The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-17
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| the kings. She has lived within the pal
ace Tor over seventy years, and she now
dies at the age of eighty-three.. She was
probably the most venerated and most
loved of the women of Korea, and 1 have
just received a letter from General Dye,
VINO went out there to reorganize the Ko
rean army, describing the excitement that
prevails as to her decease. For the past
three weeks the doleful blast of the
Korean trumpets has been sounded
around the palace in anticipation of the sad
event that has since come to pass The
streets are now filling with mourners, and
the whole nation will go into saca-cloth.
On the seventh day after her death her
body was put into the coffin and there is a
nxed ceremony for this event. The body
OF common woman goes into the coffin
three days after she dies, that of royalty
i've days after, and one of the Imperial
family on the seventh day after death. The
BODY OF the Queen Dowager will not be
inferred, understand, until five months
from now, and in the meantime business is
suspended and the twelve million people in
Korea are supposed to be weeping. If the
OLD rule prevails, every man in the country
Will put on hat as big as an umbrella will
hlde MS face behind fan, and will dress
In yellow sackcloth.
COLONEL DINsMoRE,
Our former minister to Korea, is now on
ms way home, ana he is expected at Wash
lngton shortly. He is one of the brightest
young men who has ever had place in the
diplomatic service, and he will probably be
given another mission as soon as the Demo
Gratis come into power. He was appointed
10 horea at the instance of Attorney Cen
eral Carl, and he is one Of the closest
friends OF the king of Korea Judge
Denny, who has for years been the adviser
OF the King OF Korea, at q salary of 900
year, Is also coming back to America
and we have had diplomats by the dozen in
Washington during the last two weeks.
Consul General Bonham, who has repre-
sented this country at Calcutta for the
past four years, has been spending some
time here with his wife and daughter.
and he will shortly go on to
Salem, Oregon, where he lives. He
was, am told, very popular in Calcutta
and ne entertained very nicely there. His
daughter is quite an accomplished young
lady and she has blossomed from girl
hood into womanhood during her stay in
India. l understand that ex Minister
Straus OF Turkey will spend part of the
next season III Washington. II he does his
wife will be sure to create a sensation.
She is one of the most beautiful women in
America. She dresses elegantly, talks we'll
and speaks several languages. She ere
ated quite a sensation when Mr.. Straus
was our Minister to Turkey and the wealth
of her husband enabled him to make his
entertainments equal to those of the Min
listers who had allowances for this pur-
pose.
SOME OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS
in Washington happen in the herdics and
street cars. Every one rides in them and
you may be sandwiched between a Justice
of the supreme court and darkey laborer
or you may find servant girl on one side of
you and Senator's wife on the other In
such cases you have to be careful what you
say, Tor there is certain to be some one in
the car who knows every one you are talk
Ing about, and strangers often make fools
OF themselves by their remarks. You
cannot talk about public men, for their sec
retaries may be sitting beside you and the
public men themselves may be sitting on
the.other side of the Car if you do not know
them. The diplomats are occasionally seen
in the cars, and in riding to the White
House the other day saw one of them do a
very mean thing. The car was passing the
National hotel and the rain was pouring
down with all its summer strength The
car was full and this diplomat had his seat
at the end of the car. Just at this point a
lady stopped it. She was we'll dressed and
she had diamonds in her ears. She jumped
on the steps of the car, put down her UNI
brella and started to enter, when this di-
plomat put his arm abross the door and
said: $40 you not see, madam, that thees
car is full! You can not get in, Madam
1t ees against the rule" and he then yelled
to the driver: 'Drivair, why do you stop
thees car? You know it ees full.'' By
this time the lady was so frightened that
she jumped off the car and went back to
the pavement before there was a chance
for the other men in the car to offer her
seat. This foreigner had been in Washing
ton but short time, and he did not know
the rules of the car lines. He was looked
upon as boor, and the story tackled to his
name is now going the rounds.
ONE DE THE MEANEsT MEN
in Washington is worth all the way from
two hundred to five hundred thousand dol
lars and | see him adding to his Pile every
day in one OF these red five cent Washing
ton herdics, which goes past his fifty
thousand dollar residence and on to the
capitol. This man invariably takes seat
near the fare box, buys a package of tickets
OF six for quarter and when anyone passes
him up five cents to put into box he puts
the nickel in his pocket and puts one of
these tickets which have cost him four and
one-sixth cents into the box On rainy
and seven cents ride and as his income is
probably not over twenty or thirty thou
sand dollars year, the poor man ought to
have it.
THE WASHINGTON CLIMATE
Is changing, and it is now the most healthy
city in the country. The filling up of the
Potomac flats has gone on until there is
now great island covered with grass living
between Washington and Virginia This
will eventually be laid out as a park, and
it will contain some of the most beautiful
drives of the United States The trees
have made difference in the air here We
have parking commission which attends
to them and Congress appropriates so much
every year for tree planting. The result is
that there are 100000 shade trees
running along each side of the
many miles of streets which make
for miles during hot day and not get out
of the shade. The parks are now well
kept and every six or eight squares you
come to a government reservation which
is carefully cared for by Uncle Sam and in
which new flowers are planted from month
to month during the summer, so that they
are always in bloom. The houses of the cap
ital are constantly improving. You can't
get decent house in fashionable quarter
inside the boundary now, for less than
S12 600, and it used to be that you could get
the same thing for $1,000. 1 know of a
dozen houses which are offered for sale at
from S75, 600 to 500, 900 each, and there are
at least one hundred $4,000 houses within
mile of the white house.
RENTS HAVE GONE AWAY UP
out of sight, and there are 1 venture. a
thousand houses now empty and ready for
the occupants of the next session Thara