Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-08
GERMAN PRINCE
WlInDRAWS FROM
SERVICE IN ARMY

SERVICE IN ARMY
EERLIN, July 8.-Great interest has
been excited throughout Germany by
the unusual case of the German Prince
in direct line of succession to the
throne, preferring parliamentary
career to a military one and with
drawing voluntarily from the army.
Prince Macmillan of Baden, hold
ing the rank of a major general and
commanding the Twenty'eighth caval'
ry brigade, has retired from the army
according to an announcement In the
; official karlsruhe Zeitung" because
, his responsibilities as president OF
: the upper house of parliament OF Bad
! en- left him no time for military dut'
les. So remarkable was this step in
Germany that the official version re-
ceived scant credence, and rumors
; that the Princes retirement was due
to a personal conflict with Emperor
! William, the Over-Warlord. were cur
rent until formally denied by the mill
tary superior of Prince MAMMALIAN.
Prince Maximillian, as president OF
the Baden house of peers, has shown
himself more liberal than the majority
of peers, coming out strongly in favor
of an act on village administrations in
dorsed by the Socialists and the Bad
en- ministry, but rejected by the house
of peers.
Though more than six years have
passed since the marriage of the Ger
man Crown Prince and Crown Prin-
cess, the wedding present of the Prus-
sian cities to the imperial couple Is
only now approaching completion. 1t
will probably be presented this au-
tumn, before the departure Of the
Crown Prince to take up his remote
military command at Danzig.
1t consists of an ornate silver table
service, designed by number of the
leading German artists and sculptors,
one artist, for instance. working out
two groups of elephants and obelisks,
bearing the names and arms of the
Prussian cities, another designing a
series of male and female figures to
represent the months and the seasons
while still others labored on Candida
bra, candlesticks, bowls, and Ornamen'
fatal figures of horses and riders, cat.
tie, etc. Under the circumstances it
was difficult to obtain uniformity Of
design, and while some of the pieces
have reposed several years in the
vaults of the imperial bank, others
have been cast and recast and are
even now unfinished.
Professor F.. Kurlbaum. of the tech.
nical university in Charlottenburg, has
just made an expedition to upper
Egypt for the purpose Of determining
the heat of the sun. His observa.
tons were made on a hill near AS
souan, more than 500 feet above the
sea level. 1t was necessary to take
the observations in the driest posi-
BILE climate. near the equator, in or.
der to get perpendicular rays, and at
an elevation so as to operate In an
atmosphere where conditions are equi-
table.
The observations were made only
on days which were perfectly cloud
less and showed a minimum of mois.
ture in the atmosphere. The method
of observation. which was too technic'
al to be described here, consisted in
comparing the radiation of heat from
certain black objects with that of the
sun. The results of the scientists
observation showed temperature OF
between $685. and $500 degrees eel
sius. This was according to an older
scale of measurement, but according
to a scale adopted in 1907 the meas
urements would range between 5000
and 6,232 degrees. The estimates of
two other scientists had already show
Temperatures of about the same in
tensities as Professor Kurlbaum's, but
DR.. Goldmer's estimate is 10000 de.
grees.
On account of the great number of
foreigners who visit Leipzig during
the annual fair, the Leipzig common
council has decided to instruct num-
Der of policemen in English and also
French, and to appoint to the police
force non-commissioned officers from
the army familiar with the more diff
cult Russian and Polish languages.
The linguistic officers will be distin.
guished by a chevron with the flag of
the land whose speech they under
stand and will. it is hoped, be in serv
ice during the fair this year.
The chief of police of Pek!n, China,
an aimable gentleman named c. G..
Chang, has been in Berlin for some
time making close study of the sys-
TENS of paving, sewerage and dis
posal of garbage. 1t is supposed that
his visit here pretends an attempt to
modernize the Chinese capital, the
sanitation of which leaves much to
be desired.
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