The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26
HOLIDAY HOUSE PARTIES MORE
POPULAR THAN EVER IN OLD
ENGLAND.
FESTIVITIES OF ROYALTY.
A GRAND TREE LOADED DOWN
WITH PRESENTS AT OSBORNE
HOUSE.
He Hopes to Push North to the Pole
With SIedges, Dogs and
Ponies.

| LONDON, Dec. 25.-The temperature
| Is seasonable. the yellow fogs in the
| middle of the week having given way
| to comparative brightness. The week
| has been the coolest of the season, ten
| to twenty degrees Of frost being regis
tered and skating has commenced. All
who could do so have gone to the coun-
try where Christmas house parties are
more numerous than, usual OF the
United States embassy. the United
States ambassador. Col. John Hay and
! Mrs. Hay alone remained in town.
| Henry White, secretary of the United
States embassy and Mrs. White. spent
| the first part of the week at Hatfield,
where the Marquis of SalfsbiEy has
| been entertaining large shooting party.
! Then Mr.. and Mrs. White went to Blen-
helm, where they participated in the
| Christmas rejoicings which included
two balls and the presentation Of two
playlets,in whicht he Duke and Duchess
| OF Marlborough and Lady Randolph
| Churchill had parts. James r. Carter,
| second secretary of the United States
embassy, and Mrs. Carter have gone to
| BiaritZ, and Lieut.. Colwell, the naval
| attache to the United States embassy
| and Mrs. Colwell are in Paris.
Queen Victoria has merry party at
! Osborne There was a grand Christ
mas tree loaded with presents for the
royal children, the members of the
| household and servants. The party in
I
| LOrnes and Albanys. A royal baron Of
| beef cut from a Devon OK, fed on the
royal farm at Windsor and roasted at
| Windsor by cooks sent by a London
| caterer, was forwarded to Osborne on
| Friday with the boar's head and wood
cock pie which additionally occupy the
| queens sidebOard at Christmas. This
years boar's head is from the COburg
preserves in the Thuringian forest.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
| early in the week purchased presents
| as customary from the royal trades
men who displayed the wares in an
apartment of Marlborough house which
the royalties selected. The Prince and
| Princess of Wales, Princess Victoria OF
Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Vol
| mark. and the Duke and Duchess of
Fife all assembled at Sandringham for
| Christmas, where the usual festivities
| took place.
HOUSE PARTIES.
| The Earl and Countess of Craven
| Gormerly Miss Cornelia Martin, daugh-
| ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin)
\ ,itYiy, ri of
| Combea abbey They gave their ten
| ants a ball on Christmas eve. Lord
| William Beresford and Lady Beresford
| formerly Mrs. Louis Hammersley, of
| New York. and later wife of the eighth
| Duke of Marlborough, who died in
| 1899 are also entertaining at Deepene.
| Lord Alfred Rothschild made his
| usual distribution of 5000 presents to
| the omnibus drivers and conductors,
| every man getting a brace of birds.
AS soon as Jackson, the explorer,
| completes the work connected with
| his Franz Josefland expedition. he will
| start for the North pole. He informed
| representative of the Associated Press
that his original plans were Identical
| with those of Lieut. Peary, except that
! he intended to take the east coast of
| Greenland, instead Of the west, map
| ping out undiscovered land en- route
| lures, Jackson has changed his plans,
considering that the American has
4 prior claims. Jackson now proposes to
| proceed via Davis straits and Baffin's
| bay up the west coast to Ellsmere
! land and Grinnelland. and thence
| across to the furtheSt point
| reached by Aidrich in 1876 whence he
will push north. making in the direc-
| ton of any land visible from the coast.
! he 1at NJ &c ri 1Ir iS Spff al
Jackson VIII have only one companion
outside of his crew. Talking over his
plans, he said: Il hope to push my
ship considerably beyond Coburg island
at the entrance to Jones sound. and
at the furthest navigable point [ shall
establish a base. and thence push
north with sledges, dogs and ponies
and with one companion. / expect to
be absent two years.
The alleged attempt Of the Prince
of Monaco to "bleed" the Casino COM
pany has led to the publication of a
pamphlet by a group of shareholders
full of interesting reading. While ev-
erybody is aware hiatt the Casino con-
tributed largely to his revenues, few
people knew that besides the subsidy
of the prince, the establishment keeps
UP the judges, police lighting, water,
. postoffice, clergy and charitable insti-
tutions. Last seasons expenditures of
the principality. apart from the main
4 tenance of the Casino, which was 1884,
: 600. amounted to 100000. of which sum
4 the prince had 1000 the courts. po-
4 lice. etc, 100000: clergy and schools,
f9, 600; charities $4,000; prizes for sports,
I'll, 600. and the postoffice and losses,
$4,000. The dividends ON shares alb
4 sorbed 1916, 200. making total revenue
of fl, 600, which the fools of the
i world" left at the Monte Carlo gam
bling tables. An interesting item is
/ press subventions-f25 ,0OO"
MONTE CARLO REVELATIONS.
The pamphlet says that it is abso-
lutely necessary to expend a large sum
N securing the good will of the Con
tlnental press and it is said that over
half the stories OF suicides are ONLY
bids upon the part Of Rivera newspa-
pe;s for q share of the Doodle"
IT appears that the Prince Ct Monaco
attended a recent meeting of the
shareholders and offered TO renew The
concession for fifty years, the terms
beng gradual Increase of his per-
sonal subsidy until the sum reaches
100000 annually. new port to be built
at the cost of 100000, an opera house
to be built costing 100000, and various
other items making a total of f190, 900
additional annually. Although the
priOcp has Sioua6 tho paIxy 1rroot.-;o,, a.