The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-28
NOTES OF TIE WAR.

-Three-fourths of the pictures hitherto
exhibited in the Museum of the Louvre, at
Paris, have been carefully packed up and
sent off from Paris to an unknown destina-
tion. There now no longer remain any but
pictures of the French school.
In the town of Potsdam the principal
Protestant clergyman aroused furious ex-
element among the people by declaring that
the war was the judgment of God upon Ger
many for her sins. A petition is in circula-
tion praying King William to enlist this
modern jeremiah, that he may get his proper
share of the judgment.
The Brandenburg regiment, No. 3j, has
q vivandiere ~ years old, called the Widow
Hackert, who was in the war of 1918. An
other elderly woman, named Scrader, who
participated in the campaign of 1866 as a
vivandiere, and was decorated for helping to
carry the wounded out of the thickest of the
fight to the Blood Hospital, has volunteered
as hospital cook in the field.
General Won Doring, who fell in one of
the battles before Metz, leaves in his will,
dated the 18th of July of the present
thalers (about $1,000 to be distributed among
the poor of Paris on the day when the En-
peror Napoleon should be dethroned and
2500 tbalers to the poor of Berlin, which
they shall receive on the day the Prussians
re- enter Berlin as victors.
The war enthusiasm among German
operate singers is intense. Lucca, whose
husband has been reported wounded and
dead, passes her spare time in picking lint;
Niemann, the celebrated tenor, has joined the
Knights Of ST. John; while Beck at the head
of party of his musical confreres, boarded
the refreshment trains going to the front and
went in person TO dispense good cheer among
the soldiers.
"A society, whose members call themselves
''Samaritans, has been organized in Berlin
whose specially is to supply refreshments and
aid to the wounded on the battlefield. Each
member carries valise weighing some
twenty or thirty pounds, in which is slowed
bottles of water, wine cologne, cooling mix
lures, lemons, sugar, etc. They are autho-
riZed to receive for safe-keeping valuables,
such as rings money, and watches.
The War Minister of Prussia publishes
special lists of the Germans wounded during
the present war, which lists, of course, are re-
copied by most papers. Still, the curiosity
of the people is naturally so great that most
! of them do not wait for these reissues. 1t is
stated that there are at present over 0,e00
| subscribers to the original list, and the num-
| ber is daily increasing. Beside the lists thus
sold, large numbers are sent away free by the
authorities.
The war feeling is so high in Berlin that
recently landlord came near being mobbed
| Tor demanding MS rent, as usual III ADVANCE,
of a man who had just been detailed for duty
in the reserve. He displayed upon the out
side of his house placard bearing the in
scriptions:-''The man may stay!" and mo
advance shall be demanded of my tenants -
Even after this the military were hardly able
to protect the building from the excited
! crowd.
A shipbuilder writes to the London Times
that the bulk of the English fleet is little
better than the painted Notifications of the
Chinese. He suggests that by the conversion
of the largest of the weak iron-clads into low,
freeboard turret ships, the Government would
at minimum expenditure attain to a maxi
mum of naval strength in the least possible
time, and so avoid the danger of trusting the
safety of the country to the delusive protec-
ton of 45-inch plated iron-clads.
When the first company of French pri-
soners was hourly expected in Berlin, the
Chief of Police, Herr Won Wurmb, caused the
following appeal to be placarded throughout
the city:-"Our first prisoners OF war will
arrive this evening; and to save them the
modification of public entry, they will be
brought to their final destination in a round
about way, through the outskirts of the city
While we hope that it will not be in the
power of the people of Paris to behold {
similar spectacle, all true citizens of Berlir
will take pride in showing by polite ant
dignitied bearing on this occasion that they
know how to treat prisoners Of war"