The examiner., 1886-02-27
TllebaWsa CrEeI Oncen.

The king, seated at an OTening in the low platform of the house, had no particu- lar richness in his dress and was, as far as I remember, without jewelry, the only royal appendage that 1 noticed being huge gold spittOon, so heavy that it is said to have taken two men to carry it. In personal appearance, he was stout, and looked a little heavy and unintelligent, butt if anything I should judge him 10 be good -humored. There was certain quiet dignity
 about him I think, which I suppose seven years of absolute power must give anyone. The really interesting figure to me, and think to all present, was the queen, who crouched behind the king ill the orthodox court position of respect. Only two European men were known to have seen her, and innumerable had been the stories we had all heard of her. She had been credited with uncounted executions, many of them of her relations or her rivals and the two are here synonymous-one of the most horrible being the tale, we'll or ill founded, cannot say, that she had caused poor girl, who had attracted The baw's attention and was enciente by him, to be beaten to death. Many of these stories of what took place in these inner rooms are inventions, and let us hope that this at least is so. That she has possible rivals is certain, and only yesterday 1 was
 
 most dangerous of possible rivals( who still wept and shuddered with the most abject terror at the mere mention of her name.
 She has a rather fine forehead, good eyes, a nose not as straight in profile as it might be, rather small chin, to which the side lines of her face slope rather rapidly from the slightly prominent cheek bones and broad forehead. She looks both young and. clever, and but for one feature would, I think, be good looking. This feature, it is scarcely necessary, I suppose, to say, is her mouth. Her lips are thin and prominent and a strong curve gives them hard look, which spells the rest of the face. When animated, as she mostly was when I saw her, for she was eagerly whispering to the King nearly all the time, she gave one the idea of much cunning power. The Queen's mother, one of the wives of Thebaw's father, the only one, suppose, who has escaped death or imprisonment, sat near her and was an uninteresting looking old woman who, is said, however, to have been the Kings most prudent counsellor, and whose ad vice, if followed, would have averted the present cat atastrophe.-[L London Standard.
 A Journalistic Feat.
 Henry w. Grady relates the following in the Atlanta (Ga.,) Constitution: ''Can venture an incident here that throws an inside light on journalism? At ? o'clock on the morning of Gov. Stephens death, an editor of the Constitution, who. with two stenographers. had prepared the mar rative of the night, was with the watchers in the blue room of the mansion. The Constitution had to go to press at 330 o. clock to the minute. It was not believed that MT. Stevens would die before that hour. Consequently the narrative had been written in the present tense. If death should occur before the paper was put on the press there were perhaps hundred places in the story where the past tense. would have to be substituted. A force of proof-readers sat with the proof before them, every contingent point marked. Thirty printers sat at their desks awaiting orders. The telephone between the mansion ard the office was open, and the night editor sat with the 'phone to his ear. At 3.23 o. clock Dr. Steiner, rising from his knees with reverent face, said, He is deadr Be- fore the whispered words had left the room the word dead flew along the telephone wires and reached the listening night editor. Before the watchers in the parlor flight, dozen proof-readers were plung- ing through the slips with swift pencils, thirty printers were clipping the moor ings that held the present to the past, and in just seven minutes the press was throwing off the story of the life and death of Georgia's martyr statesman.n