The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
GOSSIP OF LONDON TOWN.
Influenza, the Queens Drawing Room
and the IackbnlIing Of Rhodes.

and the BfackballfnE OF Rhodes.
LONDON, March 9.--The weather and the
epidemic of influenza have been moderating
recently although thousands of houses are
still without water as a result of frozen
pipes, and many thousands of people are
suffering from the prevailing malady. The
present epidemic of influenza has been more
severely felt in London than in any other
part of the country and the death rate has
risen during the past week from q per
thousand, the normal rate, to 1876 per thou
sand, remarkably high record. Lord
Rosebery, 1T now appears, has been more
seriously Ill than was generally imagined,
and. it is added, he is improving very slow
iy. Among the other distinguished sufferers
IS Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The Home Sec
rotary, Mr.. Henry Asquith, has recovered
from his attack; Mr. Henry Fowler, the
Secretary of State for Indian Affairs, is con-
fined to his rooms; the Warehouses of
Salisbury, who has been suffering from in
fiuenza, is now able to leave her bed, and
the Duchess of Sutherland is down with an
attack of the same disease.
The Queens drawing room at Bucking-
ham Palace on Wednesday showed the eff
feet of the influenza epidemic. for the usual
attendance was considerably reduced. At
the drawing room, by the way, it was no.
ficed that pirk and blue were the prevailing
coiors in the toilettes, although mauve
satin was greatly worn. The weather was
so cold that it drove the public away from
the hall, and generally speaking the func-
ton was far from being brilliant one.
MANY rufnors have been circulated regard
ing the absence Of the Princess of Wales
from the drawing room, but the general
opinion seems to be that the failure of the
Princess to be present on that occasion
was the result of feeble health and the
TACT that she was DESTROYS of not expos,
n
tendant fatigue.
The Queen has granted letters of patent
tc Lazy Sibelle Mackenzie, elder daughter
of the late Earl of Cromartie, to be Countess
or Cromartie, in the same manner as was
ner grandmother. the late Anne, Duchess of
iand before lie episode of Mrs. Blair. the
present Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
many persons in the United States.
Lore Woiseley, commander of the forces
IN ireland, has issued invitations to
Iancy dress ball, which is to take place
next week in Dublin, and at which ladies
3 ~ ;St,, De dressed 50 as to resemble some
Rodney or Thomas Gainsborough.
In club circles this week there has been
T,ae comment on the sensation caused,
Rhodes. Premier of Cape Colony, at the
travellers, Club, and. secondly, at the fact
that the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Fife,
his son-in-law, and Earl Grey, have re-
signed their membership of that club, there
ny. ~ giving WI damaging blow at its prestige.
closely on the refusal of the Marlborough
cup to elect Mr.. Belt, the south African
In the De Beers diamond Mines is giving
club men lot to talk about. The MARI
borough Is the favorite club of the Prince
OF wales, and nobody is proposed for men,
bership there until his name has first been
submitted TO the Prince. To make matters
uglier Mr.. Belt, il will be remembered, was
when he heard that Mr.. Belt had been
blackbailed, offered to have him renomi-
clined.
Following the suit brought by Sir William
EDEN Eden IN Paris, against. James MCNEIL
artist to deliver Lady E,den's portrait, and
10 pay f40 damages for delaying the de-
livery Mr.. Whistler has begun letter
Gazette he says: 1T is curious and, in an
unchristian way, pleasant 20 note how a
1nrery Macen anytS Mho Though fe surely
sweet singing of an insinuating secretary
bird, unreservedly and ungrudgingly gives
away himself" Whistler also says. 1.-THE
case goes to show that a few ancestors.
Selling upon odd droves of oxen, as set
forth in Burke, is but poor backing for
struggles, f. M. Eden, the son of Sir
William Eden, replies. to Mr.. Whistler in
yesterdays yesterday Pail Mall Gazette. saying:
Whistler, the tailor both tradesmen
What is sauce for the tailor's goose is sauce
A petition. signed by four hundred of
the most notable English Roman Cath
olics. headed by the names of the
OF Ripon. the Marquis of Butte,
Chief Justice Russell and forty other peers,
has been presented to Cardinal Vaughn,
representations be made to the College of
the Propaganda to secure the final removal
Catholics 1om awaiting themselves of the
advantages OF education at Oxford and
Cambridge Universities.