The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-30
DRAWING ROOM CHAFF
Batch of Scandals and
Gossip From London-A
Princess Faux Pas.
BLOWS STRUCK FOR CORA POTTER
Absurditiss Of the Teck Mourning
Theatrical Doings-High-
landers' Heroism.
BLOWS STRUCK FOR CORA POTTER
TBy Cable-Copyright, 1897, by the Asso-
.ciated Press.l

IBy Cahle-Copyright, 1897, by the Asso-
" s ,@ciated Press.l
LONDON, October 80, 1se7.-The weather
here and ON the Continent continues al
most as mild as in summer, but London
on Thursday. WAS visited by q regular
{ mountaineering lasting nearly twenty-four
hours. TRAFFIC was greatly delayed there
by. and there were numerous accidents
{ reported. Nssals Rssee
Owing to the death, at Richmond on
Wednesday last OF the Duchess of Teck,
i all the great social arrangements v
: been cancelled, and Court and general
mourning will be oerdered. The newspa-
2pers are making az great deal of fuss over
the death of the Duchess, appearing with
turned rules, and printing pages of obitu-
AIRY matter. q Her Royal Higness was un-
~sdoubtedly good woman. but certainly
she was NOT theridolJ of the people. which
the papers make her out TO be. and her
great virtues were not recognized until.
by her marriage of her daughter to the
Duke of York, h became the mother of
q future Queen of England. Prior to that
the Tecks. had for years been in great
financial difficulties, and occupied an I'M
enviable position among Royalties. both
here and on the Continent.
The story of the charge of the Gordon
SHighlanders across the fire zone at the
storming of Dargai Ridge, which has
come In bit by bit, from India, reveals
many instances of great personal heroism
and has produced an extraordinary wave
of patriotism throughout Great Britain.
At the theatres and music halls every
thing which. can possibly be construed
into an allusion to the bravery and dash
asf the Highlanders is, rapturously ap-
plauded.: r ss ass
A painful scandal is agitatfng one OF
the minor courts of Germany closely con-
nected with the British Royal family.
The eldest daughter of the heir pre-
sumptive is reported to be in a delicate
condition of health, the cause of her
trouble being a lackey of the court, whom
she insists upon marrying.
The Gar and Czarina yesterday con-
ciuded their visit to the Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Hesse at Darmstadt.
While there his Russian Majesty strolled
about the streets and forests, but two
Russian police agents always kept him in
sight The Imperial party visited the
theatre at Darmstadt almost nightly, and,
suddenly, in the middle of the first act,
the gas, except on the stage. was turned
down to the lowest point, in order that
the Imperial party might be able to seat
themselves unobserved.
The German Postoff1ce is experimenting
with an invention, an electric typewriter
apparatus, which,, at a cost of SIPS, can
be connected with q telegraph wire and
messages which are typed off on the
keyboard at one end are reproduced at
the other end.
Vanity Fair" reviewing the hunting
prospects at Meiton-Mowbray, is sarcas-
tic in its references to the Duke OF MARI
borough, who has Just arrived there,
cial train: As 2 hunting man, the Duke
is a credit to his boetmaker, for no one
wears more perfect boots"
A curious echo of the famous telegram
of Emperor William of Germany to Pres
ident Kruger, of the South African Re-
public, after the capture of DR.: Jameson
courts on Wednesday last, when a Ger
man merchant attributed his bankruptcy
to decrease of business owing to the pref
udice this Geographic message OF sym
pathy with the Transvaal created IN Lon
don against Germans in general.
4 paragraph appears in the papers this
week calling attention to the neglect OF
Thackeray's grave in Kensal Green Gene
terry. It is overrun with ivy, which OBJ
literates the inscription.
SIT CharleS Dixie, the RAUL
cal Member of Parliament for the Forest
of Dean Division of Worcestershire, adj
dressing a big meeting at Newcastle this
week said he had hitherto never believed
In the embittered feeling here between
capital and labor, or that capital OPP
presses labor 'as 1t does in America" "
uprising of the bad American spirit here
particularly in the shipbuilding and en-
gineering trades"
At st. PAul's Church, Knightsbridge, to-
ddY. there will be a fashionable assem-
bly, at the wedding of Miss Norah Meiggs
to Mr.. Herbert Allfrey. The bride is a
John 6, .Meiggs, who has long been a
resident OF London, and the bridegroom
belong to a well-known English family.
The wedding will be attended by a NUM-
Der of prominent English and American
tendants will be- Miss Hilda Meiggs, the
niece of the bride; Miss Sophie Meiggs.
one of the brides cousins; Miss Simon,
Miss NJ. Grace and two children, Eileen
Brenton and We're Allfrey, the latter cos
At Cambridge on Thursday Mrs. Saw
age housekeeper of the Duke of Manches-
belonging .to-the Duke. The defence was
that the Duke, who is Lot yet of age, was
indebted to her. She explained that while
the Duke was a student at Cambridge he
was in the habit of taking his under
graduate friends, frequently numbering as
high as eight persons, TO Kimbolton Cas-
Lis A6ud til~t SIR tuc HouSGhGEpeF, : WHO
was on board wages had to provide lunch
for them out Of her own pocket, and also
incurred numerous other expenses in con-
nsotion with the housek eeping, which had
never been repaid to cher. Mrs. Savage
was acquitted by the Jury
The Cdter1bh st. James and Drury
Lane Theatres shaves been the chief the
atricaI centres Of attraction this week.
The run OF THE Fanatic, at the Strand
Theatre Been closed abruptly.
Charles Frohmans manager was thrown
into a panic by b Censor on Thursday,
who Returned the curtatn-raiser for "The
First Born ~ entitled IA Nights Session.
with his -disapRreyal1s con1menting that it
was too FrenchX. Lestocq, the author,
pointa Nj the obnoxious passages, which
proved to be Iestocq then re-
wrote the pla over night, set a company
at work rehearsing it n the Censor
his veto. f5 81
There has, been quite a war on a small
scale " the rival Chinese plays. THE
First Born" and 1.-THE Cat and the
Cherub.sy Messrs. Brady and Frohman
hsv led the opposing forces. Early in
the week Brady announced that THE Cat
and the Cherubs,AMould be produced here