The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-22
OUR LONDON LETTER
Recent Events Of LlVs Interest in The Worlds
Greatest City.
THE speculative MARKET BOOMS
English Financial Circles Slowly Re.
covering from the Barring Crash.
Curiosities of the Hopping Season
in Picturesque Kent and Surrey.
The vagaries of the Due o. Or
leans-Queen victoria's Generosity
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.

Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
LONDON, Sept. IL.
6THINGS speculative and CONNER
cial are 'looking up" There is
q tremendous over supply OF
u money which must soon find an
outlet. The last settlement on the
Stock exchange required lot more
money than usual, but it was there all
right and a'greater amount Of cash Is
being speculated with than has been
the case for some four years since be-
fore the Barring smash, in fact. The
bullion in the Bank of England foots
up to nearly forty millions sterling,
which is fourteen millions above the
average for the last three years. The
reserve last Thursday was thirty-one
and one-quarter millions. There is
little doubt that the autumn will bring
a general "boomn in American, South
African and Australian stocks.
The famous Brussels fountain has
much to answer for. A young man
has Just been fined for selling small
leaden images, copied from said statue,
in the north of London. Mr.. Police
Constable said that the images offered
for sale were arranged to emit water
or scent in an indecent manner. The
prisoner argued that they were exact
copies from the fountain. which was
known all over the world. He said
they were not indecent. He added
that he had sold two to Il major who
had said that they were the finest rep
resentations of the figure he had ever
seen. But the magistrate did not see
things that way. He remarked that
the figures looked like "nice little
gods,n but also thought they were in
decent and fined the man $40 He
asked the culprit, "DO they sell well?n
"Fairly we'll" was the reply. 81
get fourpence apiece for them"
"Very glad to hear it, said the
Judge. "You will be able to pay the
fine and not go to prison."
Once again the "hopping" season
has arrived and the hoppers have
started for the hop fields of Kent and
Surrey. They are strange lot of peo-
pie, these "hoppers,n and one sees
many familiar faces year by year.
Many Of them are beggars who take a
holiday this way and do a little work
for change. Many Of them are we'll
educated, but not bright enough to get
on and many of them are vagrants,
pure and simple. Special cheap trains
are provided for them, the trains
starting at about II o'clock at night.
Their bedding, pots, pans, etc., are
done up in rough sacking. AS they
stream into London Bridge station,
two detectives sean their faces as
amongst such motley crowd one or
two gentlemen who are "wantedn can
usually be detected. They look dirty,
unwashed, although rather happy
crew as they sit around on their
bundles waiting for the train to start
If the choppers" meet with good
weather they will have a good time,
but if it turns out wet their lot will he
anything but an enviable one.
The Comte de Paris, who has Just
died, was well liked i'll this country,
and his house at Stowe is q beautiful
one. Both he and his wife have been
vely charitable, and the villagers are
deep and sincere in their regrets. His
son, the Due d'Orleans, succeeds him
as pretender to the French throne.
This young man is very go-ahead and
was mixed up in the Madame Melba
divorce case. One of the comte's
daughters, the queen of Portugal, has
come over TO attend her fathers fun
eral. Had the comtc not been brought
upa "pretender" he would doubtless
have made his mark in the literary
world. Americans will probably re-
member his "History of the Civil War
in the United States" besides which
he has written a "History of Trade
unionism in England" the "Revue
des DeuX Mondes," description of
Damascus and other works.
We Oh this side of the water take up
our improvements slowly. We are
just about to adopt the "Bertillon sys-
ten Of measurement for crimiuals.n "
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