. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. be carried out, although the press was enraged at it—ofwhich Bismarck, who went from Carlsbad through Prague toVienna, and then to Gastein, was well aware on his journey. From Gastein Bismarck returned in the Kings train, at the in-vitation of the Emperor of Austria, to Vienna, where he took ashare in the great hunting-parties in the wild park, and had rea-son to congratulate himself on his skill. On this visit he was re-ceived with great distinction by the Emperor Francis Joseph,and received from him the Exalted Order of St. Stephen. From Vienna
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. be carried out, although the press was enraged at it—ofwhich Bismarck, who went from Carlsbad through Prague toVienna, and then to Gastein, was well aware on his journey. From Gastein Bismarck returned in the Kings train, at the in-vitation of the Emperor of Austria, to Vienna, where he took ashare in the great hunting-parties in the wild park, and had rea-son to congratulate himself on his skill. On this visit he was re-ceived with great distinction by the Emperor Francis Joseph,and received from him the Exalted Order of St. Stephen. From Vienna he accompanied the King to Baden, and thenwent to his peaceful Reinfeld in Pomerania, but returned againto Baden before going to Biarritz, where he took sea-baths up tillNovember. After a short stay in Paris he returned to he resumed his old battle with the party of progress, whosehatred against the Minister-President, as may be very readily un-derstood, grew more intense as he showed himself the more distin-guished and jSflL Jo lang sie von\ lorste dieleitier ijiclit treibeiiligi .« bismarcks estate in farther pomeraxia. BISMARCK INVESTED WITH THE BLACK EAGLE. 357 After this elegantly conducted war—which was at once anexperiment on the newly reorganized army and the needle-gun,and had roused the patriotically warlike, i. e., the real, spirit ofPrussia, the King invested his Minister-President with the high-est mark of honor Prussia can bestow—the Exalted Order of theBlack Eagle. Among those who felt obliged epistolarily to con-gratulate Bismarck on this well-earned distinction, was his for-mer preceptor, the Director, Dr. Bonnell. One evening Bismarckcalled on him personally to thank him; he sat pleasantly chat-ting with Bonnells family at the tea-table. In his decisive man-ner he related a great deal about Biarritz, where he had enjoyedhimself thoroughly ; lightly alluded to the numerous threateningletters and warnings of assassination with which
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