The herald., 1897-08-01
Signalize Russian
Friendship
KAISER WILL VISIT THE CAR
WHICH WILL MAKE FRANCE
VERY JEALOUS
German Gossip Concerning American
Politics-Tariff Imposts Will
Not Be Met by Reprisals
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press special WIRE.
BERLIN, July 31.-Emperor William
reached Kiel on board the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern yesterday. On Thursday
next, accompanied by the empress and
the entire suites, under command oi
Prince Henry of Prussia, his majesty
will start for St. Petersburg to visit the
czar.
Prince Hohenlohe will entertain the
emperor at Peterhoff.
The municipal authorities of st. Pc
tersburg will signalize the visit by pre-
senting to their majesties slices of bread
on a silver dish and salt in silver salt
cellar, both richly ornamentedi in the
Russian style and engraved with the
Joint arms of St. Petersburg and Ger
many. Upon the rim of the dish is the
following inscription: "To their majes-
ties, the emperor and empress of Ger
many"
HOMBURG MANEUVERS
The grand military maneuvers at HON.
burg will begin on September I'd, and
will continue until the 10th. The prince
of Wales will be among the guests of the
kaiser at the principal reviews. He has
modified his plans and will take a course
of the waters next month at Marienbad
instead of at Homburg, as hitherto. This
decision has greatly elated the townfolk
at Marienbad and correspondingly de-
pressed the Homburg people, who had
come to look upon the visit as an annual
fixture.
SORE EYES
Prof. Hirschberg, the we'll known au-
thority on opthalmia, has finished his
eXamina ton into the causes of Egyp-
tian ophthalmia, which is now prevalent
in many parts of Prussia. In the course
of his report to the government he says:
"The old opinion that heat and dust
helped to propagate the disorder is no
longer tenable. The disease is most
prevalent along river waters and in bog
and lake districts, and it is never found
in the uplands. Out of the 1000 cases
which have been examined under su-
pervision, l have found from 20 to AZ
per cent among the children in village
schools, 10 to 5 per cent in town schools,
and per cent in high schools. The chief
remedy is an improvement of social
conditions"
PERSONAL
DR.. Arthur Kortegan, head of the cell
ebrated school at Frankfort, died sud
denly at Interlaken last Monday. He
was SO years of age, and until within a
few years ago he was head master Of the
well known school at Bonn, where many
prominent Americans and Englishmen
have been educated. He was a leading
authority on educational matters
throughout Germany
The empress has varied the monot-
ony of her stay at Tegernesee by a visit
to Munich She was accompanied by the
five princes and lunched with the prince
regent.
Prince Oscar celebated his ninth birth
day on Tuesday at Tegernesee, whence
the empress and her children will return
to Berlin.
Gen. Count Won Blumenthal. the only
surviving commander of the army of
lSfo-71, completed today a term of sew
enty years service.
Prince Bismarck is in excellent health.
On wednesday he received Prince Sche-
nlch-Charlot, the new commander of the
Hafberstadt Cuirassieurs, of which reg;
ment the prince is honorary colonel.
POLITICAL
The rumors in London concerning the
POSSIBLE retirement of Secretary Sher-
man are echoed here, even in official
German and American circles, but with
the difference that Mr.. Sherman is to he
succeeded, not by Mr.. Whitelaw Reid
but by Ambassador White. Gossip even
n ott
hesitation to leave the Kaiserhoff hot
LOT permanent quarters to the possibil-
ity of his having soon to return to Wash
ngton.
The comments of the German press
upon the Dingley bill are extremely ac-
rid, but great satisfaction is expressed
by the fact that large quantities of
German goods were sent to the United
States in anticipation of the event
While wishing to revenge themselves
upon the Americans, the most chauvin-
istic journals are not blind to the fact
that reprisalS on the part of Germany
would surely prove boomerangs
The whole Liberal press is in arms
against the act of the sentry who killed
an escaping soldier under peculiarly
atrocious circumstances. The man. SEN
ator Saremba, had overstepped the
boundaries of the Notifications at Dant-
zig and was being taken to the guard
house when he broke away and ran. The
sentry fired and the bullet passed
through Saremba's head and two walls
of an iron kiosk, burying itself in brick
wall. This certainly proves the eff
cheney of the German guns, but the Incl
dnn ol n fro 10 tIa q
resentment against military severity.
The supposed Internal machine which
exploded in mail bag during a trans
fer of mails at the Potsdam railway sta
tion early in the week, turned out to be
only package of large torpedoes, of the
kind used by bicyclists to frighten dogs.
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