Grandmother's Million.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3323, 1 October 1889, Page 2

Grandmother's Million.

(Pall Mall Budget.) How is it that the Prince of Wales is not able to do his duty by his children on his existing allowanco ? The reply to thai is that the Princo has had to perform so many of the duties of Eoyalty owing to the' retirement of the Queen that he could not make ouds meet. But to this instant retort is that if the Prince has had to do the Queen's work, lie ought to have had an allowanco out of the Queen's pay. But it may be objected to can Her Majesty afford to make such an allowance? The answer to this is supplied by fcho figure's printed in Mr Labouchere's report. Her Mnjosty has received from the surpluses of the- Civil List and the Bushy ol Lancaster a sura in excess ot her personal expenditure of about a million sterling. She has other savings but we will not dwell on these. Now the existence of the Queen's million is a conclusive rofttation of ilie plea that slio could not afford to allowanco thePrincooiWalM. Thus if the compromise had ken artfully designed in order to concentrate upon the Queen any popular indignation it could not have been more ingeniously framed. We havo boon paying our Queen on the understanding that she would keop up tho Royal State. She has let it run down, We paid for a first-class circus. Wo have only had a onohorse skow. The Prince has stood in to fill the gap as best he could, and so it has como to pass that ho cannot provide for his children, Therefore, says tho Government, tho British taxpayer must add £40,000 a year to the Princo's income. " Nothing of tho kind," will bo the widespread roeponso from the people. " Lot tho Prince be paid by his mother for doing the work sbo is indisposed or unable to perform, and let his childroil be allowanced from their grandmother's million,"

'■Next, Please I".

Who is next to bo married ? is tho question of the hour. An onterprising London letter writor for one of tho provincial papers says ho knows, and givos tho public just enough to wish for-more. Tho brilliant gentleman informs us on bis honor as a .jour- .wH milist (gracious) that Princess Victoria of Wales vomes next, and that her husband has already beonchosoii for her by the people about tho Court, " He is the son of one of tho most famous of tho peers," says the scribbler, '■ his falhor being a member of the Government and very rich. Both father and son are suiliciently popular. The lad only came of age last month, and is only famous in the negative & way of being tho only modem swell ™ who has not made a fool of himself in bis salad days. If be marries the princess be will be able," continues tho gossip, " to give her as fine a home as any in England—when completed," is the slight reservation which be throws in here. The present title of tho expectant suitor, or suitor expectant, to be correct, is, we aro carefully informed, derived from a metropolitan borough. As the man in the novel says: " Here is a clue." On bis ma's sido he is. descended from a famous soldier,,

mid all—«//, mind you—his meters and cousins and aunts uro counteasua. Dear me! remarks tlio Dunedin Star Special, can it be our dear old friend tho "Mo ot Seven Dials" again ? It surely must be, when ono remembers that the namo is derived from n metropolitan borough, Wo shall have" Turn Turn," as the Prince of Wales is affectionately called, singing the dear old song;

I shall nevr-r forgo! my Vic'y, u_>. I shall never fovsct her smit'.s, fjWut I'm sorry sho ilirlcd quito so much ■™ Willi the Duke oi Seven Dials 1

The Shah as a Shot-

(New llevinw). When tin: day's shooting Ims been decided Aran, the Shah leaves his lodge ofrfflfflßMck early in the morning, accoiupmed by ut small retinue, among whom the most noticeable figure is the Mirakhor, or Lord of the Jdanger, (practically tho muster of the fegjgjSSfkhomids of Persia.) This most HBrarcsungiligMUi'y has charge of all IpPßftfl Royal stud. He looks after the y greyhounds ami tho hawks, and on these special hunting occasions is the person of consequence, lie is certainly a wonderful old man—l was told he was seventy-live, and yet he is still as active a'id as keen as a boy. Perched high up on his Persian saddle and riding a horse of admirable stamp and quality, with most extraordinary walking and cantering powers, he scorns ablo to go for ever. He wears a quaint hunting costume, reminding the pictures of old French sportsmen, a longish Persian frock coat, high boots over the knees, and a regular hunting cup with a peak that can bo pulled round or oil' if required, with a telescope slung across his shoulders. Away go tlio limiting party, tho Mirakhor leading. Alter an hour's riding or so up wind, in whatever district may have been selected for tho day's sport, a halt is made, the old man is off his horse in a minutOj his glass out of bis case, and ho is spying the ground like an ordinary Scotch stalker, At last be stops, holds up his baud, and then one fo attendant!! takes (he Shah's , and the rifle is produced from use. A few steps forward and Mirakhor crouches down and slowly moves to the verge; one quick glance reassures him, and beckoning to bis Imperial master, be places the loaded weapon in his bund, Tho Shah is now in bis element; a splendid sportsman, big gamo shooting is his one great passion, and overy Englishman niurflciu'ily feci with him and with an Yim% potonlate, who, unlike so many of his brother Sovereigns, despising the effeminacy and the miserable dokc jar niente of Eastern life, takes bis pastimes like a man, loving horse; hound, ami rillo as well

lis aiiy Briton nf us all. He crawls with the utmost euro to the edge of the ravine and there, 150 yards below, lies the old ibex that has lately been seen so often by the watchers nnd proclaimed as having an unparalleled head. It is a moment of intense excitomo'it. The ibex lies half asleep in the sun, on a ledge of rock, unsuspicious and confident in his safoty. surrounded as he is by his wives, nnd safe, as he thinks, like a good Persian. The Shah takes aim and iires. The ibex springs high in tlisair and falls headlong from his p|Wl. His Majesty gallops rapidly V&ho spot, anil in a few minutes the long yellowish form of a Persian leopard creeps from among the grass and canters up the hill. Like light, ninntho Shah is off his horse, his rifleWphaml; the distance is great, but a well.calculated sighting shot gives him the range, and tho lefthand barrel plumps a bullet with a thud behind the shoulder. The mimic war is not, however, wugod against ibex, leopard, or wild sheep only, Bear and tiger have fallen to His Majesty's weapon, and many are the tales told among the wild mountaineers how tho Shah-in-Shah has stood alone and faced tho most ravage brutes—calm, cool, and collected—when his attendants had lied like curs.

TWO WAYS of TREATMENT.

When a person fids a sprained nnkto tho physician usually hastheanklo painted with iodine and the patient kept in the house (or a week or 10 days. A physician who treats suoh an accident in a different way relates a case as follows:—' 'I went over to a grocery store and not a pound ot common soda, Then I Rot ft pot ot boiling water, put in a tub and put the coda into it, Thou I got some woollen rags, dipped them in tho solution and (Trapped them around the injur!! member, I wrapped dry cloths nroiraipn " 1() outiido, so that tho steam coulflKw its work thoroughly, I changed tlio-.jKmlagoß ovory 10 minutes and had his nurio to do the same when I went home that night, When I called tho next day tho my patient was all right. It would have liken two weeks for that iodine to have done ila work, A peculiarity about this treatment is that no swelling remains and that the flesh is not even discoloured;"