The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-01
Is THE PRESS COMMENT OF GER
MANY ON THE NEW DINGLEY
BILL.
SHERMAN RUMOR IS RIFE.
IN BERLIN 1T IS BELIEVED THE
SECRETARY WILL SOON
RESIGN.
WILLIAM OFF TO SEE THE GEAR.
Slices of bread on u Silver Dish
VIII BE Served When He
Arrives.

BERLIN, July 31.-Emperor William
reached Kiel on board the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern yesterday. On
Thursday next, accompanied by the
empress and by the entire fleet, under
command of Prince Henry of Prussia,
his majesty will start for ST. Peters
burg to visit the car. Prince Hohen-
lobe will Join the emperor at Peterhof.
The municipal authorities of st. Peters,
burg will signalize the visit by pre-
senting to their majesties slices or
bread on a silver dish and salt in
silver salt cellar, both richly orna-
mented in the Prussian style and en-
graved with the joint arms of st.
Petersburg and Germany. Upon the
rim of the dish is the following inscrip-
ton: ITO their majesties, the emperor
and empress Of Germany"
The grand autumn military ma
neuvers at Hamburg will begin on Sept.
2, and will continue until Sept. 10. Inc
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 people at Ma
rienbad, and correspondingly depressed
the Homburg people, who had come to
look upon his visit as an annual fix
ture.
Prof Hirschberg, the we'll known au-
nj
examination into the causes OF Egyp-
tan ophthalmia, which is now preVa-
lent in many parts of Prussia. In the
course of his report to the government
he says: THE old opinion that neat
and dust helped to propagate the dis
ease is no longer tenable. The disease
is most powerful along river valleys
and in lake districts. 1t is never found
in the uplands. Out of 1000 cases
which have been examined under my
supervision, I have found from ~ to 81
per cent among the children in the
schools, 10 to Is per cent in town
schools and per cent in big schools.
The chief remedy is an Improvement OF
social conditions"
DR.. Arthur Kortegarn, head master
of the celebrated school at Frankfort,
died suddenly at Interlaken last Mon
day. He was fifty-nine years of age,
and until within a few years was head
master of the we'll known school at
Donna, where many prominent Amerl-
cans and Englishmen have been ecu
Gated. He was leading authority on
educational matters throughout Ger
many.
The empress has varied the monot-
ony of her stay at Tegernze by visit
to Munich She was accompanied by
the five princes, visited all the sights
and lunched with the prince regent
who proposed her majesty's health,
saying: IT am deeply touched by this
distinguished visit which her majesty
has been good enough to make me. L
beg leave to propose her majesty's
health" King Oscar celebrated his
birthday on Tuesday, at Tegernze,
from whence the empress and her
children will return today to Berlin.
SHERMAN STORY RIFE.
The rumor. rife in London, concern
ing the possible retirement of Secre-
tary Sherman is repeated here even IN
official German and American circles,
but with this difference, that Mr.. Sher-
man is to be succeeded not by Mr..
Whitelaw Reid but by Ambassador
White. Gossip even goes so far as to
attribute Mr.. Whites hesitation to
leave the Kaiserhof hotel for perma-
nent quarters to the possibility of his
having soon to return to Washington
The comments of the German press
upon the Dingley tariff are extremely
acrid, but great. satisfaction is ex-
pressed at the fact that large quaint
ties of German goods were sent to the
United States in anticipation of the
event. While wishing to revenge
themselves upon the Americans the
most chauvinistic journals are not
blind to the fact that reprisals on the
part of Germany would surely prove
boomerangS.
Gen. Count Blumenthal, the only sur
Viving commander of the army of 1870
II, completed today a term of seventy
years service.
Owing to the financial failure of the
Berlin exposition of 1896. the commit
tee recently announced that the so per
cent guarantee fund would have to be
sacrificed. This resulted in a large
meeting of signers of the guarantee on
Monday The meeting declared unan-
! imously that they did not recognize the
right of the committee to adopt such a
measure and a desperate effort will be
made to place the responsibility upon
the shoulders of the committee
The supposed Internal machine which
exploded in a mail bag during the
transfer of mails at tht Pottsdam rail-
road station early in the week, turned
. out to be only a package OF large tor
+ pedoes of the kind used by cyclists to
brighten dogs.
The whole Liberal press is in arms
against the act of a sentry who killed
an escaping. soldier under REGULARLY
atrocious circumstances The man
Saremba. had overstepped the boun-
diaries of the Notifications at Dantzig
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 a
brick wall.
United States Consul General Charles
| De Kay will return to New York in
September
FATAL GERMAN FLOODS.
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