The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-22

first course was being served. His guests
were restrained by etiquette fror waking
MIN. but continued their conversation in
low tone. The servants did not dare
70 continue serving the dinner. The
frince soon commenced to snore and
slept Tor two hours, during which time
no one allowed himself to leave his
place. The guests sat famished in the
same room with a marvelously appoint
ed dinner. / inalIy Prince LuitpoId
awoke. He took a hurried gIanc, round
the table. and saw only a number Of
perfectly correct faces successfully pre-
tending to have noticed nothing Per-
suaded that his slight lapse hau passed
completely unremarked, he said quietly,
Now let US go and take coffee" The
guests rose accordingly and proceeded to
the drawing-room- They were served
with coffee, liqueurs. cigars. The Prince,
thoroughly refreshed by his sleep, in
dulged in great deal Of conversation,
which lasted till midnight The party
then broke UP, and the guests departed,
famished with hunger.
1t Is not easy to imagine the late
Marquis Salisbury, so ponderous and SO
grave, amusing himself and his company
by playing dumb crambo, the word
guessing game" in which one side has
TO act in pantomime one word after
another until they find the right one.
An incident Of this kind shows the ia
nous statesman in a new light. Sir
Stafford Northcote, afterward Lord
lddesleigh, was fond Of charades, dumb
crambo, and such like diversions, and
one evening he entered his own draw
ing-room during one of these amusing
games on all fours, baa-ing like a sheep
Soon afterward clock had to be indi-
Gated somehow in dumb show, and Lord
Coleridge, being tall and light, was Sc
lected to represent the pendulum and
Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford stood
on chairs. and, holding him under the
elbows, swung him solemnly backward
and forward, while Gathorne-Hardy (aft-
erward Lord Cranbrook) pulled a poker
and tongs together to represent the tick
ing OF the pendulum
The planned exhuming of the body of
a Manchester millionaire because of the
suspicion that he had been foully dealt
with has created such a cry of desc
Grafton" among the clergy that the au-
thorities almost decided to stop the pro-
ceeding.
One of the most famous cases of ex-
humation on record in England 10 that
of the recovery of the poems of Ros-
setti from the coffin of his wife, where
he had laid them. His friends had sew
Ch tiiuCo uIScd uiIIl W recover IneIn.
Rossetti resisted, but at last, fretted by
his inability to remember the poems, he
yielded. The matter was arranged with
the home secretary (Mr. Bruce, after
ward Lord Aberdare) One night, seven
years after the funeral, fire was light
ed by the side of the grave and the cof-
fin was raised and opened. The body
was almost unchanged. Rossetti, alone
and oppressed with self-reproachful
thoughts, sat in a friends house while
the terrible task was done. The stained
and moulded manuscript was carefully
dried and treated, and at last returned
to his possession. Rossetti copied the
poems out himself and destroyed the
volume.
One of the most curious instances of
exhumation was that of Millions remains
plegate. Doubts having been expressed
at the exact location of the grave, the
ground was opened in 1870. A struggle
for relics followed, bones, teeth, and
hair being seized by the parish oflcials.
Crowds f1ocked to the church and paid
the gravedigger six pence each to see
the remains, while the workmen engaged
there shared In the plumber by refusing
admission to any one who would not pay
the price of a pot Of beer. Finally. the
poor rector. who had not shared in the
spoils brought an action for the re-
covery of dues unjustly withheld from
him.
FLANEUR