Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-26
LORNE AND HIS WIFE.
Her Magnificent Red Arms.
Montreal Correspondence New York Sun

| Montreal Correspondence New York Sum-
/ For some reason it is matter of gratitude
with me to be back here and luxuriously en-
| sconced in the Windsor after an extended trim
with bis excellency the governor and her
royal highness the Princess Louise. Not that
l am in any degree lacking sense of the great
honor that gracious condescension cid me
when was permitted to become an item OF
the vice-regal train, and if were all soul and
no stomach, very likely would feel no especial
| satisfaction at being here, and would not be
| lnordinately oyerjoyed that the noble MARQUIS
and his royal spouse came at last to Ottawa,
and that was permitted to depart in quest of
| something to eat. 1t was indeed charming
trip that we made through the Dominion, as
you should before this have heard from me,
| mad not grown too weak to be capable of re-
| porting it. l marvel only that one fashioned
| IN the manner of her royal highness or that
| one who has come through uninterrupted good
nving to acquire girth such as that which dis
tinguishes his excellency, should have been
Obvious OF this which l am insinuating in re.
gard to the matter of necessary food, l re-
ported to you from Halifax that the governor
general was not concave, his pictures init
mated, but convex; I am confident that it
would take as extended a section of tape-mea
sure to go around his excellency's stomach as
| 1t would to encircle his breast. Now, you
Weuld suppose that nobleman of this pattern,
| II he had wished to look up something for
twenty-tour hours, without food, in Pullman
car, would have procured number of Novia
Scotia bears, which animals capable of sub
sstlng Tor an indefinite time painlessIy upon
their own fat. and not a corps of well-meaning
newspaper reporters who were to herald the
hrst honors and ciyilities that have been per-
united to his excellency in long time. And
the princess, too, you would suppose mas
much as she is In possession of singularly
w well and capable stomach. would have
Well-ordered stomachs arise inevitably three
llmes day. can not imagine what influenced
hcr healthy royal highness. Did she never re-
iiect while renewing the ford beauty of her
inimltable person with thick cuts of Re-
st1guoche salmon, and copious draughts of
Bass ale, that the heralds of her husbands
mover honors loved salmon also, and would
nave been rejolced at sea- biscuit? Under the
circumstances 1t was painful thing to behold
her royal highness at lunch, and when, having
hnlshed, she folded her magnificent red arms
ana Tell asleep opposite Colonel Littleton, who
mad come out with rather a small share of the
1ood' you wondered If this royal young person
had, perchance, heart mingled with her other
filling.
Yet there were evidences OF thoughtfulness
ana masnanlmity among those in the vice
regal carriage. Soon after the train left Hall
re- x, Tor instance, little Colonel Littleton, who
head on a ship Of state, entered our car and an
nonnced, 'Ihe governor general" His ex-
celiency came in, smelling pleasantly, and
shook hands with each correspondent in turn,
ana tnat was so gracious a thing for him to do
that it answered very well for lunch. Even
That, however, which was certainly cheap, and
quite compatible with thrifty system of en-
tertalnment was not repeated at dinner time;
but with the kindness which beftted the vice
gerent OF great, rich and liberal queen, his
exce'lency came again next morning and told
one OF the correspondents, who had fallen i'll
Tor the necessaries Of life, that he was sorry for
him. We were all delighted. Had the COVER
nor-general brought a sandwich in his pocket
he would have been cheered with weak but
earnest enthusiasm; and as it was his exeelency's
gracious sympathy and comfortable coincidence
went far to dispel with us the notion that we
were hungry, and served tolerably as sub
stltute for something more substantial Every
body exclaimed when the visit was ended.
What a cordial and thoughtful gentle man the
governor-general isp