Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-24
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LONDON, March 2S.-lCopyright j
Queen Victoria is still dissatisfied with
Biarritz. The balmy breezes which were to
have famed her into renewed youth have
proved unavailing. They have been cruelty
cold. have spoiled the royal complexion,
and have rendered ruddier the always rubi-
cund royal nose. Her Majesty has also
caught cold, and the royal temper, which is
rarely benign, has become worse, TO the
great discomfort of DR.. Reed, who, unlike
his irritable patient, believes that the only
cure for cold is to remain indoors, with
ones feet in mustard and water.
Her Majesty is also annoyed by the per-
tinacity of certain preSsmen, native and
foreign, including special correspondents,
sent to Biarritz by loyal London newspa-
pers. 1t is no secret that she hates report
ers with an abiding malice. Her feelings
on this subject are recorded in the book
which she wrote many years ago upon her
life in the Highlands.
During her stay in BIarritz no newspa-
per man has been allowed to get within
hearing of Her Majesty's voice, and the
wretched specials have, it is charged, been
reduced to the old-time expedient of substi-
tuting fiction for fact
THE SWEET STORY EXPLODED.
One man sent home sweet little story
calculated to bring tears into the eyes of
every English woman, of how Her Majesty
kissed and cuddled baby whose nurse had
fed awestricken at the approach OF royalty.
The story was pretty, but as Her Majesty is
far from being built in way to inspire awe,
there were those who doubted it.
Events have justified the skeptics The
Queen first read of the incident in the news
papers At the moment she was in the
throes of influenza, and her royal temper
rose. Sir Henry Ponsonby and other court
officials were summoned to the royal pres
ence, and the official denial, then and there
drafted, was telegraphed to the Court Ne1US
man in London, and duly given to the
world. The Queen sometimes rises to great
affairs of state.
Prince Henry of Battenberg, who with
his wife is dutifully in attendance upon his
royal mother-in-law, is not, under the cir
cumstances, having as good a time as any
Young man of his age would like, and is en-
titled to expect that Her Majesty will pay
her promised visit to San Sebastian next
week. The Spanish authorities have had
squads of infantry and engineers at work
improving the roads over which the Queen
will have to drive from the railroad depot.
COUNT BISMARCK IN GOOD SPIRITS.
met Count Herbert Bismarck Just as he
was leaving the German Embassy, to-day,
about 2 o'clock. He looked like an athlete,
and the color in his cheeks would have done
credit to Dublin belle. His mustache is
no longer trained 6ercely aloft, but droops
at the ends with melancholy dignity The
foreign Minister of the German Empire was
apparently in the best of spirits. He could
not, of course, talk for publication on
state matters, but he was emphatic and
forcible in his declaration that the
Kaiser's health was superb. 1 explained
to him that rumors of all kinds concerning
the physical imperfection and infrmities of
William II. had gained currency in Amer
lea. Count Herbert Bismarck asserted that
such rumors for the most part originated in
France, and declared that there was abso-
lutely no foundation for them, since Will
lam was to-day in thorough health, and
what is perhaps of equal importance, in cap
ital spirits The business of ruling his
country had engrossed the mind of the
young Emperor to the fullest extent,
1t was impossible to get a word out of
Count Bismark about Samoa He was
leaving at once for Lord Roseberry's estate.
THE VISIT STILL A MYSTERY.
All the politicians in town are alert about
the significance of the visit to England of
the son of the Iron Chancellor, but so far it
must be confessed that it is all guess work.
The British Ambassador in Berlin came
hurriedly to London few days ago, and the
fact that Count Herbert Bismarck has lust
followed him is looked upon by very con-
siderable portion of the German press as an
indication that England is about 10 formal
lv join the triple alliance. This is looked
upon as absurd here.
The Count said to-day that he was here
solely upon private business, and he is &C.
cused of contemplating a matrimonial al
lance with an English lady who is at pres
ent a guest of Lord Roseberry's. Such a
marriage would be odd, in view of the
Chancellor's well known violent antipathy
to the English, coupled with the recent
cordial relations which have been cemented
between the Chancellor and the heir to the
Bismarck dynasty. 1t is remembered that
on the occasion of Count Bismarck's last
visit to England he said he came on strictly
private business, yet before he left it be-
came known that he had come over to re-
ceive Lord Granville's capitulation about
the Polynesian and African annexations of
Germany.