Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-26


the weather was warm and summer
like. This week it has been bitterly
cold, with snow everywhere. London
participated in the wintry weather;
but here it was tempered by bright sun
shine. The highlands throughout the
country are deeply snow-clad with the
worst snow storms experienced in many
years. Scotland, naturally, suffered
most severely, especially the country
around Balmoral, where the shooting
boxes and farm houses have been so
showed up that they resemble to some
extent the homes of Esquimaux. The
Duke of York has been showed up at
Abergeldimains, near Ballater. lie
went there owing to the fleeting spell
Of spring weather earlier in the month,
for the salmon fishing; but the weather
changed quickly to arctic cold and a
heavy snow storm cut him off from
communication with the outer world.
1t will be days before he is liberated.
THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY
of the fashionable world has shifted
to the Riviera, where Queen Victoria is
now sojourning.
There will be three more drawing
rooms this season, and the Queen las
privately intimated that she will at
tend one in May.
Her Majesty has given two additional
instances Of her womanly feeling this
week, which have made a very pleas
ing impression in Southern France.
While out driving at the beginning OF
the week, she overlook peasants
walking funeral and had no room to
PASS. The mourners stopped and stood
aside, but the Queen requested the cor
teee to proceed and her own carriage
followed respectfully, at a walking
pace, for half a mile, until the roads
diverged
Again, while driving through Nice on
Wednesday, the Queen passed a child
which was crying bitterly. She order
ed her carriage to be stopped and sent
a member of her suite to inquire the
cause of the child's distress and to give
a
effect. The little face frightened up
and the Queen drove On, smillngly re-
marking:
CAS- long as nothing serious is the
matter, l thought a few sous Would
make the little one haDny.'
NJ A P. MAINLY About People, says
Princess Maude, of Wales, (Prlncess
Charles of Denmark is
VIGOROUSLY UNHAPPY
in her new Danish home and that it re-
Quired all the persuasiOns OF her par
ents to reconcile her to return to the
gloomy environment of the Danish
Court. Her love for her alien home, 1t
is added, is not increased by the fact
that the prospect of any child OF hers
reaching the throne has been destroyed
bv the birth of an heir to Prince Chris
tan, the eldest son of the Crown Prince
Frederick. The Queen of Sweden and
Norway has become collector for the
Salvation Army, a money box having
been placed upon the dining table OF
the royal palace.
The Crown Princess of Sweden and
Norway is now wintering at Rome.
She is in extremely bad health. The
constitutional malady from which she
suffers has begun to affect her eyes
and she has been ordered to give up
her hobbies of reading, drawing and
photography. The only recreation left
to her is music.
CONSIDERABLE INTEREST
is taken in the announcement of the
coming marriage CT Lady Edith Doug
las. daughter of the Marquis of Queens
bury, to Mr.. st. George Pitt, whos is
head of the Psychological Research So
ciety and a great authority on "spooks.
Sir BENJAMIN Stone, president of The
National Photographic Record Associa-
ton and a great traveller, as well as
the author of several books of travels
and articles on various scientific sub
iects, has unearthed in the Vatican
library, among the documents relating
to English history, an autograph love
letter from King Henry VIII to the
unfortunate Annie Eoleyn. The eplstle,
which is written in French, is in the
approved style of a lovesick swain and
is signed with drawing representing
heart
The Countess Gozzadina, the last de-
scendant of Dante. and also the last
representative of the illustrious house
of Gozzadina, died recently in Rome.
She led life of excitement, abandon
ing herself to all kinds of eccentricity,
giving rise to piquant incidents. She
fell in love with one of her agents,
which resulted in the unsuccessful IN
tervention Of her family.
The condition of County Mayo is
causing anxiety at Dublin Castle, and
it is expected that the crimes act will
be reapplied.
AGRARIAN" TERRORISM
is being revived, boycotting is rife and
Jurors have been shot at Immediate
steps to repress this state of affairs are
contemplated.
In spite of the signing Of the Anglo
French agreement regarding Africa,
one Of the leading topics of the week,
On both sides Of the Channel, has been
an article published in the Revue Des
Deux Mondes seriously outlining a
French scheme for the invasion Of
Great Britain. 1t proposes that 1.500
steam pinnaces be built and collected
in the canals and rivers leading TO the
French coast, that each of them be
armed with two quick-fring guns and
that they convey an army with 10000
men and SEQ cannon, with the neees-
sary ammunition stores. etc. The cost
of their construction is estimated at
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