Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-24
STUDY OF THE GRIP, P,
Its Symptoms, Cause and
Cure to Be Made by Eng
land as a Result Of
PRINCE ALBERT'S DEATH.
The Princess Robbed of a Husband
Still Weaving Wreaths
10 PLACE on HIS SARCOPHAGUS.
The Proposition to Tender Her . Solid
Money Solatium
MEETS WITH SARCASTIC CRITICISM
o PLACE on HIS SARCOPHAGUS.
The Proposition to Tender Her . Solid
Money Solatium
MEETS WITH SARCASTIC CRITICISM


the continued rsvsges of influenza, the Gov
ernment has decidedto institute an ex-
haustive inquiry into the history, symp-
toms and effects of that disease, with view
not so much to discover an antidote as to
collect a mass of information sufficiently re-
liable to enable the medical faculty to agree
upon the best methods of treatment and to
decide the question whether it should be
placed in the category of contagious and in
fictitious diseases requiring compulsory iso-
lstion and specific hospitals.
1t has not been settled whether the in
quiry shall take the form of royal commits
Bion OF q select committee of the House OF
Commons, but the former is more likely.
Some sort of inquiry is undoubtably neces-
Sary. The doctors cannot agree either as to
the real character Of the disease or the man
ner in which it should be treated and the
newspapers are full of letters from amateur
physicians proclaiming the discovery of re-
liable prophytactics or infsllible cures.
Reckless Use of Noxious' Drugs.
Nervous people are recklessly dosing
themselves with drugs more or less no1ious,
or are frightening themselves into sickness.
The Public Health Department of the
Board OF Trade is mute and supine, and the
local authorities are either foolishly inert
or toohshly meddlesome During the last
visit Of cholera TO this country the Govern
ment called in expert advice and placarded
the country with ''rules Of health" while
free medical dispensaries were opened in
many districts.
The fact thst experts are hopelessly at
loggerheads in regard to the treatment of
influenza may explain the existing official
Iomnolence, but meanwhile the epidemic
continues to spread. and there are indica-
tons that widespread uneasiness may de-
velop into q general panic.
ADower Tor a Isercaved Princess.
While Princess May of Teck was still
weaving wreaths to place on the coffin of
her royal lover as it rested in the little
church at Sandringham some exceptionally
British and wholly unromantic man in the
congenial columns of the Times suggested
that the money collected in all parts of the
country for the purchase of wedding
gifts to the luckless young couple
should be given to the widowed bride,
scription by way of sola.ium for blighted
love and ruined prospects. The man pro-
posed to call the money "a national DOVER"
and it did not seem to strike him that there
could be anything indelicate or offensive in
8 scheme which involved the assumption
that the griet of the young and cruelty be-
reaved Princess could be assuaged by gold,
and that in due course she would find an
other lover and ultimate husband
The scheme has, however, found favor
with many hard-headed and unimaginative
men, and there is no reason to doubt that if
ROYALTY should lend approval $50, 900 can
and will be collected.
Highly Indelicate and Offensive.
The Times of course "fails to see any valid
objections" But, as the Pail Mall Gazette
observes to-day, Zone cannot argue to anv
purpose about matters of taste. If man
does not instinctively feel that there is
something indelicate and offensive about
approaching girl who has lost her lover
with a bank note as a solatium, no amount
Of arguing will convince him. But one can
81 any rate point cut clearly the nature of
the proposal and, stripped of all verbiage
about national dowers, the proposal comes
simply to this: Madame, YOU have lost
your lover, and thereby a rich settlement
We cannot bring the dead to lite, but we
can put our hands in our pockets and pro-
vide the settlement. Allow us, therefore,
TO express our sympathy by presenting you
with a check The validity of the obiec-
tions TO this proposal depends on the view
one takes of the irredeemably vulgar"
In court circles it is whispered that Prince
George, Of Wales, has been paving some at
tentions to the daughter of Prince Christian,
aud it is further stated the marriage of the |
Prince will be encouraged at the first |
decent opportunity.
Praying for Heirs to the Throne,
Further heirs to the throne of England in |
the direct line are prayed for. The idea of |
the Duke Of Fife as prince consort or regent |
IS less liked the more it is discussed. Some 1
OF the highland chiefs would prefer raising |
the clans TO bend the knee in fealty to the /
Mscduff There is better blood in Scotland |
than that of the Flies.
Anecdotes in reference to the royal
princes are still being related, and although |
none equal for audacious resource the action
OF the late Prince Albert Victor who, when
bis grandmother declined his appeal for
funds and gave him much kindly advice
about Keeping out of debt, sold the auto
graph letter for 80 shillings, vet many are
hghIy interesting and reveal much of the
boys characters. The late Prince once con-
fessed that his coming honors weighed
heaVlIy on MN, and he would prefer a
country gentleman's life with an income of
s5, 900.
Both the Princes were fayorites on hoard
the training ship Britannia, and although
the edict went forth that thev were to have
their titles, the order proved irksome to the
Princes, and George, confessing that 1t was
so, accepted from his messmates the nick
name of ''Sprat, the late Duke of Clarence
ct the same time agreeing to answer the cali
of Herring"
Thursday and Saturday UnIucky.
The reflections INDUCED in last weeh
the uulucky title held bv
the late Prince have been foi-
lowed by the discovery that Thursdav
the day on which he died is an
unlucky day for English royalty-four SOW
ereigns, Henry Will, Edward VI. Oueen
Mary and Queen Elizabeth, having exnired
Oh Thursdays. But clearly far more fatal
day is Saturday, at any rate during the
l,ast 200 wears. For instance, William III
died on Saturday, March 49, 1902; Queen
Anne died Saturday, March ID, 1714: George
]. died Saturday, June 10, 1727; George III, |
died Saturday, October %, 1760; George III
died Saturday, January 20, 1920; George
". died Saturday, June 26, 1880; the
Duchess of Kent, the present Queens
mother, died Saturday, March 16, 1861; the
Prince Consort, her husband, died Satur-