The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-24
THE FAMOUS HUMORIsT IN LON~
ENED CIRCUMSTANCES.
HIS MISSION A FAILURE.
SENATOR WoLCOTT HAS NOT BEEN
ABLE TO AWAKEN ENGLAND'S
INTEREST.
Conquest OF THE WHOLE soUDAN.
Preparations Being Hurried For
ward for the Advance Up the Nile
Gossip of London.

LONDON, Jan. Z0.-1C is rumOreQ Chdf
Senator Edward O. Wolcott, of Colo
RADIO, who has been visiting England in
the interest CT bimetallism, is not quite
satisfied with the progress Of his in
quiries here. He has Leen delayed in
meeting people, owing to their absence
not be received by the marquis of Sal
isbury because he had no official cre-
dentials. The Bimetailic league, how
ever, has given Senator Wolcott the
heartiest reception and Sir William
Henry Houndsworth, conservative
member of parliament for the North
western division of Manchester, who
was the British delegate at the none
tary conference at Brussels, in 1892,
and Lord Alderman, senior partner in
the firm Of Antony Gibbs & Sons,
bankers and merchants, and formerly
a governor, now director Of the Bank
of England, have had long interviews
with the senator and are aiding him
in every way possible. Senator VOL
colt finds that the position here re-
mains unchanged from the time of the
Brussels conference, namely, that the
British government and the house OF
commons are committed to do all in
the1r power to secure by international
agreement, the stable monetary par Of
the exchange Of gold and silver. The
Eank OF England is still willing to keep
fifth Of its reserve in silver bars
But in spite of the willingness IF
Great Britain, which has been ex-
pressed to Senator Wolcott, to bring in
the minis Of India into any interna-
uonal agreement, Great Britain under
no circumstances will take the initia-
tive IN calling a new conference con-
s1der1ng as she does that the above
offers are the first practical step tc-
wards international bimetallism taken
by any government. She now wants
to see what practical steps other gov
ernments are willing to take. The con-
t1nental powers are equally unwilling
to take the lead in calling monetary
conference, as they unanimously be-
lieve that the United States, both by
its position and Importance, must take
the initiative.
The attempt Of Sir William Rose,
who is a mem Der of the Canadian bar,
and who has served in the Canadian
militia, to shut out the public from
the historic grounds Of his seat. Moor
Park, near Farnham, Surrey, has Gre
ated great deal of ill-feeling, and led
to remarkable manifestatiin on Sun
day, when the gates were locked for
the first time in generations Hun
drds of people, headed by the Farm
ham district council, marched to the
gates and demanded admittance. When
this was refused, the councilmen cut
the bolts and chains with chisels and
hammers, brought for the purpose, and
the crowds f1Ocked into the grounds.
cheering for the council. There was
much hooting when the crowd passed
the mansion. The chains and fasten-
ings Of all the other gates were cut
in the same manner.
The latest new from Cairo indicates
that the start of the Anglo-Egyptian
expedition to KhartOum may be ex-
pected within six months, and when
Sir Redvers Butler, V. c.. the adiutant
general of the forces (for it is no longer
doubted that Butler will supersede Sir
Herbert Kitchener, at the head Of the
10000 British troops, who are going to
stiffen the backbone of the Egyptian
army, starts for Khartoum, he will
probably find but little to impede a
rapid advance on this side of Berber.
There is no reason why Kitchener
should be superseded, except on ac-
count of his youth Sir Herbert
Kitchener was born in 1850 and Sir
Redvers Butler was born in 1889. But
it is felt that a veteran is needed at
the head Of the expedition, which is
to make the important advance about
to be undertaken. 1t is understood.
however, that Sir Herbert Kitchener
will be given the command of the
army of occupation.
Interest in the queens diamond jubi-
lee is augmenting rapidly everywhere,
with the universal preparations to cell
citrate the siXtieth anniversary of her
reign. West end rents have already
doubled and large numbers Of the ar
istocracy, who usually let their houses
Tor the season are remaining in town.
Recent cable dispatches from London
to the United States stating the health
of the queen is so bad that she shows
some evidences of insanity have led the
Lancet to declare on authority that the
reports are absolutely untrue, and that
the condition of her majesty does not
give any cause for anxiety to her med
ical advisers, apart from that natur-
ally attaching to old age.
Mr.. Richard Dobell has started for
Ottawa. The Chronicle says that Mr..
Dobell,. while in England, has had ex-
ceptional opportunities of making
known in official and commercial Cir
cles, the earnest desire of the Laurier
ministry, to cooperate in every way
to establish an era of goodwill in An
glo-American relations
Few of Mark Twain's many@friends
know of the plucky fight he issTnaking
with adversely, or how baGfiysshen has
been used by fortune. In a words Mark
Twain, who a couple Of years ago
thought himself a rich man, is today
worse than penniless. Since his re-
turn from Africa a few months ago,
he has been living in very modest
lodgings in London, going nowhere and
seeing but one or two friends, toiling
all day and every day at a history Of
his trip around the world. With the
proceeds of this book he hopes to he
able to pay off his creditors and to
leave something for his family. Mark
Twain lost practically everything
when Webster & Co. failed and the
lecture trip around the world which
he undertook. with the hope of re-
trieving his fortunes, did not turn out
financial success for him. So. over
sixty years of age. in poor health, and
in a strange country, Americas great
est humorist is, perhaps, working hard
er than ever before.
A student in chemistry named Outlay
started last week from Paris to travel
around the world in three years. walk
ing wherever possible. His object is
to prove the weather resisting quail
ties of paper, he having undertaken to
wear no other suits than those mada
Of that material 20 crowd gathered
outside the newspaper office from
which Dufay set out. He goes first to
Havre, and from there to America.
The recent appointment Of Mgr.
Luigi Oreglei di Santo Stefano. who
was already cardinal camerlenge of the
holy Roman church, and sub-dean of
the sacred college, as head of the sa-
cred college, gives him the best chance
to succeed the present pope, and is
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