The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02
NAzRULLA KHAN A QUEER BIRD.
HE EATS WITH HIS FINGERS AND
STEALS THE SILVERWARE.

The Prince Also OEies the Ladies
and Is Greatly Amazed by the PO-
sitiOn They Hold in SOciety-He and
His Followers Refuse to sleep in
Beds and ROOSt on the Floor In
stead-Oscar WIde's Life in Prison.
Life of the Queen.
London, June 1.-Nazrulla Khan,
the second son of the Ameer of
Afghanistan, who is now visit
ing England, is not a social success. When
he makes visits accompanied by some Of
the members of his suite, he becomes
social anxiety. The natives of the party
live in barbaric style at Dorchester house.
They sleep on mattresses placed on the
floor and cover themselves with rugs.
declining to use the more comfortable
beds. The English officials who are su-
pervising the party had to correct their
habit of pocketing the silver plate from
the table of their entertainers a habit
which occasioned considerable more or less
adverse comment during their stay in
India, but which, it appears, they were
there allowed to follow If they could es-
cape the observant eyes of their hosts
According to the Afghan idea this plate
was intended as a present to Nazrulla
Khan, and his followers, therefore, felt
themselves to be at liberty to appropriate
It to their own use. Nazrulla Khan can
use knife and fork in eating, but he pre-
fers to use his fingers, disdaining to use
the table implements of civilization. A
pipe bearer attends NaZrulla Khan and at
every opportunity he hands to his master
pipe loaded with tobacco strongly
charged with opium. The dignity of the
Afghan prince approaches sulkiness. He
is greatly amazed by the position held by
ladies in society here and refused to be
reconciled thereto. At Lady Tweedmouths s
party, where he first saw large gathering
of ladies in evening dress, he refused to go
into the drawing room, and declined to
give Lady Lansdowne mis- arm in going
into the supper room. lie scanned Lady
Lansdowne attentively and then marched
several PAGES in front of her into the sup
per room Lady Lansdowne following, half
amazed, half indignant.
In his audience with the queen Nazrulla
Khan spoke in broken French, the queen
helping him now and then with a timely
word. He afterwards expressed amaze
ment at overhearing her majesty speaking
Hindoo to her attendant, Munshi Abdul
Nal ilAl AZ Ait 1DtAbg lt oelll Alt SuppoStu
it was all arranged before hand that the
Prince of Wales should win the first race
and the prime minister the second. He add
ed that it would have been so in Cabul.
! The India office allotted $1,000 pounds for
| the entertainment of the prince and his
suite. The money will be chiefly expended
in presents.
Oscar Wilde will serve his two years
sentence in Wormwood scrubs prison. The
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weak and he has therefore not yet been
placed on the treadmill, but has been COM
| PEELED to pick oakum. His health is broken
and he hardly sleeps. Taylor, his accom-
plice in the detestable crimes, takes prison
life in a lighter manner. Certain low class
papers clamor for the arrest and trial of
| the known associates of Cocoa" as Tay-
lor is nicknamed. The police actually ar
rested several male street pests, but they
were afterwards liberated, the government
being unwilling to create any further So
cial mal-order
! Baroness de Roques, the mother of Mrs.
Florence Maybriok, who is serving life
sentence in Woking prison, on conviction
of poisoning her husband with arsenic,
visited her daughter on Wednesday last.
Mrs. Maybrick is still in bad health and
she is often in the prison hospital.
Her doctors, having advised the queen
that she should live as much as possible
in the open air, her majesty spends the
chief working part of the day at Bal
moral in a three roomed structure, half
cottage and half tent. One end is entirely
open. The place is secluded from the
castle by dense strawberries, and there is
a pleasant outlook. Here she often takes
her breakfast and either writes or die
tates.
King Humbert of Italy is expected in
London on June %, TO attend the marriage
of the Duke of Aosta and Princess Helene
of Orleans. He will be offered apartments
in Buckingham palace. He will stay in
London until the queens return to Wind
| sor.
Chile has concluded loan of $4,000, ,0O(
| with the Rothschilds.
STICIDE on A LAKE.