The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-29
DENTAL CONGRESS-
 COMES ID CLOSE International Meeting Held In
 Germany AN INTERESTING EVENT German War Department Has import ant ExhibIt-Kaiser VIII Have
 New Steam Yacht Built at
 Once for Personal Use.
AN INTERESTING EVENT
By MALCOLM CLARK.

Berlin, August 2s.-The International Dental Congress in the Reichstags build ing, which came to an end today, has been an exceedingly interesting event. Austria, Belgium, Denmark England, France, Holland, Norway, Mexico, the Philippine Islands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and Uru- quay were all represented and more than 40 papers were read.
 From the very start the German gov ernment has taken great interest in the congress and was very well represented on the central committee, and the Kaiser manifested his personal interest by lend ing to the exhibition several antique dental and surgical instruments from the Saalburg museum.
 The War Department had a special ex- hibit showing everything that is being done to preserve the German soldiers teeth, including material explanatory of the special training in the dental treat ment of soldiers given to army doctors and the measures taken in times of peace to preserve the soldiers teeth The complete equipment of dentist attached
  there was furthermore an exhibition of all industries connected with the science and practice of dentistry.
 Altogether the congress and the exhi- bition were organized and prepared with characteristic German thoroughness and they will undoubtedly have contributed greatly to the advancement of dental science.
 The papers read and the work exhib- ited by the American delegates were generally applauded and admired and 1t was admitted that the science of dentistry has reached it's highest perfection in the United States.
 Deciding that the yacht Hohenzollern is no longer equal to the demands made on an imperial vessel, the Kaiser has decided to have a. new steam yacht built. The vessel will cost $2,00000O.
 The new ship has already been de- signed by the imperial naval construc- tors under the Emperor's personal su- pervision. All the details of her con- structon will be in accordance with the specific wishes of His Majesty.
 The Prussian minister of war has &C., corded to the German Society of Aerial Navigation a subvention for the estab- lishment of a school of aeronautics at Friedrichshafen. The school will open on October 1, and there will be at the start eight pupils from tho age of IS.
 A "Koepenick" trick was successfully carried out in coffee house in Buda- pest last night. About 20 persons were gambling when the place was surround ed by eleven men, who entered the room with loaded revolvers.
 The leader shouted: No one move; hands upi' and he then informed the coffee house keeper that they were de- tectiyes, and that all the money in the room would be conflscated.
 Two of the band then went round. took the names of the players and re- lieved them of the money in their pock- etboolrs, as well as that on the table.
 Subsequently, 1t turned out that the po- lice knew nothing of the matter.
 Experiments are taking place at May ence in firing at balloons held captive at 890O feet.
 Rifle fire and machine guns have pro- duced practically no effect on the bal looms, but the second shot fired by a quick-firing artillery gun completely de- stroyed the balloon by exploding imme- diately above lt.
 The balloon Justitia ascended yester-
  hours voyage came down close to Prague The distance is 250 miles, so that the speed was 50 miles an hour.
 The commercial court in Vienna has had to consider the problem whether the law recognized @ distinction between kissing and being kissed.
 The question arose out of a suit brought by a bookkeeper named Meyer against his late employers, who had discharged him without notice on the ground that he was in the habit of kissing the type- writer girls employed in the office. The firm urged in defence that this was con duet which seriously disturbed the course of business.
 Herr Meyers counsel did not attempt to justify kissing in office hours as a habit, but he brought witnesses who swore that they had seen some of the scenes complained of, and noticed that it was the girls who began by kissing Herr Meyer, though they could not say whether he did or did not respond.
 The court accepted this evidence and condemned the firm to the payment Of a months salary, on the ground that a person must be said to have kissed the other who began the kissing, and that a return of kisses on the part of Herr Meyer, even if such were given, which
 kA