The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-08-24


suit, while another sutton for the young lady Is
mentioned In the person Of the Grown Prince
Of Baden. who In q still young career has man.
aged to be onco engaged and twice rejected.
and who has once been talked OF In association
with the Princess Dentrice.
The cry OF distress still comes from tho
theatrical world. The Princess Ida" which
has boon kept going in spite OF wretched
houses. is at last withdrawn. and though It
will DO revived at the resumption OF tho sea-
son. 1t will soon give way to the "Sorcerer."
Tho Alhambra has deficit TO announce to its
shnrch olders. though 1t once used to pay fabu-
lous dividends.
The ST. Jancs's Gazette returns over and over
again to the hapless condolences OF Mr.. Car
negie to the Pittsburgh interviewer. denounces
the agitation against the House Of Lords MS an
American importation worked by American
money. and winds up = savage article by ad-
vlsing Mr.. Carnegie to devote all his energies
to the interesting contest In which Americans
have to choose between the inoontinance OF
Mr. Cleveland and the venality Of Mr.. Blaine.
The World OF this town has driven some OF
the American papers In Europe mad by It's ar
tclo on tho American girl. uncivilized and civ
ilized. The former type Ia described rs always
talking loudly and always In haste; rs having
hearty appetite. and this is illustrated by
description OF an American breakfast; and
finally. this creation Of the writer in the World
usually has lots OF candy In her pocket. which
sho eats nj all hours She loves to sit In a rock
ing chair in the heat OF the fire or tho sun.
munching candy and reading novels. Her feet
are said to be usually without an instep; they
are small narrow. and fiat. and owe all their
benuty to we'll shoes. Tho civilized girl.
who has seen Europe. holds her back eXtraordi-
~u-st- 49,. IT..
skins along the street like an important little
water wagtail. She disowns and despises her
own country. and her sole ambition is to get
into society.
The inroads upon the English bookselling
market. which have been made by American
magazines like Hdrper's and the Century. which
sell hugely at q shilling while most English
magazines can barely circulate at sixpence has
suggested the idea OF reprisals. by the publica-
ton in New York OF an edition OF the Illus
tated London Nens. The talk Is revived too OF
an illustrated London daily journal.
Statistics continue to be published OF tho
enormous income made by English journals.
Lnbby. who has a big share in the Daily Necs.
tho leading Liberal daily Is. besides. making q
very nice income OF 100000 out OF Truth. The
most marvellous success OF recent enterp risesils
athinG called 7id-bits. which circulates nearly a
tracts. mostly from American papers.
Tho latest journalistic enterprise Is an organ
for the servants OF Berlin under tho title Of
the Cook ~nd LIouse,naid.
A religious journal. called the Christian MIL
lion. attracts readers by sending around car
riage and pair which is to be given as prize.
sad commentary Ia meantime supplied on
newspaper celebrity by the statement in So
ciety journal that all attempts on Mr.. Mills Of
California BY fortune-hunting Englishmen are
vain. as his daughter is married to a gentle
man named Weeks and the gentleman whose
name Is SO spelled Is described as the proprie-
tor OF the Mem York Tribune
Cumberland. the thought reader. has man
| aged to mako 90, 500 in week in Austria.
The experiments on the m manageable balloon
have attracted an extraordinary amount OF at
tention In tho English papers. and ono journal
goes 80 far as to describe them as tho most i'm
portant event OF tho week. Fanciful writors
| are already talking OF trains and hansoms in
| the air. and one philosopher Is discussing
whether tho invention will weaken or strength.
en- order and property In their present struggle
| with poverty and anarchy.
| Meantime terrestrial travel is engaging the
| minds and disturbing the rest OF railway di.
rectors seven Of whom have Just joined before
| their shareholders In a complaint that first.
class carriages are no longer patronized Al
they used to be. and that men OF the highest
| position arc now not ashamed to travel in the
| third class with sweeps aud In company with
navvies.
Tho charges against Lieut.. Greedy In youl
newspapers have started a lively controversy
here as to the morality OF cannibalism. why
should not Lieut.. Greely's Sailors" asks cor
respondent OF the decorous and conservative
1 81 Al-t.- l.
| from murder what was the harm OF it?" Tn,
fighty and irreverent Labby is naturally still
moro outspoken. Were starving" he writes
with the corpse Of friend by me. should
regard myself as very foolish were to allow
myself to die OF hunger"
Tho Australians arc finding he same din
culties as the Californians from Chinese immi
| grafton, and tho Victorian Parliament. In con
sequence Of tho spread OF opium smoking
among the white population. arc considering
| means for checking tho sale OF the noxiou
drug.
Tho lntest form Of investigation Is circula
issued by tho medical authorities for niorma
ton respecting the habits Of somnambulists.
A Colonel Of volunteers has called upon hi
men to shave OF their moustaches and boards
Fans which used to sell for ono or two shil
lings each. in consequence OF the change o
FASHION can now Do nau AZ Six 6nllllnRS IN
twelve dozen.
Count Munster. the German Ambassador. 1
writing book on European cookery. an
George Macdonald. the novelist. has furnishe
the preface to work Of q poiltico. rolglou
character. under the pleasant title OF Letter
from He'll"
Mrs. Langtry is having highly successfu
tour. and her declaration that her Chinese DO
never leaves her dull hour has suggested tn
CHASTITY pun that In his case tho mo- the merrel
Queen Victoria Worried by her sou.is. Law
LONDON. Aug. 23.-It is rumored that Quee
Victoria ia again worried by the behavior OF her son
law the Grand Duke Louis of Hesse Darmstadt. Accor
ing to the latest reports he Is seeking still snoth,
matrimonial alliance notwithstanding the troubl,
brought about by his morganstic marriage with Nm
Kniamirs His latest fancy 10 said Ia toward ia
who 10 connected with duca court at Darnsndt b,
much his inferior In rank She ID also very nuc
younger than the urand Duke and 10 said to be yer
| beautiful.