MISCELLANEOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 366, 17 September 1874, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Our Berlin correspondent writes :—": — " The controversy between Pnnee Bi«inarck and Count Arum has led to an unpleasant eclat. You aio aware that the nnsundcr&landmg was originally occasioned by the pubhca:ion at Vienna of certain private letters on the Pupal polio}-, written by Count Arnim fire years iigo. Tliese letters representing the Count ;is anticipating the Ultramontaine difficulty at a time when Prince Bisiimi ok, the head of the diplomatic service was held to believe in the possibility of preserving peace wi}h Rome, the friends of the latter at once declared that tho Count, who had long been on no rery friendly terms with his chief, had caused his inloiesting epistles to be published to show himsolf the more judicious and far-seeing statesman of the two. But others, taking the side of Count Arnim, retorted by charging Punce Bismarck with conniving ot a publication which, as it was likely to give rise to a disnus. sion between him and the author of the letters, might be expected to result in the resignation of a subordinate previously obnoxious to his chief. Either supposition being altogether opposed to tho usages of the Prussian diplomatic service, it is probable that neither of them hod anything to do with the matter, mid that they have to thnnk tho UltrumoutaTies for throwing this apple of discord into tho Go^eunent camp, lion over this may be, though both parties deny being privy to the Vienna indisc.ietion, the latent antagonism between the- two was fanned into a flame by this incident, and as a matter of couise lead to Count Arnim's leavng the service. Prince Bismarck can ied on the war by publishing mstuctions sent to and reports received from Count Arnim when watching the (Ecumenical Council on behalf of this Government. The Count being charged w ith having held tv o opinion* upon tlie Papal policy, defended himself bj newspaper aiticle, and eventually sent ft letter to Dr Dollmger, which when published by the addressee, lelt tlo writerw riter no chou c but to BKeignThis remonstratue letter, strongly uoidrd as it whs, isweeknt'Bs itsclt in comparison to another the Count hns just addressed to the editor of the Spenersile Zeitnrg In this latest effu&ion tho Count louitl) complains vi Prince Bismnrck's violating diplomatic u»uge by printing, his confidential report on the personal position and motnes of Dr Dollinger — a Btep which, he saj-*, made it iuiper.iti\o for him to explain to the roeicnd ecclesiastic why he took a less fa\oijiblo >iew ot the Old Catholic cause at the bi»inmii{r than at the close of the Council. The thing cioate- 10 lillle ttirA feud of this public natuie betweeu a Beilm Minister of Foreign Aflaii6 and a men.ber oi tho diplomatic semce having hardly ever occ urred before, a good deal of feeling and comirent is elicited in all political circles. The most sui prising feature, in t he business is tho di-propoj t ion hetv cen cause and eliect, a shglit miiundei standing ha\ing led to a. sevious and irmoinble breiuh. But, as I said before, it could not lune occurred unless distrust had been long smouldering m tho bicastsol both ; U.ouyh thtio is but one answir to the question whether it ought to ha\e occurred at all " — Times. A woman passed through Ti uckeo at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, who has walked the cntno distance from Kansas City. Sho has followed the rail toad track closely and has been some fifty dajs in making the trip. Really every conductor and brakeman on the railroad between Omaha and Truckee has obsened her ns they passed her on their respective trains. She was very reticent in conversation, but claimed to have arecieant husband somewhere in California, whom she was seeking. Numerous oilers were made her of a ride on the fi eight trains, all of which she peremptorily refused: Sho declined trusting herself to the dangers and uncertainties of railway traxel, and walked every step oi the way. Her dies? consisted of a pair of loose Turkish trousers, made of cam ns, similar in texture to that used by mmeis for hose in hjdmulic mining. A woollen jack protected her neck and chest, and a small striped shawl was wrapped around her shouldere. In height and size sho was rather below the nicd.uni. Her features were rather coarse, and , as maj be expected, severely bronzed by exposure to the sun and weather. Tho distance from Wnmemucca to Wadswoitlt — 13G miles — she made in four days, at the rate of 34 nulea a doy. Sin made no holt in passing through Tiuclec. A great many persons here were aware of her coming, but thought she would not make her grand entry until about the middle of the forenoon ] csterday, but the walk oi this remarkuble pedestrian was "mysterious and past finding out," and she strode on ahead of time, arriving here at such an early hour that scarcely half-a-dozen were able to take observations of the event. It had been the intention to gne this wonderful woman a sort of triumphant reception in Truckeo (and suicly tho occasion warranted it), but she ctolo the inarch on us nnd pas6ed along ropidlj, silently, and determinedly, as ii bent on an important mission, the fulfilment of which admitted of no delay, circumlocution, spei chniaking or public i eceptions. The case is, we venture to say, one of'tho most singular on record. What will be the fate of that truant husband of hers when she gets her hands fairly locked in his hair it is not difficult to c inject ure. Better would it have been for him if he had never been born. There will not be rocks nor mountains enough m California to co\er him from her enraged sight. The value of g) mnastics as a means of strengthening tho body has long been known ; and a French professor of g>mnastics, Mr Paz, used to maintain, m the clays befoio the war, that the French army, by reason of its gymnastic training, was " the only valid portion of tho population." It is reserved, however, for a Japanese to discover that one particular kind of gymnastics was servicablo as a preservative against seasickness. In a Japanese account of European manners and customs, of which a translation was lately read by Professor Sevcrmi before a learned society at Florence, the author statos that swinging forms a regular part of a European boy's education, "in order that— having to seek bis foitune in distant lands — ho mny not suffer Ironi sea sickness." The foreigners, " although good men of business and excellent horsemen," neglect, according to the Japanese writer, " that philosophical and literary culture so mueb esteemed by our own countrymen." Their habits of hie, however, are eminently respectable ; indeed, " they are as clean in then* persons as the Japanese themselves." Finally, jealousy i» an unknown pabsion among them ; and so much affection subsists between man and wife that it is quite a common thing to sco a European married couple walking arm-in-arm in public. At the ]»ot meeting of the Eoyal Society, Dr Tyndall, exhibited his fireman's respirator, winch is attached to a mask, and consits of an hon cjlmdcr packed with cotton wool, glycerine, and charcoal. The weaier is enabled to remain in i an atmosphere of smoke, which, ho could not otherwise breathe, for a quarter to halt nn hour. Dr Tjnda.ll has tried the respirator in a loom picpared for him by Captain Shaw. —