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members of the Emperor's suite, the
court ladies. the Emperor, the Empress
and the Princes, with their suite, having
been assigned to places forming a square
with plastic representation OF the Ma
tivity at Bethlehem in the center. The
Kaiser allowed court etiquette to relax and
everybody mixed freely with the others.
The young Princes ran about discovering
fresh sources of delight upon each table,
but after all hours enjoyment OF this
kind the children were obliged to retire.
The Emperor dined with his intimate cir
Gle, DR.. Won Lucanus, General Won Hahnke
and others of his private cabinet.
At all of the military barracks in Berlin
each company had its Christmastree and
the ceremony of "Bescherung" (the giving
OF Christmas boxes) was observed. Each
of the men stood in line to receive his
present while the captain and other Of
ficers Of each company sang "Stille, Hell
lige Nacht." The captain then told out to
each man his share of punch, which con-
cluded the service. The ceremony was the
same in all barracks. The hospitals and
even the prisons also had their Christmas
trees. The Moabit and Ploetzensee prisons
had immense trees for the inmates, who
sang songs, received presents and were
treated to better fare than usual.
The Countess Won Waldersee provided
large mum Der of widows and children with
their Christmas dinner, and had an i'm
mense tree, upon which were hung parcels
of clothing. Ex-Empress Frederick VS.
tied the Kaiser Friedrich Hospital on
Christmas day. She was received there by
DR.. Virchow and DIR. Bosse, Minister OF
Ecclesiastical Affairs, Instruction and
Medical Affairs The ex-Empress presided
at the fete which followed her arrival and
distributed the presents. DR.. Virchow in
terested her with a statement OF the re-
suits of the treatment of the various pa
tients by Professors Behring's and Heilse-
rum of the institution, which led her to
com pIiment the professors upon the sue
cess of their remedial applications.
Prince Bismark spent Christmas alone
with his family, Count and Countess Won
Rantzau (the latter his daughter), and his
son, Count Herbert Bismarck, and his
wife The health of the ex-Chancellor is
excellent. He walks but little, but drives
frequently.
The Boersen Zeitung, In its issue OF Sat-
urday, said that as the result of consulta-
tion with his son, Count Herbert, Prince
Bismarck had decided not to attend the
banquet in Berlin on January Is, the
twenty-ffth anniversary of the proclama-
ton of the German empire, because of the
fact that the Ministers did not join the
Emperor in inviting him, and also owing
to the disappointment of Count Herbert
in not obtaining Ministerial post.
Official information from Washington
has been received in Berlin that the United
States will close out all German insurance
companies doing business in the United
States unless Prussia rescinds her meas
ures against American insurance COM
panies preventing them from doing busi-
ness mere.
Chancellor Prince Won Hohenlohessis In
Vienna, where he is staying with his
lobe, court marshal to Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria. Prince Hohenlohe has
had interviews with Count Goluchkowsky.
Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs. from
which have originated newspaper stories
that the meeting of the two statesmen was
of great political import as cementing the
harmony of the powers. etc. Prince
Hohenlohe will return to Berlin in time
to take part in the New Year fetes
The New Years day programme is as
follows: At 8 o'clock in the morning there
will be a reveiile from the castle to Bran
denburg Gate and back, performed by the
massed bands of the Berlin garrison. At
10 o'clock religious services will be held
in the castle chapel and at II o'clock the
court ceremony of filing past the Emperor
and the imperial party in the Weisse
Saal. At II o'clock there will be parole
in the yard of the arsenal by the Kaiser in
the presence of all the commanders CT the
German army corps. Then salutes will be
fired in the Lustgarten.
The Duke and Duchess of Coburg are
passing the Christmas holidays at Coburg
with their family. The Duke will go to
Stuttgart on January 7 to invest the King
OF Wertumberg, under the instructions of
his mother, Queen Victoria, with the Or
der OF the Garter
The Emperor and Empress have finally
arranged to start for Abbasia in February
During his visit to Austria his Majesty
will meet Emperor Francis Joseph, who
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is great anxiety over the condition OF the
Empress of Austria, who is afflicted with
prolonged spells of melancholy and re-
igious excitation. Her physicians insist
upon her Maiesty's having repeated
changes of scene in order to divert her
mind.
Councillor of Legation Rose, former
Landeshauptman (governor) of New
Guiana, and recently the prosecutor of
Herr Liest in the CAMERON scandals, re-
sulting in Liests conviction of gross cruel
ties to the natives, and his consequent dis
missal, has been appointed Consul General
of Germany to Samoa.
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