The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-13
ENGLISH GOSSIP.
Interesting Budget Of News From the
Old Country

Lord Napier OF Magdala was
buried alongside the Duke Of Vel
lington in ST. Paul's Cathedral.
The last fad in vegetarian diet is
yellow chrysanthemums. When we'll
boiled aud the water carefully
strained of 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 taat the
younger son will be granted the rank
of an earls brother.
The Prince of Wales always wears
sachet filled with fraukincense
| 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
he 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 CarDar-
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 a we'll 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 fol
the moment in favor in st. Peters
burg. By orders Of his regent be
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 tc
the boy. The Servians are in costa
cies at the Russian bears kindness
and are beginning to think such {
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 effect:
behind, from which England i:
likely to suffer for some time tc
come, and which may bring abou
still greater troubles in Portugal it
self France, Spain and Russi;
have all been unsparingly in theil
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 t.
hope from Lord Salisbury at tn
head of the English government
than from Mr.. Gladstone. Th'
position of the English residents il
; Portugal is becoming unbearable
: The Portuguese decline to hav'
dealings with them, and the Englisl
market in the country Is throw
' open to the first conner. The repuh
, licans in the country are taking ad
vantage of the concessions to Eng
: land to denounce both the govern
t ment and the monarchy, and publ
: feeling is now SO great that it i
). doubtful if the dynasty will weathe
/, the storm, coming so soon after tn
= downfall of the Brazilian mon
=. archy.
D The influenza epidemic is fast dis
I appearing from these islands, ant
+ the daily newspaper record Of il
: which week ago extended to col
umns, is now compressed within
e few lines. The special wards at th
s hospitals are gradually emptying
t the doctors now get the chance O
g occasional sleep, and her majesty
e soldiers of the first army corps ar
approaching convalescence. Tn
improvement is not due to any eli
}, mate change, as the weather re
mains phenomenally warm, Will
trees and shrubs are in prematur
leaf, and house grown spring flow
. ers may be bought in TIE street
y ! The expiring epidemic has, however
! made its power felt in high quarter
! during the week. The popula
= Princess of Wales and her daughter
Maud, are in the doctors hands, an,
q the disease has actually killed one O
England's five field marshals, tn
: tough old Lord Napier of Magdals
:. who was old and mentally and ply
:, sically as vigorous as the grand oil
; man.
: The royal family of England ha
), sustained a loss which will pass IN
q noticed by the court chroniclers il
!, the death of Mrs. Fitz George, tn
morganatic wife of the Duke o
Cambridge, the Queens cousin
The lady was "a years old, and TO
over 40 years had been the devote
i wife of his royal highness, but he
q name will not appear in the roya
4 archives, and the marriage did no
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