Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
Eating Toasted Mullins in the Prince
Consort's MausOleum.l
VICTORIA'S TASTE FOR HORRORS.
Her Majesty's Admiration for Handsome
Prince Alexander.
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death, and, if possible, when one of her cot
tage neighbors is dying at Balmoral, rushes
to him, and. leaning over him, endeavors to
send message on his departing soul to her
beloved Albert.
There is charming little story told of a
romantic Highland boy starving himself to
death that he might be kissed by his Queen.
She will not open Parliament for her sub
jects, but often walks bare-headed at serv-
ants funeral. If they would drape the
houses of Parliament in Grape and give her a
hearse to ride in, no doubt she would give
her faithful and long-suffering people sight
of her rusty black bonnet. with the single
white feather, which the Princess of Wales
put in with her own hands few years ago,
and which remaining there, still tells the
story that the Queen has not had new bon
net in all that time.
Whenever she has visit from q foreign
relative. or if one of her old ladies-in-wait-
ing comes to stay few days at the castle, as
special attention she Sders tea to be served
in the mausoleum. OF course, it is a very
solemn occasion. The tea is brought to the
door by servants, but they are not allowed to
step their foot within the sainted place.
Royal prIncesses take the tea and buttered
mullins at the door, they get out the little
tables and the tea is served in silence, 1t is
for these princesses that the little row of
brooms stands behind the door, as they sweep
and dust it themselves and allow no menial
hand to profane it.
sUPPING ON HORRORS.
The Queen just now is in billows of Grape
for the two German Emperors, the Grown
Prince of Austria, the old Queen of Bava-
rfo hAr Hhn .~f
bridge, and her conversation, at all times
gloomy, is now desperately mournful. She
loves the most blood-curdling stories, and a
young American girl was once invited to
spend whole week at the Castle after the
Queen had listened to the description of a
wholesale Southern murder and lynching.
With her singular taste for horrors goes
an equally strong admiration for manly
beauty, her guards are superb. her High
landers giants in strength and she has been
known to scarcely notice homely singer of
renown, but to walk the entire length OF the
parlors to talk to his handsome accompanist
and to remain in long conversation, to the
envy of the other artists present.
She once called a certain American the
handsomest man in the world-it was his
ruin, for he has lived on the vanity of it
ever since. They say that it was the Prince
Henry of Battenburg's beauty that won her
consent to his marriage with her daughter
Beatrice, and for that reason she always
likes him near her.
He is a costly and useless pet for the ma
tion, however; one paper characterizes a
speech of his as reminding them of the
efforts OF sucking pig to emit iull-grown
grunt. He gets little mercy from the
English press /
When his handsome brother Alexander
visited the Castle, she fell madly in love |
with him and declared she would marry |
him. This created a sensation in court |
circles, but was kept from the public, while |
the Prince of Wales and the royal family |
tried to argue with her in vain. She is very |
stubborn. In John Browns reign every at |
tempt was made to dislodge her favorite |
from his position, but it was impossible. |
The Prince of Wales and his brothers had |
got him drunk and while in that condition |
managed to have him brought into her pres
ence, where he would behave in most un-
seemly fashion, but she, with "level-front-
ing eye-lids" refused to perceive what would |
have hurled the proudest noble from her
court When they came to her about Prince |
Alexander, she only frightened that long
stubborn upper lip of hers, and declared if |
she could not marry him she would keep
him always by her side, permanent guest, |.
when the Prince of Wales was unfeeling
enough to send private telegram to the
Gar of Russia, and the adventurous Alex
ander was recalled from England and sent
elsewhere.
A STATE DINNER.
A State dinner at Windsor Gas tie is O
grand affair; the table blazes with gold
plate and the sideboards groan with trophies
in precious stones, mostly robbed from In
dia. Amongst them Is q jeweled peacock in
useless value of more than 81, 900, 900. No
wonder that the poor Socialists, crushed BY
the Sweating systems" in the east end of
London, groan when they read of these
gems and their value. A starving populace
and jeweled peacockl
Her Majesty eats a great deal, but of |
hearty, simple food and prefers ale as a
steady drink. A State dinner is very fine,
but all foreign royalties dread q mere call at
Windsor, for it is tiresome journey from
London, and they are never offered ANYTHING
to eat When Mr.. Gladstone was Prime
Minister and had to go to the castle on busi-
ness, he always provided himself with some
sandwiches in his pocket, and the little re-
freshment room at the station is quite used
to serving royal customers.
When the Queen, on her return from
Italy. passed through a corner of Austria,
the Emperor invited her to pay him visit
at his capital. That was declined with
thanks. He then sent word he would re-
COAfo uCf dt u CdstlC Tie tOWu sue passed |
through, but she sent word she could only
see him at the railroad station. On that her
had the entire building decorated, one of
the waiting rooms hung with tapestry, sent
his own gold plate from Vienna and received
her with a magnificent repast
The next summer the eccentric circus
rider Austrian Empress chose to come to
England for her health, and to stay in great
retirement at little fishing village. Before
she left she thought it proper to pay her re-
spects to Victoria, SO announced that she
would call upon her one afternoon at Wind
sor. One carriage was at the depot to con-
vey her to the castle. She stayed about an
hour, and it was noticed when she came
back that she rushed at once to the refresh
nent counter Of the station and wildly called
Tor some beer and sandwiches.
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am told, on good authority, that on any
State occasion, or when for any reason there
nave been guests or artists at the castle. her
or chamberlain ascertaining the
names of those present, sees that they are
spelled correctly and gives them to Her
Majesty, who, before she retires for the
hight, with her own hand prepares the court
Queen of England actually
writes her own press noticesl
This accounts for their dullness and mo-
as her published diary chiefly
,hronicled John Brown and small beer, the
,ourt circular is exasperating in its silence
% all really interesting happenings, and
'nly writes that "the Queen rode out this
morning accompanied by the Princess Bea-
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