The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-14
The British Export for This Year
Declines Appreciably.
THE LADY MAYORESS OF LONDON.
An Anecdote From Forthcoming Vol
ume on Chile-Echoes OF the Great
Storm and the Wreck of the Bien-
venue.


rival-lager. AS Mr. Gilbert says: There
is no possible, probable manner of doubt
about it, as glance at the published fig
ures will show. During last month only
8,7ll barrels were exported against 1850
barrels in the October of last year. and
even America, which we have always
fondly hoped and believed would drink
our beer in increasing quantities, took
1,340 barrels less in the same month than
IN did in 1890 This is accounted for, as
all other decreases are just now, by the
Mckinley bill as well as by the immense
extension of the brewing industry OF the
United States.
There are unfortunately no similar
causes to explain the ominous falling of
In our trade with the Cape, with the East
Indies, Australia and the miscellaneous
markets of the world which are still open
TO us without any veXatioUs restrictions.
The figures here are conclusive and show
decline in the exports OF beer Tor ten
months of this year, ending with october,
of 30 500 barrels as compared with lSD.
Under the ese circumstances IL is not i'm
probable that the brewers will more than
ever side with the laboring classes against
the teetotal element, and will shout hear.
hear" when the workmen indignantly ask,
as they are so fond of doing, Would you
deprive poor workingman OF his beerl
The transition from beer 10 the Mansion
House is comparatively easy. That cele-
brated building, the official residence of
the Lord Mayor of London, which is situ-
ated in the very thick Of the city's over
whelming traffic, is this year presided over
bya young and very handsome Lord May
Dress whose rise in the world has been
really remarkable. Her parents were so
poor that they could not keep her idle, and
so she had TO go out TO service. In due
course she became chambermaid at a
fauhfnnnhIa hntal in
West Kemp where David Evans, Alder
man of the ward of Castle Baynard, and
now Lord Mayor of London, used TO be "A
frequent visitor during the hunting sea-
son.
He admired the tall, pretty girl who
waited upon him, and, as not unfrequent-
ly happens, his admiration developed into
love, and he not only helped her parents,
but eventually proposed TO and was ac-
cepted by their daughter.
Thus il comes about that the poor girl
will have the opportunity of hobnobbing
with the highest of the land, and if she is
lucky may meet the potentates of Europe,
since it is one of the privileges and duties
of the Chief Magistrate of the city To en-
tertan illustrious strangers as well as
those whose achievements have won rec
ognition at home.
Philosophers will have another chance
In her case of writing about the wonder
full power of beauty.
Although the two former pillars of the
Savoy theatre, William Schwenk Gilbert
and Sir Arthur Sullivan, are once more
reconciled and dwell in brotherly amlty,
il will be a long time before a new opera
by the well-known couple is produced.
The work which has been written by the
Prince of Topsyturveydom and Alfred
Cellier. will soon be brought out at the
Lyric theatre and the Nautch Girl, which
is at present at the Savoy, Is evidently des-
tined for a run of some months yet.
The book on Chile, which has been
written by Mr.. Maurice III. Harvey, the
former correspondent of the Times, will
be very spicy. and the following anecdote
he tells of the American Minister cannot
fail TO be interesting to you. He says /;
lone day last June / was in conversation
with Balmaceda in n crowded room. Mr..
Egan and several Of the foreign ministers
were also present, and the President eX-
pressed his surprise at my not appearing
to know the American representative.
explained that there were reasons which
rendered it impossible for an English gen
tleman TO know him, and there for the
moment the matter ended The next day
Mr.. Egan chanced TO be sitting near me in
Pullman car. going to Valparaiso.
of the Chilean Times, remarking, 1t is
not your Times, but it seems to be run
upon very similar lines
Now, considering that the Chilean
Times is notoriously n trimmer to every
gale of political opinion, this was dis
tnctly impudent remark TO make to the
special correspondent of the London Levi
dthdn, especially from personal stran-
ger TO the latter.
AS / could not decently quarrel with
the feeble old man, | merely scowled at
him and changed my seat
The great storm has undoubtedly been
he event of the week, and naturally
everybody has been talking of it in sym
pathetic terms for the loss of life as well
as of property which it has occasioned.
According to the estimates which have
been made up, fully thirty vessels have
been wrecked, the most sensational of
them beng certainly that of the 'Bienve-
nue." The particulars of this have
already been sent TO you, and now il only
remains TO add that competent criticism
declares il showed clearly a total disor-
ganiZation of the lfebo3t service, and
that but for the Deal fishermen the life
boat never would have reached the wreck;
and the rocket service, too, was rotten. y
The crew of the Benvenue state that
when the captain saw that the ship was
doomed he went into his cabin, lighted
his pipe and cody waited the end.
The Brighton life crew of the life boat
actually refused to go the wreck off that
place.
Although London is overcrowded with
theatres, yet another one is announced TO
be bullt on the site OF Waterloo House.
situated In Pail Mall, east, very near
Trafalgar Square, the finest site in
Europe. This was at one time the loca-
tion talked of for Mr.. Daly's theatre.
The police throughout the country have
had lesson in the case of the man Nau-
court who beheaded his friend i'm Paris
and hid the headless remains in cellar I'm
the Rue du Charbonne, Although they
did not have the slightest clue TO 20 upon,
the detectives not only found the head,
but the murderer and extorted a confess
ion from him within fifty hours of the
discovery Of the crime. This was accom-
plished, nearly 10y the aid OF Berthllon's
anthropometrcal system. His measure
ments We're applied To the headless body
and they showed IL was that of BOudry, an
old criminal Then they found Boudry
was pal" of Naucort and that he
lodged I'm the house In which the body was
found.
Bertillons measurements also proved
that Naucourt was n criminal and he was
accordingly put through severe eNami-
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