The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-08
FAVORITE RESORT.

Outside the castle, the Shelbourne hotel
has been the center of gayety. There al
most every visitor has time, although
many of the most distinguished found
with chagrin that they could not get
rooms and had to be satisfied with hum
BILE lodgings and dinners Owing to the
presence of thieves in the town and the
large amount of jeWelry carelessly dis
played, no one who is not staying at the
Shelbourne is allowed to enter the outer
doors of that hotel without specifying
whom they want to see, and are often
kept in the cold for further inspection.
A well known but badly dressed peer
VINO seldom visits ireland underwent this
ordeal the other day, and almost ex-
ploded with wrath when gold-laced Dor
ter barred his way and made him show
his card before allowing him to enter.
The most popular form. Of evening
amusement has been the chartering- of
trolley cars by large parties and taking
rides through the crowded and illumi-
mated streets With the influx, of money
ana social gayety, political considera-
lions are temporarily in allegiance
The more advanced the queen becomes
in years the more her work increases. The
extension of the empire, the increase ac-
dvity of modern life and the DEVELOPMENTS
OF the times have quadrupled the work
the queen has to deal with at eighty.
Therefore, she has to work harder than
at any previous period of her reign. 1t Is
estimated that she has to sign 50. 900 docu-
ments yearly, an average of l27 a day. in
GUIDING Sundays. Masses of state pa
pers go to her now while in Ireland. She
never really has two days holiday to-
gether.
WHERE MINISTER'S MEET.
In one of the three parliament houses
dining rooms is long, oval table. At
this the members of the cabinet dine
every evening when the house was in
session. No private member would think
OF taking a seat at this table The min
listers there discuss the plans and mos
poets of the night, or go over the speeches
delivered or to be delivered Owing TO
the absentees in Ireland only a small
group of cabinet minister gathered there
on thursday evening, when some random
war talk took place. The first lord of
the admiralty, Mr.. George J. Goschen.
twitted the secretary of state for the
colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, pleas
antly, on the length of the war. Mr..
Chamberlain made a good-humored re-
ply, and is then reported to have said,
seriously:
Il think we are dealing with better
nghters, as individuals, than any regular
soldiers OF the continent. The Beers
~ AAO ~ nave DOLH caution and
DASH
Superlatives have been almost eliminat-
ed from the war comments and. with
the disappearance of possible foreign COM
pI1catlons, the editors and public speakers
take quite moderate tone and treat
what is happening in the war field with
certain historical perspective.
The depressing Incidents of the week
nave caused Englishmen to resign them
selves to long struggle. The disposition
TO Ind fault with the war office for not
having anticipated the necessity for the
enormous number of horses seems unius-
tined, for 1t is learned that before the
dash on kimberley, and the destruction of
horset1esh caused by the surrounding of
Gen. Cronje, the war office wired to its
agents all over the world, particularly in
South America, giving them uncondition-
al power to buy horses unlimitedIy until
further orders, The conditions in the
way of assembling and transporting the
animals were SUCH however. that horses
bought a month ago can hardly reach
Lord Roberts before June.
There is no. disposition here to make
over much of the attack made on the
Prince of Wales by -Scipido, the anarchist
lad, at Brussels Wednesday, while his
| royal highness was on his way to Copen.
hagen; but the British see in it the direct
consequence of the continental press at
| tacks on Great Britain in, connection with
the war.