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Old Proverbs re-made in Germany.

I. "_Vedi Parigi e poi mori._"

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KINGS FROM THE EAST.

Cities of wonderment,
Pink as the morn,
There, of the sunrise sent,
Reigned the Sun-Born;
From the high heaven's gate,
Sprung from the flame,
Ere Nineveh was great,
Ere Thebes a name!

Emeralds, milky pearls
Plucked from blue seas,
Footfall of silken girls--
Such for their ease;
Shimmer and silken sheen,
Jewel and maid--
These but the damascene
Chasing the blade!

For on a royal day
Lost in the years
Chose they the Happy Way--
The way of spears;
Ere Rome's first bastionings
Climbed from the sods
In the old East were kings
Warring with gods.

Lo, through the eastern sky
Crimson is drawn,
Kings in their panoply
Ride with the dawn;
Sprung from high heaven's gate,
Sprung from the flame,
Ere Nineveh was great,
Ere Thebes a name!

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THE HOHENZOLLERN STIGGINS.

"'Oh, my young friend,' said Mr. Stiggins, 'here's a sorrowful
affliction.... It makes a vessel's heart bleed.'

Mr. Weller was overheard to murmur something about making a
vessel's nose bleed."

_Pickwick Papers._

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A NEW VERSION.

When French joined FRENCH
Then was the tug of war.

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MOTTO FOR THE WAR.

ENGLAND MEANS "BUSINESS--AS USUAL."

"'Who that England know who only England knows.' We are not certain
of the precise verbality, but thus the poet sang."

_"Leader," B. E. Africa._

The "precise verbality" is merely a private trouble of the poets.

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From an official notification in _The Shanghai Municipal Gazette_:--

"Where mosquitoes cannot be exterminated by abolishing stagnant
water or by the use of kerosine oil, or by reporting their presence
to the Health Officer, the mosquito net should be carefully used."

_Elderly bald Gentleman_ (_to mosquito_): "Now I've warned you once; and
if you sting me again I shall report you to the Health Officer."

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THE WAR DAY BY DAY.

We understand from our Special War Correspondent, who is counting the
butter at Copenhagen, that great activity is manifesting itself a