The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-20
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.

The latest discovery in regard to I
the Gar is that he has suffered from i
recurrent epilepsy since the Borkl .
railway accident. That there IS
serious the matter with
him seems certain, for he has been
scarcely seen outside the triple
guarded walls Of the park at Cats
china for weeks past
Lord Salisbury shows the effect Of
his recent illness. He has aged, he
is thin and stoops. His family insist
upon his relinqEishlng his dual
functions IN the cabinet, and SO
strongly have they urged this that,
had 1t not been for Huntington's Ill
ness. a definite proposition would
have already been made for him to
take the foreign office.
Sir Albert Sasson, the new bar
onet, whose baronetcy was created
as areward for his having introduced
the Shah. keeps the horses in the
upper rooms Of high building, the
lower stories of which are used as
carriage house and barn. The
horses are taken up and down ID
padded elevator. He thinks the
horses thrive better at that airy altl-
tude.
According to all accounts, EN-
peror William is determined to make
the avenue Inter den Linden" IN
Berlin the most magnificent IN the
world. The new grand cathedral
will soon stretch its gothic turrets
and arches to the skies. The new
palace, built opposite the old 'kalser
Palatz,' and the grand memorial.
''Famehall," will be striking and
beautiful additions to the scene.
The Marquis of Harrington is very
dangerously i'll at Merton Hall, in
Norfolk, the seat of Baron Hirsch
He caught cold while shooting. The
cold was neglected as trivial Incl
dent, but has developed into conges-
ton of the lungs, from which the
marquis was so Ill that he was I'M
able to leave his bed Very great
alarm is felt, and the Queen had tel
egraphed her syppathies and earn
est inquiries. The possibility Of the
death of the Marquis of Harrington
at the present time gives rein t.
speculation, and is the sensation o
the hour in the political world.
Queen Victoria has been quite
giddy, having actually attended tab
leaux wants. organized by tn
Princess Beatrice, without, by thu
way, the assistance of her husband
who is still sulking abroad. Th'
most successful picture is said t.
have been one representing tn
murder of Rizzio, the lover of he
majesty's beautiful but improper an
cestress, Mary Queen of Scots. Th
, Princess Beatrice made porti,
Countess of Argyle, and the Princes
Louise was a satisfactory Queen O
Scots
The socialist bill before the Ge,
man Reichstag was rejected by
humping majority. In any othe
constitutional country the reslgna
ton of the government would folio,
as matter of course. But Bismarc
is fixture. The work of this ses
sion is closed. Bismarck will nov
appeal to the country on the cry
Ire Signs t art s4ef $sa of 81 Wit fp gess
! majority, despite the efforts of hi
, sturdy opponents, who demonstrat
their Independence SO refreshingly
Naughty Henry of Battenberg Wi
return to London next month an
the fatted calf will be killed a
.. Windsor and full forgiveness grant
, ed by the Queen, who could not re
sist the pleading of her favorit
: daughter and companion, the Prir
f cess Beatrice, between whom an
t her husband real love exists, no
withstanding his early follies, an
: both of them are devotedly attache
: to their infant family The indie
r pendent action of Prince Henry has
: to a great extent, reinstated him i
E the good graces Of society, which th
2 revelation of his career as forum
hunter had somewhat Disguised.
To reform the House of Lords, th
government contemplates introdu'
: ing once more at the next session {
: Parliament the ''black sheep bill,
/ the object of which is to keep OF
from the upper House those peer
who are discredit to their orde
Tie bill will differ from others i
that it will invest a committee of th
/ House, consisting of judicial peer
! and certain lay peers, with the powe
: of penal discipline over the House c
= Lords. The action of the committe
will be subject to confirmation or re
lection by the House itself, but
the bill is literally construed, upo
! lines designated, the membership c
. the House of Lords will be material
, | decreased. Even a hereditary House
: divided against itself, cannot stanc
/ Z. S. Secretary Tracy's scheme fo
making navy for the United State
, is attracting a good deal of attentio
in London, and was referred to b
, Mr.. Gladstone in his great speech a
Chester. The Grand Old Ma
seemed to be rather grieved tina
America should commence to cop
the old worlds bloated ornaments
The admiralty here are very bus
just now. By 1891 the present gov
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