St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-12
GOSSIP. NOT NEWS.

| Princess Anna Maria, wife of Prince Fred
erich Charles of Prussia, has consented to
| live again with her husband-with a reserva-
ton. There are to be two stairways to the
house, two bedrooms two kitchens, two
| dining rooms, and the only time when the
Princess shall have anything to do with her
spouse is on the occasion of state dinners,
when she will take a place at the table, and
do the honors as hostess. These important
facts are sent across the ocean by telegraph,
and thence over all the broad continent
carrying joy to every American heart. At
least there is presumption that Joy will ac-
company this cablegram all over the country,
or else it would not have been sent. There
is scarcity in the old world of what is
thought to be news in this new world. To-
day Kaiser Wilhelm smiles at something,
and the intelligence is flashed under the sea
and across the western continent Yester-
day his equity toe panied him, and this
morning all mankind had an opportunity
to sympathize with him in his misfortune.
The queen hurts her royal knee, and instant
ly the lghtnings lend their wings to spread
all over Christendom the appalling occur
renee The Princess Anna Maria has deter
mined to use single instead of double bed
steads in her menage, and to have another
back stairway for her private use, and the
next morning expectant civilization is in
formed of the contemplated change. There
is something unhealthy in the atmosphere
| of a country which grows such fungi as these.
1t is evidently an attempt
to amuse the world and
to distract its attention from the existence of
huge standing armies, grinding taxation and
pauper class which is an everlasting men
ace. What is occurring in the drawing
rooms and kitchens of the great, serves to
amuse the people over there, and it appears
to be taken for granted that this is what the
people need over here. That the Car rode
! on the streets of st. Petersburg; that the
kaiser is trihe better or worse; that Alphon
so has taken a new ballet dancer or quarrel
led with an old one; that the Queen and Be
atrice walked in the garden-these are the
important facts which are telegraphed over
here for the delectation and instruction of
American readers. Occasionally there filters
through this mass of stuff the dull sound of
an exploding bomb in the Russian metropo-
lis or the clank Of the chains on long pro-
cessions of men, women and children NOV
ing to exile and death in Siberian mines
and now and then there is family heard the
menaces of destructive socialism in Ger
many, and the uneasy movements of the
pauper population of Great Britain. 1t
is in this direction that is to be found the
real life, the important events, the indicative
occurrences of the old world, but it is just this
class of information which we are not per-
mitted to have. That the car rides, the
kaiser smiles, the king dallies with the ballet
and the queen walks, should always be sup
plemented with the further news that the
nihilists are mining near the throne, the
socialists are growing stronger and the pro-
letarial of Europe increasing in dimensions
and vengefulness.