Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-08-25
company Of German players. The
steamer made the passage IN five days
II hours and 40 minutes.

steamer made the passage In five days
II hours and 40 minutes.
O.
The outcome of the political demon
stration at Blenheim palace is likely
to be the comforting of honors on the
Duchess of Marlborough According
to candi friends she is likely to be
asked to accept the office of mistress
of the robes. Her righteousness and
charm of manner are said to have
greatly pleased Queen Alexandria,
who. when Princess of Wales, spent
several days at Blenheim. In 1897,
while the king stood sponsor for the
baby Lord Blanford with w. X. Van
derbilt.
A phase of London life depicted by
the Daily Mail is the increasing
growth of the hotel habit. Twenty
five years ago London had probably
the worst hotels of any of the great
capitals of the world. Today 1t has
some of the best The hotel habit
has become fashionable craze. Peo-
ple now live in hotels during the sea-
son instead of taking town houses.
Those who still have London man
sions on their hands patronlze the
hotels for meals. Not content with
dining out, your smart women of to-
day must have their afternoon tea at
Claridges, her lunch at the Carlton
and some ultra-smart people have
been trying even to create a craze for
going out for breakfast
There is no doubt about it that
wooden blocks make the swellest
avement.-Tndianapo News.
James ]. Hill, the railway magnate,
thinks that the books of corporations
doing business in more than one state
should be open to government inspec-
ton and the true state of affairs pub
ished to the world. Moreover, stock
holders should be held liable, even for
long period after they have parted
with their holdings. Nothing in our
national development, he thinks, COM
pares in importance with our com
mercialism."
Kentucky has been having a high
| falutin' time over the alleged misdeeds
| and the retirement from Office of one
Sapp. With this explanation one may
| understand the following stanzas from
| the Louisville Times:
Count that day blest
| In Canton, ever dear,
Whose sun, low down the west,
Finds no Kentuckian here"
Mckinley cried, when, 10,
The 4eighbors heard him sob,
| Here come Kentuckians, four,
To squeeze me for Sapps job"
By the Virginia Democratic conven
ton. ME-. Bryan. was. put siptosthe "hon
)rable mention" class. In Iowa, how
ever, he did better, getting the priz,
Of Endorsement. For the moment hi
fortunes seem to be waxing,
What seems to be more needed 70
the suppression of the South American
trouble is ship with several power
tul pumps that will enable our tar
to turn the hose on the belligcr ,nts
Admiral Sir Edward Freemanula
who has Just reached the age imi
md been retired from the BrItisl
navy, was in that service longer THAI
almost any other living officer II
entered it fifty years ago and serve,
through the Burmese campaign o
1852.
| They renderi it Hail Colombia, fight
Ing land" down there.-New YO.l
Mail and Express.
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The Beers still in the field are. it j
to be observed, remarkably successful
in avoiding a decisive engagement.
In recent conversation with
friend Count Tolstol referred to tn
effect of old age in freeing the min
from it's dependence upon the bod!
AS a young man, he said, any bodil
ailment depressed his mind also
whereas in his present illness tn
mind has retained all its freshness an
power of lucid thinking.