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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-1-12, Page 3tVUEEN, COUR Chit Chat of Bri - of Lona Ati Oleic or soella Rallet-cania r -Pr ill t Royal corps lanseiress :Uric 'ringtoe: -of , to be written it Was no personage profound respect ruler of the Free° In connection Mr. Gladstone to retold all these ol oe between th iberal leader an onservative riva ord Salisbury. as never regarcle larked confideno tiller hand the tone's incivility xaggereted. M fond of laybig dos when hia mouth i dog bark, and the Queen Mr. uncourtienlike f • course, and abov Majesty of th.e position in which a COBS a 1.utionall Beaconsfield was • oulty,and henoe with Royalty. 11 Premier in explai cies in his own ut of this faculty i state of effaire however, by this 4 'stand the vetera fashion of settlin 1./rER MAJESTY TA Queen Victoria interest in litera during her cleclini vious period of he leisure, few as the hours of late. I -custom-or, at all in several casee- • of important wor official life before "passed" for the ' has dorm this in -Gordon's life of Aberdeen, whit% in "The Qaeen's Lord Aberdeen w the shade by great - day • but there worhy recording, has bestowed mu phy. The Queen of Cc Lord Aberdeen's except Mr. Gimlet self, who acted as father -when p the whole of the 0 not therefore to b Majesty bas ovine work, and it is sa' it from cover to no plebe form in whic her. It is also p will permit the pu an important le Earl of Aberdeen contributes a sket work ; so that is Mica/ a.nd public i 'WALES TI A considerable Princess and Prin pying the promine iheld up to the dat death last Januar only is the Pri -quieter life than h en past years, but abstain from the o public entertainrn will gradually fill social affairs whim long occupied, ansi but it is notorious rather shy of busi meeticated young fussy manner in w mnembers of the R .out as little as po PRINCE, The Princess of of London life ina is more evens+ the in the ordinary ac sKer appearances i be "few and far who have been lo than uanally gay t brious character o sadly disappointe -future :mend mor ^ Aka she has ever all probability, pa to Russia and 'to remain at &urchin CAMBRIDGE SL The hard -swear mander-in-Chief, bridge, has been h with Lord Rossly euch bloodeurdli His Royal Highne bags of game br world wondered," three days, and th more, it sounded the canny Scott= began to ask quest Dysart; and Gall inquisitive, until i the slaughtered took off the glor", tory, for the were well aware t in that vicinity ; Multifold rodents to shciot? At last the s hainnere marked bad been arriving night trains, and imported end tu posse of bunnies, tss provide sport for were the pheasan f brought up like ba hand the Dysart to run up to a man ;' on the first day chief devoted his ts game the infistua running round hopping over hie ft °mild only take a dee' .....,T,T , c AND comiloNERs. .sk ., his own Boyel tees. So 001110 8011001 ii, o,...ildreet were procured to "'beat up the game" and to go at them with etioks until the bewildered bipede were Obliged to take wing. • , ginner:Titan ooseroaes A BALLET.. The Duke of Edinburgh has been utilizing. Ms ewe time by xi:imposing a ballet, of avecthi oil:, te the Aft)y;Vaoercletinfet7nowe whomhz4vee , wbee Lein, 81",ak fl, 018 higlimit posuble preise, both of the nimbi and ." the book." . The next thine of moor e s t nr duo° this master- „aa a" ' - • 14 0 1 9.. ° • - soosie, one rather, get it produced, and that Ms Royal nightie:is will have done in Vienna and pot in London -not of couree , . , „ „ . a ' -- „ , e beeauee Royal Alma is asnemea or nis motoona chief twee, but became they pro, duce ballets- much better on the., banks of the Demtbe than they do on the hanks - of the Thanies.. in London opera houses the b 11 t f 1 th a". '51. tei•mer,Y . h e lufsili .staY of manb" germ ' reasuries, as o late years gone.ou 1 d 't l Id tt t• o .date, , an r a maul o a rec ions have been transferred to fanes dedicatedto the lightsome andpopular '' varietY enter''' Ointment," at which establishmeuts Royal Alfred' Id h 'di b ' xp ted to allow e°t1 at: Y e e e° a hia chef -Wows' re to be produced.' Full lour decades have elapsed since the palmy' daya of the ballet in London, when Teglioni book the town with her enehanting iropereona. tion of "La .8 I I id " ' t 1' d b y p i. e, mown. AEI me y Thitekeray in "TheNewcomes "and d . , ;reigne stiprenie in public favor year after 'year, despite such potent rivalry an that of Fanny Odder, Carlotta' Grisi and the fairy-like Cerlto, who "created " the • part of Alma hi the famous ballet of that name • • 'PLAYS AT A CONCERT UNDER DIFFICULTIES. The Duke Was playing the violin the other night at a concert in Plymouth, but the story of.how he got there is still more interesting, • In the afternoon he had been: Shootiug at the Cornish seat Of the Earl and Countess of St. Germaine near Port Eliot, ,and•arrangements had been made to ap- • priee him in good time when the train for s • • Plymouth was signalled from the station next to Port Eliot. The message, however, failed to reach the Duke, who consecpiently missed the train. A special fish train had 'been timed to pate the station shortly after- wards, and by arrangement he was enabled .to travel to Plymouth in the guard's' van of this, in company with the guard. . QUAINT HEREDITARY PRIVILEGES. Lord Vernon, who has entered upon hie new appointment as Captain of the Corps of Gentlemen-at-Armsr hits the privilege- such as it is -of shooting each year .one 'ro al deer with a bow. andsarrow in Windsor Park. Thi ' • hereditary •' il a is an paw ege, Which has been attached to •this office for several centuries. , It is doubtful, however, that he wilt , ' '11 avail himself of it for Lord Vernon has but slight love for rural life or t- n n a ain he probably could spor a d the g., • not hit the front of BuckinghamPalsne with the forester's bow and arrow. He has a natural tasM for facts and figures, which has drawn upon him the attention of Mr. Gladstone, who has been his gees t on several ,Occuteions at Sudbury Hall, a picturesque • Elizabethan mansion, with a roarvelloue oak staircase by Grmling Gibbons, and a gallery of rare paintings. RARE FEAST AT QUERN vreTowle•s EXPENSE. The Royal corps of Gentlethenes.b-Arms , had, on the Princess of Wales' birthday, their annual mess dinner at St. James' Palace, under the presidency of the cap- t i w' th revious ca tains and officers a n, i .. p p ' and the lieutenants, the standard-bearer, ar - serer, d d b the clerk of the cheque, the adjutant and the sub -officers helped to devour turtle soup, stewedeols, fried brill, pheasants, ducks, snipe, boiled capons and York ham, Christ. num puddings, mince pies, cheese and celery, old port and champagne. The bodyguard of the Queen is the oldest but one in the British service, and besides the comtnander aad the staff it consists of forty gentlemen -at -arms and the harbinger. The corps was first instituted by the much; married King Henry VIII,, and was corn- posed only of gentlemen of noble blood, Besides the captain's salary, which foots up to $6 000, the lieutenant gets $2,500 a year, ' b $550 d the the standard- earer an e gentlemen • $-0. • each, • pcivates e o a year with scarlet and golden uniform free. • cultioUS RELA.TIONSHIr OF A DUCHESS. The Duchess of Westminster, who gave birth to child a few weeks back, has been as e nurses an es ors say, a a having,th • d d t badWill .Dr. time o 1 . f t All is right new and the Duke cam pride himself on being the father of a r ulteell children. He is alITIOd as devout a follower of the comtnandment, "be fruitful mid multiply and replenish the earth," as was e o Baron o oe , e a the fatherf B P 11 k tb I te Lord Chief Baron, who had, libe the Duke f 'Westminster, two wives, and by a totalit unknown since the days of Yth ' Ph ' 11 St 6 h d "Augustus e yam y . rong a h•ld ' Th D h ' • th twenty-one o i rem e lie eas is in e most comical' relation; she is sister -in -1w to her own aug eren- aw, her brother d lit • 1 forh marriedthe daughter of the Duke of West- • n ter of whom the now happily recov- im s , . Sh - t the ered mother is the wife e is, a , e same tuneoan an , o male ' ' motherdsister,d t'Id • . . •. , .,., confusion worse confounded, she is sister -in. law and. mother-in-law.-- , She is a most . . . charming lady, and the handsomest of the three daughters of that Mr. Cavendish of whom a gipsy prophesied that the three would marry and each marry' a different title. . The' prophecy is true : the eldest is the Countess ' of Leicester; the second, .. ,Viscountese Cobham; the third,the Duchees of Westminster. • Yourroonsoies WITH men R. . • d Col. 'Car g , . . . . in ton who has now assume with Col B ne the nest of Equerry -in- , ' Y e' r• • - waiting on Queen Victoria, is a. brother of . . ti 1 : 1 b io ,00 Lord Carrington (yin wo r s . e . th t popular ex•Governor of New noted) the p . . Wales. There seems much touchrness on t e as . e ques ion o e name h family to th t- f th it beara, for patronymic Oafter diacarding the plebian f the founder of the house plain Mr. Smith, and 'assuming 'the far more patrician Carrington for the head of qua the family, they make it a sine 92012 that all the younger sons shall , spell theirpeople , names with one r." • . ,... A Dut.* TRAINED TO ENGINEERING. ' . , .11 . Hove, a 'auburb of the fashionable water- I ea tri hton has been Irving on the nag P a g ' . light. A continuoue tunne • was electric 1 run under the footways, ..;,-ith culverts at ' t distances so t :',I there was no convenient • , e, : More trouble about the m „.., ,ter than when a up his wat 'eel A •four -footed man *bids . al,.. '''"' f 1 ' 'taken electrician Was extremely use u in pas?ing the wires along the tiinnel, for a smatt little fox terrier :toted as a sort of , animated bod- ,, . . d t h' 11 kin,. With a cord fastened o is to am and his nose turted in the right direetiot, he went with AS brach gusto aa if he away • , . .. vvere /miming a rat throught a wheat Darn, tl - a t the awl hours of work were um save o artificers- . down, off Despond "ilei:ratitlicr . b eon ruffled hernia. gay, wee ietietelled' fl'erdueridefinedness. ' . fair to ' she work elusive novelty tawdry of baud. home light. • . had she her on hall window On lade I extraa Week. 'Yet the Thanksgiving could slippery done sick b • ififFino, ao boarding was . and invitation lone League. eve. .• ter and rest • going being well-known. man'of her. any ant, And tacitly with of She -her all; boiling," artistic some to day gloaming, thrown her mg her nose, and all not Arden. Ever Will broke whole got Newever N alonmwith h her earns down rudehouie k't i negro b 'd n aide spoken rough careless si and as in good money back and for tbe idea. she of boarding . and • tailor The way su. it see eve on see Horn out darkies horses shed the his Mollie was scoured boards ,ing doors, mistletoe ' Mg boy were moon, Bowlegged base as " 0 , .,otton-eye "Itye•StraSe bora the sets. from Were item th d country trees A. BUNCH. 0 MISTLETO.E • .....--,,-.. , her by of of of. ' se It , . . of .. up her . 5' . f e at ' - to is a by of • Of no . did. i e. ey in its e- • his 5'' to ! g in d- e . al _ . o f two, And thevo ,,,,,„ 'Will. Poo , old Will 1 Dear old Will . But, soniehew or other, ehe couldn't be- leve two virni vim very jolly, Of eourso he came and went and deuced and lived hie life, ae the rest of them did, but Ot his heart he wee sad' and undone. She • ' • Would never forget that het talk of theire. govvirkh:mlleetAitt°7014e syperifn g atgoe e, awe tvilpe en P8ehberohaya and Maroh on aneolint of her threat. Hew 'vividly, it all was before her I That early, rare epring vveather ; the red buds were °et, faint and pink against the dark womin eanad(jtwbehite P 1141 men" " e high wiladlong theblereeke, audd hisildahherisl The new, tender, ippon geese grass orept Islmoalt Vieibly in."ribbons, along the gulleye and foothills, and the rsunshine lay.. close to the earth; tea. sing the wild . ;lamming and • opting beauties into precocious, blooming. Right over their head e tw.o. bluebirds emeed, building a nes an crooning over an Imam. • ' wary brood of young ones. The tanks m the pasture looked like mirrors, end. re- fleeted the vapery gulf clouds, ' -I An Will b4c1 ° d kez' suni° hurd truth° as they walkedbeck home through the long silvery grass, crushing the Spring -beauties d • ' 'undertheirfeet,Sh could an natal/391 . e eon see hie earnest, pained filo, and hear him PhtlienblY and Yet sternly' " Yen nre not the sarne girl, Ruth. These two Vara in New York have utterly changed you. . You may write and • dress better, • . -. - . ' bet you are neither , wiser nor happier. I hate New, York 1 I feel like it ie a furnace into which , you have thrown your eoul and body to be ,consumed. I may be wrong. I am not educated and experienced like you are. But 1 olive you. Sweet- heart, do not .let it end here." And she could remember what bitter, worldly, things she had said to him. "1 was nlis- taken," "a foolish child," "higher aims," nod ib ono,,, HOW the cruel words out and stabbed their way through her mem- my i . - Wail it too late? .. • i - I » • • Will . Will . the cried, etretth.mg out her aomo yearningly into the silence. There was a rap on the door, and an express package was handed to her. It was post- ftiorked---.-, her henna She knelt befere .the grate, cut the cords, Mod there was a bait of mistletoe.. How fresh and fair .it wae I She laid it out, bunch after bunch, on the rug and it gleareed like peer% and • emera s in e in o ear o Texas! ld ' 'thfire I' h D Id But who bad Bent ib? She examined tine •tag andaddress. Surely, surely that was Will's Writing. She turned the box upside There• down. was nothing there. But her heart knew. ' That night she told Lengdon Steiritt that she loved him not at all and would * • ' • ou marry him -never. And before she wl '11 A a ept she wrote to Will Arden, What did she write? Ask Will. He will be here on Christmas Day. 'It will take her letter four days to go, end Will four days to get hara. . BROWN STUDIM. tricity, Ris paper reed before the PleffIslo Electrical Seeiety hoe Mt many people to thinking. Everybody pretende to 'Wren' eenietivine, abent electricity, One he eau theneand eeally doee knew eemething 000 it. They know if you toneh the initten theotbelaiorlOinkgneowet ate, otlusroefodo,0:01: 017 don't know why or hew. They etudy effe • nothing'el M. Stern's explanation the public are ine debted for knewleclge. •of the fact thot the term eanpere was a name Ohosea by the Britieh Association to express a unit, Which is the result of a volt threugh an ohm, Velir ie from Volta, an eipert eleetrieien and chemise), who discovered the Volteic pile and the eetiorapf 'certain ,chemiesla on zine• and how to get UP a current. Ohm, another word that' sticke in, the throats of every body, was named for ChM, who taught us that all sublects offered more or less resit*, twee to the passage of an electrical eurrente ---,—, Book ere ^very cheap, .6. but ' the probability ie A' that they,. will be Still ' future. The perfection ban' .. . 4,4, -en eofhetehpeer met: , .:110: :era: censers employed M their mennfacture hes enabled " \ 10'..:' 'a publishers to bring down , the price to a minim. V .; figure already ; but the , s type -setting machines, „ the cheapness of etegeo- . typing, the constant . diminution In the cost; of illuetroting, all. pet3rno (1°V/ft° :toilbirlion*getrh,e.a;12e the tthimeefiieleellneedt efetant whoa a paper -bound book, w.ell • printed' and illuetratecl, Will be sold kr five dente. ,---s-.. - The hilted Boston science is oiskologY. The derivation of the term is evident. It is from the Greek °Ikea, meaning a house, and the familiar Mrminetion logy from logos. .Here we have, then, . household ' Th ' h k . ' *th 't science. _ us is eine esputg, vv. x s various departments lifted among the learned pursuits. If: will rank hereafter . with philology', mineralogy, physiology and archaeology. We may now look for the eetablishment of a chair of oekology in Yale . . . ., , with lectures on such subjects se "History of the Flapjack," " llowto Make a Bed," " Early Forms of the Tea Biscuit," "Gen- deneation as Applied ' to Elate" etc. Graduates of the course will be known as 0,. B., O. M. or • 0. D., bachelor, master or doctor of oekology, as the mese may be. It is strongly suoPeoted that the new science is a device of the old maids of New .Eng- land to create a matrimonial boom, if possible. , . • Royalties and Other , . . Ish Bipeds, , (Belle/Hunt in the New ,York Recorder./ , T Wee pot to be Mise Blow's first ahristmes away. from home. It would Another, here in N York • Ih.et her third,. rlglIkut..no's7.1°°.'p_ol ceinaf.fot, i :many censer, pu e e,, i i p n , Leg and getting up. se. now owing smoothly along aa though upheld ' ' ' ' ' unseen aegel hands, and then falling and forgotten, rolled dont, side to one eide in the great $1044 which rises in the mountaine empties into tig ot..iittat, Her first Christmas in New York bad • verry merry. was et e me one ' - It ' 'Id d 'bh h with noVeltv and -frilled -.With .13'o! the 0, ecion,wdoMe . had not ' been. but ver leasant and satiefector . Sr P , , , Y wa.rm • with new mute friedns . atm agn orally with encouregement, Bt•Yth• th' d Ch i tin well, it bade ti is IV 1 8 ' 48- " to be blue. ' • • . Slushed gone 3 aet far enough in her work see how much further there was to go had succeeded jost nearly enough. in ilei to find out what au ,uncertain an ' • . ' • thing success is the ruffles were frayed, the ri a o Bohemia ' f' '11 f and ho and even the gilding 'a PPY, . e - . • hope looked. a'bits -tarniali d and, seconn And ske had been tong enough from to see and remember it in an idealized • , e, Yet she was prospering -oh, yes 1 ,esie. sold a dozen atones this year, where had. sold two the Brat year; iihe got signature generally, and epeoial, 'rates ,all -ordered work. She had lehren bedrooms, and no longer appligecl panes with laandkerchiefeplastered wet to "iron smooth as they dried." She coz square room with fire $2 a week Y , ( and "put out" her lin erie ever . :* . . g . . to the laundry. , , slie was not ha . . PPY-pretty hard She had been working the past six weeks, getting off all o and Christmas stuff sheul onto her . free-lance,tsbute down hacl track of availitbili y. And she well. Yet she was not happy 1 She was homo- , 'rust the plain old, everday, heart- : ja tl t•dr ' ' h e icknese which iroa, • ymg Jim s t firs y 'ear 11? girls _ during did settool. . Sh h d not know what th .he 1 • ma er en .her. . . She .hado got off all her Christmas letters boxes home, and given her .hospitable for Christmas dinner to the two • • • ' t e Stanley girls studying at h Art . • • It Was now just a week before Christmas She had luntshed -with a frlend-a sis- member of the Women's Pres Club had come home late in the afternoon for the theatre that night. She was • • -bk. e : a . wi a Langdon oterntt, the box party given in her .honor. Sterritt was journalist., a man of means, the world, and dead in love with She was not dead in love with him means. She liked him. He Was pleas- bright, clever,, faacinating, gallant.. he had money and position. She was engaged•to him. She quite agreed her friends that it would be the climax folly and bad taste for her to refine him. . would have an establishment of her own •' Won ,• her "turn -out " .--and , , best be relieved of the necessity of ' pot- and able to write from the truly :standard. , . • ' in. sh • ended to mar him'NixonOf .co se, e int rt day, but it was very awkward of him insist upon having a definite and positive set before Christmas. She sat in •the in her own room, her tired head back on the perfumed headrest rocking chair,. her slippered feet toast- on a hassook, a fleck of cold cream lips and the tip of her straight littlo and the key turned between hersal the interrupting outside world. And • . • she could think of was just what the want to t in o - exas an h' k of -Texas d Will • . Will was her old cowboe, evveethearb. since she could remember she and hair been sweethearts. How her heart when wen o . or t offschoolf• u mon s n .. outs en te . th i St L ' ! Th they elong delightfully until she got • this York f • i2 • in her veins. - Strange to say, Will had evolved right the rest of her convictions, - ' •e• f 1 t'' morn o re a we values, since she to York. First, he went down, with the barren old ranch • life, the with its uncarpeted floors, c en moron e yard, its noisy, lazy h th'' 1 ts d ddl bl k servan , an ea es, an ets, es a n spurs on eporch. d the frontB the Well-deessed, well-groomed, 'well- Men of. the oit poor Will, with clothes sunburnYed face and heart ''h d d • • ways, a .. seeme quite an wipes- ' ' t ' ' ' ' e crea ure. '' . d . r Then as.she live longer in New York, got seeing behind the scenes as well . from the front, it began to dawn on her •flashea 'and- heap's,: that Will had his Points. The idea of Will 'borrowing he had no - visible ' means of paying I The idea. of Will pawniog his watch making a joke of it at his own'expense . , , e the amusement ..of ' the .gang over . " growler" and their pipes ! The of Will sitting in the . street car while or anyother woman stood I The idea Will moving from boarding house , . . . , . ' house " skipping ' his • board, • . I. recounting his landlady -encounters and -escapee . to make 'people laugh .' . .• • . idea of.Will bowing and elbowing his . . o into a drawing -room in a hired evening 1 • • Heaven1eat tike 1rdld "1eh 1 ' She could Ch 1 just 1bl ow i woo book 1ccm, _ nittwits iri 1 Over the prairies from. all directions, • her:whack and. in buggies, the could flockin to the Bi the country g ,, for its annual. Christmas eve blow " There were ' the big leg fires, the . • singing as , they chopped wood, the and cattle munching hay in the There was the trench dug behind . • clUII smokehouse, an old ne e saao glory 'barbecuing pigs, wild turkeys, Cottontails and ossums. There . „. . the long dining -rem, with. s aan Pit floor, the table, chair and ,otits• out, e wide__rep ace_ ol• -the 6 i ft .a the room with light mid Warmth, , windowa and mantel covered With -a bigie . o e ang- b' bunch t•- d t the h lamp to guarantee a kiss for. every at the dance. There in the corner . • - 4. • - 4. ' Jim with his first fiddle, nob witn his d fiddle, J 0 with his ban *o and _, et _ o , an' .1071 ,, _, . , 3 : . Bill with his old hoarse -voices Viol, known all over the eettienient - . ,) 1 " Miss Betsey. They were playing ; of urty ,a, er.an d 3 " d‘P ' Y 11 Gal,' " and my! how the girls and , ., _ did dance, repairing in couples to inexhaustible egg7neg bowl. between The,re were the Sowell girls -home Austin. College for the holidays ; there, Fred Jenee arid the rest of the bop Duck Creek settlerrient, and Berne t " b ' off for a lark in the own oos run . _ ... . . in preference to the Christmtui, arid Goepol Eiongs at the churthee in 'evdeen, "wallea gaYs 14100 reemeeeeze a„,,,post, a loge t4bs'els 30900 Tam° „14,0 0. we 0,141,i„. 0 ono ism attottlionen-ai-Orms-a. s, " When Who" - nate, ats Ws. Lennon, January. , , E R .Mejestv visited ,. ( ex.Empress hognois at Farnborough a few days eau, The Queen 0 t 71.a1way, enjoys her vieits 0 negoeie. -1- he „Isis.° royal widows " essuni- late" to an excesetde v d.P.greel ra when, 94- e°4 'Victoria s nionmers have will be found thet there for whom sne had a more ihan the erstwhile female 1) PeoPle. ,vith the recent visit of Windsor, there have been 1 stories about the differ- s reception accorded. the l that given to his two Lord Beaconsfield and s,HE Her Iblejesty, it is true, a Mr. Gladstone with the t of a fog:ante, hutanthe tales told of Mr. Glad- o the Queen are grossly ,. Gladatorae is exbremely rn the law, . and literally, s open, he lets no other in his dealings with Glad atOaa has a very ,shion of pursuing this i ill, of reminding Her practically subordMate she stands as the rule of r governed State. land clever to avoid this diffi- 'as always a persona gram, : egeruoua as may • be • the dug amity any ineonsiston- serancee, he employs none n his • exporitions of the o Queen Victoria, who, Ome has come to under- a datum:ties dictatorial ; matters. css To LITERATURE AGAIN has developed a greater etre and literary people eg years than at any ?reign ; and her home of y are, have been studious: ri s has been the Quee's events, she has consented 6 peruse the proof -sheets Ira .relating to Court and the •volumes were finally prees. Quite recently she the case 'of Sir Arthur Isis father, the Berl of vill shortly be published Prime Minister" series. ss no doubt thrown into ,er political figures in his was much in his career • a.nd Sir Arthur Gnrdon' di labor upon the biogra- tirse, knows more about olitioal life than anybody, one and Sir Arthur him- private secretary to . his rime Minister--thr h -g &man campaign. It is i wondered at that Her ssi much interest in the d to have gone through ver in the rough but com- h it has been submitted to :olmble that the Queen blization in its nagee of ter from herself to the wad Mr. Gladstone 'also ;11 of His Lordship to the vill possess especial poll- iterest. USG OF SOCIETY. time will elapse ere the es of Wales Will be occu- nt position in socie y they i of the Duke of Clarence's r. The fact is that not .ce to lies a . very much a has been accustomed to he finds it neceaeary tohand Id round of festivities and Into. The.Dulie of York the position in publicoand 1 his illustrious father somer . with so znuch success ; that Prince Georgefights less; He is a very do- :wen and so dislikes the hich' society treets all the la ' family that' he gees 3Sibiti. ' ;S CMES DITTO. W,lvs tired of the whirl 'y Yeara ago, mid new she a, ever to "going about" septation of the phrase. xi sooiety next season will between," so that those eking foroard to a more ime to atone for the lugu- ! the past season will be i. The Princes will . in i time out of England. lone before. She will, iu y long visits to Denmark, kustrie,•and 'in intervals *ham as much as possib le ' iUGHTERS TH11131E1)8. ' ing, pompous old Corn, George, Duke of Cam- 6ving a few days' shooting a 'at Dysart Park, and g accounts circulated of is' prowess end the huge night down that "all the • About 2,000 heads in mi 1,200 birds in two dams prodigious. Unluckily, en of the neighborhood ions, and 'the poachers of town were particularly ., transpired that most of sane were DI . bbits This but increated the nays. .nowing ones" of the,gut ,o,t buneies . were scarce where, then, did such come from for the DukeShrike ieret came out. Huge from'Live stook with care '• the South by the Lord Roselyn had tiled med out for slaitchter a ate as any lady's pets,. to his Royal guest i Xer wilder . in feet Id much • . rridoot fowl, mid fed by birda were more apt to than fly from him, and that the commitiidet-in, ttention to this winged el omelet:A persieted in ihri like tarhe robins, nt eta until the Prime ... g i , ni at there t� the areat BURNED BY A BOMB. ----- . krilwankee Trolley Oar Depot 'Wrecked by ,Piro. OVER 8500 000 DESTROYED ' . ' ' ' There was a tremendous explosion, and in n moment the interior of the building wag M. a blase. In a few minutes the .. fire was beyond control, and in leie than an hour the entire plant was eon - Burned, entailing a lose of $510,000. • The Street Railroad Company's south aide plant is located on Iiittinikinio avenue. It in- eludes the immense storage stables for eleotric motors the machine ehope and the stables, In th'e barn were fifty new electric motors and nearly all the ' summer oars owned by the compan.y. The machine shops were built the past season, mid were fitted with very fine maohinery for e re- th building and repairing of ' oars, In the stables were '60 horses, but these were gotten out alive. The cars stored in the building were valued at $350,000, while the structure iteelf was worth at least $60,000. The machinery was valued at fully .$75,000, while , the litores of the company- were kept in the build - ing and ' • were worth- $25,000. The insurance carried was on the building; .and amounts to $40,000. The barns whiehi were destroyed were the principal depot of the Milwaukee Street Railway Company,: and the fire greatly crippled the company.. Who the man is Who threw the bomb is not . known. He is supposed to be the fire -bug who has started fully a dozen other disas- trans fires within a month A grand jar , , • y will be summoned to investigate the case ''' • , The only person who saw the alleged bomb thrown was Nightwatohm. 'Word He . an , en. says he was standing near the main doorway of the barn in which the motors and care were stored. There was a whizz of some - thing through the ' air, a . flash aid. a tre- • • mendons,explosion. If there was a bomb. thrown, which many doubt, it came through, the main doorway and ebmuck the nearest car at .that entrance. The ' s • projectile mut have been filled with. ,some highly inflammable sub- , stance, as hardly ten Seconds elapsed, according to the nightwatchman's stoiy, before nearly all the cars in the building were in 'flames. Manager Lynn, of the Company. is Convinced of the truthfulness �f the watehnian's story. That there . was an, exp omen everyone in e, 1 ' • the neighborhood will testify. There was nothing of .an explosive nitture about the plant. A small cottage next to the plant of the StreetRailwayeempany was also destroyed. ' • —...._ ; • In an article on 'domestic life Ledy Violet Granville says: "1 am inclined to, think that women, as a Tele, are what men make them and a husband of 22 or 23 lacks ex- ' perienoe in svife-training. If only marriage were like civil -service examination 1 So many questions $o answer, so many' valid- .cations to fulfil --how easy it would be to prepare for tive modern • langne.ges, or one, music or • drawing, algebra or cooking, as the case' might be 1 A man in the colonies knows what he wants a wife for= to ' cook, . to sew, to scrub, to wash-in Wort, a • respectable, un- paid, general servant, ordinarily temale labor being unattainable But what • does a, 'man in London know of his require.; Th I ' • The wi e he married when he was inents ? . junior a atru lin at the bar or a trade:S. gg g ' man in a small way 'is out Of touch.and.out of harmony with 11' • d' now that wi is ,surroun Inge n he is Lord Chancellor or the head of a firm and a rising M. P., qualifying for a; baronetcy. The small clerk needs a cook; the artist or literary man an intellectual • companion; the brilliant atateeman a woman who will 'exert her influence over htm, seeth t he has soup and wine when he returns from his work, and keep away from • d' '' ' ! " him all isagreeable and tedious• admirers. .......---- • . The very latest thing out kr otitting.off the tip of your cigar is a wheel operated by eleotricity. When you happen to go into is cigar store where one of those things is getting in its work it will be well with you .if you don't get your fingers nipped in- te d f th • d f • To 11 s a, o e en o your cigar. . ere wi . be a sign hung above the machine warning careless customers to look for their fiugers. The best thing is to. keep your fingers on, and then when you look for them you.% know where to find them. The changes in the appliskices for clipping the ends of cigars are 'not, as a rule, ., re- markable for ingenuity. "' However, they make it . up in numbers. Go into almost any cigar store and you will find from two to half a dozen differentkinds of cutters. Usually after you have tried one you'll wish you'd tried the otherone. In nine cases out of ten the machine will be out of order. The electrical cutter fills is long felt want. It is a small buzz -saw - cl ' arrangement, eovere except este the small orifice into which you thrust your cigar or finger, as the case may be It makes no . noise, gives no Warning. You can't tell whet er or not i is rea y going. is, h 't • 11 ' That ' . . not by looking at it. If you have any - ' - ' 1 a t h ti doubts about it you simp y rimer t e p e your finger in the hole. f little If it isn't going you try another cutter. If it is going you try an ambulance for the nearest hos- pital. Read the sign afterward. A NONAGENARIAN PREACHER. — InterestIng References to. an Eminent Minister in Scoillutd. ss`Th R D Ns • ' ' , e Rev. r. mon, senior pastor of Free St john's (Presbyterian) IVIontrose • ,. , Scotland, who for a number of years past has been resident in Edinburginpreached on Sunday forenoon recently in his old pulpit to a large congregation. Dr. Nixon -chose for his text the first words of the 42nd verse of the 10th chapter of Luke-" One thing is needful:" ' That thi g D one n , De. Nixon• tad porn out, was personal 'Salvation. It was the only thing needful for present and eternal happiness, for all other things-. health, wealth, prosperity, pleasure, world' 9 honor, etc. -were :subordinate to it, an c! Were not necessary to life here or hereafter. Dr. ,Niconcluded with an eloquent appeal to his hearers to accept. ond further the Gospel. He was listened to throughout witholose attention, and many of the older ornembers, together with a large number of persona from other congregations who had known him while in Montrose, were de- lighted to find that the old power and elo- quence of the preacher had not gone, although necessarily they were :somewhat Th R J A. G • ' i abated. e ev. J. George, jnn or, pastor, conducted the preliminary parts of h . • t e meince. Dr. Nixon is in the 90th year of his age. . A local paper said : " Ph s' 11 ' tel V loa, irs m 1 j. • . • - d eotua ly and spiritually the sermon e- mere , y e nonagenarian preac. er, l• d b the a *h ' Rev.' in ree .. o n , Nixon,' • F St J h 's Montrose,' ' on Sunday forenoon was remarkable. As With slow steps sod drooping head the rev. doctor amended the pulpit stairs, the friends. - who had last seen him there nearly 'fourteen years ago, could not fail to remark that the 61 time had fall surely though kindly th hoary hand.Y u the 'vo c was °h e -e e i e. 'clear an ever, and, when raised in denuncia- • ' tionor warning, showed rnuch of the 'fireof for- days. Whenthiseloquencewas au.steined . or nearly an our -sermons were ,fh • neverinstead any shorter when the rev. doctor was at the height f h* ' "th t th 'cl. f ,o is power -en ou e al o numerous Cold water ` nips ' the . physical feat was certainly one . which might well shame many of our. modern twenty -minutia aermonizers. Intellectually the sermon was is model of construction acme d' t the old h 1 th tit d f r ing o e o sc oo , e a o "heads" sub -heads, sentences arid words following each other in alinost geometrical progression. SPiritually or theologically the reirmon was . also of wbat the Dia• ruption worthies miaht cell the " guid auld G 1 f • t ospe kind.'very argnmen was "nein wi' Scripturs." A glance at the. old Oameronian•s manuscript ' would probe- -bly have revealed the fact that what many • r. ministers an as a rube a pu too. tons dII ' bl' t' ' d ' . • 1 ,, p. nowa oys write anc prints as h —1 and , d . e • h• ' written . e ' —1 were in is case ull out with capital letters There was no guarded e. • ' t d - 'D.1 dubiety in speaking of hem, an ,certai Y them t f t no attempb to leave em OE to aCCOUll ; no pandering to modern seiebulations ' and , no tickling Of the ears of the "many -headed beat.' • The Ring. , McAuliffe 'declares he has lost $1,000 by not appearing with his theatrical company,. and would fight Barge for anything. Peter Jackson has given up all intention of going back to Australia for at lead a couple -of years. His ' World's Fair engage - ment and possibly a match will occupy all hie time for a while. • • • THE BURGE-M'AULIFFE FIGHT OFF. ' The fight between Jack McAuliffe and D' k Bwhich h b ee urge, was to have been corn - leted T d h i 11 through d th ues ay, as a en an et gone I la d hl ' C ' • y s n At etre lub has withdrawar the $45 000 Tho ' bilit f t' , purse.. ma y o ne ' men to come to an agreement has placed the • match on the naark-eb again. . LS SULLIVAN GOING CRAZY? • . Jimmy Wakely, one of Sullivan's backers in his fight wi , .. In with Corbett . said • reference to John Ifs renewed claim that he had been. dragged before the fight a " Sullivan ire going crazy, , for•I aria' sure that if Ms mind: is not weak he would' never make such remarka I have been told that - . . e although he mentions no names, ' I am the person accused. Heaven be my judge, I never injured that , man in ray, life, tub 1 . I treated him like a brother Drink has been .the• cause of his ruin and else Oh rl Johnstond I g . . a ey an , during the daye of his training on Long Island, watched him like a mother would. a child to keep . Wm away• o ink- p 1 fr in dr ing, ' but. .despite our watchfulness he stole beer and sneaked it to hieroom. 'Yea,, • the f IC defeat d t e cause o isan no mor- phine, which he says was put in his food.. MS defeat is killing him gradually and hire brain le beyond . a doubt getting weak. I hod a fortune on Sullivan to *hip Corbett, and I can tell you that it • came withir\a• art ace of ruining ,me." . . Charley Johnston, his other backer was , - in anesngry mood over what Sullivan haa said and refuned 'to talk at length on the • • - subject.' He believes, too, that Sullivan re lotaing hiannirid and &are the future. Re - • h • garding the statements t at Sullivan wall- drugged, he seem they Were Made by a man h- mindbadb wreckedb w ose een y reverses. an ar eycorn. e opinion; cl. "old JohnB 1 " Th ' '' prevaids here that Sullivan's queer actions foretell an early breakdown. . People come from every part of the world to visit the Niagara Falls. But naturally' th • ' it el • the 'awful err via s are mos yin e summer, when the weather is 'favorable to pleasure travel, yet no person has .beheld Niagara in 'all its beauty ,who has riot seen the falls in a sharp, frosty, winter season. The spray frozen on the face of the great rooks the mountains f ' b '1 th ' t thnothing o zee t ab . pibe emseives up a e sides of the cataract ' in all sorts of fantastic formations, booking like giants frozen while ' • at play; the huge, glittering moles hanging' from every projection, many of them' more than a hundred feet in iengt ; he oam rolling up e steamis ' li t flikthat from a monstrous cauldron, make 'a 'scene indescribable in its weird grandeur. In the sunshine the face of the rocks seems to glitter with myriads of brilliant . gems, the colors changing with every motion of the eyes. great moles shine or- The • 'like b niahed silver. The foam takes ever -varying hues as it rolls upward from the boiling depths. In the moonlight the scene Is - d 1 h 11 book changed, an a pa e, g oat. i ecomes . . over the rocks the moles and the frozen • ' mountains. . Every lover of the grand and b tif 1.• nature ought to see Niagara in eaU 't • . f the winter, and the recen . aharp rod is • h d h F 11 with road to have clot e t e a a wi more than ordinary attractiveness. ' . m A girl who chews guon every occasion is working her jaws toe much -in oonnec- tam with her average amount of talking, says a well-known physician. The result • is the musoles of the jews are overstrained. There is a remotion. Her Pone become sets It nigh ' • bl H h th and we immova e. er sperm en e - • e e - e . bl I cl Is takes the roam ox monorm a es. o nomon -- want to be misunderstood m this matter. I * .. SaY that the girl who chews gum to excess will, Sooner or later, find that her jaUcs refuse to act with their usual freedom. - - . " In other words, she becOmeS affliCted with ' gum chewers' cramp.'" "FilinlY: len% it ?" "XOt at all ; you Must reraember thtst there are • compenerstionii in nature. The . . . inordinate use of one muscle or one Set of =Mos toodo to ehaermallY expand them, overtax mkt or mpair em, as e case • them i ' ' theni, th ' maybe. , " Thuwit is that there is no /teatime or labor which, pursuedsiteadity to exceen„ will not result in O 1 a . Onte Ma a Y., "NOW, then, it is widely known that th,e dent' es disease, ' for illetettation is a kid !II 1...: a e, ' ' • " ney eon:go:unto , Nine dentists out of ten suffer with it. This is because their work compels , them to itand hour after hour rooted t� the spot. The strain falls on the einall of the hack and, im it happene develope kidney trouble. 1 Mentitul this at'l in illnetratiOrt Of what 1 Alit driving at." ---° ' "Come and sit around .the fire, Emer- sonia," said the hoapitable western relative. "There are h aka limitations that will p y . .7 prevent me from doing so, Aunt Bindle, replied the young woman from ' Boston, . ' "but with your permission I will sit in front of the fire. The railway line between Mansion House • S ' ' t$10 and ,Aldgate taken, in , London, cos $10, - '" 000001? a Mile to build -a greater aniount per mile than was probably ever expended s ' . before or since in railway construction. 'Strikes - — — . Strikes are quite proper. only strike right; : Strike to some purpose, 12rat not for is light; ir manhood for henor and fame • Strike for yol . , . , Strike right and left till you win a good name; for yourpeedom from all that ifl vile; sbrikt) off eomt.4nions who often beguile; Strike with the hainmer, the Ede.,. go and the 4 . axe •bo. , • . . .. . Strike off lad habitewith tsoublcsome tax; .nbrike out uriabled. depend on lio etliOra , . Strike without, gloves, and your roominess smother; . , ,_ , 'Strike of the fetters riffashion and pride; Where %IA best but let wisdom. deeide' ' h " i -i ' ' Strike a good blow while t e hen oho ;; Strike and keep, strikiemtill you hit the rig he snot. ' _ . . Th _e a o t be a cholera conference eF, isbil o'which Will be attended 0 ts.p. , bo ag a bra "°' a' Wh m 159 W•11 be hy 0 p yo i 0 f ' 3° tit- ohlochZria:stricken °districts., 1 The r dPettneatie haat: been more acientifleally fought ,. i _ , _ ., , o y other bt f in Russia than in an con ry o Europe,and:the result tif the conference li$ to0 ..6 i value to the world bog 0 0• . . ' Maude (eeverely)-Edna, you broke severe successive engagements to dance lad night. Edna (svveetly)-Yes, dear; I made an on - - - gagement of far greater impedance. One o the funniest occurrencee of the • • • • generation was the attempt 6f the American. Sabbath U • t hold ti ' h omasa mee ngs rig li •. a . in the heart' of Chicago to con emn the . . opening of the World's Fair on Sundey. Ifi is a reminder of the MiSSiOR of Bishop Coleus° to South Africa, who went to cone Vert the HOttentots, and the nottentota • , cOnverted him, Even so hath ChiCago•con- _ .. . Verted the Sabbath thira. When, the matter same to a Vote on Wedneaday night - there was a . majority in favor of Sunday . . , . opening. If truly good people do not wank to forget where th.ey are at, they myth keep - 't - " , away from Chicago. The &Wish Good Terrapins have fol- leveed the example of the Salvation Army and hare•'deto ted t• e - kas Vin a • wee sa go ° , an en IF - , this month to a " self-denial fund." "What 'kept you so late lairt night, A ' ' 9 " M • 'St , . *bald . demanded rS. ergot. "Takia' inventory," replied Verger. 641 A it" - 1' d " S lf d i • know,e- --,. she re,P le . me. e t en, Your breath the minute you came in. You'll keep on taking it tili yea get in the lockup and disgrace, your fainily, and then I hope you'll he eatiefied." • the Urgent fitted§ in the world 1 . a i.,, . 4_ stands en ice. .. ft is situateu.cetween ban Utal need thhe Okhotask Seam. peck -My • life is miserable. Mr. Hen , _Strike Friend -What's the matter? Mr. 1Teripeo k ., • t sense "Ali, my wife is always flaring up a thing and now elle is jealous of my type! writer. F. -Jealous of your typeWriter t Good i This is the chance of your life. Mr. li.-How ? F. -Discharge your type- writeaand let your .wife take her placie Mid theft y , o on will be able to do thmothing You'vo never done before it your life, Mr. IL -What is that ? h1,--Dietate to your Wife. • ,, ,,,. _ _ The ptiblie (Wes' a gteat deal:to Mr, r. K. Stem ,fer situplifying the myeterke of Oleo;