Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-08
LONDON LETTER TODAY
Britain Has Exceptionally Fine Weather foe
Winter.
WALES HUNTS IN A VERY LOUD SUIT.


London. Jan. s.-(Copyrighted 1898 by
the Associated Press)-The weather has
been exceptionally mild and trees and
shrubs are budding. Wednesdays was
the warmest winter night in London
since 1890; the temperature was As de-
grees. In the day time the temperature
was So degrees or 10 degrees above the
average.
All the country has been busy en-
tertaining; country balls, amateur the
atrical ana tableaux being the staple
attractions. Theatricals have become
positive craze, and plays like Rosemary
and David Garrick requiring the best
acting are unhesitatingly chosen.
The duke and duchess of Devonshire's
part at Chatsworth was Il great Sue
cess. The shooting was excellent. on
Thursday the prince of Wales. Earl de
Grey. Lord Elcho and five other Sc
cured It record bag including 800
pheasants. Everything was in the most
gorgeous style. Instead of using shoot
ing luncheon at n keepers cottage or in
barn, the duke OF Devonshire had
huge tent erected, at n convenient spot
and an elaborate luncheon was served
| there daily by the servants. The
princess of Wales and the ladies' of the
party drove there in u four horse brake
| with Positions and an escort of
mounted police. Both the prince OF
Wales and the duke of Devonshire wore
astonishingly loud shooting suits, with
enormous checks. After luncheon, the
prince of Wales generally accom-
| panied the shooters to the snap shoot
ing scenes. Lady Randolph Churchill
and Mr.. Arthur Balfour, the first lord
| OF the treasury, generally devoted the
| days to golf. Theatricals on Friday
night were quite successful.
A scandal is agitating the Roman
aristocracy. The celebrated ducal
house OF Litta Viscontie Arez has re-
nounced its Italian nationality. The
! duke married Countess Rosa Tarsis, a
noted beauty, by whom he had two
| daughters and some time afterward a
| boy. The duke repudiated the boys
paternity and accuses a very rich per-
son. He has established the fact in
the courts that the child is not his: but
as divorce does not exist in Italy. the
duke has become Il French citizen and
has instituted proceedings.
The Figaro says that the duchess Of
! Marlborough formerly Miss Consuelo
| Wonderfully has been led by the praise
of injudicious friends to oyerrate her
evolutionary gifts to such an extent
that her victims" have nicknamed her
the demon reciter."
The American racing colors, which
will be seen in 1898, are about the same
as in 1897.
The acceptances for the Lincolnshire
spring handicap include Mr.. James K.
keene's st. Cloud and Voter; for the
city and Suburban, st. Cloud and Voter
and Richard Croker's Dobbins and
Pierre Lorillards Diakka are entered.
For the Jubilee stakes. Dobns, st.
Cloud, Voter. Diakka and Sandia are
on the list. For the Hurst Park spring
handicap the entries include Voter.
Diakka, Berzak, and Sandia. For the
Alexander Park and Metropolitan
Ascot gold cup. James r. Keene's
Uriell will be among them. st. Cloud
is also entered for this event. The
Ascot all ages stake will probably find
Berzak, Blossom and Doric IL at the
post
The newspapers ridicule the new
rules OF etiquette at the White House.
saying the President McKinley's pro-
tocol will soon rival President Faure's.
who has long been tainted with adopt
ing monarchial airs Vanity Fair. quot
ing the rule beginning Invitations
issued by Mrs. Mckinley take preced-
ence over all other invitations" says:
"Such rules prove that under the Stars
and Stripes 1t is quite possible to be
plus royallste que lie roi tmore royalist
than the king). We wonder what
Lincoln would have said to any Of
iicious understrapper suggesting such
rules"
1t has been ascertained that the loss
resulting from the so-called Jewin
street fire, also known as the Cripple
Gate fire, amounts to f75,000. The in
qulry is dragging, the evidence being
direct but towards proving the fire of
incendiary origin and in the direction
Of demonstrating that the fire brigade
is inefficient
George l.. Watson has finished the
design of very large steam yacht for
Mr.. James @. Bennett, proprietor of
the New York Herald, which will prob
ably be built at Clyde.
The car and cEarina VIII receive
their friends at the Paris exposition of
1900 in their own pavilion, which Will
cost 100000 tsi50, O00.)
The newspapers here Indignantly
deny the statement that Prince Arthur
Of Connaught is Young Astors flag at
Eton. II is pointed out that the two
boys live In different houses which
alone makes this impossible. Aside
from this It is added no flag lights
fires or blacks boots. sweeps rooms or
performs the other duties described.
The st. james Gazette says: 1.-The alb
surdity and untruth of the story are
patent to every English reader"
Living tortoises with their backs
covered with Jewels attached by gold
/ chains To lHultS iI'SStS arr llt fhEt
In Paris, They cost about els $500.
The society for the protection OF anil
mails is agitating the matter
The French government has pur-
chased for e25O00 s125 0O0) the large
mansion at Albert Gate which has long
been occupied by the embassy OF
France. It is also proposed TO rent
three smaller houses adjoining the
mansion and to build big banquet
room and offices for the stan.
Now that the enthusiasm aroused by
the first performance has disappeared
| the London play roers and critics have
come TO the conclusion that Peter the
! Great is neither a great nor n good
play and that Sir Henry Irving's i'm
| personation Will not appear among
his triumphs, while Ellen Terry effaces
herself in small part. Miss Barry
more is quite unsulted for the part OF
| Euphrosine. which the critics general
~ pronounce beyond her. According TO
tho PAN Mail Gazette. Robert Tabor
undoubtedly scores the honors Of the
production.