The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-08
EUGENE AND
THE QUEEN.
than a decade, she hasn't lost her voice,
but has been singing in London and tho


provinces.
Her voice Is remarkably we'll preser, ed
and her art Is as fresh as ever.
mis- IL not press agents notice."
but the fact Zine. Patti looks as young
as ever. / saw her the other day.
She Is wholly unwrinkled and there
isn't a. gray hair In her head. Her titled
husband watches her health carefully.
Z He Is a physician and masseur-facts
which may account for his wife's pcren-
Mai youth.
Nine Patti is to get 5000 night for
her FAREWELL performances in the
United States.
She cannot earn quite that much here,
but the receipts OF her concerts at Alex
andra Hall last winter were almost as
great.
Like America, England pays her ia
yorite singers very we'll. Tie late Henry
Russell. popular London singer. once
got $4,000 for singing one song at Albert
Hall.
Nine. Patti still lives at craig-y-Nos
Castle.
She desires to sell 1T. ] learn, but no
American millionaire seems DESTROYS OF
buying castle in Wales.
Isawt the Infnnta Eulalie the other day
at Waterloo station. She had come to
educating In an English school.
The 1nfanta Is much stouter than when
she visited the United States at the time
OF the Columbian celebration.
She was unusually we'll dressed, for
as rule Spanish infantas dress az
dowdily as British peeresses OF cer-
tain age.
Lord Penrhyn continues to maintain
lockout" against the men OF his quar-
ries who Insist that the noble lord should
receive delegation from them to dis
cuss their grievances.
Lord Penrhyn is one OF the richest and
stubbornest peers In the Kingdom His
quarries have been idle for several years.
because the workmen insisted that his
ordship should receive In conference a
committee delegated from their ranks.
His lordship wouldn't and didn't and
his men have been locked out ever since.
His lordship In effect holds that the
mines are his and he has the right OF
declining to see anybody he doesn't wish
to see.
The men have been evlcted from their
houses, but their fellow quarrymen else
where In the Kingdom are contributing
strike pay and the lockout promises
to continue indefinitely.
Lord Penrhyn, being enormously rich,
doesn miss the Income from these quar-
ries. and apparently is proud of his new
title of being "the stubbornes. man In
the kingd ,m.''
Baron Henry de Rothschild has been
sentenced to pay fine and also to three
days Imprisonment at Mentone. on the
Riviera, for ''scorching" in his auto
mobile
The Baron declines to do time" and
has appealed from the sentence
He is an enthusiastic motorist, like w.
x. Vanderbilt and the King of the Bel
CLANS.
King Leopold OF Belgium was stopped
the other day by a Belgian policeman for
driving his motor car beyond the legal
speed.
OF course. the policeman didn't recog-
nlze His Majesty.
1t Is the custom to say In these cases
that the monarch gave the ignorant per-
son gold coin with his portrait stamp
ed upon It,
AS matter OF fact. King Leopold did
nothing OF the sort.
Instead he gave tho poor policeman a
royal scolding
Here In England it is the chief pastime
OF rural policemen to clay for" wealthy
motorists.
They are fined heavily-when caught
which fines go to reduce the taxes of the
rural villages-hence the policemen's In
dustry In trapping motorists.
King Edward "scorches, . but no police
man has yet had the temerity to ''hod
up" His Majesty.
The Cunard line. which declined to Join
Mr.. Morgans gigantic shipping trust
doesn't intend to let the trust hog the
cream Of the American transatlantic
traffic.
1t Is building two huge new steamships
n n a I'M tVyay -fHyn tyv30 80,
an hour. They are to be driven through
the water by triple screws
Hitherto no liners have been provided
with triple propellers. The advantage OF
three screws is the reduction OF liability
to breakdown.
The coal consumption Of these two new
Cunard leViathans Will be 1000 tons a
day. -
From that one item. one may obtain
fair idea of the vast cost Of operating
luxurious Atlantic greyhounds nowadays.
g One of the most shocking cases OF des-
titution discovered thus far in England
this winter. when restitution is wide
spread and intense, owing to the hard
times. was revealed through the Leices-
ter Police Court.
William Darker. n boy of fourteen. was
arrested for stealing a pet rabbit. 1t
transpired during the hearing that Dark
or and ten others lived in one tiny cot
tage containing only two beds.
Darker worked all night. and when
he got home In the morning he handed
his clothes to a younger brother, who
was then enabled to go to his work. Will
liam had to stay indoors all day until
his brother returned at evening.
Tho policeman who arrested the lad
THE NEW PRINCIPAL OF