The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-10-10
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary of the Most important Hap
penings in the Land OF the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

on the occasion of the wedding of the
duchess of Fife and Prince Arthur of
Connaught. The princess is the only
daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm. She and
the prince will stop with the king and
queen in Buckingham palace for the
ceremony. There also Prince and
Princess Heinrich of Prussia will be
accommodated, the famous Belgian
suite of apartments being placed at
their disposal. Soon after the cere-
mony the young Prince Ernest and his
princess will travel to Sandringham
to visit Queen Alexandra and the EN-
press Marie of Russia for week or
two. 1t Is expected that before their
return to Germany they will also go to
Windsor to be the guests of the king
and queen few days. Princess Vic
toria has always had a great liking for
London, and has frequently expressed
a desire to be able to see more OF 1t
than has hitherto been possible.
The germ of smallpox, protoZoan
so infinitesimal that it has passed
through the minutest filters and es'
capped the trained gaze of microscop
lists for decades, has been finally dis
covered by Dr.. Walter FOrnet, staff
physician in the Kaiser Wilhelm acad.
envy. Doctor Fornet claims not only
to have discovered the germ, but to be
able to propagate it. This means that
it will henceforth not be necessary to
inoculate calf or COW with the small
pox virum in order to procure lymph
for vaccination, and consequently that
a pure culture can be obtained. The
lymph won by present methods con
tains numerous bacteria which must
be exterminated before it can be used
for vaccination.
The Hamburg-American Steamship
company is asking bids from the
Cramps for three large passenger and
freight steamships, and it is said that
the company plans to participate in At
lantic and Pacific United States trade
through the canal. This will be the
first foreign invasion of the coastwise
trade of this country. It is restricted
by law to American built and manned
ships, sailed under the American flag
and law. This has always been ex
pensive enough to keep foreigners out,
but the Panama trade is said to attract
the Germans. They will have to or
ganize an American company and com
ply with American laws. The enter.
prise will comN,te with American
ships.
Eastbourne, England-King Con
stantine of Greece, who, with Queen
Sophia, has been here unoff1cially for
several days, left for Paris, incognitO,
to try to straighten out the trouble in
France caused by his Berlin speech.
The king and queen are scheduled for
an official visit to France next week,
The king hopes to straighten out the
misunderstanding and return to East
bourne in a few days to insure no
unpIeasantness when Sophia goes to
Paris King Constantine let it be
known that he is hopeful of smooth
ing over the misunderstanding. He be-
lieves that his German utterances were
misquoted and misconstrued and that
his personal explanation will remove
all hard feeling.
French army officials were in an up
roar of indignation, as well as wound
ed in pride, by the speech Of King
Constantine of Greece in Berlin, in
, !,
Greek army in the Balkan war to
German instruction. France has long
been friendly to Greece and French
officers have instructed Greek troops.
King Constantine, who is visiting In
Berlin, is scheduled to arrive in Paris,
unofficially, and it is feared his re-
ceDtion will be chilly. The Paris Midi
said that General Eydoux, chief of the
French military mission in Greece,
who Is now on vacation, will not re-
turn TO Athens
depest-Professo Arminius Van
berry, one of the best known travellers
and Orientalists of the Nineteenth CEN
tury, died here in his eighty-second
year. He was much revered both in
his native Hungary and other coun-
ties and his works are widely read.
He travelled throughout central Asia
as a young man in the disguise of a
Dervish, studying the various dialects.
On his return he was appointed pro
fessor of Oriental languages at Pest
university.
Perlin.-The peace concluded at
Bucharest is here described as bad
peace, with the germ Of new wars In
a few years, and in the meantime Of
nationalist conflicts and terrorism,
which may keep the Balkans In worse
condition than they were in under
Turkey. The chronological mixture
with the German prejudice that the
Balkans cannot get along without
hatred and extermination) accounts
for the gloomy view taken here all
along; and for the complacency with
which Germans regarded misgovern-
ment by the Turks.