The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-02-18
ENGLISH GOSSIP.
Interesting Budget of News From the
Old Country.

Old Country.
Lord Napier of Magdala was
buried alongside the Duke of Wei
lington in ST. Paul's Cathedral.
The last fad in vegetarian diet is
yellow chrysanthemums. When well
boiled and the water carefully
strained off they are said to make a
toothsome and nourishing dish.
1t is rumored that an earldom will
be conferred on the eldest son of the
Duke of Cambridge, and that the
younger son will be granted the rank
of an earl's brother.
The Prince of Wales always wears
a sachet filed with frankincense
next his skin, as preventive to in
lection, and attributes his freedom
from influenza to its virtue. The
Princess of Wales and her daughters
wear similar sachets.
In his Nineteenth Century article.
Gladstone SO touches upon Browning
as to create the universal belief that
be thinks that, Browning being now
dead, Swinburne is almost sure to
succeed Tennyson as poet laureate.
The most extensive preparations
are being made by the Bonynges, the
rich Americans, for entertainments
during the season. The opposition
of the Mackays has fallen fiat, and
they are now received in the Carnar-
Won set, the best in England. The
Misses Bonynge are two sisters re-
markable for beauty and accomplish
ment. Their London home is at AZ
Princes Gate. Recently Mr.. Bonyn-
ge paid well known French artist
$4,000 for a portrait of his wife,
and $4,000 for that of one of his
daughters.
John Burns has fallen foul of
Stanley, and spoke in such emphatic
terms at the London county council
that the projected grand reception of
the explorer has been perforce aban-
doned. The council has desired to
give him a grand parade in the
streets, but, as Burns pointed out,
Lord Napier had no street reception
after Magdala, neither had General
Roberts after Cabul, nor Lord VOL
seley after Tel ell Kebir, while the
only reception the Duke of yelling
ton had on his way home from Wat
erloo was from two footpads on Black
Heath, who stopped his carriage and
appropriated his valuables.
King Alexander of Servia is for
the moment in favor in st. Peters
burg By orders of his regent he
had himself painted in his corona
ton robe, and sent the picture to the
Gar, who has returned the compli
ment by sending his own portrait
and a gracious autograph letter to
the boy. The Servians are in costa
cies at the Russian bears kindness,
and are beginning to think such a
good-natured animal can't possibly
be thinking of gobbling them up, as
his detractors assert.
The Portuguese matter though
nominally settled, has left its effects
behind, from which England is
likely to suffer for some time to
come, and which may bring about
still greater troubles in Portugal it.
self. France, Spain and Russia
have all been unsparingly in their
denunciations of the British policy,
and it is quite possibly that Ger
many would have gone in the same
way but that Bismarck has more to
hope from Lord Salisbury at the
head of the English government |
than from Mr.. Gladstone. The
position of the English residents in
Portugal is becoming unbearable.
The Portuguese decline to have |
dealings with them, and the English |
market in the country is thrown
open to the first conner. The repub-
hcans in the country are taking ad-
vantage of the concessions to Eng
land to denounce both the govern
ment and the monarchy, and public
feeling is now SO great that it is
doubtful if the dynasty will weather
the storm, coming SO soon after the
downfall of the Brazilian mon
erchy.
The influenza epidemic is fast dis
appearing from these islands, and
the daily newspaper record of it,
which a week ago extended to col
umns, is now compressed within a
few lines. The special wards at the
hospitals are gradually emptying,
the doctors now get the chance of
occasional sleep, and her majesty's
soldiers of the first army corps are
approaching convalescence. The
improvement is not due to any eli
mate change, as the weather re-
mains phenomenally warm, while
trees and shrubs are in premature
leaf, and house grown spring flow
ers may be bought in TIE street.
The expiring epidemic has, however,
made its power felt in high quarters
during the week. The popular
Princess of Wales and her daughter,
Maud, are in the doctors hands, and
the disease has actually killed one of
England's five field marshals, the
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