The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-26

lipsborn, and he knows far worsething;
than / do"
Agroup OF people had now come III
between us and the speakers.
A servant handed round tea; but
strange to say, there vas no rum, SO
little has Bismarck imbibed ofRussian
habits and tastes, in spite Of his long
sojourn at st. Petersburg.
Houe, again. in front of one Of the
touches, lay the head and skin of :
splendid elk, another trophy of Bis,
marck's prowess as a sportsman.
The walls of this rOom were hung with
yellow Gobelins of"ChiLese patterns, 4"
and furniture 90 correspond. By de-
grees all the guests had gradually con-
gregated in this room-deputies,
councillors, ministers, admirals, seCre-
taries, all mingled together. There
was none Of that reserve and strict
| etiquette with which ministers usually
| love to surround themselves, like n
wall of division between them and the
peoples representatives, none OF that
| exClusiveness and national party
spirit which, as a rule, is always pres
ent in the diet. Very few uniforms
| were visible among the guests. The
hooks and corners, in which, accord
ing to BismarCk's W words, the
great affairs of the state could be set
tied and arranged in five minutes,
were now all filled with eager talk
ative groups of deputies and
councillors, or the leaders Of the diff
ferent parties. The conversation in
~, ,,vhINvL@,l yrnC 40 rVInl on IN a
pretty loud and easy tone, and with
out any reserve; for there did not Turk
here, as there does behind every door
and in every retiring room of the i'm
perial parliament, some insido:us re-
porter for the press.
who is that stout gentleman yOn-
der, with the very elaborate shirt
front, blue coat with brass buttons
and huge and perfectly new order Of
the Eagle of the third class? He tries
in vain to disguise his eastern origin"
"Is it possible you do not know
him?-this man, whom BiSmarCk's son
in his last pamphlet described as the
greatest man Of his century?-the
faith r Of millions of-railway shares?
Do you really NEAR to say you not
know him? Well, then, my dear sir,
you see before YOU DR.. Strousberg,
formerly Baruch Hirsch StrouSberg, OF
the firm of DR.. Ujest, Strousberg Il
Company! Shall | introduce your"
But the subject of this discourse had
already Joined that arch satirist, Won
Unruh Magdeburgh, the president OF
the constitutional Prussian national
assembly. Beside him appeared the
venerable head of Simson, the perpet-
ual president of the German parlla-
ment.
"Do you know the best way of en-
forcing respect into our noisy neigh
bors, the French?" asked my Wis, avis.
| thought of our millions of soldiers;
but he continued: "You need only
tell them that our three presidents,
Simson, Ujest and Bennington, have
q children between them, nine EACH"
Meanwhile the servants again came
round withrefreshments for the guests;
this time it was Maitrank, in long
Venetian glasses and magnificent sill
yer tankards filed with sparkling ale.
And now the intimate friends and
relations of the chancellor invite the
guests to adjourn to the dining saloon,
which is the last of the long row of
apartments we hadup till now passed
through.
The first feeling of shyness having
worn away, the various dainties, in
the shape of cold game, saddle of veni-
son, mayonnaises, Italian salads, etc.,
with which the long centre table was
laden, were speedily done Justice to.
Even the modest Saxon privy coun-
cilor, who three Minutes before hadre-
treated from the table and refused the
invitation with a polite wave of the
hand and a mo, no; thank you'll
nov followed III the warpath of the
pioneers for food. There was no time
or space to think of sittingdown; each
n helped himself to a plate from the
piles placed in readiness on the table,
together with the necessary table re-
quisites, and FASTENED to partake of
the delicacies that had been prepared
for his delectation. A party ofSaxon
and Rhenish gentlemen had succeeded
liz getting possession Of a side table,
end there. seated at their ease, they
intrenched themselves against the an
nexation tendencies of the North Ger
man League appetites; getting alltheir
provisions through the proper con
stitutional channel of the Bismarck
ian domestics.
Meanwhile, as | have SO often OBJ
served before, a saddle of venison is a
most fruitful source for starting hunt
ing adventures, and SO it provedin this
case. My old friend, worthy DIR. Neu-
brenner, from Nassau, whom no one
would have accused Of being q blood
thirsty huntsman by nature, was no
sooner presented to Bismarck than
he reminded the minister how, In for
mer days, when he (Bismarck) was
representative at Frankfort, they had
hunted together in the neighborhood
Of that town.