Show THE OF lettla practical work for the prospective king of blakely hall in a recent london letter to a new york paper gipps a detailed account of a earn pie day as spent by the prince of wales if there is any truth in mr halla letter and doubtless it is reasonably reliable the heir to En glands throne is hardly worth bis hire wales was awakened at 8 writer mr hall that is his custom on this occasion the usual black tog obscured the windows of marlborough house and exerted its depressing influence upon the most exalted as well as the hum bleat of the residents of london the prince sat up in bed and yawn ed prodigiously busied himself with the bath in an adjoining room his royal highness drank his cup of coffi coffie e eflowly and continued to blink at the black fog without he was bald to a very pronounced degree indeed few men are more destitute of the customary thatch the whole upper portion of his bead almost down to his ears was a polished shining pate which rivaled in white brilliancy the sur face of a newly polished billiard ball the delicate tracery of hair which the article of the illustrated papers usually place on the top of the princes bead was of a bandy color heavily streaked with gray his face was colorless he looked 50 or 60 years of age while one of his valets attended to the bath which had to be warmed to a temperature of exactly 72 degrees another laid out the princes clothes it is a particular tad of bis highness that he can more rapidly than any other man in the kingdom even princes have foibles and this n one of the most innocent of those which dia albert edward the pervading horror of bis life is his in creasing hence be takes two baths a day aud rubs himself briskly and violently with coarse towels BO as to keep down the fat shortly before 9 the prince entered his own breakfast room on the second floor of the marlborough house an J stood with his back to the grate fire carelessly scanning the tunes he runs over three or four papers in the morning as a matter of form but he depends very greatly upon his friends for giving him the news two of these friends had already dropped in to see him in the persons of sir george chetwynd and lord arlington though neither of them is a particularly tall man they towered above the little prince like giants the heir to the throne wore a smart looking coat of the cutaway fashion trousers of a small black and white check varnished boots a very high collar a white stock and dark waistcoat he lis bened with apparent superficial in terent to the talk between obet and arlington about the australian horse ringmaster which bad startled the race going public the day before by his run in the 2000 guineas and continued to glance up and down the papera at exactly 9 he sat down to breakfast the others were not invited to join him the prince began to talk at once about his arrangements range ments for the shooting seabon and the talk was nearly all of a nature during breakfast he lighted a cigarette toward the end of the meal and received half a dozen other visitors before 10 they were all men and the etiquette of royalty was entirely suspended the names of the visitors were brought quietly to the prince by a butler and they were admitted by a nod of the head or denied by an almost imperceptible motion of the eyebrows they all belonged to the princes personal set and they drifted in without ceremony after the first profound bow at the door of the breakfast room the punctuality of the prince of wales has grown almost into a proverb he is never behind time and he is about the only member of any of the royal families of europe who does not keep a special train waiting fur hours after he haa ordered it at 10 he walked into the library with p frcek ciar ette in his hand and talked half an hour with the secretaries who attend to the vast correspondence of the prince only s beall portion of the letters were to his royal highness the oilier which were in a measure peti ioni gifis or invitations of a kind to without the prince while bis roal highness was looking over one or two letters of special importance harry riison who is u favorite equerry of the prince and who alwag accompanies bim on his continental tours hurried in and began aai excited talk about a fox terrier which was just then the property of lord arthur somerset and which colonel was very anxious to get for the prince it transpired that the prince waa anxious to get it for a certain sprightly and handsome somebody else hut ltd arthur somerset was inclined to hold on to hii ariza winner stubbornly the thing was to get tho dog secretly and quietly all the details of the correspondence were thrust aside while the discussion went on concerning the fax terrier colonel Tyr wilson talked with the utmost absorption and without much cere perhaps his usefulness to the prince in his continental tours had something t do with his ease in the presence of his future sovereign he left the room by one door as the prince of wales strode out by another and went back to his dressing room to select some wed dina presents for the daughters of several peers of the realm who were shortly to be married the presents had been spread out artistically and his highness picked them out with a wave of his forefinger and told hia secretary fur whom each gift was intended this duty over he drew on his gloves put on his bat and descending to the pall mall entrance of the house stepped into the heavy family carriage which he uses on civic visits and drove over toward kensington oval alie duke of beaufort who is a stanch old ally of the princes was waiting the carriage he drove with the prince to the cricket grounds the old duke a spare figgie figuie was held upright by stiff slays and hia face displayed the amiability of a beau of the baat century despite its hundreds ot wrinkles and the marks left by a life of extraordinary the occasion was a game tor the championship between the gentleman amateur great britain and the professionals buth f the eleven stopped to cheer the prince when he appeared at the of the clubhouse then the game went on the prince and the duke sat side by side with their hata tilted over their eyes and their feet on the window sill the president of the club and half a dozen officers ho yered around the chairs of the two distinguished vi igors but they were chatting together in low tones about the game and paid no attention to their hosts at 12 precisely hid royal highness rose and bidding the duke remain where he was descended the stairs rapidly to tho main ground though the move was quietly made he faund nearly 1000 people waiting around ins carriage and as he passed through the lane which the police made lor him he bowed politely to a feeble cheer the footman slammed the door of bis carriage climbed up to the box seat and the prince was driven rapidly to the studio of one oi the most distinguished portrait painters in great britain the tenants of the Prince 8 country seat had subscribed enough money to pay for a portrait of the prince and they were having it painted as a present for the prince 8 of wales A dummy in the person of an alcoholic swell of rather handsome physique sat every day in the princes clothes so that the artist could get what is presumed to be his figure while his royal bigness gave a half hour sitting once a week for his face it was scarcely a half hour this time however the prince sank into a luxurious chair prepared for him directly in the way of what ever light could struggle through the fog of the north window answered the artists questions with unwavering affability for ten min utes and then suddenly jumped up from the chair and waked halfway across the room to meet hon wilson who had just tempestuously entered the room with his face aglow and the light of triumph in hia eyes he had got the dog and it had only cost him 30 the matter had been managed through a tradesman whom he knew and lord arthur somer set bad never suspected to whom the was the news seemed to the prince more than anything in the world and with a gracious nod of farewell to the artist be walked out of the room and leaving the honorable and successful wilson at he door drove to the marlborough club and took a hasty bite of luncheon from the club be walked across the street to his town residence passing through the pall mall gate raising his hat in response to the salute of the soldiers and policemen who are always stationed there pulled on a frock coat and a fresh pair of gloves joined the princess of wales below and drove with her and the three princesses to open a new headquarters of the twentieth mid diases dieses koyal on duke road there were about people waiting here and the band played god have the queen as the prince walked in he took hia place on the platform while the princess received bouquets from several prettily dressed children and after a series of highly laudatory speeches the prince arose and delivered the following oratorical imort without any visible evidences of mental war and tear or bodily emotion lie said colonel mv lords ladies and gentlemen I 1 thank you and the officers and men of your regiment in my awu name as well as that of the princess and our children for the kind welcome you have given us it is a matter of congratulation to me in opening these headquarters to know that you have been your own architect I 1 hope the head quat will prove binet useful to your men and the will remain in a sli factory condition as it i at the present moment afler this there was enthusiastic cheering a lot it music ami n long in dodion of the armory in he mii adle of the inspection the prince called aide a colonel who was in the attending suite and sent a verbal masage to his son shortly after that he drove back toward marlborough house and catching sight of prince albert victor as the young man was leaving the army and navy club the prince alighted from his carriage and walked along pall mall with hia heir every hat in the street was raised as the two ibis men strolled along they turned into st james palace yard and were evidently much interested iu their talk prince albert victor is taller than his father but not a particularly wholesome sight his face is disfigured by a repulsive eruption and he bag ahe hopelessly long neck aal sloping shoulders of the fop of caritA tuie at G the prince walked briskly through the gates of marlborough houe the two police men the inspector and the soldiers all glanced at the clock as he went through it wa evident that they were interested in the princes usual feat of taking his bath and assuming evening dress at light ning speed it was exactly sixteen minutes later when the heir t the throne drove forth in his quiet little coupe this was even faster than his amual record on tha seat his highness there was a small white dog with brindle spots over each eye long ears nd silky coat he licked the gloved hand of the prince amiably as thy drove toward seoane square afre the prince alighted and following a frequent custom of hi jumped into a passing hansom and drove up to a model little house in belgravia he passed half a crown up to the driver through a hole in the roof and handed the dog to a maid servant who ran out to the cab she was a trim little maid and she blushed mightily in the presence of royalty the prince took a cup of tea and chatted for a time with his hostess and then drove away and met his carriage at the marlborough club whence he was taken rapidly to the buckingham gate it was the night of mrs macnays Mac kays big dinner party about eighty people were invitto to dine with the prince of wales but when they got there thea faund that seventy of them were put to dine in a large room while his highness sat at a table with the select ten in a small apartment which adjoined them from the dinner his highness went to a dance at the italian cm bassadore bass adors and at in kompany with his most intimate friends frien ls awl bowton the earl of conniell Co nuiell and sir frederick jansen he retired for a game of cards of which ho has of late years become very fond it was 1 30 when the prince drove through the gate of marlborough Harl borough house for the last time and went wearily to bed and he has had forty years of this mhd envies him the speed of fishes washington iosa the speed of h almost an unknown quantity being as prof G brown goode says very difficult to measure if you could get a fish said prof goode to a pot reporter and put him in a trough of water 1000 feet lone and start him at one end and make him swim to the other without stopping the information could be easily lotain ed but fish are unintelligent and they wont do this estimates of the speed of fish consequently are only approximated and more or less founded on gu wing you can tell however at a glance whether a fish is built for speed or not A fast fish looks trim and pointed like a yacht its head is conical shaped and Us fidis fit down close to its body life a knife blade into its handle fish with large heads bigger than their bodies and with short stubby fins are built for slow motion what are the fastest fishes the predatory fah those which live on prey are the fastest swim mers the food cibas are generally among the slowest and are consequently easily captured their loss is recompensed however by the natural law which makes them very prolific in reproduction dolphins have been known to swim around an ocean steamer and it is safe to say that their speed is twenty miles an hour but it may be twice aa much the bonito ia fast fish just what its speed la I 1 do not know the head of the gooba fiah is very large twenty times aa big as its body it bovea about very little and swims at the bottom of the ocean the spanish is one of the fastest of the food fishes its body ie cone shaped and as smooth as burnished metal its speed is as matchless as the dolphin and in motion it cuts the water like a yacht what becomes of all the piper afuli york there are 1000 pulp and paper mills at work the year round but the newspapers and magazines con aume eume vast quantities of it the century company take nearly tons a month for their publications and their paper bill amounts to yearly harper take 2000 ream robert bunner reams at a time two cheap literature firms buy worth of paper a year one patent medicine firm buys worth of paper arery year |