The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-21
SAW PRINCE OF WALES.
bishop Nelson Tells of His Recent
Trip to Europe.

Trip to Europe.
Bishop C. X. Nelson delivered in Allan
ia Tuesday evening a lecture on his recent
four months trip to Europe. Among other
things, as reported in the Constitution, he
said:
zone of the most remarkable things that
I saw in all my travels was the English
shoe. 1t is a small matter it Is true, but
II impressed me wonderfully. The pointed
toes, such as we have in this country, have
evidently never reached there yet. The
English shoe is heavy, square-toed and
noisy. My, it is fearful. In London, where
a stream of people is passing all the time,
/ could hardly sleep. 1t was clop, clop,
clop, until thought my head would burst
with the noise. l do not know how to de-
scribe it, except by saying that it is much
the same noise as would be produced by
a drove of mules being driven at night
over our belgian blocks.
"And then their tobacco, l saw no CT
garettes during the whole time 1 was in
England. Instead of smoking cigars,
which they can't afford, or cigarettes,
which they shouldn't, the workmep all
smoke pipes. 1t is a peculiar small pipe,
but. it looks eminently more suited to them
than anything else.
"From Shrewsbury our party went to
Worcester which all of you know Of from
the famous sauce, but | assure you that
more than that is manufactured there. A
very fine quality of gloves come from this
city. as does also Some beautiful porce-
lain This is the famous Worcester china,
of which we have a good deal in this coun-
try. The manager of the works treated us
very pleasantly and escorted us through
the entire concern.
1--WE learned from him that his works
had not presented a piece of porcelain to
the queen on the occasion of her diamond
jubilee, and as we knew that this was in
varlably the custom with large British
concerns, we evinced some surprise. He
told us, however, that the queen no longer
patronized his firm but was now dealing
with a porcelain manufacturer in another
city. After this we visited STAFFORD on
Avon.
And now let me say word in regard
to the English customs. One curious
thing is the hot water. Invariably, no
matter where you be, or where you go,
when you return to your room servant
preeedes you with a little bottle of hot
water. This Is a tin bottle and IL Is set
right in the center of your wash bowl. 1t
is a good idea, especially for England. and
before long you will welcome that bottle
of hot water. After sleeping In cold beds,
living in cold houses, dressing on cold
floors, eating cold chops, drinking cold
coffee, and living in cold climate you are
ready for anything hot, even though 1t
be water. And then there's the breakfast
which, of course, means jam and toast.
The Englishmen would no more think of
sitting down to a breakfast without jam
~ 1. l.. e.. n. Il.
No napkin is given you at this meal, or
at lunch either, but at dinner you get one
about three yards square, large enough
to last all day. Several of us provided our
selves with a half dozen napkins as soon
as we found this out and pulled one out Of
our coat-tail pocket at each meal.
after doing Shakespeare's home we
went back to London. And let me say
something Of Importance right here about
trunks The only way to be sure of not
losing your baggage While travelling in
England is to either sit on 1t or carry 1t
in. your lap. 1t is sent to the station,
where a man hears where you are going,
and then, with a dash of his pastebrush,
sticks a poster on saying where the trunk
is bound for Now, these posters are
never taken off unless you scrape them
off yourself. and, consequently, after a
bit of travelling, no man on the face of
creation can tell where your trunk Is
bound for. Madame lost her trunk once,
and / rode up and down the road for
some time but finally recovered il at the
home of an English lord, who lived in the
country, some five miles away from the
station.
"Speaking of taxes and revenues, I
learned that the Bass Ale Company paid
annually into the British treasury-well,
how much do you think7-between 81, 500,-
900 and 100000. We attended dinner
given in our honor by the lord mayor of
London. where some very bad speeches
were made, and where dignifed looking
man stood behind the lord mayors chair,
and bawled: My lords, ladies and gem
tlemen. Give good silence and hear the
speech of the Rt. Rev. Bishop So-and-So
of What-you- call-it.' This naturally caus-
ed us to anticipate a fine speech, but we
were generally mistaken.
81 saw the Prince of Wales and met
him, as / did also the remainder of the
royal family. He was dressed in a pair
Of long patent leather shoes, white gait
ers, white striped trousers a Prince Al
bert coat, a blue spotted shirt, a flaming
red tie and a white derby. If that com
bination does not make a prince, l would
like to know what does!
II saw the naval review, which was
really very fine. An EnglIshman said to
me: What do you think of our navy?
Why, it is Splendid replied.
We'll, do you think we could do any,
thing in case of a war with the United
StatesY
But there is not going to be any war
I replied
Yes; but II there should be? Oh, you
know we could whip you'
"'Well, 1 suppose you could rejolned
You know you did it in l775, and then you
WHIPPED us fearfully In 1872, so i suppose
you could do 1t now
him."