The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-10-26
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
UNHAPPY ROYALTY.

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UNHAPPY ROYALTY.
A notable wedding will take place
tomorrow, October 9th, at Athens,
when the Princess Sophia, of Ger
many, will be married to the Crown
Prince of Greece. But it is said
that at the great gathering in Athens
where more royalties are gathered
together than have been seen before
since the burial of the old Kaiser,
there is at least one family, which,
amid all the festivities, struggle to
conceal deep sadness under the
conventional smile. 1t is asserted
on good authority that the Prince
of Wales is a victim of Bright's
disease, that dread destroyer that
has ended so many brilliant lives
in the last decade. There seems to
be no ground for immediate appre-
tensions in regard to the Princes
health, but every information says
the chances are against his living
through next year. The Queen is
said to be in deep dependency on
account of the report of the Princes
physicians, and is living a more
secluded life than ever. There will
be many sad and anxious hearts in
England if the Prince of Wales,
whom the country has so long
looked upon as its next ruler, should
die before reaching the throne.
coLoRED MEN AT HARVARD.
The senior class at Harvard Col
lege has elected a colored man as
class orator. His name is Morgan,
and he is one of two colored men
in a class of 275, "and is naturally
receiving many congratulations on
his election, not only as a personal
distinction, but on account of its
significance in these days when the
color line is drawn so tightly"
Young Morgan was educated in the
Washington City schools, and grad
mated from the high school with
distinction. The sentiment of the
college is that Mr.. Morgan's brill
liant Grafton in the class must set at
rest the talk about snobism at Har-
ward, and this preferring of a poor
man, and colored man at that,
will show to the world that Har-
ward is neither a college of rich
lnen nor of aristocrats. It is Gu
rious fact, too, that his election
was primarily the work of the ''fast
set" in the class.
SWELL GRADUATES.
To prove that the swell graduates
that leave Harvard with honor, are
not namby-pamby dudes, but stall
Wart men Of mind and muscle,
some of the eastern papers are re-
counting the preparations which
three young Harvard men" are
making for trip to Africa. A re-
cent dispatch says that while the
average New York young man has
been laying out his winter campaign,
worrying about the size of his stick,
the fit of his garments and the shape
of his necktie," these young men,
recent graduates of Harvard, and
members of the sacred 400, have
been very differently employed.
Their talk for weeks has been of RI
fles, ammunition, lions and the map
of Africa. They have started on
their lion hunt, and have chosen
for the scene of it district in the
center of Africa, never yet penetra-
ted by adventurous white men.
The district is said to afford the
best shooting in Africa, and to
abound in rhinoceroses, lions and
elephants. They are to travel en-
tirely on foot, no beasts of burden
being able to live in that region.
Phelps, one of the party, was in
Africa two years ago on a hunting
trip and naturally takes command
Of the present expedition. At Fan
zibar they will provide themselves
with force of two hundred armed
warriors and about two hundred
carriers, who will have charge of
the supplies and camp equipments.
A NOTABLE WEDDING.
Another rich American girl is on
the eve Of buying title. A special
from London says that on Monday,
October 28th, the marriage of Prince
Hatzfeldt and Miss Clara Hunting
ton, daughter of Mr.. C. P. Hunt
ington, whose name is as familiar
as household word" all over the
Pacific coast, will take place at the
Oratory at Brompton. A rumor
that this marriage was probable has
been in circulation in this country
for several months, and has been
very freely commented upon by the
American press, not in the most
tlattering terms it must be admitted.
Many have expressed the utmost re-
greet that so many american mill
ions" should 60 to pay the debts of
a foreign lord, even if by that means
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