The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-29
London Pictures
by Richard Willis
Interesting Resume of the important
Events of the Week.
LIBERAL PARTY'S PROSPECTS
Weird Tale of Contemplated kidnapping.
A Glance at the Royal Wedding Ghost
Stories Up TO Datc-Arthur Sui.
liyans Latest Success.

London, Dec. Is, 1S94.-Things are
! looking very blank for the Liberal party
i just now, and Lord Rosebery has
given pledge that he cannot now re-
woke. In his recent great speach at
Bradford, he made it plainly under
STOOD that the one and only idea of
the Liberal party was to get the house
or lords abolished. But the govern
ment is making a great mistake, for
II proposes glibly to do away with
the peers but does not suggest anything
better in the shape of an upper house.
Lord Rosebery was very we'll received
at Bradford and received very flatter-
ing orations at the several railway
stations that the train pulled up at.
But the UniOnist party are making
great strides in public opinion and led
by energetic Joey Chamberlain set
forth an excellent programme, The
rural folk care nothing for the home
rule question, and little for the aboli-
ton of the lords question, but wages
are low and trade is bad and Joey's
social schemes are very palatable. With
internal dissention, and with reduced
majority, government will soon have
to appeal to the country and it is con-
fidently asserted that 1896 will see a
conservative government once more in
power The Irishmen will do much
toward this, as a certain section of them
are resolved to do all in their power to
force a dissolution, thinking that big
home rule majority will be returned
A recent Punch" cartoon represented
Lord Rosebery in kits crossing a
fiimsy bridge which spanned a stream
Il wish fine | was across this brigg"
Well Rosebery has wetted his boots
and stockings and is one step nearer
being kilt. Pardon-but it is quite ori-
ginal) For at the election at Brigg in
Lancashire the Liberal party lost a
valuable seat and one that they have
held for many years. This is the sec
ond loss they have lately experienced
Mr.. Richardson, the successful conser-
vative candidate and now NJ. p. is a
popular man and fine sportsman, and
he has contested the seat on two pre-
vious occasions.
Uneasy lies the head which sports
princes bonnet. Should the nurse
who attends on the little Prince Edward
of York, leave to be married or any
thing silly like that, every nurse in the
land would apply for the post! For is
shenotalways accompanied by police
man? Yes, the reason is this wise. 1t
1t is said that band of bold, bad Amer
leans came over with the intention of
bagging the baby, which belongs by
rights to a Yankee millionaire, their
fell intention being a heavy ransom
(ahaD Well the execution of the bold,
bad Americans kidnapping scheme did
not come off, and the. millionaire's in
fant is still safe and a few months
older. "Foiled! said the Marsh man."
Not to be done, the bold, bad Americans
then turned their attention to the Duke
of York's bride, hence the attendance
of the bobby" The engagement of
said copper" with the lady that wheels
the pram is not yet announced. AS a
matter Of fact, royal babies invariably
have a secret escort as cranks are as
plentiful as blackberries, and killing
baby prince would be an act of heroism
in their eyes.
The Empress Eugene has just paid
short visit to the Queen. The empress
and Princess Beatrice are great friends
and the wife of Henry, of Battenberg,
met the once beautiful empress and also
saw her off again. Mr.. Cecil Rhodes,
the energetic and business-like premier
of the English colonies, in South Africa,
was invited to dinner during the en-
press stay. Rhodes is a wonderful
example of a man who went to the
Cape to die and now returns on visit,
a healthy, fine fellow with a capable
head not yet turned by popularity and
success.
Prince Dolly, of Teck, and the daugh-
ter of the Duke of Westminster are now
one. The wedding was celebrated in
great style and the flowers alone cost
quite a small fortune. The list of
princes dukes and lords who attended
is almost as long as the presents" ac-
count which is saying a great deal.
The bridegroom looked smart in his
Lancer uniform and the brides dress
was, of course, "a puffick dream" Uhis
saves a lot of description). Four rever-
end gentlemen tied the knot and the
dear old Duchess of Teck lit up the
chapel with her expansive and all en-
trancing smiles. The presents would
make many poor man rich. There
We're seven hundred of them. But then
prince and a daughter of the richest
nobleman in England do not marry
every day.
Some Ghost Stories.
Ghosts are the order of the day.
Ghost No. has been having high jlnks
at Charterhouse school, where it has
frightened school boys out of their
seven senses, caused a groom to tum
Bile out of a dog-cart and alarmed SER
want girl so seriously that she is dan
gerously ILL., OF coure, 1t is some stupid
practical joke, by an idiot with lumin
Gus face, sheet and pair of India
rubber shoes. The head master has de-
clded to his satisfaction that the ghost
is not one of the pupils, but apart from
this the spook is a mystery. Ghost No.
9 has caused the demolition of some
ancient buildings known as Field
Court in Gray's Inn, Holborn. This APP
pears also to be 'jokew but as the
said joke runs back 300 years 1t may
safely be called chestnut" Some
time back a human skin was found
tanned and dressed, a relic of ancient
practical joking, in the time of the
sltuarts, perhaps, and Just few weeks