The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26
ROyaI Doctors and ROYAL
Nurse for the MARI
borOughS.
Exquisite Layette of Priceless
mbroid cries, Laces
and Silks.
Great Joy In One Branch of the
Family and Bitter Chagrin
in Another.

LONDON, ENG, Sept. 25.-The young
Duchess of Marlborough is determined to
do everything in regal style, for not only
has she royal doctors. but also a royal
nurse-a certain Mrs. Green, who always
attends the Duchess OF York. This wise
woman declares that she never officiated
at so aus picious an event. the Duchess
being so wonderfully well, while although
the baby does not look to be very large
child it has the respectable weight of nine
pounds. They say it is unlucky for baby
to be weighed, but the Duchess seems to
be able to DEFY the fates. She makes won
derful recovery.
Very seldom has so much fuss been
made over even the birth of child born
10 ducal estate. Lady Blandford, the
Dukes mother. is especially pleased, as
she has always been fearful that the title
might be inherited by Lady Rando1ph's
son. Lady Randolph has always fully
apprecia ted the brilliant possibilities OF
her position, and the birth of this child
must be great disappointment.
The dowager Duchess of Marlborough,
the Dukes grandmother, is hugely de-
lighted and personally informed daily of
the progress of the son and heir, while
Lady Tweedmouth, Lady Sarah Wilson,
Lady Curzon and others of the family are
in equal high feathers.
No trouble or expense has been spared
on the layette, which is wealth of the
loveliest embroideries and most beautiful
real laceS. There is one garment which
has deep, transparent hounce of price
less lace Another has exquisite trans
parent Mont over the richest soft silk and
the little bodices and sleeves are so elab~
orateIy done that they show scarcely any
OIL the fine lawn OF which they are sup
posed to be made. The DOwager Duchess
and Lady Blandford contributed 10 tue
layette but a great portion was bought
by the Duchess in Paris. As yet she has
ueen allowed to see no outsiders, but cali
ers are constantly coming to the house,
and the Dukes delight in talking about
his son Is still keen.
The statement is repeated that the
Prince of Wales will shortly visit the
Italian court.
Queen Victoria will privately visit the
Marquis and MarchIoness of Salisbury at
Hatfield House about the middle of No
vemDer, after the return OF the court 10
Windsor.
The growth of London is astonishing.
The latest returns on the subject show
that over 1900 houses are erected monthly
in the metropolis. Between the months
of August 1896, and August, 1897, Ia, 59l
houses were built.
The medical press warns the public
against q probable recurrence of influenza.
For months past that disease has been
raging in severe form in the district of
Merv, Turkestan. The mum Der of victims
IS immense, and although there are fewer
deaths taan formerly the virulence of the
49,, 80, 81 n
than lessened. The latest reports show
that the attack of influenza leaves severe
results, such as heart affections, paraly-
sis, etc.
The French newspapers note with much
satisfaction tnat the German military au-
thorities are so exercised at The progress
made by the French military blcyclists
that they are training enormou. wolf
hounds to attack militant field men. The
papers assert tnat daily on the outskirts
of Berlin wolf-hounds are trained 10 seize
dummies in French uniforms which have
beer perched on bicycles
There is wide interest among oarsmen
at Sandow's offer 20 train the Cambridge
crew for the boat race OF 1898 with Oxford
and back them to win. Sandow inslsts
that the old method of dieting, living up
to hard and fast rules and not smoking is
wrong, and he proposes, in the event of
Cam bridge not accepting his offer to un-
dertake the training OF one of the Henley
crews.
The present extra epidemic of murders,
suicides and outrages upon women in
London and its vicinity is unequal led
since the days of Jack the RipBer "
Daily for week past the public has been
startled by an ntrOclouS .murdef and tho
alarm is increased by the fact that the
perpetrators of the crimes have all bafh
the police and have escaped apparently
without leaving a clew as TO their identity.
The murder in a railroad carriage OF
Miss Camp in February last, the perpe-
traitor of the crime not LaviDg been dis
covered has been followed Dv another
railroad tragedy in which Mrs. Bryan, the
wife of a DR.. BRYAN of Northam pton,
has been killed under circumstances point
ing to murder, and the Rev. Dr. Aubrey,
u weIl-known divine, was killed at his
residence on Monday. a ltlIe boy has
been kidnapped anu murdered in the sub
urbs.
rich, miserly woman has been found
cut TO pieces at her residence BeihnaI
Green, and farmers daug ter, Emma
Johnson, has been murdered at Windsor
under pc culiarly atrocious circumstance.
Her body was mutilated, stripped ana
thrown into the Thames. The authors of
all these outrages are still at large, and
there seems 10 be no trace of them al
though the murderer OF Emma Johnson
is believed to be maniac whose actual
identity is not known, bat who for many
months past has frightened and assaulted
persons on the road from Windsor to
Maidenhsad, and who has always man
aged TO elude capture.
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