ROYALTY AT HOME.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1046, 9 March 1882, Page 4

ROYALTY AT HOME.

A gentleman who had visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham, tells us that Sunday is a right pleasant day at Sandringham. In the morning the whole house party walk across the park to the quaint little old church on it outskirts. Out in a little churchyard, among the graves of the country folks “John, infant son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and of Alexandra, his wife,” a child who died a few hours after he was born. As the party quit the Church the Princess never fails to leave it and turns aside for a moment to glance at the grave of her dear little one. Near by this stone is another, erected by the Prince to the memory of the groom who lay ill simultaneously with the Prince, of the same disorder and who died when the Prince lived. This latter stone bears the simple inscription, “ One was taken and the other left.” The interval till luncheon is occupied by a stroll around the park and alter luncheon the party visit the kennels, and the menagerie, where are kept the wild animals which are among the Prince’s souvenirs of his visit to India. The peregrination finishes with tea in the Princess’ pretty dairy cottage, where the party are served with butter which her Loyal Highness may have churned the dav before.

An eye-opener: “ When the girl who had encouraged a young man for about two years suddenly tells him that she can never be more than a sister to him he can for the first time see the freckles on her nose.

A skeptical hearer once said to a Babtist minister: “ How do you reconcile the teachings of the Bible with the latest conclusions of science ?” “ I haven’t seen this morning’s paper,” navely replied the minister. “ What are the latest conclusion of modern science ?”