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Show MEMORIAL EXHIBIT Wagner's Unpublished Unpub-lished Manusc ripts Contain Eleven of the Famous Compos-, Compos-, er's Letters News Notes and Gossip From German Capital Berlin, Aug. 9 Elm en hitherto unpublished un-published let i ers of Richard Wagner base come u liRht In connection with (the Wapner Memorial exhibit, now being held In the municipal rouseum Of history at Leipsic Ml were writ ten by the famous composer between J861 and 1S71 to his wine dealers. They show that he liked pood wine, nd that sometimes he had trouble In paying for it. The first letter, written In Munich In November. 1RH4, In typ leal a t. He addresses the dealer ss "most honored air' lhanks him for the last shipment, and continues. t "I beg you to renew as soon as pos Bible mv supply b a considerable consignment of half bottles of the ta ble wine. From 60 to 100 bottles of I tach arlety would about meet my j jleeds. Regarding payment, will you I have the klndnesB to state your wish es. In general it best suits my finan clal circumstances to make a large payment on a fixed day this Is easier than to make smaller payments at Indefinite In-definite periods You need have no uneasiness If the reckoning climbs a bit, since the peculiar character of ni income makes It easy for me to have a large sum at my disposal at onp time." In Tune, 167. Wagner ordered 150 I bottles of red and the same amount of white wine, and in November of the same year another supply, but this tlrne In casks, since he was In Lucerne, where 'wine in bottles Is made unthlnkably dear by the cantonal can-tonal tariff" In October, I860 Wagner -wrote t- his most honored sir and friend," becgtnp more time on an account The following April he again made ex cuses for failure to pay, and in Oc tober he was again forced to ask for an extension The firm evidently granted the request, re-quest, for Wagner wrote in January, 1871, from Lucerne, expressing his, thanks and continuing naively: j In order to maintain our business j I connections, I wish you would 6end I me a cask (about 45 gallonsi of the wine which I drink po regularly " This Is the last of the eleven let -tera Whether the great composer finally paid the bill does not appear A number of chilly, wet days have , brought dismay to the vineyardlsts along the Rhine, and the wine prospect?, pros-pect?, fairly good a week ago, have I almost over night become extremely bad The weather is favorable to the growth of the peronospora, a deadly disease of the vine, and in some sec-' I tions a third of the grapes are reported re-ported to base fallen from the vines. Another ear like 190F, g feared, when hundreds of vln growers were Utterly ruined. The consumption of dog meat as a food in Germany, probably as a result of hiph meat prices, increased great ly in 191$, Every year since tf)07 has shown a ' considerable gain, but thr figures are striking salnst 1911 in which vear the numhpr of dogs slaughtored under official inspection in-spection was 0553. the total for 1912 rose by 1570 to $112. Thee fipnres, moreover, are but a small fraction of th? total consumption of dog flesh, for a majority of the animals are slaughtered slaugh-tered at home without the formally of an inspection Saxonv remains, as always, the chief center for dog slaughtering recording re-cording 4288 0OgB killed as against 350 In 1911. Prussia, however Is In second place with 2000 in 1912 as j against 1017 in the preceding year Berlin s daily use of face powder, C"ld cream, scented toilet water and other toilet accessories has been set forth in tons and pounds by a local newspaper, and the results are striking. strik-ing. Three-quarters of a ton of face powder, pow-der, and 360 pounds of black and brown eyebrow-pencils are ueed dally in the City, according to these statistics statis-tics Seven hundred pounds of cold cream are the figures for one day. and the Berlin women one assumes that It is the women require 40 sticks of red lip pomade even, twn ty-four hours. Hair bleaching has practically died out, but the sale of hair-dyes is in creasing "especially to elderly men," ;sas the report, Scented toilet wa-j wa-j ters and bath essences to the total of four and one-half ton- are disposed of in Berlin dally Rose remains the , favorite scent, with violet second, fol I lowed closely by exotic Indian per fumes. The (ierman Actors' association has I just given out its v early blacklist, ! containing the names of theater directors di-rectors apainst whom members of the association are warned. Ninety men are on the list for this year. There are In Germany, Austria and the Russian provinces peopled by Germans, Ger-mans, about 720 theatres. According tn the blacklist, one in every fight of these cannot fulfill his obligations The number is tho more striking, however, when one considers that there are at least 150 theatres in Germany Ger-many which are supported In part or Wholly, b) municipal or state subventions sub-ventions This means that the Actors' Ac-tors' association considers about one of every six independent directors either financial! unable or unwilling to pay the actors and actresses he employ s The railways in Germany have at last begun to Introduce in an experl mental way the practice of admitting bapgage transfer apentB to trains to arrancc beforehand for the delivery of baggage after the passenger reach es his destination a custom that pre vails so ceneralh g the I'nlted States This change was recently tried on the main line between Berlin j and Hamburg, and it w ill also soon be introduced on the road- between Berlin and Munich The agents collect col-lect a special fee oi 2 12 cents fori this facility, in addition to charge for de'.h ery. |