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Show THE MATCHMAKING QUEEN. She May Not Be Physically Strong, bat If . Able to Arrange Convenient Marriages. Queen Victoria is saioVto be getting increasingly feeble in her powers of .locomotion .lo-comotion and has to be carried up stairs or the smallest rise of ground. But whatever may be her physical condition her mental powers are absolutely unimpaired, unim-paired, and her capacity for work is undiminished. She takes increased interest, in-terest, too, in matchmaking and has of tofc repeatedly expressed her opinion that the poorer princes of the younger branches of the royal house of Eng-land"ought Eng-land"ought to marry into the wealthy aristocracy of Great Britain as Prince Adolpbus of Teck has just done. This young man has certainly done a wise thing by choosing as his wife the daughter of the Duke of Westminster, the richest peer in England. Few people peo-ple outside the two families and the lawyers are likely to possess trustworthy information respecting the settlements in this match, but rumor has it that the duke has provided a dowry of $500,000 besides settling $25,000 a year upon the young couple. It may be said with absolute ab-solute certainty that the prince has brought nothing into the settlement beyond be-yond life insurance policies and possibly possi-bly a few thousands provided by the queen, with whom he is deservedly a great favorita It is no disgrace to the Duke of Teck to say that he lives well up to and probably prob-ably considerably beyond his income, especially since the future king of England Eng-land became his son-in-law. London Cabla . |