The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-02
MAY JOIN SALISBURY.
Will the New Duke Of Devonshire
Enter the Ministry?
THE QUEENS "PlPE" ABOLISHED.
How Prince Got Thrashing and Five
Dollars Damages for the Hurts Ne
sustained-The Frightful Mortality
Among the Children Of the Poor.

|, LONDON, Jan. 2.--Now that the quonuam
Marquis of Harrington has succeeded to
the title OF his father. the Duke of Devon
shire, all sorts of speculations are being in
, dulged in in ministerial and political cir
cles generally with regard to the future
Of his movements In the highest quarters
the prevailing opinion is that he viii join
the Marquis of Salisbury's ministry-a
position which, as is well known, IL has
long been desired he should occupy. There
Is no doubt the appointment would be
popular one for the general public has
been taught to regard the present Duke OF
Devonshire as a remarkably able man ana
one well versed in statecraft il not abso-
lutely statesman of the first rank.
The moment, too, is opportune, should
he decide on taking the STEP for there is
no doubt but that the Marquis OF Sails
bury is overburdened with work, and it Is
regarded as highly probable that he would
offer the new Duke of Devonshire the all
important position of Secretary OF State
for Foreign Affairs, the post in the Cabi-
ne. which he himself prefers above all
Others. That the duke would have an OPP
portunity of doing excellent work in that
department, nobody for moment ques-
tions, and just now when European poll
tics are in an interesting condition, a
man with clear head and strong will
might make reputation for himself IN a
short time which he would ordinarily
wait for for years
Another one of the relics of the past
the custom of years-has been done away
with, and the last week of the old year
saw it fall into "inocuous desuetude."
This was the queens pipe. You must
not from this imagine that the Majesty of
England is addicted TO the supposed to be
fashionable habit of hitting the tobacco
Jar for to do this would be, If not exact
ly high treason, a very erroneous thing to
do Her Majesty's pipe was a system of
furnaces, which went by that name, and
which have been used for many years to
burn up all the tobacco seized by the
Custom House authorities, which was not
subsequently released by the payment of
the necessary duties within six months
after the seizure.
Some one in authority thought that this
was reckless and wholesale consuming
of the weed which has since its discovery,
inspired more poets than anything else.
He thought, too, of the hundreds of poor
IN the almshouses, prisons and similar
institutions scattered over the length and
breadth of the land TO whom some of this
wasted tobacco would bring nnmistakable
solace and delight. He therefore went TO
the authorities and the result Is the order
from the treasury which has put stop,
nee and for ever, to the burning of con-
Il ,oand tobacco which will in future be
\ n over TO the use of the inmates of
tnc above named institutions. Its burn
ing will not be one whit less effectual, and
il will add something to lives which mt
best are cheeress and without much
that makes it worth the living.
Democracy is showing its head with
vengeance when we hear of IA "right-down,
regular royal" prince getting thrashing.
Yet this was another innovation which
the last week of '91 witnessed. True, he
is as black as the ace of clubs, but prince
of any other color would not be more
royal, and though some people have
prejudice against color, this young man
is prince for a that" The prince in
question is Charles Edward Theodore, the
second son of the late King sTheodore lof
of Abyssinia, and like many meaner
mortal he has bein drinking mot wisely
but too we'll" Unfortunately, for him,
when he went to his lodgings in Ports
mouth, instead of going TO bed as quietly
as he could and sleeping it off, he sought
indulge in an alteration with him, for
when he is not sober this prince is of a
ouarrelsome nature. The landlord stood
him as long as he was able and then lost
his patience. They closed-the son of a
king and the son of a nobody. Then they
they fell and rolled over each other, until
finally they came to flight of steps
which led down stairs and not to be trou-
bed by little thing like that over they
went, humping on each step until they ar
rived, a somewhat confused mass, at the
bottom. Then the prince pulled aimsef
together and found he had had decidedly
the worst of the encounter and that 1T was
more painful, if quicker, way OF sober
ing up than the ordinary. He therefore
summoned the landlord before the local
magistrate who, after listening to the evi-
dence, considered the cause of justice
would be met by fining the landlord a SOW
ereign (s5). "A sovereign for the Black
Prince murmured the landlord as he
handed over the coin. Fancy that"
During the week as you know by these
cables, two Irish misers died in the utmost
squalor in Tullyvallen. James Murphy's
death was due TO pneumonia.and his sister
Annie followed him the next morning, her
illness being similar to her brothers. All
their penury served only TO enrich their
two married sisters who have since come
forward to claim the estate as next of
kin.
The hut in which the bodies were found
is Of the most wretched and squalid ma
ture and the bodies were on pile of turf :;
ws~these two were worth 100000 and a
bank book with deposits credited TO the
amount of s35, 900 was found in the house.
The accidental smothering of babies
which is one of the great sources of infant
mortality in Great Britain has just been
made the basis of sensational attack
upon drinking A paper devoted to the
interests of vegetarianism has been study
ing the statistics relating TO this subject
and shows that the mortality among the
young children of the poorer classes is
mainly due TO drink, as out of thousand
| cases, $50 babies were smothered on Sat
urday nights and l10 on Monday nights,
these being the days when the people are
able to indulge their propensity for
| drink TO the greatest extent
Some workmen engaged in constructing
the subway at Kings Cross Station have
| brought TO light "A curious and interesting
relic. Ii is block of concrete which was
part Of the foundation of the cross erected
| I'm 1890 by Edward !. TO mark one OF the
resting places OF the body of Queen
Eleanor on its way from IIornby TO West
Minister Abbey. Some idea of the hardness
OF the cohcrete, TO which, no doubt, press
ure of six centuries has contributed, is
| found in the statement of the fact that
the edge of the steel wedges which were
| tried upon IL were easily turned.
DO you want n situation? A fO-cent ad-
yertisement In the "News" will supply it.
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