New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-02

task of making a crown which should be an
exact reproduction Of that Of the great Emperor
OF the West, Charlemagne. Both. perforce, have
been reegated to some dark corner Of the Pots
dam palace, and will never probably be put to
the use for which they intended.
1t has often been stated that the Kaiser's left
arm is shorter and weaker than the right. but
II. de Noussanne affirms that the difference is
not perceptible. The Emperor uses both equally.
and to judge from his performance the
piano. an instrument of which he is very fond.
there Is no lack Of suppleness or strength in his
left hand and wrist His health is far from be-
ing perfect. and his doctors have advised strict
vegetable diet William II, however. has a
weakness for UNDERGONE meat, and, besides, he
makes secreu of his Indifference to medical
opinions. The only branch of medicine in which
he has any faith is that of surgery, and this ex-
plains his readiness to have his throat operated
upon recently when he much troubled
with malady resembling that from which his
father died
Another interesting chapter in NJ de Nous
sanne's book deals with the vexed question
Has the Kaiser ever visited Paris? The author
is convinced that he has. He declares that the
Ritz Hotel has received William II once a year
at least for several years past, very strict in
cognito being, of course, always observed. TRAY
cling under the name of some one Of his estates
and never using the title twice. his pres
ence is OF necessity signalled by the German to
the French secret police. Extraordinary dplo-
matte complications might conceivably arise if
any attempt should be made on the person of
an emperor who in Paris incognito. NJ. de
Noussanne states that one of these risky visits
took place during the exhibition of 1900 when
the Emperor supposed to be staying in one
of his castles in Lorraine; he further adds that
one Of the places visited by the Emperor during
the week he spent here was the Tomb of Ma
poleon.
The author cites the following anecdote of a
journalists indiscretion, and vouches for it's ac-
curacy. a reporter on the staff of one of the
Paris daites had a brother in the police corps,
one evening, in the course of a conversation. the
police official said to the reporter: What would
you say If 1 offered you a sight of the German
Emperor, this very night. here in Paris?' The
German Emperor? But it is not possible!"
Come with me-" said the official, and the two
brothers drove to the Care de FEST, where the
40 express for Strasburg was about to start.
Among the crowd the platform three men
were walking up and down. the shortest of the
three talking rapidly with many gestures, the
others listening apparently with great Difference.
We'll. do you recognize him?" said the police
officer. The jealous journalist dashed forward.
Sire" he said, breathlessly what is your
opinion the question of Alsace-Lorraine? %
But some of the bystanders pushed the indis-
Greet young man aside. and in instant the
mysterious traveller swept into the train.
which started forthwith for Strasburg.
NJ. de NOussanne was assured on good author
ity that the Emperor actually present at
Versailles in the guise OF Prussian military
attache on the occasion of the visit of the Rus
sian sovereigns to Paris, and that ever since
that day it has been his dearest wish to come
as the guest of the republic G. l. 3.