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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 241, 5 July 1919, Page 8

There is .1, good story told of a retort mado tf, the Kaiser by Sir John Pen - land Mahaffy, Provost of Trimly College, Dublin, who died recently. At » reception, at which the Queen of hpiiin, then newlv' married, wjis present, Dr. MsihiiflV asked how she was getting on with Spanish, and. eulogising it as ' \ he . grandest, of languages." he quoted Charles Vs saving how the "spoke bppnwh lo his God. Italian (0 his wife, French to his mistress, and German to his servants and dogs." The Kaiser, seeing the Queen laughing, crossed llw 100 mto ask what was the joke. I havo known Her Alajesty only ten minutes." was the Provost's reply, "urn already we have something to conceal. A lady nt. Newton Abbot has died in her 105 th year. .She was quite active up lo a week before her death. A widow who has died at Grimsby at the age ol 101 was able, up to tho last, to perform her household duties, and could both read and sew without glasses. Official figures show that Hie united Stales national debt, when all war dibts are paid-, should not exceed J!6,000,OO0,0O0, against which are held .£2,000,000,000 111 foreign securities.