Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-04
AMERICA ABROAD.

Interesting Bits of News and Gossip Fiont-
Ing About London-A Tablet Of Interest
10 Americans-New York TO Have n Big
Variety show-EngIish and American
Girls.
THE following bits of news and gossip are
taken from the London Illustrated NeWs,
which devotes more space to American matters
than the average English weekly or magazines:
tablet that has attracted many Americans
to Holy Trinity Church. Minories, was erected
to the memory of William Legge, Lieutenant
General of Ordnance. who married Elizabeth.
daughter of Sir William Washington of Pack
ington, IN the county of Leicester. Upon this
tablet are the Washington arms, Stars and
Stripes; and the average American is startled
to find SO vivid reminder of his country's flag
upon tablet erected to the memory Of one who
died in 1870. He is also interested in learning
that Sir William Washington's brother John,
who emigrated to Virginia about 1857, is sup
posed to have been the great
grandfather of George Washington,
the first President of the United
States. In this same Holy Trinity Church, in
addition to other objects of interest; Is small
tin box enclosing glass case. which contains
the head of the Duke of Suffolk. father OF
Lady Jane Grey. He was beheaded In 1864, in
the reign of Queen Mary. for having failed to
keep his daughter on the throne after placing
her there. The Duke of Suffolk was beheaded
on Tower hill, on which stood at the time
monastery which was connected, py means Oh
asuDterranean passage, Win the ouiiuInsS VI iof-
merly known as the Convent Oh 81. care OF
Minoress the appellation OF "Sorores Mihores
having Deen assumed Dy the nuns VINO occupied
the aboey, puiit oy the Countess OF Lancaster.
The story goes that the executioner OF the
Duke n Suffnlk W. hrihed In hiring the DQkes
neaa 10 Lne appeS anu place IL IN tne vault III
small room near the chancel there hangs
portrait of Sir Isaac Newton who is said to
have lived in the parish. Hoearth is also re-
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Puseu W nave al one time peen al a'senuans
at holy Trinity Church.
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A CT1vE measures are already being taken in
Spain to celebrate befittingly in 1892 the
discovery of America nv Cbristopber Colum-
bns committao hos hoon formod in Madrid
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a un9er tne presidency Oh tne Duke Oh veragua'
The promoters of this celebration will solicit
nubics with Yiew oa of ,Pe ,saEins the commend.
ration quite Ibero-American,
$50
A Big Thing for New York.
a GROUP of American capitalists is IN Lon
- don at present on a tour of Investigation
with view to establishing in New York a
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s!eas Ahe"sei VI '"iie'ies, hAe INC E"p'ie,
with restaurant In connection on the lines OF
the famous Holborn restaurant. which Mr..
Hamp presides over SO prosperously. Music
while dining in public is not an institution as
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with the harmonic innovation that thew will
adopt it II their scheme is carried out in New
York. Thew might acouire manv valuable
hints from the sumptuous grill room: and the
banQuetlng halls upstairs, notably the Royal
venetian Chamber, would afford superb sug-
gesuons certain to meet with the approval OF
iev "eInhy Pieasune sesnes oI ise IL an aIcai
and danorat;yaIu !, 20 ro, 70 he mantionad in
the same day as the Holborn restaurant. II a
replica Of this favorite resort is combined with
sne Ell Lheaser Oh a. anu sne hr;IJans .nc
cess. The scheme demands a large capital. but
| the chances of profit are liberal and far-reach-
ing, especially If it is finished before the great
| Worlds Fam is In progress.
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MISS MAREI. STEVENSON ia the latest musi
tA cal prodigy She is from the States. only
| Ii and has lust made her debut at the Lyric
Club. The Young lady has a marvellous power
| of initiating the song birds; to shut ones eyes
| and hear her is to imagine the air full Of
| feathered songsters What adds charm to Miss
| Stevenson's performance is that she weaves
her Diro songs INTO Lne iorn on PrettS IecHa-
hirds nitnass Mrs sha,1 in her cisver wbist.
| ling. and Adelaide Detchop. who takes OFF,
| larks and mocking birds in fine style.
The PhonoEraph Plenses Tennyson.
| IT is pleasant to know that Mr.. Edison's phon-
ograph now reproduces the voice of Lord
| Tennyson. even as 1t is heard when he is re-
| citing the .sCharpe of the Light Brigade" and
| the first verse of the "Bugle Song" in "The
| Princess" and that the Laureate himself Is de-
| lighted at the perfection with which his voice
| is thus mechanically rendered.
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| N1 nrima donna is happy in the possession
of I,nouistic ability. She sings a part readily in
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| IS due TO tine circumstances Oh nel olrtn' ner
| pareuts being French, and her native city New
/ YORK. the most Cosmopolitan meuopois III tne
world.
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English or American Girls.
CONTRASTING English and American girls, w.
" s., ,,,,,o ,.r,,os from Rama. .@Take an
English girl, and put her beside an American
girl whose ancestry is pure English, and there
is a remarkable dlnerence between them IN
form, nature, and color. Inc american, as
rule, Is slenderer, lalrer' anu sils noeu'
thinner-featured, and more VlVacious ana ex-
cited in manners. The English girl is fuller,
| roster in color. heavier in build and calmer.
| Tho ,oica of the American ia thin and high;
'nas " 'no ',s, .n,,-;o,I d;tror.
| once "a in the feet and hands. The Americans
foot ia small thin. bieb-arched, and tendonous
in the ankle There is the same difference in
the hands. Take a cast from an English and
American foot. and anyone can distinguish
them with half an eve; all the attachments. as
thew thew are called are longer and more tendonou s
in the American than in the English. There is
something charming in the one as OF rose,
U have It the S advantage over the American 3 in