The Portland daily press., 1897-12-27

What L. sara Oh the Chinese Situation
The Fools of the Word aud Monte
Carlo.
Copyright, 1897, by the Associated
Press
London, December 25.-The tempera-
ture is seasonable, the yellow fogs of the
middle of the week having given way to
comparative brightness. The week has
boon the coolest of the season, ten to
twenty degrees of frost being registered
could do so, have gone to the country,
where Christmas house parties are more
numerous than usual. OF the United
States embassy, the United States ambas-
sador, Col. John Hay and Mrs Hay alone
remained in town. Mr.. Henry White,
secretary of the United States embassy
and Mrs. White, spent the first part of
the week at Hatfield, where the Marquis
OF Salisbury has been entertaining,a large
shooting party. Thence Mr.. and Mrs.
White went to Blenheim, where they
participated in the Christmas rejoicings.
which included two balls and the present.
alton of two plays. in which the Duke
and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady
Randolph Churchill have parts. MT.
James II Carter, second secretary of the
United States embassy, and Mrs. Carter
have gone to Biaritz, and Lieut.. Colwell
the naval attachee Of the United States
embassy and Mrs. Colwell, in Paris.
Guaa1 NicfOria- has ,,o-4r, -
Osborne. There was a grand Christmas
tree loaded with presents for the royal
children, the members of the household
and the servants. The party included the
Battenbergs, Connaughts, Lornes and
AIbauys, A royal baron of beef. cut from
a.Devon OK fed on the royal farm atWind-
sor, and roasted at Windsor by the cook,
sent by a London caterer, was forwarded
Osborne on Friday with the boar's
head and woodcock pie, which tradition
ally occupy the Queens sideboard at
Christmas.
The Prince and Princess of Wales,
Princess Victoria of Wales, the Duke and
Duchess of York, Prince and Princess
Charles of Denmark and the Duke and
Duchess of Fife, all assembled at Sand
bingham, for Christmas, where the usual
festivities took place. The Earl and
Countess of Craven, formerly Miss Cor
nelia Martin, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bradley Martin). are entertaining a
house party at Combe Abbey. They gave
their tenants q ball on Christmas eve.
Lord VIM. Beresford and Lady Beresford
formerly Mrs. Louis Hammersley of New
York and later wife of the eighth Duke
OF ELECTROMAGNETIC died in 1899, are also
entertaining at Deepdene.
FROM THE NORTH POLE.
AS soon as jackson, the explorer, COM
pletes the work connected. with his Franz
Josef land expedition, he will start for
the North Pole. He informed a repre-
sentative of the Associated Press that
his original plans were identical with
those of Lieut. Peary, except that he in
tended to take the east of the island,
instead CT the west coast mapping out
undiscovered land en- route. But since
he heard Lieut.. Peary's lecture, jackson
1le%o SAoAsS0 lis J1GaHO OOllS1uSFluG lnaI
the American had prior claims, jackson
now proposes to proceed via Davis Straits
and Baffin's bay, up the west coast to
Ellsmero land and Grinnel land, and
thence across to the Furthermore point
reached by Aldrioh, in 1876, whence he
will push north, making in the direction
of any land visible from the coast. The
date of his departure is unsettled. jack
son will have only one companion, out
side of his crew. Talking over his plans,
he said s9ti aE go
81 hope to push my ship considerably
Jones Sound and at the farthpst nayi-
gable point I shall establish a base and
thence push north with sleds, dogs and
ponies and with one companion. I ex-
pect to be absent about two years.
THE EASTERN SCARE.
In well informed circles the general i'm
preston prevails that the scare in the
newspapers and among the public in re-
gard to the Far East is misunderstanding
While the members of the government are
reticent they are evidently sincere in dis
claiming the least alarm. The impression
gathered in ministerial quarters is that
Great Britain is carefully watching
events. biding her time and that she GER
tainly will not fail to act promptly Fand
vigorously at the proper moment. Il is
intimated in quarters usually well posted
on ar1ch Ynatte-r tba+ Gorr,aY,, o;tbo, L..