The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07

Buelow, Chancellor of the German em- plre, who was once ambassador at Rome and married an Italian lady, The house is the villa Malta, once the Roman residence of the insane King I,ud wig of Bavaria. The king spent enormous sums on the decorations and the gardens It stands on the site of the villa of Sal lust and Lucullus, on the Pincian Hill and commands a magnificent view of the Eternal City and surrounding country.
 The dining room walls are of tiles of the rarest kind, and 1t has floor of col ored marble. In the garden there is a wonderful hedge twenty feet high formed of rose trees
 In this splendid villa King Ludwig used to entertain in great luxury the most eminent German poets, painters and savants.
 The Kaiser after going to see Ritters new opera, Lazy Hans," at the Royal Opera House, ordered the performances to be stopped. The reason for the en- peror's order was that the opera had of tended the Crown Prince of Denmark who was visiting Berlin, and who went to the opera with the Kaiser. The story of Lazy Hans, relates to the war with Denmark, and the librctto con- tains severe criticisms on the Danes. I Dr. Ernst Schultz has just published a paper setting forth the number of ilit- crates at present living in the United States, he having been moved to do this by the recent resolution passed by the Federal legislature to prohibit all persons
 unable to read or write from entering the country.
 Dr. SchultZe says there are six and @ quarter million illiterate persons in the States of whom 2,209,6O5 are whites and 2,853,720 negroes. This makes an average of S.2 per cent, assuming the population of the States to be 76,00O,0O0
 The doctor further alleges that the white persons comprised in this cate- gory are not, as might be supposed, mostly emigrants, but, on the contrary, are native Americans.
 The learned doctor therefore draws the conclusion that one-tenth of the entire electorate cannot read or write. He com ments the unsatisfactory educational conditions existing, fewer than eighteen states are without compulsory school attendance.
 He says that while American million aires give huge sums to universities, scarcely anything at all IS given to fur ther the education of the poorer classes.
 '"The German Lucrezia Borgia" has been condemned to death for poisoning IIiiCslihC 1T tl6C, llc COHucIi1ucu WOHldn, was charged with poisoning six persons but was convicted for the murder of two only, Hans Janitschek and Freda Bruckner, her lodgers.
 The other four victims who included Feige's mother-in-law and sster-in-law had been dead about seven years, making 1t impossible to prove from the exhumed remains whether they had been poisoned
 Feige's motive was to possess her vic- inn c ha oh c;o person with money as her lodger. She would endeavor to influence her victim to make a win in her favor, and then be- gan to use poison.
 Arsenic was the poison used by the murderess, who showed great cunning in using this drug, as the district of Silesia where she lived, is arsenic producing, and it had to be proved whether the arsenic found in the bodies was administered be- fore death or absorbed from the soil of the graveyard
 The people of Vienna are troubled with two great strikes one of which deprives them of their daily bread. while the other paralyzes the dressmaking industry in this great fashion center.
 The bakers strike has forced every body to eat biscuits or bake their own bread. The strikers prevent the impor- tation of bread from outside the city, waylaying supply wagons and destroying the contents. The Archduke Frederick has managed to smuggle in bread from Pressburg while the Emperor's table is furnished from the royal kitchens.
 In the average viennese household one has to take one of two aiternatives-star- vation or home made bread, a choice which is usually difficult.
 The strike of dressmakers means idle ness for 15,00O employees, and the stoppage of one of the most important of the city's industries. The strikers demand increased wages.
 Five thousand milliner girls marched through the principal streets of Vienna after a strike demonstration. They were dressed in the latest spring modes. and made a great spectacle, thousands of men watching the novel procession of beauty and pretty frocks.
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