The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-31
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There is in Berlin a woman whose lfe
80 far, might be comprised in a single SEN
tence:-The widow of three cabinet-makers
She has married them all and lost them all
within the last eight years and they were all
three killed in battle. In 1864, the first of
her husbands fell at the storming of Duppel
She married again in 1865, and her second
husband was left on the field of Sadowa in
1866. Cabinet-mnker No. was killed at the
recent battle of Rezonville Habit is second
nature; and probably by this time she is be-
ginning to look around in search of her
fourth. But will she find another cabinet
maker brave enough to face the seeming
fatality of a marriage with the widow of
three defunct members of his craft, who
have all died violent deathsy
To be courteous in time of peace is not
hard. To be courteous TO an enemy in time
of war shows q noble spirit. The Germans
have always been rated far below the French
in polite and polished bearing; but the gene
raj order lately issued commanding all Ger
man private soldiers and non-commissioned
officers to salute all French officers now held
as prisoners by Germany with the same OBJ
servances due German officers of like rank,
shows height and depth of good breeding
to which the French do not seem to have yet
attained. Prussian officers are also to salute
French officers in the same manner that they
salute German officers of the same rank,
and in this matter French officers are re-
quested to take the initiative when meeting
occurs.
DIR. Strauss, in reply which he has
written to Nj. Remains letter, says: "When
one day our victorious armies shall recross
the Rhine to their homesteads, but without
many young men who left full of ardor, they
will bring us, as the best prize of the victory
which could not be too dearly purchased, the
impossibility of those who have fought side
by side SO many battles against common
enemy, and shed their blood for the same
cause, ever finding themselves face to face as
enemies, or even disunited. The blood of
the sons of the North and South will have
forever cemented German unity, for, taken in
this sense, the saying is true, blood is a
liquid of peculiar power.
The generosity of the German soldiers is
illustrated by a recent incident. soldier of
the Goth Regiment, wounded in one foot and
the face, was making his way along "the
Lindens, in Berlin, with the help of a stick,
shortly after the ne VS. of the capitulation of
Strasburg Lad arrived. The street was filed
with rejoicing crowds, and in few minutes
The wounded warrior found both his hands
full of coins, the voluntary offerings of un-
solicited sympathizers. He was about to
transfer the not unwelcome windfall to his
pocket when his eye fell on one of the re-
ceivipg-boxes of the Konig Wilhelm Verein,
a charitable society for the relief of sick and
have share!" cried the brave fellow, as he
poured the contents of his right hand into
the box.
An English journal, comparing the trade
between France and England for the month
of August with that of the same time last
year, says:-'A year ago our import of wine
from France amounted in the month to only
2oS,G74 gallons. 1t rose III August this year
to more than double, or 42S, S05 gallons In
the August of each of the two preceding
years we bought OF France 169, 900 pounds of
breadstuffs and 80, 600 yards of ribbon. The
French sent us this year PA, 900 pounds of
the former and 124, 900 yards of the latter of
these articles. But while France has been
forced to part with her goods, she has been
diminishing her demand for ours. She has
taken, for instance, about 100000 pounds
in lieu of above $4,000 900 pounds of WOOL
1,S60, 600 yards in lieu of 4,0GG, 600 yards of
cotton manufactures; and II, 600 pounds in
lieu of 196,00 pounds of cotton yarn; and,
with certain exceptions, the other articles of
her trade show corresponding diminution. "
The !SddtSdnze59er publishes an official
summary of the number of sick, wounded,
and cured in the German armies since the
commencement of the war. The number of
sick and wounded registered by the proper
department is "a, ,450. These soldiers were
received in 1883 hospital and ambulance re-
ports, forty-eight being military hospitals
and ambulances, and the remainder those es-
tablshed by societies and private persons.
The convalescents who have returned to their
regiments, or have been sent into the inte-
rior, number 1897 The wounded who were
discharged cured, including a few invalided
soldiers, number 1868; SIS wounded and sick
have died in the hospitals. The proportions
per cent. are-8'44 convalescent, 600 cured,
0'OS invalid, 0'95 deceased
"A correspondent of the London Times,
writing from Berlin on the 1st of October,
gives the following account of the works for
the defense of Paris:-From the energy dis
played it may be expected that by the time
the heavy artillery arrives it will be ready.
He adds:-Th 9S bastions of the main ram
parts, each about 400 metres long, are de-
Tended by from eight to ten 12-pounders.
Gates and sallyports have guns of heavier
calibre mounted on cast-iron carriages. The
total of the gHns on the main ramparts is re-
ported at 1926; of the detached forts in front
of the main ramparts Charenton has 20 guns;
Vincennes, III; Nogent, 50; Rosny, sc;
Noisy-le-Sec, 81; Romainville, 10; Aubervil-
liers, &C; Fort de lEst de st. Denis, so; La
Briche de st. Davis, 81: Mont ,Valerien, 70;
Issy, GA; Yanyres, 40; Montrouge, 43; Bicetre,
40; Ivry, 20. These figures include the guns
of the outworks attached to the various forts.
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