The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-01
siderable attention in literary circles
AT THE GERMAN CAPITAL.
Ambassador White Slated to Succeed
Sherman.

Sherman.
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 suite, I'M
der command of Prince Henry of Prus-
STA, his majesty will start for st. Pc
tersburg to visit the car. Prince Ho
henlohe will entertain the emperor at
Peterhof.
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 a
silver saltcellar, both richly ornamented
in the Russian style, and engraved
with the joint arms of st. Petersburg
| and Germany. Upon the rim of the
dish is the following inscription:
ITO their majesties, the Emperor
ard Empress of Germany"
MILITARY MANEUvRES.
The grand military maneuvres at
Homburg will begin on Sept. and
Will continue to the 10th. The Prince
of Wales will be among the guests of
the kaiser at the principal reviews. He
has modified his plans and viii take a
course of the waters next month at
Marienbad, instead of at Homburg, as
hitherto. This decision has greatly
elated the town folk at Marienbad and
correspondingly depressed the HON.
burg people, who had come ito look
upon the visit as an annual fixture.
Professor Hirschberg, the we'll known
authority on opthalmia, has finished
his examination into the causes of
Egyptian opthalmia, which is now
prevalent in many parts of Russia. In
the course of his report to the govern
ment ne 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
| boys and lake districts. 1t is never
found in the uplands. Out of the 1000
cases which have been examined I'M
der supervision, L have found from 20
to AZ per cent among the children in
village schools. 10 to Is in town schools
and 3 per cent in high schools. The
chief remedy is an improvement of So
cial conditions
Prince Oscar celebrated his 9th birth
day on Tuesday at Tegernesee. whence
the empress and her children will re-
turn to Berlin.
The runlors in London concerning the
possible retirement of Secretary Sher-
man are echoed here, even in official
German and American circles. but with
this difference: That Mr.. Sherman is
to oe succeeded, not by Mr. Wh6telaw
Reid, but by Ambassador White. Gossip
even goes so far as to attribute Mr..
! Whites hesitation to leave the Kaiser
hof hotel for permanent quarters to the
possibility of his having soon to return
/ to Washington
COMMENTS ON THE TARIFF.
The comments of the German press
upon the Dingley tariff bill are ex
tremely. acrid, but great satisfaction is
expressed ait the fact that large quanti-
, ties of German goods were sent to the
United States in anticipation of the
event. While wishing to revenge them
selves upon the Americans. the most
ChauVinistfc journals are not blind to
the fact that reprisals on the part of
Germany would surely prove boomer
angs.
General Count Won Blumenthal. the
only surviving commander of the army
Of 1ST0-1, completed today a term of
20 years service.
Prince. Bismarck is in excellent
health. On Wednesday he received
Prince Schienach-C arolath. the new
| commander OF the Halberstadt cuiras
siers, Of which regiment the prince is
honorary colonel.
The supposed internal machine which
exploded in a mail bag during a trans
L
early in the week, turned out to be only
a package of large torpedoes of the
kind used by cyclists to brighten dogs.
AN ATROCIOUS DEED.
The whole Liberal press is in arms
against the act OF a sentry who killed
an escaping soldier under peculiarly
atrocious circumstances. The man. Sa-
remba, had oveTstepped the boundaries
OF the Notifications at Dantzic, and
was being taken to the guardhouse.
when he broke away and ran. The SEN
try fired and the bullet passed through
Saremba's head and two walls of an
iron kiosk, burying itself in a brick
wall This certainly proves the efficl-
ency of the German guns, but the incl
dent adds fuel to the flames OF popular
resentment against military severity.
United States Consul General Charles
De Kay will return to New York IN
September.