Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-26

place in Austria, and, for that reason tn,
home Of many retired army officers. Yo,
can see soldiers wherever you go in Eu
rope, but in this town officers are as plen
tiful as they formerly were in Washing
ton on the eve of n battle. The museum
of ancient arms and armour, and in fact
of everything belonging to the military
service of three or four hundred years
since, is famous. IL is a regular arsenal,
rs they have every thing by the hundred,
and could supply every museum in the
United States with full line of curlosi
ties, and never miss them; | noticed
Jacks, chains, pullys, scales and lock:
four hundred years old, also drums of the
same age with the original heads yet in.
The railway between Crate and this place
crosses the Semmering pass of the noun.
tains, one of the grandest feats of engi.
neering yet accomplished; the views are
wild, and at times startling.
Although Hanover (the province
mean particularly now is n part and par.
eel of the kingdom of Prussia, and prob.
ably will always remain so, there is ne
particularly great amount of love wasted
between the Hanoverians and the Prus.
slams. For, once upon a time, Hanover
was a little kingdom all by itself; and,
though hardly as large as a middlc-sized
California county, was n OF the Euro.
pean powers and was consulted, council.
ated and treated with n great deal of con.
sideration. But when Prussia and
Austria got mixed up into n dispute
and resorted, in 1866, to arms in order to
sntl1n 4L, ,,,t@n~ AL, thnp lt,,.y sc IL,
mover was unfortunate enough to shout
with the weaker side and star an cXpc-
dition to Austria's relief. But Prussia
was on the alert, and before the said
expedition got very far on its way
Austriaward it was comfortably taken
charge of and disposed of by Prussia.
Not only was this done, but the king of
Hanover was deposed and turned into a
grand duke, or something like that, while
Hanoveritselfbe camea partofthe Prussian
kingdom. Hence it comes about that the
Hanoverians love to talk of the times
when Hanover was Independent and
speculate on the possibilities of a return
of those good old times. But, though
they do not love Prussia very much, they
do love the German empire-united Ger
maryland, as Prussia is the king pin in
the confederation, the Hanoverians are
put in the rather trying position of low
ing and still not loving the same thing at
the same time.
REVERENCE FOR AN EX-oUEEN.
1t is almost a touching sight to see the
reverence with which they greet their
grayhaired, stately ex-queen as she rides
through the streets with her liveried
coachman and footman. Everybody
stops and makes a profound and most
respectful salutation as she passes by.
and she as %graciously returns the greet
ing.
Why Hanover, with its narrow bound
aries and its comparatively few people,
was eve powerful enough to have been
considered at all in European statecrast
may not, at first sight, appear plain. But
when one sees the people and contracts
them with those of other parts of Ger
many the problem solves itself. For the
Hanoverians are brighter, l~ivelier, quick
er than any other people whom l have
seen in Germany. When they move
along the street they make some ap-
proaeh toward American haste and they
bear in their c~ountenance the stamp of a
greater personal independence of charac-
ter, and appear as if they had more of an
idea of their own personal worth and
rights.