The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-04-29

BERLIN, April 2S.-Ine Imperial court
of Discipline at Pottsdam has sentenced
Count Won Arnim to formal dismissal
| from the public service and the payment
of the costs of the proceedings.
In the Prussian Chamber of Deputies
to-day the railway bill was read for the
first time.
Two Against One.
1t cannot be denied by the most zeal
Gus temperance advocate that the IN
creasing taste Of our people for that
soothing Teutonic beverage, lager beer.
has at least the quality OF diverting
many from the debasing habit OF
whisky drinking Besides the beastly
intoxicating properties of whisky, each
drink costs fifteen cents, while a brim-
full glass of lager, fresh from the cellar
and foaming with fantastic reveries, can
be had for the trifting sum of five cents.
This economy is greater than one would
suppose until it is realized. Beer drink
tedious walk by having a nickel or two
in their pockets to take last car, or to
invest in one of those fragrant genuine
Havanas, at five cents apiece. And it
may be that, in not few cases, a loaf
OF bread has been secured, where whisky
drinking would have left starvation
This last reflection is perhaps over
drawn, but it has some plausibi'ity.
And then, if inclined to extravaganza,
one may drink lager till he can hold no
more, and yet not be drunk. At this
point, the conversation, which was
going on at Redwitz's beer saloon. on
Common street, threatened to change
into discussion. One Of the party of four
who were sitting around that table, hap
PLY put in a diversion. ut makes no
difference, gentlemen" he said. ''At
any rate, beer drunk is mild and amia-
bic; it prompts friendly feeling for
fellow being"
Hush! you are drunk!'' came from a
beer drinker at an adjoining table, and
whom the party recognized as-wa will
call him John, because that's his name.
No attention was paid to the remark,
and Bill-we call him so because his
name is Wiliiam-Bill resumed his re-
Elections: Yes, and it has the ad-
vantage over whisky"
Go soak your head" was the recep-
ton from the other side of the house.
Its advantages over whisky are
pleasant to consider"
You're a bloat! For whoever heard
of serious quarrel in a beer saloon?
Oh, you old crooked sponge %
Il venture to say John, | wish YOU
would behave decently-I venture to
say that you never heard of a man being
killed in a beer saloon
Nobody ever smelt your breath,
then"
or, John, am among gentlemen
or, even --.
''How did you get among them?'
You cussed scamp, you had better
pay me those twenty dollars YOU owe
me-or even a fight. A blow is --
Just then there was a commotion.
and among the debris of pref
eel, pomponickel. and streams of
the amber -colored juice, Bill was
struggling to walk on his head; all of
which was the consequence Of the in |
fiuence of Johns biceps which had |
reached spontaneously a spot imme- |
diately behind Bills right ear. AS soon |
as he could recover Bill was on his feet |
and with the rapidity Of lightning had |
grappied with his asSailant and driven I
him to the wall at the back door open
ing on Redwitz S Geological Garden. In /
another moment John lay prostrate and +
Bill was preparing to administer terri /
bic correction to him. Suddenly a 4
shrek arose from Johns excited bosom, /
and he shouted at the top Of his voice
Two Of you Oh me- get off that
isn't fairi''
Bill realized the situation in a twinkle,
but instead Of relentlng. he calculated,
D-n you, DO you call me monkey.
The words were hardly out Of his mouth
than one Of Redwitz's biggest pets, a
genuine ape, who had dropped unex-
pectedIy on the scene and provoked the
shrek that ohm had uttered,
now tackled on Bill, and the three com
batants were rolling over the tagging
Of the yard. The struggle was short
J John was soon afterwards seen in
neighboring eatinghouse applying a
raw oyster to his left eye, while Bill was
seeking a drug store to have his face
patched with court plaster.
RedwitZ's ape was left standing on /
,he head OF a beer keg trying to tie a
knot in his tail, the while looking up
and seeming to say:
That's the kind of monk / am"
Redwitz had lost two of his best Gus (
omers.