The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-05
Has Old England Gone Over
Her Jubilee.
Press Shrieking About All I'M
aginable Disasters.
SOME WANT NEW NAME
For Great Britain, One Sug-
gesting "Wiseland,"
Composed of Initials of the
Four Provinces.

London. June SIT is impossible to es-
cape the jubilee. Already everything is
turning upon the celebration Dress decor
ations and entertainments, while there is
a shrieking chorus from the press, warn
ing everybody against all imaginable
disasters, which. it is claimed, are likely
to ensue. 1t is even pointed out that the
proposed bonfres are likely to set the
whole country in a blaze, while other
correspondents are so impressed with the
Importance of the jubilee that they are
not satisfied with the name of England
or Britain and want England to be re-
christened Wiseland, the first four let
ters being the initials of Wales, Ireland,
Scotland and England. This is capped by
another correspondent who wants the
empire to be called Enwiscolia so as to
bring in the colonies of England and that
all subjects of the queen be called En-
wiscolians.
Jubilee seats swindling is rampant.
Sharpers are meeting the incoming
steamers at Port Said, Brindisf and
Queenstown and are selling to unsuspic-
ious passengers unexisting seats to view
the jubilee procession Many Americans
have been victimized in this manner at
Queenstown.
Complications in regard to the special
embassy of Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, proprie-
tor of the New York Tribune, are already
on the horizon. The queen viii receive
Mr.. Reid alone, following the same pre-
cedent with the other special embassies.
The foreign office is prepared to provide
quarters for Mr.. Reid and his suit en-
bracing in the latter General Nelson
Miles and Rear Admiral J. N. Miller L.
S. N. Mr.. Reid, however proposes to do
credit to the United States and Mr.. Og-
den Mills, his brother-in-law, is already
here seeking a large house for the ac-
commOdatiOn of the special embassy.
The foreign office officials are glad to
have Mr.. Reid do this but they say they
cannot separate General Miles and Ad-
miral Miller from the rest of his suite
and they must provide their own quar-
ters.
Upwards of 5000 signatures have al
ready been obtained for the Scottish 1sze
tional memorial to the queen, praying
that in state documents the words "Creat
Britain" and British should always be
substituted for England and English"
Mr.. John Erskine, a merchant of Bel
fast, Ireland, has offered the lords of the
treasury for the queens acceptance, a
magnificent free hold over London, Bel
fast Lough the site of the royal resi-
dence in Ireland. The latter country it
is claimed in some quarters, has always
fretted over the fact that the queen does
not visit that portion of her domain and
it has been asserted that her failure to
do SO is the result o fthe refusal of Dub
lin, in the COS, to grant a site in Phoenix
park for a monument to the late Prince
Consort.
The Duchess of Devonshfre's historical
costume ball on July 26 promises to be a
magnificent affair. 1t is understood that
the Duchess of Marlborough. formerly
Miss VanderbilD will appear in the char
acter of Columbia and the Duke of Mari-
borough has ordered a Louis XVI. cos
tune with wonderful jeweled embroider-
les. The Prince of Wales viii represent
one of his ancestors.