The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-31
IN LONDON TOWN.
SAUhAA1Ah" TAKES 4 PEEP At
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

JHe MUSE VI COWWOVS.
Eendon Dvclliags and Their Dingy, stu9y
Intsriors-Leokins Through . Oilded
Lattice at English statesmen-Duch-
esses In tho Psrk-Ioyalty.
Liverpool never holds tho passenger long,
and it was Just as grimy and noisy as It was
eight years ago, when I ate q last matutinal
muffin and marmalade there and sailed away
70 tho westward and home. One finds
changes in London, however, in that same
dime, and the changes are not In all cases
agreeable. Ones old landladies, and In them
cid landmarks, are swept away, and 70 find
comfortable quarters h now the greatest DIFF
6culty. Every American berates the build
ing plan Of London houses, and In . search
for rooms for expected friends at this
crowded season have seen moro dingy, stu6y,
shabby interiors than ! could have beloved
were hidden behind the walls OF city streets.
All America seems to have rushed to Eu-
rops this year, and from every place ON the
continent comes the same word that the Uni
ted States have never been so largely repre-
sented before. At Gillig's American exchange
on the Strand there Is a mass meeting Of com
patriots every day and all day long, and they
stand in line before the little postofilce ON the
great mail days. The success Of this exchange
makes one wonder however the Americans
got along without it before MI. Gillig set up
the fiI:,s and eagle and bade his cOuntrymen
welco.ne. The exchange IN the general center
and i:,c..ting place of Americans, and COM
pri~-s cv.rything within its walls. There isa
bank one floor, a postOfiice on another;
there arr reading rooms where you find the
latest papers on file, a ladies' parlOr, a tour
lists i.iireau, where you can buy excursion
4. nf tha RI md
Pany iis guidebOOks, and q department OF
oceai, ,.-.vice, where you arrange with every
transatlantic line.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
hal a look at the house OF commons on
Thursday, the day before 1t was prOrOgued.
That brilliant young Irish member, Thomas
Power OConnOr, and ono Of his shamrock
colleagues the ones to guarantee that
the group Of Mr.. Gillig's friends had no dyna-
mite about them and to effect our entrance.
Since the explosion in Westminster hall no
one is allowed to enter that wing Of the
houses of parliament unless accompanied by
a member, and the dynamiters succeeded only
in running some fine old stained glass win
dows, depriving sightseers Of q great pleas
ure, and giving the few who do gain entrance
uncomfortable sensations during all Of the
time that they are present Accustomed to
the broad corridors, the open galleries and the
freeswing Of our own Capitol and houses Of
congress, the precautions and passes and
countersigns and checks needed to carry US
through seemed almost farcical
We were separated as In a Quaker meet
ing, the men Of the party being marched OF
and shown into ons gallery, and the ladies
led up an endless lot Of back stairs and into a
box about twelve feet square, whence we
peered through a gilded lattice at the mighty
house of commons far below. The members
sit on leather-covered benches around what
would hardly make an ordinary county court
room at home. Half of them had their hats
set squarely down ON their heads and over
their ears, in a good conservative style, and
the speaker, whom We could not see from our
screened gallery, was described as something
magnificent in a big wig and gown. The
speaker Of the house OF commons cannot leave
his seat, they say, during sessions, and has to
sit there from beginning to end. How would
busy, restless speakers OF the house Of
representatives at Washington stand that,
with no chance to slip down to the restau-
rant, or out to a committee room, or away
during sessionss
DUCHESSES IN THE PARK
As to the duchesses in the park, We saw
them all the other morning when there was
a meet Of the Coaching club, and twenty
four i'll hands went round and round the
such bright, sunny June morning as only
blesses the height Of the London season
About all the visiting Americans were to he
met In the park, and their comments on
British beauty and the average English
wonan's taste in dress would not have edited
the iciiy erect women in the endless string Of
open carriages The beauties could not have
been out that day, nor any ones best gowns.
Not one woman that rode by could compare,
in face or toilet, with q certain Baltimore
girl that stood by tho rail and watched the
spectacle. The Princess OF Wales and her
daughters were there, and the carriage full
Of royal highnesses bowed graciously this
way and that in recognition Of the uncovered
heads around them.
The princess as well as her daughters,
were simply dressed in black gowns, for all
the court Is In mourning, for the mad, sad
brother of Bavaria, and dress Is regulated by
etlict, and the largest dry goods stores make
the most profuse displays Of black and white,
gray and purple goods. Il startles the
American greatly to SEQ the princess looking
quite as young as her three great grown
daughters, and Alexandria l. far more at
tractive to any eyes than those three fair,
fresh h-complexioned, heavy looking young
girls with her. The three young daughters
are strangely like the youthful portraits Of
Queen Victoria, and the duh, bland, heavy
looking eyes that distinguish the royal grand
mother make the family resemblance un-
mistaka in Globe Democrat.
The Morphine Habit In France.
The deplorabls habit of using morphine,
not to relieve pain, but for the pleasurabls