The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-21

Copyright 1907. by w. R. Hearst) n ERLIN April 2o-No subject is N being more eagerly discussed in 1% the imperial family circle than the question whether August Wilhelm, the Kaisers fourth son, is to go to Harvard or not.
 That the Kaiser wants him to go is no less certain than that the young man does not want to go-not because ne mas lost his desire to visit America, but De- cause he does not want to go so Tar away from Princess Victoria of Schles- wig-Tiolstein his cousin with whom he
 is very much in love- but whose hand i, sought In marriage by a Russian grand
 duke who has the support Of the DOW ager Empress of Russia.
 The present arrangement is that the young prince is to attend a series of Ice
 lures by the American Professor Burgess
 at the University of Bonn, during the
 coming summer, and then go to Harvard
 next year.
 This he is willing to do if his father
 will announce his engagement to his cousin. whose wishes no one, by the way seems not done, Prince August Wilhelm de- clares he will go no farther than 10 the University of Strassburg
 Time will show whether his Will is
 stronger than his imperial fathers. lie
 has a warm supporter in his mother who fears sending him to the land of Yankees because of the Anarchists in Patterson, N. J.
 One of the most interesting exhibits at the Eighth International Architectural Exposition, which opens at Vienna on May IS, are the plans and model or the "servantless house Of the future, originally built in Copenhagen by Fro lessor Otto Flick, who is now Tn New York for the purpose of interesting Amer iean milllonaires in the forming or Il syndicate to build similar houses all over the world
 Professor Flick, who has been received in audience by the Kaiser and King Frederick of Denmark, his native coun- try. had been expected to lecture on hls novel house at Vienna during the expo sltion. but at the last moment he pre- | ferred to go to the United States, as the only place where he could hope to get the | necessary money to carry out his pro- jects.
 An interesting discovery is reported | from Venice A short time ago the fam ilv tomb of Dodge Antonio Venier, who died just four hundred years ago, was opened. In a costly coffin was found the mummy of Felicita Petronilla, wife Of the DaQe and famous for her beauty. The body is in state of perfect preserva- ton and held in It's hand stilletto or the finest Damascus steel.
 Antonio Venier was the Venetian DaSe, whose chief claim to fame is the fact that he killed his own son, because he be came the lover of a noble Venetian mat ron, and proclaimed the fact to the whole city by mailing pair of horns above the entrance door to the betrayed husbands house. ~ Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey, who has the reputatonS of not being very prompt in paying the salaries of his state officials, nevertheless expects them to do full days work in their offices. One of the latest documents he has signed reads: Ut is the will of his 1n- periaI Majesty that all state affairs be expedited with promptness and that all state officials appear at their offices on time and work until the closing hour, that is to say, from the fourth to eleventh hour
 At least once a year the Sultan issues this order, which is published in all oni-