New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-01

baggage. All the fashy folks who remained IN
the station were tickied at its meagre proportions
and the painness of the old portmanteaus oome-
body remarked of these that they were nrs'
cousins to private soldiers knapsacks, ana tna'
the Kings was the most battered ana snaooy
of the lot did not see the iron camp oeu, anu
so fancy that it was left at Berlin. william was
free from pedantry. lie was wrongly caheo
mora drill sergeant His brother-in-law the
Car Nicholas deserved the nickname better.
Nicholas a pedant in enforcing disoipnne anu
in taking wherever he went his iron bedstead,
with q sack which was to be stuffed with hay and
serve rs a mattress When the hay was thistly
the Cars skin suffered and his surgeon had
much to do in picking small thorns thence
next saw William at a hunt He was an
admirable borseman In the evening / was
present at the "Curee Chaude.' got up for his
entertainment This particular pastime was
the nearest thing to bull-fght that the Empress
Eugene could have in France. The Curee'
came of in the grand court Of the palace on
which looked down from side balcony whlcn
was given up to Mr. Ingram and his friends
The court was on the grand balcony over the
chief entrance to the palace which was splen-
ddly illuminated Soldiers and court guards
were ranged bearing torches round the court
ward In front Of them were huntsmcn In green
iveries blowing horns. Two packs OF HOUNDS
were eager to get on q hapless stag whlch WAS
tied to a stake in an open space and moaneo
In agony at its helplessness and impending fate
The Empress dazzlingly beautiful and dstked OUT
in crown Jewels. was laughing oyousiy WIN
William. who behaved as though Ter humoie
and devoted servant have no doubt that he
was keenly sensitive to her charms Napoleon
was near her. Bismarck's tall form was behind
The instant the dogs were loosed
they rushed yelping on the stag
of which in a few minutes there was not trace
Then the torch-bearing troops filed under the
balcony saluting their Maiesties, and ike greaV
fire serpent betook themselves to their quarters
was very young and very raw But my ieelhg
about the brilliant spectacle was that IL ooueu
i'll for those who afforded it to the King Of Prus-
STA, who had come to work LOUIS Napoieohs
nationalties mania for the accomplishment OF
German unity to the detriment of Austria-and.
as it turned out of FrancA Ii that scene Is
ever dramatized in an operE the orchestral &C
compartment should be sad and rise someOinics
to wall and sometimes to a menace.
WAS also present when Napoleon and William
drove together down the Bouevards Magenta
and Sebastopol to the Tuileries In gala car
rage The King Of Prussia had come 10 see
the Universal Exhibition Of s67, and to try and
reconcile the French Emperor to the military
and political consequences of the battle OF oaoo"a.
Fritz, the actual Emperor, was with them' l
thought the latter less ine-looking than MS
father The straight white eyebrows were TOO
near the eyes, and the lashes too haxen ho' 10
be a Disagreement. Prussian flags were hung
out by order of the police But there was
Total absence of pleasurable excitement in the
crowd 1t was felt that William had got tne
pulln on Napoleon and meant to keep 1t, and thai
bo was the coming and redoubtable foe OF France.
Bismarck was in carriage with Count Won
Goltz the Ambassador then here, whose throat
was being eaten out by cancer, but VINO never
tbeless died in harness 1t was source OF deep
modification to the Empress that Augusta anu
the Crown Princess did not accompany their hus-
bands They came later, by themselves, pu' pu.
nm at the German Embassy and accepted no sort
~ bosntality at the Tuilerics. Augusta regarded
Eupenie as a successful and light-brained advent
uress. and anything but an honor to the SOW
ereign class to which she was admitteo. L. "