Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-26
LEAD C0LORED DAYS.
They Still Continue to Prevail at
the German Capital.
FROSTS IN MAY AND AUGUST.
Summer Birds Wing Their Way to
More Congenial Chimes.
THE BEER MARKET DEPRESSED.
Certain People Who Consider the
Weather Timely.
ANOTHER TRIUMPH IN SURGERY
German Editors Make Unkind Ref
erences to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Accident i'm Sports-Warn-
ing to Coin Collectors.
Disgusted With the Weather.

BERLIN, August 25.-[ New York Herald
Cable-Special to The BEE. The weather
has occasionally. fits of lucidity, but is in the
main so unfit for everyday life that it seems
out of place outside of lunatic asylum. One
unfortunate market gardener writes to the
papers complaining that his garden truck
was frozen on May %, and on August 81 all
his cucumbers, beans and potatoes were
again frosted. Tho summer birds went south
three weeks ahead of time, and falling off
in the consumption of beer at the summer
gardens has been such as to threaten the ex
istence of several breweries. Altogether,
there is just cause for complaint,
and none the less because Sc
we're winter is threatened. A few
people consider the weather timely.
Among these are seventy colonels and lieu
tenant colonels, who have Just been unex
pectedly retired from the regular army to
make room for younger men trained in the
new tactics.
But the worst of ali are the bathing house
keepers. Thirteen crocodiles, it seems, re-
Gently escaped from ship into that river
near Hamburg. One tame one scared
pleasure party into Mysteries by attempting
to get into their boat. This one was caught
but the other twelve are still at large. Con-
sequently bathing is at discount, and there
is much anxiety among bath owners lest an
open winter should so acclimatize the
brutes as to found race of Elbe crocodiles.
The weather, too, has affected even the
| calmness of the German editors. Witness
| the National Zeitung, which writes of the
revviied French patriot "F'oxes, skunks
| and cats are famed for their nine lives, but
| all must retire ashamed before General Bou-
| langer." Or the Kreuze Zeitung: "Poor
| France Is compelled to choose between a har-
| lequin like Boulanger and puppet like Cob
let in politics."
An attempt is still being made to insinuate
| that Won Moltke retired because of differ
ence with the kaiser, but the indisputable
fact is that he resigned in order to set an ex-
ample to the many superanuated officers who
must shortly be pensoned off.
In military matters interest centers largely
| IN the maneuvers near Spandau and in the
night alarms of the Berlin garrison. For
| instance, at a. m. precisely the kaiser sent
| trumpeter to rouse the cavalry regiment OF
the garde de corps. Within eight minutes
the regiment, in complete marching order,
had trotted out of their barracks.
In sports there has been another serious
accident to a gentleman rider. Lieutenant
Suffert fell under his horse at Charlotten
recovery is triumph for surgery
| and in medicine successful case
Of their transplanting, not from one person
to another, but from corpse to living per
son, is exciting great interest. The patien,
was so badly burned that the skin would not
grow again of itself over the burn. No one
offered to supply from his body the skin
necessary for grating, and the patient was
too weak to bear the cutting of skin from the
unburned part of his body. Accordingly
corpse was brought In, and strips of it's Skin
were cut off and grated on the burned man
The gratis grew, and all goes well, barring
the unpleasantness of having part of {
corpse always on you or of you.
Coin collectors must watch out for full
weight counterfeit of the Sterbe thaler of
1861. AS the real coins sell for 90 marks
each, it occurred to some one to coin coun,
terfeit, which is IN every way as good as tn,
original except as regards its rarity.
At recent church festival of deaf mute
1856 persons took part. All the railroads CAV,
them reduced fares and they were every
where specially cared for.