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PITH AND ABOYAL COURTSHIP. MULLIMVIME MALLET. VAN ZANDT GROVE, Publishers. MULUNVELLE, KANSAS PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. that Her Majesty accounted herself aa belonging to the people and must be seen by them.

Since then the sovereign has altered her opinion considerably upon this subject. Her jewels were the collar of the order of the Garter and a diamond necklace and earrings, and she had twelve bridesmaids. Her first act after the ceremony was to trip across to the other side of the altar and kiss the Queen Dowager; then, hand and hand, the Prince and she passed down the aisle, and the Queen confessed that they did not unclasp hands until Buckingham Palace was reached. The wedding breakfast was of overwhelming grandeur, and the wedding cake wonderful indeed, weighing as it did 300 pounds in weight, measuring three yards in circumference, and standing fourteen inches high. It was ornamented with a device in sugar of Britannia blessing the happy pair.

A dog reposed at the feet of the sugar Prince, and a pair of turtle doves at the feet of the sugar Queen. Numbers of Cupids were placed around, one of them registering the marriage in a book; and several bouquets of white flowers, tied with true lovers' knots, completed the adornment of the cake. The short honeymoon was to be spent at The Queen's traveling dress, like her bridal robe, was of white satin. It was trimmed with swansdown. Her bonnet was also white.

The day which had been gloomy, grew bright and cheerful in the afternoon, and Her Majesty had the fine weather, which has since become proverbial, for her journey. If apology be needed for thus bringing back the past, we will gladly make one. But just as scanning old programmes enables one to enjoy afresh the delights of concert, play, or ball, oi a quarter or half a century ago, so will these reminiscences pleasantly refresh the memory of at least some of our readers, while others will read for the first time some anecdote or incident connected with their sovereign's early days. room. In a few minutes he returned to the bar with the empty glass and said that Mr.

Gough was very much obliged. The actors thought it was a good joke, and they told the negro to carry me another. In the course of a few minutes he again returned and said that Mr. Gough again was very much obliged. The third was ordered with the same result.

While the negro was be-ingdispatched with the fourth, the report was current, that I was drinking whisky as fast as it could be sent to me. This attracted quite a crowd to thebarroom. When thenegro returned he was so drunk that he could hardly walk. He knew well that I would not allow him in my room with whisky, so he drank it himself. "Once in a Pennsylvania hotel a man ordered the bartender to send a cocktail to my room.

When the waiter arrived at my door with it I indignantly ordered him away and then followed him to the barroom. 'Did you send that to I asked the bartender. He said he did, and I said, 'Don't you think you are a contemptible He turned red in the face and pointed to the man that ordered it. He was the proprietor of a saloon, and I simply asked him if it was necessary to answer my arguments against intemperance by resorting to such contemptible tricks as that. He could not answer me.

"That story going the rounds of the press about Artemus Ward, Nasby and the Fat Contributor coming to my room and ordering four cocktails and Ward drinking two of them, to give the impression that I drank one, is not correct. They innocently came to call on me one Sunday at the Tre-mont house in Chicago. I politely requested them to leave, as I did not receive visitors on the Sabbath. They did so, but the Fat Contributor went and had it published that I did receive them. Next day we all met at the depot, and Anna Dickinson, who was present, excoriated the Fat Contributor, as did Artemus Ward.

"Not long ago a basket of wine was sent to me C. 0. D. Fortunately, the express agent was a temperance man and a friend of mine, and he told me about it. I sent for my physician and instructed him to get the wine and send it to the hospital.

Suppose I had innocently paid the charges and taken the wine out? It would have been very difficult for me to have explained. "As for the number of blackmail letters I have received, they are too numerous to mention. But I understand that every public man receives them. Once when ex-Gov. Claflin of Massachusetts and the late Henry Wilson were at my house I received one.

They both told me not to mind it, as they each had stacks of them. "One of the latest of the experiences I had of an unpleasant nature was when I was on my way to Boston. There Avere two men sitting in the seat in front of me, and one of them said: 'John B. Gough was so drunk he could not lecture last 'I don't believe said the other. 'It is a fact, and I can prove I jumped to my feet, and, pointing my finger in his face, said: 'You 'Who are asked the man.

I answered: 'John B. Gough, the man you This created zreat excitement, and the man left the car. "But this is only the dark side of the temperance advocate's career. For that matter, it is sometimes unpleasant to be a public man. You are pointed at on the street, and you frequently hear people abusing you.

Only to-day a young Scotchman called on me. He was a terrible drunkard, and a few weeks before he had come to mo to ask for advice. I gave it to him, and he promised quit drinking. He called to-day to say" that he did not have the strength. As he was zoing he said: 'Goodbye, Mr.

Gough; I'm a gone It so affected me that I called him back. I told him to try it one week longer; that as he did not have the strength, he should ask God for it every time, that he was tempted. He promised he would. Now, here was a well-educated young fellow going to destruction. If I could only save "him! How can 1 give in when I see cases like this?" Aid.

Jaehne's name is pronounced Jany. Alleged "fox hunts" with a paper trail are the latest amusements introduced into Santa Barbara. He was a mean young husband who begged his wife not to make any more cake until he had paid his life-insurance dues. Thirteen southern capitalists have organized a company with $2,000,000 capital, and will build and operate eight iron furnaces near Birmingham, Ala. There have been so many burglaries and thefts committed in Honolulu and vicinity that residents are generally talking "vigilance committee" and "pistol" as antidotes to the robbers' carnival.

Eliza Ricarby, a rich woman of New Orleans, left two-thirds of her estate to anothor woman on condition that she takes care of a little dog bolonging to the deceased. The estimates of the Canadian government for the fiscal year 1886 amount to $38,542,009. This is a reduction from those of the current year of about $9,000,000. Miss Hutton, a society lady of Newport, 11. forced her way into a cocking main, stopped the fight, and afterward appeared as witness against the spectators.

Not exactly what he meant to say. hue: "Ihat was my daughter, Mrs. Smith; people say she is the perfect picture of her mother." He: "Yes, but pictures always flatter, you The newly-appointed consul general to Japan, Warren Green, is accused of having once opened a jack-pot in a game of poker with a pair of tens, and the senate will be justified in rejecting him. A plan is suggested for saving lives at fires by throwing lines into windows as they are now thrown into vessels by life-saving crews. A small cannon, which shoots a lined projectile, is to be used.

Danbury, has a "suicide club," whose avowed object is to furnish such of its members as desire to put an end to their earthly existence with any means for so doing that they may desire. A New York judge has ruled that a husband is liable for slanderous words spoken by his wife, and on this ruling a verdict of 6 cents was rendered by a jury against a man whose wife had ut-tored the slander. A remedy has been discovered for that most annoying affliction, the hiccoughs. It consists of refrigeration of the lobe of the ear. Very slight refrigeration, such as a drop of cold water, is said to be sufficient.

Mr. Fogg (reading from the morning paper) Why, my dear.this is very sudden. Our friend, Mrs. Smith has died. Mrs.

Fogg Mrs. Smith? You don't say so! How rery glad I am that we had her to tea last week! A sentimental writer says: "A baby is a link which binds, its mother to heaven." Pretty often it is a link whicb binds her to the house when she is "almost dying" to go out making calls" or to do a little shopping, Student Bex fugil the king flees. Professor In what other tense can that form be made? Student Perfect. ProfessorYes, and how would you then translate? Painful silence. Professor suggests "has." Student The king has fleas.

"Who is that Mr. Indicashuns that talks so much about the sthate of the weather in the newspapers. Mrs. Fog-arty?" "Faith, I dunno, Mrs. Sully.

But be the powers he's a thavin' loiar, whoever the same is. He's spiled many picnic for me." I "Sir," said the master of B'alliol, in his parting address to a distinguished alumnus, "your fellow-students think highly of you, the tutors and professors think highly of you, I think highly of you; but no one thinks more highly of. you than you do yourself." I A medical lecturer in New York sug-f gested that the great remedy for the ravages of excessive heat in cities is the planting of He proposed that shade-trees should bo planted one tc every twenty-five feet in all the streets and avenues below Central park, i "Here lies the body of John McLean Hay ward, a man who never voted. Of such is the kingdom of This is the epitaph which a citizen of Way- land, left behind him, and which, it is asserted, his executors intend to in scribe over his grave. Philanthropist (to boot-black) I say, my boy, do you like your hard life! Bootblack In course I docs.

Philan thropist Ah, but don't you sometime yearn for a changeP Don't you wis you could have a kind mother am father, plenty to cat and sent to school Bootblack See 'ere, wha' yer take fer, any way a dudeP Victoria and Prince Albert How the Queen of England Was Wooed, Wiwnd Married. London Modern Society. Less loyal souls than ourselves may have forgotten that the Queen celebrated the forty-sixth anniversary of her marriage with the Prince Consort on Wednesday, February 10. That day is Her Majesty's golden letter day; its annual recurrence is a tearful joy to her, and she is suspected then of tenderly spreading out before her sundry-faded mementoes of that happy day mementoes which she has jealously guarded for nearly half a century. Present-day lovers may derive comfort from the knowledge that the course of true love did not at first run altogether smoothly, even the case of such august personages as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

The distractions of ruling put mar-, riage out of the royal maiden's head for a time, it seems; but the Queen has herself said that she never had any idea that if she married at all it would be any one else than the Prince. It was in 1838 that her uncle Leopold a pitiful old profligate, to have been one of the guardians of a pure young girl urged her to fix upon a husband. More sensible than most at her age, she thought herself and Albert too young for marriage. Moreover, her lover knew England very imperfectly and she wisely reasoned that this would not do at all. In the autumn of the followingyear Prince Albert and his brother Ernest visited the young queen.

Poor young men! They arrived before their clothes, and had to appear in the drawing-room after dinner in their travel-stained suits. Throughout October, Windsor castle and its surroundings were the scene of love passages of ever-increasing tenderness, and two illustrious young people had some difficulty in preserving etiquette at the dances that were given three times a week after dinner, ior inclination led them to dance together oftener than was expedient. There is a pretty story extant that at one of the never-to-be-forgotten dances, the queen presented the prince, who dared not venture to ask for her hand, with a flower. The significance of the act was not lost upon him. He wore a close-fitting uniform, buttoned up to the throat; but wishing to wear the precious gift upon his heart he cut a slit in his coat with a penknife and placed the blossom in it.

How to let him know that her heart had gone out to him was a source cf genuine distress to Her Majesty. He wouldn't propose, so she must. And she did in this way. The Prince on one occasion was thanking her for the gracious reception she had accorded him and expressing the delight his visit was giving him, when the Queen replied shyly, "If indeed your highness is so much pleased with this country, perhaps you would not object to remaining in it and making it your home?" The hint was unmistakable. What followed concerned only the happy pair, and Her Majesty has never divulged it; but the sweetness of it can be imagined.

After the young people had had a month together, Prince Albert returned to Germany, and the courting had to be continued through love letters. To tell her' privy councillors and Parliament her love story was the Queen's next trouble; but she got over it bravely, seeking courage on these trying occasions from a bracelet containing a portrait of the Prince that she wore clasped on her arm. When Her Majesty tremblingly made the statement in the House of Lords every voice rose in congratulation. But vexatious incidents followed. A rumor got abroad that the queen's fiance was a Roman Catholic, and it was not easily disposed of.

Greater unpleasantness still arose out of the question of the annuity to be settled on the prince, for he was portionless, like nearly all the Germans who have come after him. In the end, 30,000 a year was voted him. Various snubs took off the bloom and brightness of the young man's hopes considerably, but he wrote to his beloved, "All I have to say is, that flfhile I possess your love they cannot make me unhappy;" and on arriving at Dover he was pleasantly surprised at receiving a warm welcome. He reached Buckingham palace on Saturday afternoon, February 8, and found his bride standing with her mother at the door to be the first to meet and greet him. The following Monday was the wedding day.

The morning was cold, foggy and wet, but its inclemency damped nobody's the crowds in St. James' park being dense indeed. 'The wedding was celebrated with all due magnificence in the Chapel Royal, St. James', the altar of which was made to look something between a florist's shop and a goldsmith's, so great was the profusion of flowers and plate. Four imposingstatechairswere set, being one each for the bride, bridegroom, qupen dowager and duchess of Kent, who, by the way, gave herself over to copius weeping and refused to be comforted, her behavior contrasting strongly with that of her daughter who was quiet and confident, although pale and anxious-looking.

The royal bride was robed in heavy white satin with orange blossoms, a wreath of the same gracing her head, while a rich Honiton veil fell about her face, but did not conceal it. The reason for this, it has been said, was Bonn at, the French portrait painter, Is said to make $100,000 annually. 1 The queen of Italy has astonished Europe by ordering a number of dresses from Dublin. Men who claim to know say that Senator Payne's check is good for $5, 000,000 at sight, a Feed Douglass and his white wife are daily visitors in the senate gallery. They are going abroad this summer.

Mazzantini, one of the principal bull-fighters in Spain, is a candidate for the new parliament, and is likely to be elected. Mr. Henry Irving has been invited to lecture before Oxford university. The subject of his address will be "Our Old Actors." Capt. Cannon, the prosecutor in a libel suit for $20,000 against The Baltimore American, has been awarded 1 cent damages.

It is said that ex-Senator Henry G. Davis is likely to be a candidate for the seat now occupied by Senator Camden, of West Virginia. Prof. Max Muller has decided to accept the presidency of the Goethe society, and will deliver his presidential address soon after Easter. Lion-hunters in London who have designs on Abbe Liszt, who is about to visit that capital, will have to polish up their German and French, for he speaks only those languages.

The Due d'Aumale is negotiating to purchase the late Dom Fernando's Moorish castle at Lisbon, to be a home for himself and Comte de Paris, in case of their expulsion from France. Mr. James Irvine is the latest California millionaire to depart to another world. He leaves but one son, now 18 years old, who at 25 will inherit the entire estate, valued at about 8,000,000. Mr.

Keely's subtle etheric force has been tested again, and a pressure of 2,700 pounds to the square inch was obtained by the use of one pint of water. Skeptics are to be paralyzed within a month or two. Benjamin Crosby, who died recently at New Canaan, was a grandson of Enoch Crosbj', the original of "Harvey Birch," the hero of Cooper's famous novel, "The Spy." He was buried at Carmel, N. the native place of his grandfather. William Cullen Bryant was town clerk of Great Barrington, sixty-one years ago, and one of his duties was to record the marriages solemnized there.

Among the marriages so recorded was that of "William C. Bryant with Frances Fairchild, Jan. 11, 1821." Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, has the most complete collection of newspaper clippings in Washington. They are all about himself and his sayings and doings. His wife, who from long practice has become an expert with the newspaper shears, is the managing editor of the senator's scrap-books.

During a visit to the seaside Sarah Bernhardt saw a madwoman daily casting pieces of bread upon the waves. The poor creature explained that she was feeding the fishes so that they would not in their hunger devour the body of her son, who had been drowned at sea. The actress made note of the case, and has now illustrated it in a marble group. Rubinstein, who has made a large sum of money from his historical concerts in Russia, intends devoting 25,000 rubies to found a quinquennial interna-tianal competition among pianists and composers of instrumental music. Prizes of 5,000 francs will be given to the successful candidates in each' or to those pre-eminent in both.

Persons of all nationalities between 20 and 26 will be admitted to compete. 1 Kino Luiz of Portugal, Is now 48 years of age and quite a domestic man. His great pleasure is to be always dressed in an admiral's uniform, with huge brass epaulets. His majesty is blonde, with mild blue eyes. He performs on all musical instruments, surpasses Frederick the Great in flute playing, speaks several languages, and is a patron of literary and scientific associations.

Ho fiaa translated "Hamlet" into Portu-jguese and is now at work on "Othello." Stories of John B. Gough. From the New York Star. John B. Gough believed that his end was near, and he had made every preparation for it.

He had engagements until some time in March, and he said that if he was spared to fill them he would then bid farewell to the lecture field. Only a few days before he was stricken down he talked for an hour on this subject with a Star Reporter. The writer had not seen him for several years, and Mr. Gough asked if he appeared much older than at their last meeting. When answered in the affirmative, he said in almost pathetic tones: "Yes, my career is nearly run.

I fear when my engagements, which end in March, are finished I will have to give up." "You may live a long time yet if you take sufficient rest," remarked the "Rest is what would hasten the end," he said, "for it is the love I have for my work that keeps me alive. I do not fear death; but I do not want to leave as long as I can hold my hand against that diabolical foe, rum. If my strength holds out, I shall make other engagements, and I die, I hope it will be as the French sergeant, at my post of duty, and then I could say to my old foe, I have surrendered only to my God." "You have made ft strong fight." "Yes, and my antagonist has been a cruel one. For every blow I have dealt I have received two. No man has had to endure more than I.

I have been slandered from the very day that I enlisted in the fight against rum up to the present time, but I expected it and have never once been disheartened. Thousands of attempts have been made to blackmail me, but none of them succeeded. I have no doubt but that plenty of good people believe that I drank after beginning my temperance work. But I say now, realizing that my work is nearly done, that I could not have led a more correct life than I have since that time. Not long ago while conversing with some friends, I was seized with terrible pains in my left side, and I screamed in my agony.

One of the persons present was a physician, and he advised me to take a little brandy. -I refused and he said there was certainly no harm, in doing so, as it would give me instant relief. I said I was satisfied that was so, but that I preferred death. While it would have been no harm to me, 'perhaps, harm would have resulted to the cause of temperance. People would have said that John B.

Gough drank, and it would have been added that I did not believe it wrong to take a drink once in a while. 1 "Another thing that I have never done is to break the Sabbath day. I have never traveled on and I have never hesitated in breaking an engagement rather than do so. I never receive visitors on that day, no matter who they are. If it is possible I go to church twice, and always walk; I would not think of riding.

Now, don't understand that I think it would be a sin to do so, but, as I said before, I have to be careful, so as to avoid giving the champions of rum an opportunity to injure my It used to be no common thing for a glass of whisky to be sent to my room at various hotels, and after I left the place it would be said that I had whisky sent to my room. Not long ago, at a hotel in an Indiana town, two theatrical people ordered a negro to carry a glass of whisky to my His Recommendation. A young teacher, at the close of his first term of school, taught in the backwoods, asked the chairman of the school-board for a letter ot recommendation, thinking it might be useful to him in securing another school. The chairman cheerfully complied with the request, and the teacher left the district with the following very flattering letter in his possession. We give it as it was written: "Thiss is to Notifi All Conserned, that' the bearer has tough our skool four munths to the Satisfacshun of all.

And that sofer as we no he is A perfect jentleman, whitch he has been sence coming into our midst, an' that no fault has bin found with his skool-keeping whitch has bin orderly and whitch the children has bin learned as Much as by any Prevous Teecher who has teached in this Districk. Any skool bord on the hunt of a reliable an' competent teecher, will do well to Hire him, as he is a good Teecher, and a first-class jentleman, all of whitch i testify to of my own free Zachaeiah Binns. The late Dr. Peter Burnett of New York married three times, and each wife brought him a fortune of between $100,000 and $500,000..