PRINCE BISMARCK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1330, 17 March 1883, Page 4

PRINCE BISMARCK.

In an article in a Home contemporary a writer gives some interesting gossip about Bismarck. In his younger years (says the writer) Prince Bismarck showed a lively sense of humor, and many are tho anecdotes told of him, in which his dry witticisms created bursts of laughter. When be was " auscultator" to a judge, a client once tried his patienco so severely that he jumped up and cried, " Mind what you are about, ■ir, or else I'll kick you out." Tlie judge turned towards him and said seriously. "Mr Auscultator, kicking out a client is my business," The examination continued, and a few minutes later Bismarck lost his patience once more, but this time lie cried, " Mind what you are about, sir, or else I'll have you kicked out by the judge." The Chancellor loves animals, the chase, riding, anil farming. He likes to have a large collection of fine horses' and dogs. When quits a young man he always had t*-o foxes following him about. His favorite dog was "Sultel," who was killed by a vagrant beggar, This dog was so dear to the Chancellor that be still has a photograph of him on his writing-table. In St. Petersberg he kept some young bears in bis room, who were afterwards presented to the Zoological Garden at Frankfort. From bis" earliest youth until about the year 18(7 Prince Bismarck was a passionate and a forlunato hunter. He has •ceased bunting altogether now, and leaves this amusement to his sons and guests. As a young man Bismarck was so excellent a sportsman that he shot the heads off the ducks on the pond with a small pistol, which he still keeps in a glass case at Varzin. He gained trophies in all parts of Europe, in his own woods, in the Taunns the Ardennes, and' the Alps, in the park of Terrieres, in the forests of • Sweden and Russia, where he hunted the bear, the wolf, and the wild boar. In St Petersburg his luck in the chase had become proverbial, One day Bismarck went out with six other Nimrods to hunt the bear. One of the seven told thn day's history in the follpwing words:—" We all had a bad day—except him. Comes the first bear—the Prussian takes aim and kills Mm. Immediately afterwards appeals .bear No. 2—l aim at him and miss him: Bismarck aims and kills him under my very nose. Then bear No. 3 comes out of the underwood—Col. M. aims two shots at him and misses hiui; Prussian shoots again and kills again, We met no more bears that day, and I .can tell you we did not enjoy seeing one man kill all three." Bismarck tells of ' having met a bear once who came suddenly upon him because he was entirely enveloped in snow, and difficult to distinguish from his surroundings. He missed him at the first shot, but instead of trying to escape he shot a second time, when the muzzle of his rifle almost touched the bear's noso, and killed him, Prince Bismarck was an excellent rider in his riding liotween 20 and 30 English miles in a day; and even in later years he was able to stay in '.he saddle as long' aB was required of!. ;n. At the battle of Konigsgi-atss he d.d not stir from the saddle for 1:? hours, and on the day following Sedan he was on horseback from 9 o'clock in the morning to 10 at night. For Iwo years he has not been on horse Sick He tells us that he was thrown off his horses at least 50 times in his li o, and aice broke three ribs in his fall. He was a first-rate fencer, and proved his skill in more than 20 students' duels. He always enjoyed swimming much, and practised it whenever there was an opportunity.

The German Government intends: taking decisive action with regard to some lottery transactions which have (•»üb«l a groat deal stir at Berlin rechntly, No less than 2000 persons are indicted for having had transactions in forbidden foreign lotteries. •.>:■"

According tc the German Lutheran, Almanac, tho Lutherans of the "United States number 3429 ministers,;6l3o churches, and 785,787 members. During the past year the net increase hjas-been 130 ministers, 295 congegationß, and 47,485 communicants.