The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-27
NEEDY POOR REMEMBERED.
M LIVERPOOL ALONE TWENTY
THOUSAND HOT POTS WE'RE
GIVEN OUT.
aossIP OF LONDON srAaELAND.
An Unusually Large Number OF
Theaters Closed During Christmas
Week-Comins Productions.

scription. foggy, without snow. But
the holiday trade has been the best
IN years, especially In jewelry, fancy
articles, books and mechanical toys,
which formed the chief attraction of
the shoppers. The receipts of last Mon
day at one big cooperative store alone
were ..f22,4 400. An average OF 100000
parcels were handled daily at the main
parcel Office, where 1,40O clerks have
been working night and day On the
other hand the distress among the
poor Of Londonolis equally marked
Over 700 persons were relieved out of
the runds of the poor box at Bow
street police court in three days, some
OF the cases being most pitiable.
,Rt. Rev. Frederick Temple. the new
archbishop Of Canterbury and formerly
of London, bids farewell to the clergy
In the diocese on Wednesday in st.
PauPs cathedral. The archbishop in
full robes preached an eloquent sermon.
Mrs. Temple was presented, in behalf
Of the ladies Of the diocese, with a set
of Chippendale furniture. Mr.. Glad
stone, in letter just published on the
subject Of book collectors, SAYS: IT
have been purchaser in my time of
about $4,000. A book collector ought
to possess six Qualif1catiOns-An appe
tite, leisure, wealth, knowledge. dis
elimination and perseverance. OF these
l have only the two first, and the last
is restricted as my visual power seri
ously disables 1t. Speaking generally
l have retired from the list OF purchas-
ers, and I am gradually TRANSFERRING
the bulk of my library to an institu-
ton, st. Daniels, Hawarden. Tho
book longest In my possession is Sac
red Dramas presented to me bv tha
authoress, Hannah More, inscribed .aa
you have just come into the word
and am just going out of it. allow
me- ETC."
LOST ODEs FOUND.
The British museum has obtained an
important papyrus manuscript of tha
first century, B. G. It was found in
Egypt, and contains lost odes of the
lyric poet, Bacchylides, the conteme
porary of Pindar. The manuscript is
finely written, but is much mutilatad
Fifteen to twenty poems are intact
Truth, printing a letter from r.
Lehman, the Oxford coach, in which he
records the progress made by Harvard
and the anxiety and willingness of the
crowds to learn the English style OF
rowing, comments on 1t as follows
ALREADY we can see the grand chal-
lenge cup sailing across the Atlantic ,,
A pecullarity of the amusement world
here is the large number Of prominent
theaters which are closed this week.
and incidentally it has leaked out that
the real reason OF Sir Henry Irving for
closing the Lyceum theater until after
Christmas is net an injury to his leg,
but because Saturdays production of
Richard III. - showed that the play
needed much cutting and revision The
work must be esuperintended by Irving
himself Julia Arthur, the American
actress, who was given great chance
by Ellen Terry, not being in the caste
OF Richard Ill, apparently failed to
embrace the opportunity. Her Queen
Anne displeased the critics
The queens Christmas was celebrated
very quietly at Osborne, the death Of
Prince Henry Of Battenberg having
made all usual festivities unseemly
Only the old traditional customs of the
table were uninterfered with, and the
usual presents were given. The royal
baron of beef, which is the principal
dish on the queens sideboard, was cut
from a Devon OK which was fattened
on her majesty's Flemish farm In Wind
sor Great Park The joint was roasted
at Windsor and was sent to Osborne
Christmas eve, along with a boar's
duly appeared on sideboard yester-
day. esHer majesty received from her
grandson, Emperor William of Ger
many, as usual, genuine hure de
Sanglier from the famous royal pre-
serves at Spring, Hanover.
The annual performance of Elijah"
will be given by the royal church So
ciety during the afternoon Of Friday
next Jan. y at the Albert hall. The
same Organization will sing the Mes
slah" on the evening of the same day
Christmas day here was sunshiny
and was quietly spent Many of the old
customs were followed out In the true
spirit of the English Christmas At
Queens college, Oxford, the ancient
ceremony Of bringing in the boar's
head was solemnly gone through in the
presence Of the university dons. At
Rochester six poor travellers enjoyed
the Watts charity, in the shape of
q good ldfashioned dinner and
present Of four pence In Liverpool
20 900 hot pots were given to the poor,
and the impoverished people Of this
city were we'll cared for through thou
sands Of free breakfasts, dinners, etc.,
in parts of the metropolis. In the
Lcndon warehouses, 104, 593 paupers en-
Joyed the Christmas celebration, and
1852 hospital patients were made as
comfortable as possible under the cir
cumstances. t.fs
1t develops that Hubert Cracken-
thorpe, the aifthor, who mysteriously
disappeared in Paris during the month
of October and whose body has been
found In the River Seine, committed
suicide in an excess of frenzy after
receiving letter from his wife, an
nouncing her intention of commenc-
ing divorce proceedings. 1t is believed
that he jumped in the Seine from the
Pont Concorde, after wandering all
nights in the Champs Eiysee The tiles
of some Of his works, "A Dead Wo-
man." 'iThe Struggle for Life" ETC.,
would seem to indicate that he was of
a morbid turn of mind. "A Dead Wo-
man" was one of the seven sketches
under the title of "Wreckage Of Mis-
spent Lives"
Another action for breach of promise
will occupy the attention of the law
courts at the next session, providing
the affair is not settled out of court.
The plaintiff in the case is Miss Mabel
Duncan, an actress now appearing at
Daiy's theater in The Geisha," who
sues Capt Arthur Bingham Crabbe.
late of the Third and Eighth Hussars
and now Of the Fourth Battal-
ion, Royal Irish Regiment. The dam
ages are fixed at 10000. Miss Duncan
is an exceedingly pretty young woman
who has had but limited experience
on the stage. She Is eighteen years Of
age and the daughter of Adam Dixon
Duncan, who, under the name OF Mr.
Killeyth,' formerly owned the race
horse Euclid. HIS disastrous expert
ences on the turf led him to desert his
family, and his daughter took to the
stage as a means of support Miss
Duncan is related on her mothers side
to the Earl Of Bredalbane and the Earl
of Lauderdale.
Birdie Sutherland, who was recently
awarded f5, 600 In her breach Of promise
suit a gadnst thao Hon T)udIav Mo3o,.-