Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-09

scarcely likely that tney VIII ever oe
taken 70 rcposo with those OF the great Ma
polcon at Les Invaidcs. And yet who can
sayl All things.arc possible
In his island prison, here we have only
few passing thoughts to bestow upon the
strange oventful history OF Napoleon, for the
brief holiday season will soon be over and
then the wild whiri OF London season will
begin again; and fun, IL there is any fun in
u, will wax faster and more furious than
ever.
There can not well be more people in Lon
don than there are now, or, II more do come,
they will have to camp out IN Hyde Park
On tho lst of next month the shah Is coming,
and the Prince Of Wales is to go to Graves
end TO meet him, and, altogether, there is to
be great fuss over this not very young and
not very reputable potentate.
Who cares a straw about the shah!
He has been here once, and now he is
played.out, stale, used-up, seedy, old lion,not
it TO be hauled around the country and pose
M show, The royal beast should now
be permitted to pass his days in
retirement No doubt he will prefer the
Empire theatre to which, as the Herald in
forms us, he has already arranged visit
A beautiful place is the Empire theatre, bet
ter than the state of Cashmere. The blase
shah will sit up when he sees Cleopatra. Sir
Henry Drummond Wolff has been told. of to
wait upon the shah during his visit, so that
the virtuous Henry will have to go to the
Empire theatre also. WE'LL he can stand it,
| II the shah can not. Oneballet more or less
will not shake the nerves of Wolff.
A veritable favorite of fortune is Sir Henry.
| His platter is always found right side
| uppermost when there is any mama coming
| down from the official sky. He began life in
| the foreign Office, which generally leads a
| man TO all good things There is no pre-
serve in England which is fuller of game.
| AT the age Of fifty, Sir Henry got elected a
member of parliament for Portsmouth, and
| became one of Lord Randolph Churchill s
| fourth party. When Lord Randolph came
into Office he sent Wolff on special mission
| to Turkey, with salary of $4,000, just
| enough to live on until something better
turned up. No special mission can last for
| ever, and the house of commons began to
complain of Sir Henry's demands for ex-
penscs which were both frequent and
heavy. Evidently storm was
brewing, but before it burst the special
| envoy came home and was made ambassador
| to Persia, at n salary of $4,000 once more,
| and expenses paid as usual Success to the
| diplomatic services and to the whole tribe OF
| VOLTS For many months Sir Henry en-
ioyed his salary without being required to
do anything for it. He did not even leave
the shady side of Pail Mall. Then, at last,
he went to Cashmere. had pretty good
time for year or so, saw life and liked it,
and now he is here, still receiving his COM
Portable 9l0O week, and blessing the happy
| land which gave him birth.
They say that in due time he will succeed
Sir w. w. White, ambassador at CONSTANT,
nople, when his entirely inadequate salary
will be raised to es,OO0, with pension of at
least 5,OO0. Thus does England regard her
heroes and servants, but if you ask me what
are Sir Henry Drummond VOLTS achieve
ments in the heroic line, or even hard work,
or what he has done IN any way, except to
pay court IN the right quarters, and get him
self well and judicously advertised, l am
bound to say do not know; and l never
heard of anybody who did.
A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.