The Topeka state journal., 1900-03-31
OF Kitchen Utensils on Her
Trip to Ireland.
WILL START MONDAY.
In Good Health and Fit For the
Journey.
Says 1t Will Take More Than
Dom Paul to Kill Her.

copyrighted 1900 by Associated Press.l
London, March 31.-The Life Guards.
couriers, carriages, pots and pans, and
other royal paraphernalia have already
gone to the Emerald Isle, which eagerly
waits for Queen Victoria to follow.
How her majesty will be received and
the prospects of her doings in Dublin
have quite overshadowed all other
topics, even in week which has been
marked by the annual interVarsity boat
race, the resignation of the Duke OF
Norfolk as postmaster general. the an
nouncement of the Delagoa Bay rail-
road award and the rumors of possible
war IN the far east.
Great Britain's own war in South
Africa has almost been forgotten, so un-
interesting has been the progress OF
peace in the Orange Free State COM
pared with the stirring accounts of bat
ties which the British people had grown
accustomed to read daily.
The queen is said to be in excellent
health and well able to bear the strain
of the trip to Ireland. She commences
her journey April 2 and sleeps on board
the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
landing at Kingstown April 4. In antici-
patton of her majesty's progress through
the city, the streets of Dublin are al
ready gay with flags and decorations.
A curious feature of the preparations
at the vlceregal lodge where the queen
will stay, are the pots and pans already
referred to. Her majesty is tremendous
ly particular about her kitchen arrange
ments and those at the vice regal lodge
were found to be quite below the royal
standard. Consequently. no less than
300 copper frieandeau pans, 81 saucepans,
SO copper stock-pots and many other
varieties of cooking utensils have been
sent to Dublin especially for the visit
The Earl of Denbig, who goes to Ire
land as chief of the royal encourage
and lord-in-waiting, holds thcee Irish
titles and was formerly aide-de-canp
to the lord lieutenant.
However, though the queen is said to
be full of excitement and enthusiastic
in regard to the trip she is not forget
full of South Africa. A story is going
the rounds that the queen remarked
That she was aware many people. inlag-
ined her anxiety about the war would
caues her death. L may die, added
her majesty, but it Will be from
some other cause / do not mean to let
Mr.. Kruger kill me-
London, or rather that great reSiden-
tial part of it, which is outside the city
proper, has been relieved this week
from a grievance almost as great as the
war itself. For months yelling news
boys have been in the habit of making
the quiet streets hideous at all hours.
day and night, with endeavors to hawk
extras, often with nothing in them
The London council has now stopped
this nuisance, and any newsboy shout
ing his wares is liable to arrest.
The almost unprecedented action of
q cabinet minister giving up his office
TO go TO nSnE IOr MS country results
giving South Africa not only England's
premier peer but three other holders of
the highest rank in the peerage,
namely, the Duke of Marlborough, the
Duke of Roxburgh and the Duke of
Westminster, ranging from 81 years old.
in the case of the Duke Of Norfolk, to
the Duke of Westminster's 81.
The United States cruiser Albany re-
mains at Newcastle, though her Off
GERS expected she would have sailed
long before this Several weeks will
probably elapse before she leaves Eng
land, no opportunity having yet been
secured for testing her guns, and sew
eral minor changes are being made. In
the meanwhile her officers and crew are
having dreary time at Newcastle.
Captain Craig managed to get steam
heat put in the crews, but the officers
quarters are merely warmed by a
couple of stoves, which arrangement
during the recently bitterly cold
weather has not added to the happiness
Commander Glover relieves Lieuten-
ant Commander COlwell April 2 as Uni
ted States naval attache here. The re-
firing incumbent has been the recipient
during the last few days of many vale
dictory dinners, and on all sides there
are expressions of regret that he is
leaving the naval and social circles
here. Both he and Mrs Colwell are
very popular.
Colonel Carey Sanger is busy in Lon
don collecting facts regarding the war.
and is sending a special report to the
war department at Washington regard
ing the facts learned from his stay
here. Colonel Sanger makes the United
States embassy his headquarters.
Military circles here are somewhat
puzzled by the appearance of volun-
teer officer specially commissioned by
the United States war department to
do what is generally considered to be
the peculiar function of the military at
tache, which post Colonel Sumner still
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