Arizona republican., 1899-09-20
FOREIGN NOTES
AND COMMENT

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Queen Victoria has never bezn pre-
cisely renowned as a spendthrift, but
Of late she has developed a degree OF
! economy which. IS exciting an immense
amount of comment. Thus, until now
whenever a man brought a lead Of
| goods tc the palace, he was given a
glass CT the royal ale. Nowadays if he
IS thirsty he must get it at his own
expense. Again, whsn the positions
took the queer cut for her daily drive
they were rewarded on their return
with a glass of wine. This practice
dates from the reign CT King George 1.
1t has, however, just been abolished.
The mcSt extraordinary steps have
likewise been adopted 10 avoid waste.
Thus. groceries and other goods are
not purchased in large quantities, the
rule being to buy things just as they
are wanted. All goods of this kind on
reaching the royal paiace are checked
by the clerks Of the kitchen, 81 whom
there are four, are entered as received
ard then put away. Whenever the
cooks want anything they have to go
to the store rooms for it. No matter
what they may require, nothing is
handed to them before it has been
weighed and the quantity entered in
the store book
Nor are these the only manifesto
items of Queen Victoria's economies
The servants ct Windsor castle when
she is absent are put on: board wages,
and the same rule is observed at all of
her residences. Moreover, she estab-
Gshed a rule that no lunches should be
served to any members of the royal
family at Buckingham palace except at
fixed tariff rate Of Sc much per head.
namely, $3.50 fcr lunch and S. for din
ner. The result of this order has been
that the royalties, when they spend
day in London, usually go to MarlboT-
ough house and ask the prince and
princess of Wales for lunch in the mid
die Of the day
When, the other day, the cable dis
patches from Europe announced in two
brief lines a failure amounting to sew
er3l millions CT dollars at st. Peters
burg, the name given was to such an
extent distorted that few have recog-
nized it in the patronymic Of the we'll
known multi-millionaire cub man,
race horse owner, and officer Of the i'm
periaI guard, Paul ven DERIVES; fer
the brilliant and dashing guardsman
has for the past ten or fifteen years
been enc OF the most conspicuous fig
lres in Russian and Partisan society,
and his name is familiar in all the Eu-
ropean annals of sport. He inherited
a colossal fortune from his father. The
latter had laid the foundation thereof
by the, construction and ownership OF
the railroad connecting Moscow with
the Ural range and with the Caspian
sea At the old mans death his firm
controlled the naphtha and
Ill industry OF Baku, the steamship
ines on the Wolga, the leading insur-
lnce company in the dominions OF the
ear, the great Bank CT Commerce and
Industry, the entire cement business OF /
he empire, and heaven only knows /
what all besides.
The old fellow died very suddenly, |
md without having made any attempt |
o make his son Paul acquainted with i
lis huge interests. In fact, Paul had /
,een brought up merely as a man
bout town and as an officer of the
guards, and knew absolutely nothing
bout business. Accordingly, he de-
having neither the expert
nee nor tastes to qualify him for the
management of his fathers vast prop
rty, to intruS't it's administration to
ONE friend in whom he could confide.
instead, however, CT selecting a mer-
liant or a banker fer the task, he
hose the former colonel Of his regi-
nent, a retired officer cf the name of
'omeranzew, and from that time forth
ook no further part in the affairs Of
he Won DERIVES firm, but continued to
cad a life of almost insane eXtrava-
ance and Of pleasure.
1t was naturally part and parcel of
he progress of this Musccvite rake to
marry a lady of the half world. whose
however, was such that he
'as ultimately forced to seek and OBJ
ain a divorce. This somehow seemed
D exercise a depressing effect upon
is mind. He developed a, hatred for
is fellow creatures and an increased
Election for his horses and dogs. Clos
lg his magnificent palace on the So
allied English quay at st. Petersburg,
palace all the ceilings CT which have
cen painted by the great Russian art
1t, Makowski, whose pictures are 50
ell known in the United States, he
-ithdrew to his country seat at Star
shiIowc, where he preceded to spend ]
lilliCns in building, not mere stables, I
ut actual palaces for his horses,
hose loose boxes possessed more an
Fogy with the salon Of a queen of the
alf wcrld than a hOIse'e stall.
Suddenly, without the slightest I
arning, he received the news that the
S-colonel whom he had left in charge