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... QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE ARMY. There was no part of her prerogative to which Queen Victoria clung more closely than her relations to the Services, which she regarded as her own property and province rather than in any real sense the nation's, says Mr. James ...
... QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE BLIND. There is a story in the Later Reminiscence* of Mrs. Stoey, widow ,f Principal Story, of Glasgow L'niver.ity, ehieh tell, of Principal Tulloch, while at Balmoral Cantle, going to the siaistance of Queen Victoria, though ...
... QUEEN VICTORIA WREN A MILD. In Kensington Palace, London, a baby girl was born on May 24th, 1819. She was named Victoria. Of her a biographer of the time said: She is a blue-eyed child, fair and plump as a partridge. When the little Victoria a month ...
... consist of about nine pieces, including the National Anthem, as was the case when the Orpheus visited Windsor to sing before Queen Victoria. ...
... same weight of pure gold. S • • More than forty per cent. of the people of Great Britain could not write their names when Queen Victoria amended the throne. • The tallest soldier in the German army, a theologioal student named Zimmermann. who is undergoing ...
... also used by Dickens for many years, which found a purchaser for over £4O. A quill pen used by Wellington when writing to Queen Victoria in 1844 brought nearly £B, while one of Sir Walter Scott's pens, selected by Lord Dalhousie in 1829 from Scott's writing-table ...
... THE ROYAL RED CROSS. The Royal Red Cross, for women only, was instituted by Queen Victoria, in April, 1883, in recognition of special ser• vices rendered in• nursing the sick and wounded of the Army and Navy. and was of one elms only. In November, 1915 ...
... illness of the late King Edward, then Prince of Welee, was LlO.lOOO. The specialists called in during the last illness of Queen Victoria received. it is said, £2,000 for one consultation. Dr. Lap. poni, the physician who attended the Pope, received £5,000 ...
... ROYAL QUARRELS. A violent quarrel once took place between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, says Clara Jerrold in The Married Life of Queen Victoria (Eveleigh )•lash), after which the Queen rushed from the room. Returning after a time she ...
... PERSONAL APPEAL. Mr. J. Warne (brother of the Editor of the Free Press ), who is serving with the 9th County of London Queen Victoria Rifles at the front, has sent home a long and interesting letter, in the course which he says : I cannot describe the ...
... now are very well stocked with animals. The latest addition is a bear from North Russia. Vic, the lioness presented by Queen Victoria, celebrates her 2oth birthday this month, and so far as is known no other beast qf her breed has ever lived in captivity ...
... Wales Travel-book, upon which the late Sir Theodore Martin bestowed unstinted praise. Sir Theodore Martin, (who welcomed Queen Victoria on her last visit to the Dee Valley) believed that the attractions of this muchfavoured portion of the Principality were ...