MEWS OF THE WEEK
—J. W. Sykes & Co., seed merchants,
of Baltimore, made an assignment on
the 2d. Their liabilities are about $250,-
000 and their assets are believed to be
equel to that sum. Herman W. Ladd,
manufacturer of spring beds, mantel
beds, ete., in Boston, with branches in
New York and Chicago, has made an
assignment,
Otto Bauman, receiving teller of
the Dime Savings Bank in New York
city, went on his vacation on Septem-
ber 4th, He has not been heard of
since, but it is ascertained that the
bank has Jost about £19,000,
—'The full official returns of the re-
cent election in Vermont show a Re:
publican majority of 18,319 on the vote
for Governor, and 10,448 on the Con-
gressional vote,
~—John Schmidt, indicted for the
murder of wife, was found dead in his
cell at the jall in Newark, New Jersey,
on the 4th. A post-mortem examina-
tion showed that he bad swallowed an
irritant poison.
—JIt has been charged that Rabbi
Hilli-Knowitz, presiding over a Polish
congregation in Cincinnati, has been
granting divorces on his own authority
to members of his flock for the sum of
$25. The charges will be investigated
by the local authorities.
— It is rumored in Brooklyn that
Coloncl DeBevoise, lately Chief Clerk
in the Stamp department of the Brook-
lyn Post-office, who died a few days
azo, was a defaulter for a large amount
His death 1s now attributed to suicide,
—On the Drexel Boulevard, in Chi-
cago, on the 3d, a span of
hitched to an open carriage, contain-
able, and tore down the crowded drive
at a frightful rate of speed. Other
teams togk fright, and joined the runa-
ways, several carriages being over-
turned and, with their occupants, scat-
tered over the drive. The contagion
spread to nearly every animal within
the distance of a mile, and, before the
and about twenty persons injured. Dr.
injuries are likely to prove fatal.
—An attempt wus made cn the 3d to
wreck a Missount Pacific
of Kansas City. Rails, ties and rub-
curve, but a farmer discovered the ob-
struction and signalled the train in
time.
tended.
~The trades demonstration in Pitts.
burg on the 4th, was the largest and
finest display of the kind ever seen
there.
glven point.
~—Storms and rains of unusual sever-
Central American coast,
~~ At Chimapla, in the State of Mex-
ico, within a few days past, “tremen-
dous subterranean reports”
heard.
country and *it was discovered that a
powerfnl force.
—The Treasury Department pub-
the United States and the net revenue
and pet expenditures of the government
for the last fiscal year, with the per
The population is given at 58,420, 000
and the net revenue at $336,439,727 be-
ing a per capita of 5.76, or .08 greater
than the fiscal year of 1885, The expen-
ditures were $242 483,138—a per capita
of 4.15, or .24 less than that of the pre-
vious vear,
— Nicholas 8S. Howland, confidential
Kimball Organ Company, in Chicago,
bas been held in $2500 bail vo answer
the charge of having systematically de-
frauded the house by means of forged
orders for organs, which were sold and
the profits divided with an outside con-
federate, who is as yet unknown.
—At Ellicott City, Maryland, on the
5th, Henry A. Leentan, convicted of
stealing a horse, was sentenced to four-
teen years’ imprisonment at hard labor,
After stealing the horse he set fire to
the stable and destroyed seven horses,
For that offence he was tried and con-
victed in Baltimore last week. The
maximum penalty is ten years’ im-
prisonment, and he will be taken to
Baltimore for sentepce. The last im-
prisonment will only begin at the close
of the first.
—R. P. Wallace, charged with the
murder of the logan family of five
persons, was taken from the jail at
Steeleville, Missourl, on the 4th, by a
mob and lynched. An armed mob
broke into the jail at Throckmorton,
Texas, on the 3d, and took out and
lynched a negro named Farrar, Farrar
bad confessed that he murdered a
farmer named Urny and assaulted and
murdered Urny’s daughter. Daniel
Smith, 18 years of age, on the 5th shot
his , & farmer of Rapho township,
Lancaster county, Penna., while the
old Was cutting switch to chas-
tise him. The bullet lodged in the
man’s head and inflicted & dangerous
wound, The boy fled.
—It 1s said thal nearly half the to-
baceo crop of Virginia was ruined by
the recent frost.
~Duriog a fire in a box factory at
St. Louis, on the 4th a fire plug burst
ad Soodet the oils hood,
a young man, 17 years of age, name
unknown, was drowned ina ditch on
Carroll street. While trylag to escape
of the diteh, but lost
foto the water, and was
fore assistance could be rendered.
~Mrs. William Cunningham and
her two little children were run over
Raleigh, North Carolina, exploded on
the 4th inj uring two men, one fatally,
~The Republican State Convention
of New Jecsey met on the 5th in Tren-
ton. Alexander G. Cattell was chosen
temporary chairman and William Wal-
ter Phelps permanent chairman, Ex-
Congressman B. FF. Howey, of Warren,
was nominated for Governor on the
first ballot.
-The steamer La Mascotte, a pas-
senger boat, plying between St, Louis
and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, burst
her boiler on the 6th and was then
burned. It is estimated that from 18
to 22 persons were killed. The boat
was{less than three months old and was
valued at $50,000,
— Eight cattle have died of a disease
resembling hoz cholera near Pekin,
Illinois. Eleven cattle have died sud-
denly near Benton, Montauva, of a dis-
ease which the local veterinarians can-
not diagnose.
—A box contalning 30 pounds of
evels of the Caledonia mine, near
Deadwood, Dakota, on the 5th. Four
men--Philip Wyman, Thomas Cheshire,
John Pascar and Henry Boavier—were
killed, and a 0Ofth—Frederick Belin—
was fatally injured. The men had
spark from one of their
among the scraps.
pipes
Chester, South Carolina, was burned
of them were burned alive,
and his wife were absent at a camp
meeting,
—Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
on the 6th, The 130th
Pennsylvania Regiment dedicated its
near Little Round
Colonel Thomas A. Armstrong
Judge T. H. Collier,
and Vice President D. A. Buchler, of
the Battlefield Memorial Association,
making addresses, The representa-
tives of the Massachusetts regiments,
and
their monuments, on
Sixth Corps, adjoining the park.
— William J. Gallagher, of election
fraud notoriety, was held in $12,000
bail in Chicago on the Oth, on seven
ing money under false pretences. He
went to jail.
—In Chicago, on
entered the office
the Oth, burglars
of the Ashland
tion and secured $2000 in money and
$12,000. The papers of the association
were afterwards found in an alley in
the rear of the building.
—The State election in Georgia was
held on the 6th, and the Democrats
“had a clean sweep everywhere.” The
officers elected were: Governor, John
B. Gordon; Secretary of State, N. E.
Comptroller General, William
Wright; Treasurer, Robert U,
Hardman; Attorney General, Clifford
out the State, there being no opposing
ticket, excepting some Knights of
Labor candidates for the Legislature,
—Franklin Cook, a clerk in the
Post-office,
He
He was appointed
in March, 1885, after passing a civil
service examination under the name of
Otis F, Ham.
— William Shannon, aged 83
under arrest in Oswego, New York, for
killing his wife, was on the 6th indicted
for manslaughter, in the first degree.
In Chester county. South Carolina, on
the 4th, Charles White. colored, shot
his wife and then hanged himself. He
had accused her of “misconduct.”
-(zloucester, Massachusetts,
much excited on the moming of the
7th by the discovery that the bark
Skobeleff, which arrived {rom Trapani
ing had two deaths on the passage, had
besn permitted to come up to the
wharf and discharge ber cargo.
Board of Health seems to
no action whatever the matter,”
and early on the morning of the Tih
the two sick men were taken in a team
to the depot and sent out of town. The
captain's wife, who is reported to have
been sick on the passage, left early the
tame morning for Portland, It
that a doctor
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ease slow fever, Both of the men who
died were taken sick shortly after
death cocurred in six days.
stated that the bodies turned black
after death and decomposed very quick.
ly. There was no fumigation and no
quarantine at Gloucester,
-A four-story factory building on
Bayard street, New York, occupied by
eight different manufacturing firms,
was damaged on the 7th by fire, Mrs.
Regalsky and Hyman RB, Raeber were
fatally injured by jumping from the
upper portions of the building. The
woman died as soon as she was taken
to the hospital. Two children, a boy
of ten years, and a girl of seven, per-
ished by the burning of the house of
George Davis, in Chicago, on the Tth,
The mother of the children was dan-
gerously injured. The Union Furni-
ture Company's works, near Grand
Rapids, Michigan, were burned on the
6th. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $22,000,
~Very destructive prairie fires are
feported in Manitoba, Scores of set.
tiers around Morden have lost all their
possessions, including barns and live
stock, and a woman [0 years of age is
reported to have been fatally burned.
Prairie fires have destroyed several
thousand dollars worth of property be-
tween Moorhead and Barnesville, in
Minnesota,
district of Arkansas, is ve a dew
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pe ill of a strange and
‘Warren, state. The
skin has oe th vain face
en sur
an tha ont is not ex-
fast, New York. Both engines and
many cars were wrecked, and feveral
cars were burned, Frank Ingram,
conductor, was burned to death,
~The Water Works at Sheepshead
Bay, Long Island, collapsed on the
7th, the water tower going down with
a great crash.
—Daniel Hewitt and Willlam Col-
mer, of New York, were killed by
the cars in Long Island City on the
Tth,
—Three earthquake shocks
felt in Summerville, South
during the night of the
at b o'clock on the morning of the
8th, In Charleston there is a steady
growth of business, Tne receipts of
cotton this week were 20,757 bales,
against 26,716 bales in the correspond-
ing week last year, and all cotton
presses are working on full time. A
sharp shock of earthquake was felt on
the 7th at San Diego, California.
| =A cyclone passed over the western
{ end of the Island of Cuba on the 7th,
| going In a northeasterly direction.
| —Hegry A. Millitzer, aged about 50
| years, ee=Mayor of Belleville, Illinois,
{ disappeared on the 5th, and has net
been heard of since. He was afilicted
with softening of the brain,
—Four men injured in the Mascotte
i disaster near Cape Girardeau, died on
{ the 7th. The total number of dead is
now 30. The boal’s carpenter is not
expected to recover. The coroner’s
jury on the 7in finished the hearing of
| testimony and rendered a verdict exon-
| erating the officers of the Mascotte
{ from all blame, and severely criticis-
{ ing Captain Ebrough, of the Eagle, for
| his treatment of the survivors, and for
| not attempting to run the burning boat
| cense be revoked,
— In Chicago on the night of the Tth,
an unknown thief entered the store of
threw red pepper into Donnelly’s eyes
and ran off wit
diamonds. The street was crowded at
the same time and
thie
what happened until the
caped,
—A telegram from Nogales, Arizona,
reports that Long and Wilson, two
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The Ploneers,
Rouse! brothers, rousel we've far to travel,
Free as the wind we love to roam,
Far through the prairie, far through the
forest,
Over the mountains we'll find a home,
We can not breathe in crowded cities,
We're strangers to the ways of trade;
We long to feel the grass beneath us,
And ply the hatchet and the spade.
Meadows avd hills and ancient woodlands
Offer us pasture fruit and eorn;
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We love to hear the ringlog rifie,
The smiting axe, the falling tree: —
And though our life be rough and lonely,
If it be honest, what care we?
“Hey, Wally my boy, whats
matter?” sald Hugh Hawilton, as he
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figures for the dance,
For awhile Mademoiselle wutched |
his strong, bronze face with a kind of |
fascination; but she finally leaned back |
in the chair, with her eyes closed, and |
when the music stopped she opened |
them with a dazed expression. |
“I am very much obliged to you!” |
she began, as she saw Hugh coming
toward her; and then she coughed,
kerchief,
“Mademoiselle Maurine is
“The school
sald
dis.
ii."
is
Faint and white, the litte danchg-
pillows, while
Hugh got her on te a couch, and had
his chest of medicine brought to him
sober moods,
Hugh,” Walter answered
“‘and there is no one to take us to danc-
ing-school, Unless,’ he added, with a
sudden inspiration—‘‘unless you do.
Oh, Uncle Hugh, won't you, please?
Daisy and I want to go so bad,
love Mam’selle Maurine, and
would too, ¥ you knew her.!’
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laughing. ‘*Then I had better keep
out of her way.”
“Oh, no, Uncle
Daisy.
“Do take us?’
The blue eyes and the brown ones,
looking up at him with a wistful ap-
peal, the little hands that plied their
coaxing caresses made way with his in-
Hugh!” pleaded
“Very well,”” he sald good-natured-
“Run along and gel your wraps,
stay too long.”
This is how Hugh Hamilton happened
throughout the Apache war, and who
rendered, say that ‘‘there were no con-
ditions stipulated further than that the
in
by American or Mexican troops.”
~— Austin F. Pike, United States
Senator from New Hampshire, on the
Tth, dropped dead on his farm, near
Franklin Falls, in that State, He was
born in New Hampshire in 1819, and
was admitted to the bar in 1845, In
1873, having previously served in the
ing academy of Helene Maurine, where
children in high life were prepared to
“French-—decidedly,” Hugh thought,
room with
cretonne
a waxed floor, flowered
furnisuings, some right bits
mantel alongside of elaborate
an
Representatives, he was elected to Con-
gress and served ons term. In August,
1883. he was elected to the United
TL X at
~iates Senate,
-— A construction train on the Mis-
souri-Pacific railroad was ditched by
the spreading of the rails near Hills-
boro, Texas, on Th
Gth and sevaral men were Injured
fatally,
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-~Three men, one of them the owner
of the bank, were severely burned by
an explosion of gas in Davidson's coal
bank, near Beaver Falls, Penna. on the
Oth,
-There are reports from
fand Calvert counties, in
Nt
be
the hogs, and they are dying in large
numbers, It is not known if it is chol-
era, bul many farmers have lost nearly
their entire stock.
The malady that 1s most incurable is
| folly,
A crooked stick will have a crooked
shadow,
A little of everything is nothing
the main,
Wine is a turncoat, first a friend then
an enemy.
Time and the hour are not to be tied
with a rope,
make money.
The greatest wealth
with a little,
is contentment
with them there,
who catches him.
I gave the mouse a hole, but she bas
become my heir,
Pardon and pleadantnessare great re-
vengers of slanders,
Educate the people to the fact that
effects follow causes,
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He sat down ina part of the room
it
There were two
ladies who sat near him talking.
“1 feel sorry for Ler,”’ one was say-
She is only twenty-three, and is
the Her
fall of consumption,
the
ing.
dancing herself
died last
will
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oy
and she go same way only
“What a pity!
sprig ¥ 1?
Why doesn’t she give
up her clas
“She 0 while life
13 no money, you see, and no one
provide it,
ne with
has to live lasts,
There
but
here all ald an old French serv-
mg-woman. ler mother was a famous
teacher of dancing; all of the best peo-
ple were her patrons, and Mademoiselle
herself to She lives
“You muet not dance another step
later, when ae visited her and she was
still in bed, attended by old Grisl
She smiled, as though that were a
bit of humorous sarcasm.
“You state two impossible things,”
she said, quietly,
“Why impossible?”
**I shall never get well, and I can-
not afford to stop dancing.
“1 deny both of those statements,
Your getting well depends on yourself,
You have consumption, I admit, but
in such an incipient stage that it may
yet be cured, And as to the dancing,
I have found you a substitute.”
“Who?”
“Myself.”
“You, doctor? Impossible!”
of
Mada-
made
I will have
Listen.
“Nonsense! no more
your impossibilities,
moiselle Maurine! Chance has
me a rich man, I am a physician {rom
choice, but 1 do not practice medicine
for money. My profession is a great
viate the sufferings of those who
often neglected by physicians of a wide
practice. 1 have no regular j
go about where I am needed, and my
ime 18 my own. 80 that I am quite free
o offer what I do now. No, do not
nterrupt me, I am interested in your
ink I can you, and 1
will grant
ale
Iraclice.
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beg that you me the pri
lege of trying.’
Fi of
them; so he
mnfiaite horror
Hugh was or those who
all things before
to the
sister, Mrs. Congreve, he appeared the
Madamoi
iselle Man.
CArry
had his
Way, and, of his
following week as
rine’s substitute.
“1 suppose I could pay some to
when
Eyed
UL
one
fo it for me,’ he sald, Lis posi.
tion was attacked, that
the thing. One cannot do a good deed
by proxy. Besides, Amy, I am very
sure Madamoiselle would not allow
ia nat
i3 nos
3%
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“What a goose you are Hagh!” ex-
claimed his sister. “Don’t you see that
you have hurt Mademoiselle more than
you have helped her? All the people
are talking about your—your strange
dead, her daughter does the work of
two alone, It makes
She has three
Al! there
end to the other.
dred pupils aitogether,
181”
fun-
she
Hugh turned his head-—for he could
hy
“Good-morning!'’ said Madamoiselle,
musical.
and saw the
Her voice was soft and
him, and he wondered why there was
girl to his heart and care for her.
“There isYhope for her yet,” he
mused, as his practiced eye sought her
fuce and form for the signs of disease,
“If she were to stop this now and go
away, the might get well. But this life
will kill her—in a year.”
Lake an echo to his thoughts came
the little, hacking cough that inter.
rupted Madamoiselle’s speech every
few minutes, as she moved about the
dren,
How graceful she was as she moved
about, with a rising flush, now taking
part in the danee, now helping some
little child through its mazes! They
all adored her.
“I have taken fresh cold.’ she said,
with an apologetic smile. *‘1 hope my
cough won’t annoy youl”
The young lady at the piano had be-
gun the Loomis lancers and Madamois.
elle was calling the figures, when she
was Interrupted by a violent fit of
coughing.
“You ought nol to use your voice,"
said ITugh, who had stepped up behind
her, “Sit down, I will: call the fig.
ures for you, Iam a physician, You
must do as I say!”
She looked into his face in surprise,
but when she met his kind, compelling
oyes, the look changed to one of com-
she wiil have been so compromised that
{ 1 doubt very muuch whether her oid
patrons will have anything to do with
her.”
“Amy!” cried Hugh
*‘you cannot mean that? Surely these
wotpen cannot be so cruel when they
know the poor girl was killing herself?”
“You know little of society, Hugh.
| I tell you that If you really meant to
help Madamoiselle, you have i{aken the
wrong way.”
Hugh went away angry and sullen,
{ but no trace of his mood showed in his
{ manner toward the young French girl,
| who received him in the parlor ona
| couch,
| “You are better,” he said, smiling.
{ “Did I not tell you?
| well if you will only follow my pre.
| scriptions exactly.’
“*And what are they?”
| “First you must leave this climate
| forever. You must go to some sunny
| land. shall 1 say to your own France?”
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indignantly,
| possible,”
“No; I am going, and 1 propose to
take you with me. 1 need an inter-
preter, and I need-—a wife, You are
qualified for both positions.
will you go?”
**Oh, doctor! you don’t mean that,”
*I do mean it. I want you to marry
me, Helene. Will you do it?”
“No, no! you are ouly sorry for me,
I cannot take advantage of your sym-
pathy, and spoil your whole life for
you,"
“Helene,” he said, gravely, taking
her hand in his, *‘1 do pot profess any
wild passion for you. I am not of that
romantic temperament that plunges
headlong into a blind infatuation; but
in the weeks that I bave attended you,
I have grown very fond of you, and
in my heart I feel this affection is one
that will widen and deepen with years.
I know you have the power to make
me very happy, if you will use it.”
She looked at hum steadily for a mo.
ment, as though she would read his
very soul, and then put her hands in
his,
“1 will do my best,’’ she said simply.
**{ cannot help loving you, you are so
good to me; and if a life's devolion can
it was regarded asa miracl
had been restored to health,
“You see, my darling,” Hugh said,
looking fondly down into the happy
face of Helene, “you have made my
fortune. I am quite famous on your
account,”
Helene’s answer was only a smile, but
such 4 smile as might well make anv
man Bappy.
¢ that she
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Ealzburg Observatory
Oh
on
srvatories will probably never
inibe built as they
in the past, on low
in the middle of great cities,
st year that Admiral
| in his] report on the Paris observatory,
declared that the great telescope there
to be erected is practically useless, ow-
ing tolthe fact that the atmosphere of
{ the Firench capital lacks transparency.
| The Admiral proposed to the Academy
| of Sciences in France that a French
néar Paris,
{ but well out of the region of fog and
| city smoke, a plan in which the acad-
{emy did not see its way at
| adopt, and the result was that the noble
| astronomical instrument was converted
| temporarily into a white elephant, In
| this dilemma the Algerian authorities
{ kindly proposed that Paris would send
the telescope over to Africa, when they
promised to mount it
of Algiers, hich has
bly built at the
{ Jareah mountains,
i not see fit
have too often
swatopy ground or
MH was
Mouchiez,
| Observatory should be bnilt
once to
at the observatory
been very sensi.
it of the Bond-
a summ
Paris, however,
to accept the offer; and j
| sibly it may have been d
Admiral Mouchez
s $1 the 1
16 LO LAs report
{ of and his condemn
f
fc
tation of low sites r observatories
that the idea of the tower,
1000 feet h
for lhe next
Supposing
the great
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ily
was started as an atira
French
it was possible {«
tele
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Paris
of the modern tower o
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he fozgy and pmoky
The
ar off
to be affected by t
atmosphere w.
,
tower, however, being {
down be ‘aris
and Lhe
telescope and its mows ung reavy. it is
highly dmprobable that it ever get
hig
1008 fest from the ground,
vill
* ail
» Bid
events
in the neighborho
tal.
Api-
iL. Wiser in
rench, lias tak-
en to heart the protests of scientific
3 ® er gi¢ Ld »
OW-I¥ing siles 101
mien
astronomical
just
Against
meteorological buildings,
erected the very highest observatory
the whole world. This 13 on the
of the Sinnibelleck mpuntaia,
which soars upward of 10,000 feet hugh.
It is in the province of Salzburg, in the
Austrian Alps, and 13 not distant from
Bad the famous meeting
place of the Emperors; nor from the
Gross Gilochner, where recen’
mountaineering accident
The observatory is intended primarily
for meteorological purpos
in conne with the chief central
office In Vienna. The telegraph wires
will be brought up the mountain side
across a glacier. and will join the tele.
graphic circuit of the country at Tax-
ienback. Everything has been dons to
render life at this enormous altitude as
safe and comfortable as possible. The
mountain has been chosen owing to its
being a famous ventre of electrical dis-
turbance, and the workmen who have
{ been engaged in building the observa-
tory are said to have had numerous op-
portunities of watching the way
in which lightning behaves a:
| seen from above clouds Fitted
with a copper roof, which is useful for
wardipg off lig with walls of
judicibus thickness, and no doubt
equipped with a forest of lightuing con-
ductors, the Salzburg observatory ought
to do very well. Oa fine days Lhe occu-
pants can emerge from their refuge and
observe the splendid landecape spread
at their feel.
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German Princes in Austrian Um form.
| At a of the emperors just
| held at Gastein the German princes wore
the Austrian umiform. They have been
| in the habit of doing so now fer many
| years, Its origin dates from the courtesy
{ of a monarch whose life is more associ-
{ ated with feats of war than the scrupu-
| lous observance of the details of a
| chamberlain’s office. In 1770 Frederick
the Great had to pay a visit to the
emperor of Austrin, The visit which
was rather a eritical one, was paid at
the castle of Neustadt, in Moravia. It
was only seven years before that Prussia
had been engaged in ber great struggle
with the ‘empire and bad thoroughly
beaten Austria. Frederick feared
that the too familiar blue uniform
might now awaken unpleasant memo
ries, He did not, indeed, wish to dis-
card the costum? which belonged to
his country, so he discreetly adopted a
compromise, He and all his staff ap
peared at Neustadt, not, indeed, in
Austrian uniform, but in colors that
were not far removed from it. The
coats were white, the ornaments and
facings of silver, and there were no
epaulets, If it was not Austrian cos.
tume, it certainly was not Prussian,
That was the precedent for a rule that
‘pow obtains, at least on the continent,
that when a crowned head visits a
brother sovereign’s court he and his suit
wear the uniform of the country in
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