Show THE ROYAL hobnobbing HOBNOB BING queen victoria having made her german grandson an admiral 0 her fleet and kaiser wilhelm having returned the compliment by making bis english grandmother colonel ot his hue the two royal relatives are louil in admiration of each other and are mutually mut nally agreed that outside 0 britain and the fatherland there is little in thia perturbed world worth worrying over the emperor tells the queen that in bis high opinion there floats no fleet equal to hers the queen retaliates by assuring the emperor that she has no doubt bis battalions have no betters thus between trading titles and conferring compliments the puff of powder and the blaze of bunting with banquets and boasts and bumpers in each others honor the goodly grandmother and the grasping grandson may be eaid to be having a royally fine time together yet in their hearts these people dislike each other supremely the melancholy death of the beloved fritz and the highhanded high handed way in which the son offered bis leave takings of the english circle are too recent to be extinguished by this shallow pomp and feigned affection She of england went hustling home in abger requesting her daughter to follow aa soon as seemly ue of germany treated his mother more as a traitor than as an empress and allowed her to fo only when she had rendered to the state the private papers of her departed spouse victorias plans and hopes were all upset by the untimely death of her favorite son in law and his deemed most of all offended by the fact that in his veins flowed british blood there was no affinity between the isles and the mainland then and in point of tact there is none today to day no peculiarity of kaiser has caused greater perplexity to his ministers and his neighboring sovereigns than bis extraordinary desire to pay visits to the various potentates of europe since bis accession he has made of life one grand junketing toor france and lapain have lot es yet the honor of his presence but lie has only reigned a year and will doubtless reach them in due season no one has been able to fathom his intentions in these movements in borne instances his advisers have been grieved at his familiarity with doubtful friends but the ease with which be has conducted himself under all circumstances has given them conG dunce in ills judgment orlias luck and aliey have ceased to make further objections it is even believed that he meet boulanger the greetings would be cordial and the parting affectionate his object may be to take silent notes for himself or it may be to keep himself before the eyes and in the thoughts of diplomatic europe we shall perhaps know when ho how completed his toor happily his eccentricity thus fir has been and occasionally aa in alie recent instance it has produced ludicrous situations what could be more amusing indeed than the late interchange of honors by which a woman with areat grand children la made a colonel of hussary hussars hus sars and a young landsman who is seasick whenever he bathes in salt water an admiral of alie greatest navy in the world however there will be no fear of war if col victoria and admiral william have to get into the thick of it at the had their respective forces this fact of itself is worth considerable AN IOWA paper says the author of which shall it be is now engaged upon the companion work whisky straight oat of the aban lance of the heart the mouth even in a prohibition state ko ONE ever bears of a newspapers trust they are about the only in which believe in what they bay when they declare no trust doors of ain fell 3 but each land owner declares that they all fell on his neighbors proper y |