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News item: "Cleopatra did not commit suicide through love, according to a Munich savant, but because the ancient Egyptians believed that death from an asp bite would insure apotheosis afterward...
Died. Marie Sophia Amelia, ex-Queen, wife of the late Francis II, last of the Bourbon Kings of Naples; at Munich. Married at 18, she was deposed before she was 20. In 1860, Garibaldi conquered Naples; and although she rallied her forces, flag in hand, Gaeta, the fortress of her last stand was betrayed and capitulated...
Attacks of a similar nature have been launched from time to time against the President. Once a Munich newspaper libeled him. The President decided to sue; later, he gave up the idea because the case would have had to appear before a Bavarian court with pronounced monarchical sympathies...
...miles south of Munich, high in the mountains, is the Walschensee- a lake. In 1918, the Bavarian Government decided to turn its vast water supply to the manufacture of power. Construction of a colossal plant began and is now nearing completion. This giant waterpower project will be the largest in Europe and is designed to operate all the Bavarian State railways by electricity and to supply vast units of power for private enterprise. So great will be the power available from the plant that some of it is expected to find its way to Austria and Württemberg...
...distance. . . . The Rhine maidens, buxom Bavarian lasses all, were swung, as Wagner directed, by wires attached to the stage-ceiling through the blue-green gauze "waters" of the river. Except for the fact that very few stellar singers could be mustered (most of them having been engaged for the Munich Wagner-season, which opened August 1), the Festival was reported as an unqualified artistic success. The huge choruses, particularly, showed the results of thorough Teutonic drill. The Bayreuth coffers are already well filled, and Wagner-festivals will probably be continued, indefinitely...