing bracelets ! As yot these nro modest little things, mostly a chain only ; but will the innovation stop there ? The Brasscy family in England must, next to Mr. Vauderbilr, be almost tho largest holders of s.curiti s, othor than real estate, in tho w..rld. Th ir father left them over jCG.OOO.OOQ'in personal property, nmlthcy do not own moro than £20,000 a year of real estate. The Princess Louino finds opportunities for making her sojourn in Canada contribute to the cause of charity iu England. Sho has sent a box filled with valuable aud curious articles of Indian manufacture, to Cheadle Ucctory as her contribution to tho iutercate aud proceeds to tho Chcadlo bazaar recently opened. The London correspondent of tho Mancha'.er Guardian states that Mr. Julian liawtliorue, the novelist (eon of tho distinguished author cf " Tho Scarlet Letter"), at prosent residing iu England, has accepted a coiuulnto iu Japan, offered him by tho Government of. tho United Statos.

Princess FreJerica of Hanover is not likely t> be so poor, after all, ss was expected. The Queen has prevailed on tho Emperor of Germany to allow h.-r £5000 a year out of tho funda. This auangemout does not, o£ courso, nffoct her brother, who will continue to quarrel with tho German Government us long as ho has .my tnouey left him upon which ho can live.

It is almost nco.llcs3 to say that this paragraph has reference to Adelina Patti:—" At a recent cntertaititneut iu Paris, given by a lady of rank aud wealth, a star vocalist received IG.OOO franca (£G00) for singing a song. She (the vocalist) said aho never charged lose than this sum per song, unless four eonga were required, iu which oaae she would Bo contont with one-third leaa, or £400 a song 1 Mis. Ayrton, wife of Professor Ayrton, has received tho degree of Doctor of Modicino from tho Faculty of Mcdioiuo in Paris. Mre. Ayrton is cue of the ladies who, after pursuiug medical studies at tho Univorsity ol! ICdinburgh, were denied degrees. She ilftcrwards rccommcnciid her studies In Pariii. In tho interval she wont with her liuebaud to Japan, and tho title of tho thesis she presented to the Faculty of Medioino beforo obtaining her degree wa«, " Hosoarchos into tho Size aud Development of the Body among tho Japanese." Tiiore Jβ near Houcn, in Franco, an agricultural school for girls, which was established sjino time ago by a Sister of Charity. Connected with it are about threo hundred girls from six to eighteen years of ago. IVcntyfivo Sisters now form the etaQf of touchers, and the farm, cultivated wholly by tho pupils, is over four hundred acres in oxtent, Tho pupils are in groat domaud, on aceoun'j of their skill, aud go out au stewards, gardeners, dairy-women, &c., but consider the agricultural school as a homo to which, they may return.