Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-16
FRLE-HAND NOTES.
SCENES AT THE PALACE - THE TWO
PROCESSES.
The Great soprano-A serenade-Lookine
Out Upon the sea-some
Ptctures-Etc,
Correspondents Of the RECORD Us1ox.l

N1-N L hANNiS'o, DcStinDer ii, 1907,
Monday night, which is always pro.
fessedly gay at the Palace Hotel, inasmuch
as it is the united cat Home" plus the
band, was the occasion, night before last,
OF redoubled Joy because of the arrivals of
the Princess Louise and of Nine. Nilsson.
the Princess Christine. The court was
shronged to see the English Princess, and
she wss gracious, not to ssy affable, and
blessed the longing eyes of the crowd
by protracted stroll in the upper bal
COMES. When the band ceased its silver
snarling-the phrase is Keats detach.
ment OF the inner brotherhood, with the
necessary concomitant of the inner sister
hood, went over to the Grand Hotel and
danced. It was known to these giddy
whlrlers, however, that the Swedish resi-
dents contemplated serenadipg their-our
the worlds, prima donna, and in happy
time they returned to the Palace to enjoy.
The great singer was good, too, and showed
herself, picturesquely wrapped in a long
white mantle trimmed with wide black
fur. She is still in mourning for her hus-
band. Although she has not the excuse of
the heroine of 'Over the garden wall" for
SO doing, it must be recorded of
MADAME NILSSON
That she " stood in chair " to look down
into the court and see her audience and
her serenaders. On Tuesday night our
two distinguished women were in iuxtapo.
sition again, the Queens daughter in a
specially built box next the lowest tier of
stage boxes, and the artist on her own
throne, the stage itself. She was dressed
in black, and she sang. There are no
words for the quality of such a voice, the
soul within the sense shudders, but the
link is too subtle for words to seize; be.
sides, it is sacrilege. One of her encores
was "Way down upon the Suwanee
river" the song which, when she sang it
twelve years ago at the afternoon concerts
at Steinway Hall, used to make people
whisper to each other that she sang it so
well because it contained something of her
own experience, sudden and re-
gretted separation from her family
though it was for Arts sake. She
has another beautiful little encore
song, which it is to be hoped she
will give the San Franciscans, "Yeux
Bleus, French ballad, in which she
opens her own blue eyes in most ingratis-
ting wise. Mr.. Abbey should give us an
opera, just one, Faust" He has his
singers right in his hand, and it seems as
if it might be done. Would there be peo-
pie to sigh for lone hour of Cspoul ?"
Yet Nine. Nilsson herself was reported to
have said of Capoul as Faust :" "Je
maine pas Capoul, il maine trop fort"
MEANTIME THE osTRICHEs
Have come. Penned up in the far end of
baggage car they stood stretching their
necks and rolling their beautiful eyes, look
ing as if they would be as glad as most
travellers to be released and at home.
They kick like steers" youth earnestly
remarked Of these feathered fowl. We
have done everything to test our unrivaled
climate-bees, tea roses for an altar that
should surpass all Adrianople-all these
things have been experimented upon, and
the bees have proved success the tea
aud roses await their spotheosis. The
CIlifornians, or more justly the San Frar-
ciscans, have at their disposal great many
beautiful and pleasurable things that they
do not seem to wiring all the enjoyment
from them that they might. For example,
the road which General Mcdowell has
built across the Presidio and past Fort
Point gives
THE LoVELIEST SUCCESSION OF VIEWS
That can be imagined of the harbor, the
Golden Gate and the mountain circle, not
to speak of the land view of calm, lonely,
rolling green hills, behind which this win
ter sun slips SO placidly while the city
windows catch the late light with hun
dred hands" like The town of the Far
Towers. At certain point one turns off
from the smooth, red road into the in-
trenchment behind the regular mounds Of
the magazines, between every two of viii, h
stands nice clean gun On freshly painted
red carriage, crudely picturesque. One
crswls under the muzzle of one of these
trim terrors, duly warned not to strike his
head against it, steps up on the masonry
and out onto the cliff, into the wind. Fol.
lowing the intrenchment has taken US a
few rods beyond the fort; we look right cut
TO sea, the three Farallones quite visible
in the clear atmosphere though they are
thirty miles away. Directly opposite are
the masked batteries near Lime Point and
another red, Government road.
TWO OR THREE SHIPS.
! A splendid New England bark AMI some
conscientious little tugs 60 by, and the
currents are SO varied that one easily be-
lieves the saying that the tide runs five and
six miles an hour there sometimes. We
| find sheltered place-sheltered by the
grace of Heaven, for out on the cliff one
stems out of a piercing gale into warm,
| drowsy calm without the least warning OF
( possible calculation of how it was done
! spread the regulation shawl and lay and
! watch the gulls going over. One man,
/ thinking that the strong wings make a
! hundred miles an hour, permits himself tc
! say. How l wish was a gull y As he
| has lust been confessing heart rending
wrenehes to the pocket-nerve sustained IL
last evenings "ittle game, the rest of tht
party control smile with hard.set mns.
! cles. The surf frets and murmurs and calls
under the cliff +; we are getting rsthei
mody. when the lunch hour recalls us Il
our better selves. Lunch is at the hous,
Of one of the officers. The frightful u
fresco picnic is a thing of the past; WI
must eat comfortably or not at all. Tht
Lieutenant bemoans himself over his quar-
ters and his station az tie fort, but we al
see that he has been extorting sympathy ol
false prsterses. The cottage is beautiful,
situated on a hight commanding anothe
view of
TIE SAPPHIRE RING
or the land. The lunch IS so beautiful.
esthetic as not to give any shock when con
sidered the, afterpiece of the view. Glas
| that would shiver if you looked harshly a
it china indescribably modern and choice
menu perfect, of course, and sherry an
claret, coffee and Benedietine, symptom
OF Havors. We adjourn 70 the outer room
the room OF the beautiful view, the buffal
skin. the deep wicker chairs, the fire, tn