CURIOUS MISCONCEPTION OF THE EMPEROR WILLIAM.
The German Emperor's financial condition has long been a subjeot of comment in Germany. Certainly it appears (sayß Vanity Fair) as though he could not spend the sums he has been doing since 1889 without getting into moßt serious difficulties; and unless he should change, it seems as though he would never realise the value of money or the price of things. From a vißit made in former times to Hamburg he seems to have retained a nebulous notion that in the Alsterbasin there is an island. When the arrangements for the opening of the Baltic Canal were made known to him a few months ago, the Hamburg Plenipotentiary invited him to dinner. " We dine in the new Sathhaus ?" queried the Emperor. "Yes, Your Majesty," was the answer. " And we shall drink our coffee on the Alster Island ?" There was an awkward pause, for there is no island in this lake. Then came the answer : "Your Majesty, we, most unfortunately, have no island in Alster " "What! you have no Alster Island?" "But should Your Majesty wish it, we are quite prepared to make one." The Emperor did not say nay, and the good Hamburgers are really making an island to the tune of half a million marks. The island will be very much in the way of shipping, but it will be a memento of William 11.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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233CURIOUS MISCONCEPTION OF THE EMPEROR WILLIAM. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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