The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-18
GREAT BRITAIN'S ROYALTY
VIEWS or QUEEN YICTORIA ARE
 MOST WISE AND BENIGN.

to tue Eultor or the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Every citizen of the United States,
 before starting for home, should drink
 to the health of Her Majesty; God bless
 herY though he have to do so in the
 very poor specimen of "Rye" the "Adel-
 phi'' offers It's American guests. Victo-
 ria, by the Grace of God, Queen of
 Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of
 India, &c., &c., &sc., will be seventy-six
 on the 24th of May. She is not so agile
 nor so slim, as she was once upon a
 time; but she is nevertheless in fine
 condition physically, intellectually and
 spiritually. She understands and en-
 Joys all the daily incidents of her mag
 nificent position. Her intellect Is keen;
 her understanding rapid and clear; her
 views most wise and benign. Her will
 is strong; her dignity supreme; her
 words and deeds those of a conscious
 sovereign. In comparison all other sov-
 ereigns of Europe seem petty, weak, ar
 tificial, theatrical. With such queen
 to command it loyalty is spontaneous
 blessing; an unmeasurable power for
 good. If the republican be not on
 guard he may be led to consider if, af-
 ter all, royalty may not offer the pos
 sibility of the best government.
 The queen has had nine children.
 ryl,ora ra thirty -threa
 grandchildren living, and the number
 of reat-grandchildren is so large and
 so constantly increasing that special accountant would be required to keep the
 list In order. Of all the children, the
 wife of the Marquis of Lorne seems to
 be the only one who has not contribu- ted to the tally. Of the queens imme- diate descendants, there is one reigning emperor; one reigning empress; one dowager empress; two reigning grand dukes and one reigning grand duchess. In her descendants, as in herself, Victoria is the supreme living poten- tate.
 Of her children, the dowager- empress of Germany is most like her. The dow ager has her mothers pluck and abili- ty. Her success in having her dying husband proclaimed emperor in spite of Bismarck and in the face of the opposi- tion of her own son, is one of the pluckiest things of potentate history, worthy of Maria Theresa. The Prince of Wales is the most popular royal highness in Europe. He is growing very stout and looks older than he should. He has wonderful tact, unend- ing affability, true kindness of heart, ready words of grace. When years ago he married descendant of the Vikings It was assumed that the English stock would have increments of lusty phys lque. Unfortunately the unexpected has happened. The eldest boy, "collars and cuffs" he was called was a tall No. 2 is little better. Still he is safely married and papa; so the direct succession is for the time secure. The Duchess of York-entre nous proposes very soon making it still more secure She's a niece of that magnifi- cent old Briton, the Duke of Cambridge, and looks as if, somehow, she had ac- luired her uncle's strength and staying powers. She as you know, was to have married the wedding who puffed out The Prince of Wales daughters are sad failures in looks and in every other way. The Marquis of Fife was persua- | led to marry one of them on the prom | se of a dukedom and on the remote l ,hance the Duchess of York is knock I ng into smithereens. But there are .wo more; tall, stupid, sickly things | with thin elongated features who are 1 'apidly getting to be old maids. One is | the other twenty-seven. | There's been gossip about marrying the | one to the Grown Prince of It. | lly. But he is only twenty-six and he | wants more cash than the prince can, or he queen will, put up. So the two af- ect pattern-work and church festivals, md are beginning to pose as saints Perhaps if some New York billionaire were to come forward, and the interna- ional racket were properly played, we night have real royal highness domi- filed on Fifth avenue. All these things bother the prince and make him look I Id.
 Alfred, the queens second son, has no md of a good time. He not only holds n to all his English perquisltes, but $ the sovereign Grand Duke of Sake toburg- -Gotha besides. Not very much f a dukedom, but enough to make him sovereign. Besides, his wife was a ister of the late C&ar of Russia, and vas said to be the richest woman in lurope. His children are all stocky nd he plays the fiddle beautifully What else is there to desire, being igno- ant of Prospect HUI and Litchfield?
 The only person in the wide world ,hom the Emperor William of Germa- y really fears is his grandmother; be- ause he knows that she would just as oon take her slipper to him as to any ther of her descendants. He therefore lways behaves himself when he is in 1 stays where he is put, waits Il he is spoken to, doesn't eat with his nife, and in other ways acts quite like
 lambkin in comparison with the ranky boanerges he is at Potsdam and the Weise-Saal. What won't he do ext! Only the other day, having invi- d the president and the president I the national parliament to dinner, he dblicly insulted them while seated as Is guests. The report adds that "the nperor's remarks were received with