Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06
(Copyright.)


cited much interest.
The Queen will hold Priyy Council
on Monday and clear up arrears of bus
mess before starting for the Riviera
on Wednesday. The Hotel Cimiez is
ready to receive Her Majesty, the
necessary horses, carriages, ETC., hav-
ing already arrived there. The Princess
Louise princess Henry of Battenburg)
and her children will accompany Queen
Victoria to the south of France. Her
Majesty now, for the first time, habit
ually uses gold, old age spectacles.
About 100 bills have already been
introduced in Parliament, Of which
number eight are government meas
ures, and one legislative curiosity. in
reduced by Mr. Daniel Macaleese,
anti-Parnellite member from North
Monaghan, and editor of the Peoples
Advocate, OF tnat place, ito enable per-
sons of Irish birch or extraction to
adopt the use Of the prefix % or Mac
before their SirnameS," was received
with shouts of laughter, and has fur
nished a fund of paragraphs for the
press. The bill however, is exciting
unexpected and serious opposition
from the Irish and Scotch members al
ready enjoying these prefxes, who
claim, according to one statement, that
it would be an infringement of the
dignity of their order"
THE BIMETALLISTS
in the House of Commons have Sc
cured first place on March %. when
they will present resolution providing
for the closing of the Indian minis and
demanding the appointment of royal
commission to take up the whole ques-
tion of bimetallism. The Bimetallic
League has issued a long manifesto,
reviewing the situation from the time
of Senator Wolcott's mission, protest
ing against the proposed adoption of
the gold standard in India, and urg-
ing the gvernment instead to resume
earnestly the negotiations with France
and the United States
1t is said in Brussels that when
Prince Albert of Belgium returns
home from the United States he will
be raised to the hank of Major in his
Grenadier regiment, and that his be-
trothal to his cousin, the Princess
Clementine, who was engaged to the
late Prince BadOuin, will be an
nounced
The Times, in its annual statement,
says the Drink bill of the United King
dom is nearly f3,50000C (s17, 500, 000}
in excess Of that in 1896, averaging
f3 los sgd (about S1912) for each
man, woman and child.
The English press has universally
printed praises Of the statement that
Mark Twain (Mr. Samuel L. Clemens)
has paid the last of his Webster & Co.
debts. DR.. McAllister, writing to the
Times on the subject. says:
With the exception of the histor
icaI case Of Sir Walter Scott. do not
think there is to be found in the rec
ords of literature anything quite equal
to Mark Twain's conduct
EMPEROR WILLIAM is NOT,
as the correspondent of the Daily
Chronicle at Berlin telegraphed. hay-
ing racing yacht built for him quietly
at Southampton, to enter the regattas
in German and English waters next
summer The story arose from the
notwithstanding of the American schoon-
er yacht Yampa. recently purchased
by Emperor William, to Iduna, and
transferring her to the German flag,
which elaborate formalitv was carried
out at the German consulate at South
amptOn
Large numbers of people witnessed
The formal opening of the boating sea-
son. at Elton. on Tuesday, when pro-
ccssi0n of boats. under the supervis-
I,c,1
who now has the proud distinction
among Etonians Of being Captain of
Boats, was rowed from Windsor
Bridge to Boveney Lock The flotilla,
which consisted Of ten-oared boats. was
a most picturesque sight.
The Ladies Dorothea and Estella
Hope. sisters of the Earl of Hopetoun,
have established a successful breeding
farm of ponies and Jersey cows at
Edinbridge They made the whole
thing themselves.
The Daily Telegraph, in an article
recording the enormous increase in
the number of women smokers, says:
The great middle class is smoking
as unconstrainedly as the aristocracy.
and the working woman is fast follow
ing. One well-known lady of title is
sometimes seen driving in the Ripley
Road with
A BRIAR- WOOD PIPE
in her mouth.
Enquiries made among doctors, to-
bacconists and others, show that the
bicycle is responsible for much, as,
with wheeling parties has arisen
freedom of manner unknown in the
presence of chaperons,'
Lieutenant Moser. of the cavalry,
has created sensation in Austrian
sporting circles AS the result of a
bet he jumped. in uniform, into the
Danube at Klosteruenberg. and swan
to the opposite shore in 10 minutes 10
seconds The river there is $50 metres
wide, and the current carried him SEQ
metres down stream The tempera-
ture of the water was three degrees
above zero; but, the Lieutenant was
not injured.
The Duke of Manchester became OF
age on Thursday. the church bells at
Kimbelton were rung there was gen.
eral display of bunting and a con-
gratulatory telegram was sent to the
Duke, who is at St. Moritz. Switzer-
land But the chief festivities have
been postponed until the end of his
present Cambridge term.
The belated advent of winter Is tell
ing severely upon the constitutions of
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