New-York tribune., 1904-05-30

preston however. that it was the choicest IAN
guage.
The result, when a few days after HIS arrival. he
was invited down to Windsor dine with Queen
victoria 10 say the least startling. for with
the most sublime unconscfousness OF saying any
'hlng that was in the least degree unsuted for the
ears or her majesty he treated her 10 all the Eng
hsh slang which he had learned from the young
people at Marlborough House, and gave utterance
TO music han gags and slang Of every conceivable
nature with air OF profound Difference and even
soiemnity that rendered the scene irresistibly
comic.
1t was only after the Queen had made up her
mind 10 ask him in German where he had picked
up his English and learned VINO had been his IN
sJructors that she gave free reign TO her mirth
IN which all present joined. greatly to their reiet
as they had experienced the utmost difficulty IN
suppressing their laughter.
The aged Queen, although very Rustere looking
and imperous / her manner had an extremely
keen sense OF humor enjoyed hearty laugh as
well as any of her subjects and never forgot when
Prince Hans" whose baptismaI name is john
visited her subsequent occasions to remind MIN
Of the terrible so!ecsms OF which he had rendered
himself guilty. when he first attempted to air MS
English at her dinner table. He is a younger
brother OF the old King OF Denmark. and the two
are devoted each other.
Florence Nightingale has just celebrated her
eighty-fourth birthday at her house, No 10 South
st, Park Lane. London. and still takes an active
interest in charitable work. She has however,
lived out OF the great world for long that people
almost forgotten that she IS still in existence
though the fact Of her being the pioneer OF sys-
teInatc army nursing in wartime Is generally re-
membered. Her father was the son of a rich
Sheffield banker of the OF Shore, and he
came OF an old family, which had been possessed
OF land in the counties OF Derby and York since
the fifteenth century. and which exists to-day IN
the person OF Harrington Shaw. OF Norton Han
and Lindridge House. Leicestershire.
Florence Nightingale's father assumed the name
Of Nightingale inherting his maternal unele's
fortune and that estate OF Lea Hurst in Derby
shire which now belongs to her. He was both a
wealthy and a cultured man. mingled much In the
literary and fashionable society of the day and
great traveller. 1t in Italy that the
more famous OF his children was born and she
received the name OF Florence from the city of
her birth. The other child likewise girl was
born Naples She received the extraordinary
name OF Parthenope and married the late Sir Harry
Nerney. of Clayton. which place is now in the
possession OF his son. Sir Edmund Verney.
AS a young girl Florence took course OF train
ing the celebrated establishment or
Protestant Sisters Of Mercy at Kaiserwerth, in
the Rhine district. and put the experience which
she obtained there 10 such good account in the
Crimean War that her name has remained a house
hold ever since. II has often been urged that
the King should hestow her the Order Of Merit
which he has founded. and certain It IS that this
recognition of her services in initiating the
systematic nursing OF the sick and wounded in
wartime would be exceedingly popular, not only in
England. but also abroad.
MARQUIsE DE FONTENOT.