St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
SOCIETY. IS NOT YET AWAKE IN
THE WEST END OF LON
DON.
PRAISE FOR THE ATHLETES.
THE YOUNG AMERICAN COLLEGE
MEN CAPTURED ALL HEARTS
IN GREECE.
NEW GLoRrEs FOR TOMMY ATKINS
All Reports From BuIuwayo Tell of
Gallant Deeds Done by the Brit
ish Troops.

LONDON, April 24.-In spite of the fact
that the Prince and Princess of Wales have
been at the Marlborough house during part
of the week and that both houses of par
lament are sitting the season is hanging
fire. Many of the west end mansions re-
main closed and trades people are cursing
their luck. The continued cold weather un-
doubtedly has much to do with the delay in
returning to town. Then a further damper
was placed on the programme of festivities
by the disappointment experienced at the
somewhat sudden departure of the Princess
of Wales and her daughters for the Riviera
on Thursday, where they will visit the Dow
ager Empress of Russia at La Turbie. AS
the Princess of Wales will be absent about
month there does not seem to be much
prospect of any immediate change in the
social situation here. 1t is hinted, by the
way, that one of the objects of the princess
journey to the south of France is to see the
queen regarding the details of the wedding
of Princess Maud, of Wales, to Prince
Charles of Denmark. Her majesty, it ap-
pears, after agreeing to the former plan of
having the ceremony take place in the chapel
royal ST. James palace is now showing a
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strong disposition to curtail arrangements
as much as possible, out of respect for the
memory of the late Prince Henry, of Batten-
burg, and desires the marriage to take place
in the private chapel of buckingham palace,
where the Duke and Duchess of Fife were
married. The Prince and Princess of Wales are
understood to oppose the queen in this matter
and are desirous of having a full public
ceremonial as previously decided upon. The
queen, according to the programme, will ar
rive at Windsor on or about May /.
The American athletes who have covered
themselves with glory in the Olympic games
at Athens, Greece, passed through Turin,
Paris and London, on their way home, and
just caught the North German Lloyd steam
ship Spree. at Southampton, on Thursday
evening They all expressed themselves as
delighted with their trip and glad to get back
home. The Athens correspondent of the
Graphic writes:
'The young Americans have created a fu-
rore in the hearts of young Greece and they
have been feted and worshipped, and espec-
tally by the Greek ladies'
A dispatch from Monte Carlo tells of a
curious accident to, and the narrow escape
of, the Hon. Mrs. William Reginald Fitzwill-
lam, whose husband is the son of Earl Fftz-
william. 1t appears that the much admired
applying to it certain petroleum hair dye
mixture, and before the flames were ex-
tinguished a portion of her hair was des-
troyed.
According to the Westminster Gazette, the
-
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt is developing a
menagerie at Blenheim with two ostriches
several eagles, number of vultures and a
garter snake, (all purchased on the banks of
the Nile), which she has tanned in wonder
full manner. The paper mentioned. adds:
"Gentle-eyed" Nubians In native costume
also brought by the duchess from Egypt will
accompany her in her walks about Blenheim.
Truth objects to the continued light handi-
Gaping of foreign horses and instances the
case of Richard Croker's Americus, who
Truth says won or was placed in twenty
races in the United States last year. He is
said to be too leniently treated The paper
claims that Americus, now one of the favor
ties for the Jubilee handicap, receives nearly
twenty-eight pounds from the English
horses. 1t is pronounced to be "scandalous''
and unfair to favor American horses in
this fashion.
The debate in the house of commons of
Thursday last revealed curious state of af-
fairs, namely, that the government is paying
off the national debt at premium of 13 and
II per cent. The cause of this is the phe-
nomenal price of consols, which is almost en-
tirely due to the persstency with which the
state buys its own stock. Nearly one-third
of the whole volume of consols is held among
the various departments which are still COM
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expected that the remedy of the chancellor
of the exchequer Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,
will be a proposition to invest in India colo
NAL government or British corporation
stocks.
Americans are beginning to fill the Paris
and London hotels, and in consequence the
British tradesman is looking to the trans
Atlantic visitors to do great deal towards
making up for the loss which threatens him
as result of the dullness of the season. 1t
is expected that the season will witness
phenomenal going and coming through Lon.
don of transatlantic travellers. Mr. and
Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Fitzhugh White
house are in Paris, and Mr.. and Mrs. Watson
Blair and Frank B. Noyes, publisher of the
Washington Star, and Mrs. Noyes, are in
London. They have made tour of Spain,
France and Holland and sail for home on
Wednesday next.
vent Garden promises to outriyal it's prede-
cessors. Sir Augustus Harris is now in vi
emma in search Of attractions for the ballet,
which will be a marked feature of the per-
formances. The principals in the opera will
be nearly the same as those who have been
in the United States during the past season,
Melba, Calve, Nordica, the De Reszkes and
Mile. Olitzka. Nine. Albani will also be of
the company. The management hints at one
or two striking novelties.
The annual dinner of the Press club, al
ways an interesting function, will be given at
the Free Masons' Tavern tonight, and among
the guests will be Lord Wolsely, the COM
mander -in-chief.; Mr.. Gully, the speaker of
the house of commons; Lord Charles Beres-
ford. Sir Frank Lockwood, Frank B. Noyes,
publisher OF the Washington Star, and a long
list of notabilities.
Juliet" with the lovers played by Esme and
Vera Boynger, is now definitely announced
for the afternoon Of May Il. The perform
ance will be given at the Prince of Wales
theater, and the receipts will be forwarded
to the secretary of the actors orphanage
fund.
Lord Tomnoddy,' the musical farce which
was written for Little Itch, has made huge
success in the provinces, and will be transferred
to London as soon as theater can be OBJ
tained. Another musical play which Mr..
Edwards has purchased is ''The Clergyman's
Daughter" The piece has met with fair sue
cess, both at Birmingham and Manchester
Maud Jeffries, whose acting of the character
of Mercia In "The Sign of the Cross has been
one of the features Of the play, will leave Mr.
Barrett's company in June, and return to
America.