Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-22
FREE-EAND NOTES.
Isan Francisco Correspondence of the REcoRl
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Why does the San Francisco Bullet,
speak of the corvette Comus as H. r. ii.
She is an excellent vessel doubtless, and al
English as she can be, but hardly mem
Der of the royal family just yet. Let hel
be FL. NJ. S. Comus till then. Such as shs
is, the Princess Louise and her Marqui,
sailed on her last week for Portland, after
entertaining fleeing doubt whether the
wind was too strong for pleasant trip
but it is the Governor. Generals duty tC
visit his outlying dependencies in British
Columbia, and he will May the stars,
sea- wind and sea be alike prosperous to
such well-born voyagers.
They will only be gone fortnight, il
appears, and when they return TO San
Francisco it will be for six weeks visit.
They will go to the Yosemite and the
Geysers, like well conducted tourists, not
forgetting to spend two days at Los Angeles,
where, let us hepe, the Marquis will be
duly impressed with the vineyards and
wine-msking enterprises of that purple
land, which-if Goethe's description of
blossoming lemons, golden oranges in dark
foliage, soft airs and tail laurels, speaks in
fal!ibiy of Italy-is the Italy of our
State. The bluff, blonde and burly
Marquis is civil enough TO say
that he is pleased with California.
He frankly remarked on the train that
there were just two things outside OF the
regulation beauties of nature that he cared
to see in California, namely, Palo Alto
especially Governor Stanlord's stock farm
and Milbrae. DIR. StilIman's book. "Tne
Horse in Motion, of which half the glory
10 Governor Stanford's, has given the
stud at Palo Alto world wide reputation,
and though many of the finest animals
were absent at the Sacramento State
Fair, still the Marquis and his party found
enough to interest them for an hour or
two, and then proceeded to NJ. Sharon's
country house to lunch. A lunch party
Of ten men-weuld heart of woman be-
lieve it? Lorne and his Engiishmen,
Governor Stanford, Mr. Sharon, of course.
and Sir Thomas Hesketh
When the Marquis comes down from
Oregon he has signitied his willingness to
be entertained by the San Franciscans,
who will doubtless not be backward in
coming forward. Will he laugh VIII he
sneer? Will he yawn? No, probably
none of these things. His noble brain is
most likely one whirl, where a few pict.
uresque or comic things stand firm Ia his
memory without any special label of locale,
and he recalls hotel because he lost a
favorite collar. button there, rather than be-
cause IN the same city he was dineo and
wined never SO much by American prodi-
gality and good nature. If this be not so
Inever writ and no man ever travelled,
r. 4
eighth international sense in us, therefore
the following tale, apropos, will not elicit a
scream from the cage unprepared A wan
dering British noble was kindly enter
tanned by some San Franciscans, one Of
whom said tc him, with more or less aban-
don, ct parting On, my Lord, are you
going away to forget us all ?'T To her. the
peer, without cUncealments, thus: II
should think very likely. I'm slways'
travelling and meeting people. You can't
expect me to remember them all, you
know"
Remember Who remembers ANYTHING
except some pair of eyes, keen or soft, as
the taste goes, and a tight boot; I defy
him to forget that, be he gentle or simple.
Does tho Marquis of Lorne remember from
what family he springs does his excess
sive historically, so to speak, ever over
come him like summer cloud? Imagine
him taking down novel, at venture, to
read, while Louise put on her wraps for
ball. and finding it &C. The Heart OF Mid
Lothian" and replete with letters signed
Lorne, and bristling with the bonnets
of Campbells. 1t must give him q " Me
again !" feeling like Costard. BY the way.
that's q delightful mixture of honor and
pathos where JEANNE Deans goes to the
Duke of Argyll to get him to intercede
with Queen Caroline for poor Effies life.
Msidens, take warning by the snub she
got Tor saying "Your grace" 80 fire..
quentiy! That Duke Of Arevil-he was
Duke OF Greenwich, too-Was Pope's hero
who SHOOK the Senate and the field"
He fought in Spain, and covered himself
all over with glory.
Earlier still the Archibalds of that house
were fascinating young men. Archibald,
the fifth Earl, was a General of Mary Stu.
arts, and led her forces at Langside, and
married her Legitimate sister, too, Lady
Jane Stuart, one of the guests at that san
culinary supper party where Rizzio was
killed. Archibald, the eighth Earl, who
became Marquis of Argyll, appeared as
Roundhead or Cavalier at his own sweet
will, now asserting Charles H. s Cause, now
at the ceremony OF Cromwell's proclama-
ton as Protector. When Charles III. got
the chance he behesded this too protean
Pict, whose son Archibald was beheaded,
IN his turn, by James III. for sirn.la politi.
cal vagaries but this second victims SON
still AIcmbald-got the sttainder reversed
and any number of additional titles, Lorne
among them, as a reward of merit for his
good behavior during the glorious revolu.
tion " of 1858. And the living heir of Ill
these Black Collins. and Lords IL the Isles.
and Viscounts of Lechow and (Slenilia, in
modern serge and chen,iSe de cou!eur-as
carefully reported for an avid
reading public has strolled about
San Francisco, and is even said
to have "easy" manners. oh, day and
night, but this is wondrous stran ge There
is solid reason why the Princess should
be interesting to the women of California.
She was one of the chief promoters of the
School of Art Needlework and Decoration
at South Remington, which has been the
headquarters of the art.trainiiig schools
since 1856, when they were removed from
Marlborough House. 1t was at the South
keusington Museum that the original loan
exhibitions were held, and in 1865 that
wonderful collection of portrait miniatures
from the times of Holbein down. embracing
all the Strawberry Hill miniatures, the
mere thought of which, unseen, makes an
artistic victim to the personal in his tory"
which Herbert Spencer so d. plores, tingle
with unsatistied intellectual longing and
weep with regret.
VIII Herbert ever win us to that
purer ether where we shall not care to
hear that Madame la Princesse spent the
day at Black Point while her lord was
at Palo Alto or that she is tall and
well-formed, with something Ct that car
rage which is conventionally called queen.
ly, inherited, like her fine blue ewes.
from her mother, whom the French EN-
bassador pronounced, at her coronation,
TO be "pardHement biea ?" French fas.
tidiousness speaks its last word in that
little colloquialism. Does England feel as
blest when France pronounced her "Jien"
as we do when England so approves us
The scale of the nations scorn of each
other Is amusing, and works like the
royal blow at King Louis table. The
playful monarch struck the man next him,
who, unable to retaliate on majesty.
adroitly said, The King wishes this
passed on" and tapped his neighbor
France has been proved the first of civil.
lied nations by the reasoning that showed
Miltiades victor at Marathon-each Cen
erll named himself first conqueror and
Miltiades second. From this eminence
she has always ridiculed England, who,
instead of hitting back, strikes out at
9 these States " as she knows them, the
Eastern ones namely. They 10 turn box
the ears OF poor California, who, between
the remote sea gates, finds no one newer
than herself upon whom to vent her
wrath, or before whom she can flaunt
superior culture.
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