The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04
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lost his balance and fell into the water
with a mighty splash. He had to walk
back several miles TO Bamoral dripping
wet, and. TO add TO his discontinue; met net
ladies Of her court as he trudSed along
the road.
II Is believed that the special train
by which their majcstics made the jour
ney to Scotland is the heaviest and long
est of its kind that has ever left a Lon
don terminus. II was made of of twelve
coaches. the total length being 69c feet,
and the estimated weight 375 tons. In
addition 10 two brake vans, the royal spe-
cjal consisted of his majesty's saloon, two
new saloons for the use OF the Princess
Mary and her two attendants, and the
cqucrries; saloon for the other royal
children: and four saloons for the use Of
the royal servants and railway officials.
Queen AlcXandras saloon was not occu-
pied. The train was drawn by two en-
tireIy new engines, the George V. and
the Queen Mary.
The new saloon, which is intended for
the use of the queen. is similar in gen
cral arrangement 10 that OF the king All
the rooms are in white enamel, blue be-
ing the prcdominatlng color; but' the ef
feet Is lightcned with brocades and a
soft shade OF pink to tone the electric
lights
The duke of Argyll has just celebrated
his sixty-hfth birthday. The duke OF
Argyll is man OF many honors. He
holds seventeen peerages, Is chiet OF the
Clan Campbell. bears the Celtic title of
MacCailean Mhor, and is also hereditary
master of the royal household In Scot
land His recent book of memoirs has
excited much interest, and he Is com
poser well as an author having writ
ten the score of opera, "Diarmid. ="
Fond OF country life. he shoots and Is a
good golfer. Not long ago he bought an
acre or two OF land at ilaudelt. near Bou-
loSnc where he intends to build small
residence.
Mrs Mary Ann Cooper. who is nearing
her ninety seventh year and who is still
comparatively hale and hearty strange
ly links the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Who. looking at this vener-
able old lady, would think of imagining
that she was Charles Dickenss sweet
heart? Yet II is perfectly true. AS a
little girl. she lived with her parents In
Johnson street, Clarendon square. On the
opposite side dwelt the Dickens family.
and between the future novelist and lit
tie Miss Milton, as she was called. there
grew up Il great friendship. which last
ed many years. and which might have
been cemented by marriage had fate so
willcd.
as such gained the approval of Miss Mil
toms brother. Tom. who went to school
With Dickens. and who showed his APP
probation of his 5unior by ovorhauling his
first literary endcavors Dickens, as
term of cndearment, called her Dor
rit." and, when his pathetic story OF the
Marshalsca came to be written, tho little
iri0nd OF ms youth was utlllZeu us tne
heroine,
Mrs. Cooper. despite her falling hear
ing and her spells OF rheumatism. enjoys
excellent memory, and can recall many
interesting Incidents in which the great
novelist was concerned. She remembers
the frequent visits of Dickens to her
fathers farm at Sunbury. and at her
Southgote home she still retains the bed
spread on which he used to sleep. Once
Dickens. for n joke. dressed himself In
corduroys and approached her father for
IpI uFlt m fn nrfh
ing. MY Charles Is how Mrs. Cooper
always speaks of the. master Of character,
and she tells how once she accompanied
him to st Pancras church. where huge
and imposing beadle. who might have
been the prototype " Bnr.blc, rrled with
an Iron rod