Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-18
OUR LONDON LETTER.
Current Topics Of the Time In the Great
Metropolis Of the World.
Tie Retiring Speaker ofihe Commons =
Comfortable Annuity.
Punch and lis Royal Targets The Las.
ker Resolution.
The Jersey LILY and Her Famlly--Amer.
leans In Europe.

Special Correspondence Of tho Gazette.
Manchester, Eng, March l.--lf
your readers have been enjoying the
absence lately OF the irregular CORES.
pond, and would wish to know to
what fortuitous circumstance they IRE
indebted for the privilege, | Will ex-
plain to them that the irregular cores
pondent who "doesn this part OF the
moral vineyard now aud then, has
been ION the gon--aud no mistake
from London to Edinhurg, thence to
Dundee, back to Edinburg, thence to
Glasgow, next to Liverpool, thence to
Manchester, thence 10 Edlnburg
again, and now again In Manchester.
Fun, thi nix you? In the oft-repeat-
ed and much-appreclated language of
another, little court knows herself,
and she thinks she do not much.
The fact Is, nj best railroad travelling Is
not enjoyable in this country, but
when one is in II hurry and TO put in
daylight hours working like five
hundred and do his moving Mt night,
the fun is not refreshing. At least,
that Is my experience, and now that |
snatch an hour for my GAZETTE letter
| more than ever realize IL, since in my
running around have had absolutely
mo- time TO gather items To write about.
However, IL often happens with me
that can wrfrC mOre Interesting let
ters when haven't.studied about them
than when have--so here goes! for n
column or more of odds and ends.
During this.week the house Of COM
mons has been enjoying rare pleas
ure. That Is 10 say, the old speaker.
Sir III. Brand, after long term, during
which he has discharged The duties OF
the Office with signal ability, has vol
unfairly retired, and Mr.. Arthur Wei,
| lesley Peel, younger son OF
the late Sir Robert Peel,
(of blessed memory here), succeeds to
the honors and emoluments. No end
OF talk was INDUCED in by reason OF
| the event, and as u rule the talking
was To the point and very felicitous.
In this country, the speaker Of the
commons IL supposed TO have no party
ties, or rather, he ia supposed to be
above party while in the chair, and
would receive almost universal con-
domination were lie TO make rulings in
the interests OF one party
and against another. Hence
ii Is shat the new speaker goes
into Office by the unanimous
voice of the body over which he is
called upon to preside AS for TIE late
speaker, full of honors heretires to the
shades of private life, and IN Il day OF
two, by order of her most gracious
majesty, will bet full-iledged viscount.
| And what Is quite as much To The
point, 20 sustain the new dignity I'D
was to-day voted the modest sum OF
e4,0OO equal to about S20OOOl
lper year by parliament Az
my supposiiion being based on
dispatch just arrived from London,
and now hanging conspicuously on the
walls of the room in which ! am writ
ing, to The effect, viz: at Is under
stood that the business which the
house of commons will transact this
afternoon will be TO vote an annuity of
e. 900 TO Sir II. Brand in order TO main
tain the dignity of n viscount, which
will forthwith be conferred upon him
in accordance with usage in the case Of
retiring speakers. The annuity Will
be for two lives"
All of which leads me to remark that
| wouldn't object TO serving in tie
place for short term myself If could
| be guaranteed quiet, easy time, ana
such wind-fall as $50 900 per
year for myself during my own life,
and rs much thereafter during the life
of Master Harvey, my ten-year-old
boy.
i believe said above tina. ] was in
Liverpool recently. And so was his
royal highness. the duke of Albany,
who made little speech (these sort
never are long-winded when IL comes
TO talking IN public, in which, among
other things, he said: "What / desire
10 see is cookery taught in the most
ragged schools, la the most
wretched quarters. /
desire that the poor should have bet
ter dinners, for the very simple reason |
that l want them to enjoy their din
ners more.n or conrse this sentiment
was 'applauded TO the echo" and all
the good and loyal papers in the land
had ''lots" TO say about the Joy and all
that, Of having so sympathetic aud
sensible IA royal duke, to say such
timely and pretty things. Punch,
though has way all its own of laying
aside his leather spectacles and say
ing sharp things in II matter-of-
fact way. In other words, IL
''calls spade spade" and don't hes
itate TO give even royal duke dig In
the short ribs, when he exposes his
side too temptingly. Under the head
ing IA Duke on Cooks,p IL gets Off the
following to-day:
Better far than "sums OF grammar
Quoth the Prince, or wenry book
For the man who Yields hammer,
Is the learning ofthc cook.
Teach his careful wife to make him
Siews IN which his heart delights:
Then be sure that naugbt will take him
10 the pubic house at nights.
Let him taste All kinds OF fshes,
Cooked In appetizlDg wayr,
We shall IND that dainty dishes
End ali matrimonial trays.
Little wonder thai poor men go
Out upon the spree 10 roam,
When no chicken Of Marengo
Greet them when they dine al home.
Soothing IN an egg and spinach,
Artisans would hail no doubt,
cooked Ike thata Greenwich,
Turbol and the tender trout,
Ise I HE workman tell Ills cTOny,
II 70 dinner hen remain,
Iimtnlc OF the Inacaroni
Comes with "Boachees q ~ Rsbe.H
There's much virtue In good cooking,
AS His ilighness said that day,
Punch upon the subject looking,
Gives his verdict ia this way
Prince you spoke a word In season,
'Gainst uncleanly plates and slors,
But the workman cries With reason,
Teach Inc ilrst 20 catch my chops.
This same mIrth-loying and mirth-
provoking "fnnpy-felier,n has also The
following "shotp at the Prince OF
Wales: We read IN The Times OF Feb |
ruary 10th that the Prince OF Wales