New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-03
OVER-SEA GOSSIP.
ABOUT NOTABLE PERSONS AND THINGS
From Mr.. Yatess World. London. sept. %.

ABOUT NOiADLE IEhSONS AMI IIIlNu,>.
From Jfr. Ydess World London. SEPT %.
SCIENCE VISITING ROYALTY.-Ihc visit OF
the British Association to Baloral was not success.
and the Queen both annoyed and angry nc the
satisfactory emen.s which were made for the re-
cepon OF the excursionsts. Dr. Profet her Maiestys
- commissioner" had ordered "a number or open
riages the party at Baaer where they arrived
from Aberdeen by special train which had also conveyed
tho Glen tanar contingent to AbOyne Ii was pouring
been accomplished, everybody was Wet and chilled.
The lunch In the hall Of the Castle was by no means well
served and other preparations defective,
and caused much grumbllng. The party left after
hurried look round and drove back to Baaer by ai-
other and longer road meeting the Queen and Prin-
cess Beatrice coming from tho Gassalt SheD on tho
wav IL was haIEpast o before the train got back
Aberdeen The excursion limited to $50. and there
600 applications Tor tickets III was certainly
Family attended to receive the company and Sness tho
thing to be well done II was mistake 10 havo an
BalmoraL There was nobody TO look aftcl
The dotnils and things would have been quite different
IL sir Henry Ponsonby had been at the Castle as he has
comfortable and liberal IDEAS and his geniality and
saroi, G,ye would have put matters right aud there
would have been no muddiing II Sir john Cowoll had
been ut Balnord as ne always sees mat hss arc done
the right way but although tho Master OF the House
hold supposed to DO always at Court sir John inyar
i.by manages to get dspeRsaton from the monotonous
drcariness OF BalmoraL
ROsEBERY's BfsMARCK.-Lord Rosebery will
shortly receive notable addition u his collection OF
Prince Bismarck, for which he gave IA commission 10
Franz Ieubach during his visit to Borln and on
which that distinguished artist has since bcea engaged
in mis- studio Munich. The picture which Is nearly
finished, excels all Leubachs Previous ones Of the Ger
able yigor ia the more comnendabc inasmuch as tue
Prince refused give any sitiings the artist had
DEPEND on nnmher OF hasty sketches which he able
TO snatch ut odd times In Berlin and at VarZin Tho
Prince IL represented by his own wish, In the simple
uniform OF a Prussan cuirasscr.
MOIST, UNPLEASANT GAME.-An lnnoya-
ton likely become popular I'm the heat OF the summer
but hardly pleasant In this chilly weather intro
duced into the athletic sports of the 92d Gordon High
landers last week at DevonpOr 1t consisted OF ire
ngine tournament between officers OF the High
landcrs and the 60h Rifles. JOINT occupants OF tho
Raglan Barracks. Engines filled with placed
Each hose connected, and tho teams pumped tho
winners by the umpire General Lyons their engine be-
ing egpted the soonest The commanding officers Of
both regiments took part In the contest manning the
pumps Each man was drenched TO the skin before 1t
was finished.
"THE LONDON TMEs's" Manufacturing
House Square has at last immortazed itself Mr..
"Strongftharm" has been called into council ana has
produced classical centenary medal which the Lon don
young tire OF exhibiting to their fiends, and
which NJ dc Blowltz already next to tho Legion
Of Honor. On side Is clock which has stopped at
cnblematcal perhaps. OF tho proposed reduction In
price on which Mr. Macdonald is bent aud below it the
brief inscription, Bearwood" Indicative doubtless Of
the peerace which stl tarres so unaccountaby in It's
coming on the reverse, three generations OF Walters
smrk complacently side by side the frat with wig and
no whishers. tho second with neither wig nor whiskcr
aud the third with whisgers aud no Wiz