Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16
SOCIETY IS WELL PLEASED.
English Court Ceremonies Were Mere
ly Postponed.
The Queen Yielded to the Pressure
Of Trades-People-A Dukedom
for Princess Beatrice-Mr. Bal
tours Tumble from Wheel-Al-
most Run Oyer by Butchers
Cart.
Copyrighted, Associated Press.J

London, February 10.-Durlng the
past week the weather has been re-
markably warm and spring-lke and the
parks are already green with young
grass, in strange contrast to the frost
which whitened the parks at the same
period last year.
Socially the prospects are more cheer
full, for it is announced that the court
ceremonies which were cancelled on
account Of the death Of Prince Henry
of Battenberg are only postponed until
after the court goes out OF mourning,
when the usual number Of drawing
rooms, levees, balls, and concerts VIII
be held.
The Queen has taken this course ow-
ing to the representations which have
been made TO her Of the great loss
which the tradespeople and others
would suffer if the court ceremonies
were abandoned.
1t is stated that Her Majesty intends
to confer a Dukedom upon Princess
Beatrice with the succession to her
sons. Consequently, it is believed the
Princess will probably be created
Duchess of Kent and the eldest son
Will be Earl Of Sussex.
Princess Beatrice and her children
arrived at Nice yesterday. The Prn-
cess VIII yis.t eX-Empress Eugene and
viii take a short cruise in the Medit-
ter2nean on board the steam yacht
Thistle, which the widowed Empress
has chartered from the Duke Of Ham
iitCn for the season.
1t is understood that Princess Bea-
trice takes this trip TO sea upon the
special
ADVICE OF HER PHYSICIANS.
1t transpires that the first lord Of The
treasury, Mr.. A. J. B2lfour, the noted
Conservative leader in Cae House Of
Commons, who is a regular wheel rider,
had a narrow escape the other day
while passing through the main thor
Oughfare OF White Chapel on his wheel.
The road way was greasy with black
mud and Mr. Balfour's bicycle skidded
and spilled the first lord of the treas
ury into about as rank a gutter as that
Coster part of London could produce
Mr. B2lfour rolled completely over in
lle fat-like mud. after having been
thrown heavily on his side; but, being
quite an athlete (his fondness for golf
playing is a matter OF universal nOte),
he succeeded in sDringing to his feet
JUS. in time to avoid, by little more
than a hairs breadth, a tasty driven
butchers cart, which, however, drove
ever and spoiled the the cabinet min
ister's nest cherished wheel. But Mr..
Bafour was in no was disconnected.
He laughingly wiped the mud from
his badly besQattered face, picked up
the wreck OF his wheel. called afOur
wheeler. superintended the placing OF
his terribly buckled machine on the
roof of the vehicle and calmly ordered
the driver TO drive to the treasury,
where, not leaving afterwards, spotless
IS a shilling just issued from the mint,
Mr. Balfour was attending TO business
as if nothing extraordinary had hap
pened.
There seems to be a prospect that
motor cars will soon be seen on the
streets of London and in practical use.
Hitherto the so-called autocar has been
liable to a heavy penalty, according to
Anticipated laws, unless it was preced
ed in the street by a man carrying
danger flag. But
THE PRINCE OF WALES
earnestly interested himself in the
cause of the auto-cars, for which he is
known to have a decided prediction.
In fact. only yesterday the Princess of
Wales was seen at the imperial insti-
tute, engaged in making a personal
trial of a new and highly improved
autO-car. The Prince drove it up and
down steep gradients and seemed high
ly pleased with his work. There was
no hitch in the performance, and it
raised the stock of the company way
above par.
The Hendersons, of Glasgow. build
ers of Valkyrie ILL.,, laid the keel Of
large racing yacht yesterday. The YES
sci was designed by George L. Watson,
designer of the Valkyrie, and will be
built secretly as usual with Mr. Watson,
under a closed shed guarded strictly
by watchmen. People who have watch
ed Mr. Watson's previous attempts to
conceal the creations of his brain
simply smile at his latest exhibition of
fear that his secrets of yacht building
may be stolen for the benefit of de-
signing Yankees from Rhode Island
and elsewhere. The name of the own
er of the new racing craft is not known,
but several prominent racing yachts
men have been mentioned as being be-
hind Mr. Watson in this venture. But
in spite of the secrecy maintained re-
garding the work. the Hendersons are
now engaged on, it is not generally
believed that the new yacht is intended
as a cup challenger. although stranger
things have happened than the issuing
of a challenge
FOR THE AMERICAS CUP,
should Mr. Watson's latest creation
turn out to be as fast as he expects
The name of Sir George Newnes, pro-
prietor of the Westminster Gazette and
It'd Bits. etc, has been mentioned with
many others as Mr.. Watson's angel
but the report has been contradicted
so frequently that no credence is placed
in it.
Manager Fleming, of the National
Sporting Club. has arranged a match
between Dick Burge and Kid Layigne
for $500 $4,000 a side and a purse Of
SEQ. presented by the club. The men
will box at 195 pounds during Derby
week.
Some little comment was caused by
the announcement made in the Brad
ford Observer during the week that
Mr.. Gladstone intended to take the
earliest opportunity Of standing for
Parliament and re-entering public life.