, 1889-09-12
MISTER NYE.
His Observations on the Good
Work Of Jack the Ripper
and the Shah.
And Describes a Personal En-
counter in Whiteohapel--
ing the Johnstown Baby.
London Letter,1

CciNe ana 90 III huli as well as IL Is ten
dered to you. While enjoying to the
utmost the generous hospitality of Lon
don and wishing that could get twenty
six hours into a day, | could not help
thinking how easily the matter of enter
tanning was attended to, while | would
have to borrow.dishes and put two more
lcaves in the dining table before l could
begin to return the Kindness or repay
the debt. Tho children would have to
eat at the second table eand be kept out of
| sight during the meal SO that they would
not announce the menu in advance.
one of the dining chairs would have to
be reelued, and the cigars | smoked
would not do at all.
You go into the Savage Club and eat
and talk and smoke as you would have
gone into your mothers pantry when a
boy, after you had been fishing all day
There is no more fornality about 1t than
there used to be when you tore out the
end of a loaf of bread and put jam on It
to your hearts content, sucked your
fingers and went to bed. 1t l.. great.
And yet it is where you will meet men
who think thoughts and say things
which they thought of themselves.
1t is so everywhere. | am only wor-
ried, as / say, about the way | will re-
turn these various acts of Kindness and
courtesy. Tho spirit Is willing, but the
flesh Is weak. 1t takes so long To bathc
the forks and spoons of one course so
that they can give another number on
I lao, N.gV Am rf hDI4p mud
With 30 much danger TO u republican
form of government that | hesitate
about going extensively into the matter
of entertaining in competition with
| Europe. carve u good deal
LIKE TuE SHAH.
| He had complaint lodged against
one of his soldiers once by n poor farmer
/ OF the Orient, who claimed that the sol.
dicr had stolen one of his rcd-Corcd
watcrmclons. every we'll" said his
/ Nibs, 81 will ascertain Il he stole your
melon"
30 he pulled ont his sword. and cut
/ ting large aperture in the stomach of
the oilcnUcr, he found the melon and u
few of the black seeds which were easily
identified.
"Aud how much are YOU out on the
mcon2' asked the naughty monarch,
wipiug his ready blade uu his cuattail.
zone frame six, ~ exclaimed the horny
handed oriental buclSwheater.
"Ncry well ~ said the shah, "here it
/ is. and he took the amount from the
pocket of the expiring sOldier, Justice
is done. Allah he praised. Return
again to your toll,
The shah i u great coarse, hOrrid mon
arch with an eye on the opposite sex
and a droop around the corners of the
mouth which ought to keep him out of
! respectable society for good while, He
has over two hundred wives, not count
/ ing shipment recently made from
/ London. He and Jack the Ripper to.
I gether have made the streets of London
quito safe for an unprotected man, and
vet blush to say that before . o'clock
T. i. NJ, on the 29th day of July, 1ssO, /
was caught in the strong arms Of an
/ English lady OF great descent and
/ hugged considerably right in plain
sight of Trafalgar square. And yet We
hear it said that the English are not
friendly toward the Americans. 1t is
not 20.
4 FAIR YoUNG GIRL
/ playlully undertook To pat me i'm ban
b terlug way the other evening as truged
gayly home in tile opaque cleaning,
| She struck bunch of keys which had
/ in my pistol pocket and went sadly
away wriuging her hands. felt sorry
for her. uut mt the sitmc time could not
afford TO stop and pity her, SO ] gave a
piercing shrek and darted away like a
frightened deer. Many of those girls
stay out until late hour at night, con-
vorsing freely with comparative strang-
ers, thus giving the public ample oppOr-
tuuity to gossip about them and 10 mis-.
judge their motives. y girl in London
canuot be too careful about cohversing
with strangers that way. One of those
pleasant and piquunt maids admired my
umbrella very much and taking it
gently from me with winning smile,
spreading il and holding il over US, took
my arm aud trudged blithcly along with
me until told her that here our ways
seemed to diyerge and our paths to fork,
rs it were. Reluctantly ! took the urn.
brella and telling her to run along home
before it rained passed on towards my
inn.
London is too large place TOR me. |
got out for a live minutes walk and
come home late at night hopelessly lost
/ in the labyrinth OF her streets. The cab
man is my salvation. l go out and get
lost purposely, SO that | can surprise
myself at one and six by getting back in
two minutes.
/ would not do London on the guide
book plan, or by programme, but by
strolling about, studying people more
than places and getting into the usual
number of scrapcs. ! saw the house of
commons in session for the first time
and listened to several eminent gentle
men who spoke feminist the royal grants.
| can do it myself now. Ii is qnite easy.
You say something and then look up
and say "ah' until you can think OF
something else to say. Other gentlemen
with their hats ON sit around aud slum-
bcr, but spectators are not allowed to
wear their hints. Only members can
wear their hats and snore above GER
tain key.
MIR. GLADSTONE,
better known as the Grand Old Man, sat
on the front seat. lie is very bald in
deed, and his throat whiskers are very
white. He Is much smaller than had
thought. He weafs low shoes and red
WOODEN socks. When hc works down so
us to sit ON his shoulder blades, his
trousers gradually ascend his limbs until
you can look over the tops of his cute
little red socks with perfect impunity.
He Is the author OF his own thoaghts
and hear him spoken of in high terms,
especially by his friends.
Mr.. Il. j.. OConner has our thanks for
courtcsies extended while in London.
He will never lack Il friend If he will Ut
ville Staten Island, U. :. A.
Robert Lincoln's last reception was
frightened mp briefly by pleasant call
from me. Many Americans were pres
ent and drank the tea of the minister az
administered by his bright young daugli-
ter Without wishing TO express polit-
cal opinion in any way, | must say that
the general sentiment of the American
contingent is that both in France and
Eagland we need not be ashamed OF. .ouI
ministers or our consuls- general. Mr..