The record-union., 1897-08-01
EMPEROR WILLIAM
AND The CAR.
The Rulers of Germany and Rus
Sla Soon to Meet.
Next Thursday the Former will Start
for St. Petersburg.
The Prince Of Wales to be the
Guest OF the Kaiser at the
Grand Military Maneuvers at
Homberg Next Month-Prinee
Bismarck Reported to be En;oy-
ing Excellent Health.

BERLIN, July 31.-Emperor William
! ieachea hiel on board the imperial
yach1 Hohenzollern yesterday On
thursday next, accompanied by the
| Empress and by the entire suite. un-
der command of Prince Henry of Prus-
sla, his majesty will start for ST. Pet
efsburg to visit the Car. Prince
Hohenlohe will entertain the Emperor
at Peterhoff. The municipal authori-
ties of st. Petersburg will signalize the
visit by presenting their majesties slices
OF bread on silver dish and salt in
a silver salt cellar, both richly orna-
mented in the Russian style. and en-
graved with the joint arms of ST.
Petersburg and Germany. Upon the
rim of the dish is the following inscrip-
ton:
TO Their Majesties the Emperor and
Empress of Germany"
Ihe grand military maneuvers at
Homberg will begin on September 2d.
| ana VIII continue until the 10th The
Prince of Wales will be among the
guests OF the Kaiser at the principal re-
views. He has modified his plans, and
VIII take course of the waters next
month at Marienbad instead of at
Homberg, as hitherto This decision
has greatly elated the town folk at
Manenbad, and correspondingly de-
pressed the Homberg people, who had
come to look upon the visit as a fix
ture.
Professor Hirschberg, the well known
authority on opthalmia has finished
his examination into the causes of
Egyptian opthalmia, which is now
prevalent in many parts of Prussia. In
the course of his report to the Govern
ment he says: THE old opinion that
heat and dust helped to propagate the
disorder is no longer tenable. The dis
ease is most prevalent along river wat
ers and in bogs and lake districts. 1t
is never found in the uplands Out of
1000 cases which have been examined
| under ssuservisi0n, l have found from
~ to II per cent. among the children
in village schools, 10 to 10 per cent. in
town schools and 5 per cent in high
schools The chief remedy is an inn
provement of social conditions
DR.. Arthur Kortegan, head of the
celebrated school at Frankfort, died
suddenly at Inter-Laken last Monday
He was 80 years of age, and to within
few years ago was head master of
the We'll known school at Broom, where
lishmen have been educated He was a.
leading authority on educational mat
ters throughout Germany.
Prince Oscar celebrated his ninth
birthday on Tuesday at Tegernesee.
The rumors in London concerning the
possible retirement Of Secretary Sher-
man are re-echoed here, even in official
German and American circles, but with
this difference: That Mr. Sherman is
to be succeeded not by Whitelaw Reid.
but by ambassador White. Gossip even
goes so far as to attribute Mr. Whites
hesitation to leave the Keiserhof Hotel
for permanent quarters to the possibil-
ity of his having soon to return to-
Washington
The comments of the German press
upon the Dingley bill are extremely
acrid, but great satisfaction is ex-
pressed by the fact that large quanti-
ties of German goods were sent to the
United States in anticipation of the
event. While wishing to revenge
themselves upon the administration, the
most chauvinistic journals are not blind
to the fact that reprsals on the part
of Germany would surely prove BOOM
erangs.
General Count Won Blumentha1 the
only surviving commander of the army
Of 1S1e-I1, completed to-day a term of
seventy years service.
Prince Bismarck is in excellent
health. On Wednesday he received
Prince Schenich-C -Charloth, the new
commander of the Halberstadt Cuiras-
sers, of which regiment the Prince is
honorary Colonel.
The supposed internal machine which
exploded in mail bag during a trans
fer of mails at the Potsdam railway
station early in the week. turned out
to be only package of large torpedoes
of the kind used by cyclists to frighten
dogs.
The whole Liberal press is in arms
against the act of Il sentry who killed
an escaping soldier under peculiar cir
cumstances. The man. Senator Saren-
ban, had overstepped the boundaries
of the Notifications at Dantzig. and
was being taken to the guardhouse.
when he broke away and ran. The
sentry fired, and the bullet passed
through Sarembans head and two walls
of an iron kiosk, burying itself in a
brick wall. This certainly proves the
efficiency of the German guns, but the
incident adds fuel to the flames of