Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-20

leather. W uGu Il laIAnSI cuts O0Nu an
oak he always peels of the
little twigs an inch in diane
ter are denuded. The bark on tree is
often worth $50. The famous GelemOs oak
in MOnmouthshire in 1910 yielded in bark
1000, and in timber IS. / saw a
black walnut tree sold in Indiana last
winter for $3.50. This was called a large
price for one tree in America. There is
an oak in Clipston Park 1900 years
old. The Duke of Portland, who owns 1t,
SAYS it existed before the Conquest. The
largest oak in England is the Calthorpe,
in Yorkshire. 1t measures IS feet in cir
conference. Our Californian big trees
are 105 feet in circumference. The Duke
of Portland has one oak higher than
Westminster Abbey; but even this oak
could grow in the shade of one of our
American SeguS0i giganti in the 1ose-
mite.
THE AWFUL HYDE PARK SMELLS.
London is very cold to an American.
Its latitude is about the same as Hudson's
Bay. You wear your heavy wOolens all
summer in London. We were told not to
be surprised when we went to the park to
see the people wearing furs even in July.
We did see young ladies dressed in mus
lin with seal skin jackets over them. My
wife said all of the white dresses were
heavily lined and some Of them wadded.
This in Julyi
The swell time to ride on horseback in
Rotten Row is from twelve TO two, and
the fashionable drive is from five to seven.
Hyde Park is a great disappointment.
The carriages are not so Well equipped
and the horses are not so fine as In Gen.
trail Park. AT one O'Clock there were per-
haps 70 ladies riding on horseback. Not
a good-looking one in the lot. They ride
stiffiy up and down Rotten Row "a drive
of a mile along one side of the park). The
sidewalks were lined with spectators who
paid cents for seats. A very high price
for such poor show. 1t was vulgar
show. 1 cannot conceive how refined
young ladies in New York, Chicago, or
Philadelphia could make hippOdrome Of
themselves and parade up and down be-
fore lines of gaping strangers. The
American girl would not do it. 1t was
nothing but free circus. The lady riders
were all lank, cadaverOus and sallow, with
tremendous hands and feet. Many of
these women had come hundreds Of miles,
and brought horses from their country
seats to show themselves off in town. 1t
was human peacock drill. The ladies
would canter their horses up the road
about fifty rods and then re-
turn and stand and talk with ac-
quaintances standing or prOmenadIng on
the sidewalks. The walks each side of
Rotten Row were filed with ladies and
gentlemen in good clothes. l asked an
old hdbitue Of London who these people
were.
so everybody-clerks, statesmen, squires
from the country, brewers daughters and
titled nobility. Formerly" continued my
friend, lit was only the very wealthy who
kept carriages in London. Then you
would not see four hundred private car
riages in London. Each carriage then had
a coaehman and footman. Then the
coachman wore white wig and the foot
man wore powdered hair. Then only the
nobility had coats of arms on their car
riages and cockades on the cOachman's
hat, but now every one puts up coat of
arms who can pay $40 year for the priYi-
lege. 1t costs S. a year to powder ser
wants hair now"
At FIVE O'Clock the private carriages be-
gan to come out. BY six there were
about 600 carriages in line. Some coach
men wore wigs and some fOotmen had
powdered hair, but l noticed when the
powdered-hair fellows got out into the
street the people guyed them. The hack
drivers would shout: sect out of the way
there, old white tOpI" or, sect on there,
old tow headp 1t is true that the sensi-
bic, so-called common people have ridi-
culed the vulgar displays made by
the nobility so much that the nobility
are now dressing and driving in a
very quiet fashion. The vulgar nobility
have been taught good taste by the ordi-
nary people. Seventeen years ago 1 saw
professions of gilded coaches, with coach
men in curled wigs and red and gold uni
forms and with fOOtmen standing up be-
hind in spangled uniforms. In these car
riages would loll big, fat, titled women, In
full dress. with powdered hair and very
low-necked dresses, going 10 the Queens
drawing-roOm at Buckingham Palace.
Then the common people looked at these
vulgar nobility in their circus toggery
with gaping awe. To-day when these
equity, red-faced, burgundy-bloated no
bility appear in such toggery the people
throw cabbage stalks at them, while
the air resounds with derisive yells. The
abyss between the nobility and common
people in Europe is being filed up-caste
is dying out,
THE 6ADDIsH ENGLISH EDITOR.
When asked a distinguished London
author what kept up the caste in England
between honest worth and titled vulgarity,
he said:
''What do you mean by a 'cadY"
asked.
"Why a cad is a person who is always
fawning on nobility. In America you
would call him a bOot-licker, a cringing
sycOphant. The English editor is always
boOt-licking the nobility. The columns OF
his paper are always full Of Ny Lord this
or Nv Lord that. He runs his newspaper
for the aristoeracy, whom he reyerences.
If all the caddish editors would drop the
vulgar, worthless aristOcracy and begin
to write about people Of worth and brains,
the ignorant aristocracy would soon die
out. The silly editorial cad thinks he
must have paragraphs about a score Of
Dukes or Lords in every issue to give his
newspaper tone. The paragraph may be
inane and silly, but the name Of a titled
lord. he thinks, will float it. Pick UP
files of the Times and you viii see such
paragraphs as this:
"sThe Marquis of Queensbury and the
Duke of Buckminster returned with theil
dogs from Nottinghamshire yesterday
After dining with Lord Blackstone at Nor.
ley's. they all attended a trial of strength
between the Duke of Bedford's bitcI
Thunder and the Marquis Of Kingsley's
bull pup Sampson
"In a word,o said my friend, .'the fact
that two diss0lute titled blackguards haC
returned from hunting, got drunk at Nor
Lewis. and attended a dog fight in the
evening, is Photographed by this eaddisf
editor, while the most worthy act OF some
educated person is left out. Yes, the
English editor is cad, and the editors @
the Times are cads Of cads.o
IS THE ARIsToCRACY EDUCATED.
l asked a professor Of Oxford if tbs
English aristocracy were really educated
and refined.
ssThey are refined, he replied, ''but no
educated. A titled student seldom studies
in college. The Prince of Wales, wheI
he was in Christ College, didn't study
He had private tutors to cram him. 1t /;
not good policy to allow Duke o.
Lord to fail in his examination
They wouldn't come here any more if WI
made them study too hard. So the arts
tocracy come here, go through the forms
Of study, spend great deal of money anS
are finally allowed to graduate"
Ny guide at Oxford tells me that tb'
titled sons of the aristocracy at 0xforC
are the most dissolute young men in col
| lege:
ssThey have drunken reyelries in thei
rooms, which the professors wink at; the
/ gamble on Sundays and run on TO London
I to meet variety actresses. Finally. the