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Show STORIES OF BiyiABCK. ICI1)ENTS V1IICH IIXrSTIUTE THE EX CHAStaiOR'3 qiABACTER. It was thetTth of fayj 1SG6, at 5 o'clock in. tho afternoon, Count Bls rnarck was waKiine' abroad for the fiist time after his severe Illness, returning re-turning from an interview with the king, and proceeding up the centre alley of the Unler den Linden Berlin, Ber-lin, when he was tftice fired on. One oCtho bullets grazed lus side. Turnlrur swiftly round, Bismarck saw ftous'mau before him who was raising his revolver to flro a third time. He seized tlie man-by one arm aud the throat, but the man managed to fire three other shoU atJjIuipuishotmhseUhlm in conscuiuce of a ijuick turnTonly burning his coat, but one or thu other two struck him, and at the moment Bismarck believed he had beep morally wsunded, for he felt that mo of tho bullets hod struck hterbn the 'ritfl Bnt Bismarck nuafercd thtfieusatlou of wcaknesp, ahd handed thu criminal whom be had firxnlyiheld to tho officers aid, me)i gf the First Battalion of the Sccotld H&ot Guard Iteeimcnt. Ho thf u fcstltal home, nobody noticlrg any chaage In his desdeanor, maatf a report ta tlie klngpind returnee toTdidHlnrnr iiarty. As he wus going out of tlie salon ho tenderly remarked, lu his wife, "They hivd suoVat'rue.'SBut thiru is no harm done." A urgeon was sent for, who aBeouncul the fact of his very narrow escape. The king was loon at his housi to inquire after the condition con-dition urhU trusted Mlubtir. The street in front of his residence was soon crowded with 'people, and Bis-mirck Bis-mirck addressed tlum from the window lor tlie first time In his lifts. llisiunW 's said, tftj have beiu tlie only party in liUliouo who ate any dinner that day. As showing Bismarck's habit of driving directly at the end he had iniew, and ixposlng to his meruit, me-ruit, as it would seem, his plans with A rash and reckless candor born ( a consciousness- of suirior strength, and which took no account ac-count of andpponerit's-patriotlc sensitiveness, sen-sitiveness, hls-lntervicw with Jules Favro Septimbtr 21,1570, brought about by lionl Granville' Is a case in point. This was a conference to op further bloodshed and prevent a Ciuman ento Into pari. Instating Instat-ing tlie conditions on whlch'abuo this Could be done, Favns almlttud he was moved to griif by Bismarck's demand that tlie invaders should havoafort ctimiindlng the city-.Mouut city-.Mouut Valincn. Pvre nplietT, "It would bt. much mure simple to ask for Faris itself.'.' i Bismarck plainly informed Favre that France would no more forget the capitulation of Sedan than of Waterloo, tliau of Sadowa, which did mt concern hir. The l'rosala'n Minister told l'avro substantially that he must have tlie two provinces provin-ces which Girmany subsojuenUy obtalpM. Kvrq remarkat thattlK) aasiut of the eopIe of M horn ho was thus Ubposiuii as more Ul-ui doubt-ful.'anil doubt-ful.'anil tlisWnc? pUbHc" orlinion of Furui would not bo satisfied with ifJrtkuatt well,"herrplled, "thst they are jiot with .us They will impose ajijunpleasaut job on u, but w e cannot sutler It. lam sure that in a short time w e sliall have a new war with you. We wish to mako it all with our aJ vantages." The "Bel?"" war had not eoraeTyetand there Is considirable curiosity to see how Bismarck's retirement will affect the Alsace and Lorraine question lioUtm Trvnttrtpl. x.' |