Show DOWN ON BISMARCK readers of judge and other illustrated satirical periodicals re member the stereotype caricature of prince bismarck representing him with his pate all bald except the three traditional hain hairs bristling up in de defiance flance as a hirsute host in themselves this idea has lately been utilized in a rather irritating manner by a denizen of potsdam the favorite summer resort of the russian dynasty potsdam as readers of macauley know to their amusement is near berlin and achieved its chief reputation by be ing the pet residence of frederick the great now the city quiet and stagnant at present numbers among its inhabitants babi tants a it cent of a peculiar bent of mind the party in question through liard hard work and unremitting thrift worked himself from a simple journey journeyman ruan bricklayer up to a wealthy man the owner of not a few houses and a respectable little pile of bonds his happiness was dimmed but once and then a great shadow fell over the sunshine of b his is life in the campaign of 1870 71 he lost hia his only son the sole hope of a his declining years and from that sad event dates his hostility against the empire prince bismarck according to his hy po thesis the prince is the causo cause of the war and hence responsibly for for the sons death for this our potsdam parent takes revenge in an original manner in the cemetery of potsdam his family own a hereditary lut lot on tins this niter after tho the death of his BOD son h c e had bad erected a ma magnificent ent mausoleum which has on only r ono one telling distinction on ita its apex there is placed an artistically sculptured owl thrusting her claws in various vermin hut but the tile owls head beam a remarkable resemblance e to tho the traditional bismarck head with its three hairs A k few years later the queer fellow fidlow builta house every front window of which displayed on its cornice the bismarck physiognomy with the three haira airs in in the furm form of cannon barrels lately the same individual built a residence the i windows of which are distinguished by bismarck heads on which the three hairs appear again this time as coiled serpents the good people in potsdam now arc are gues guessing as to what form the next freak of the fierce bismarck foe will take it is to be added that this implacable hater of the it man of blood and iron benj enjoys 01 va general re respect for his it upright character act erand and general sociable disposition still what is pucks s standing question what fools foels these theoe mortals be I |