THE KAISER—HIS PARTNER.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 32, 10 August 1899, Page 1

THE KAISER— HIS PARTNER.

, The Americans' (Bays • the Daily News) have achieved a happy lampoon^ at the t expense of the Kaiser in his ■'Ercles ,vein., It was first "published in the New York Critic. 'Now it 'has been -reprinted, apparently, idir fly-leaf circulation in this country..** There has been, nothing better, either'in 'Germanese ,or ia, satire, since Haris\Breitraann." It \&, .headed " Hoch der Kaiser !" Here is the opening, verse : — v f Dor Kaiser auf der Vaterland ' Und.Gojkt on^ high-all dings gommand. Ye two,! Ach ? don'd you understand ? Meinself— und Gott ! " Thisi contains the active principle of the fwhole poem i» ifs insistenca on the ■ partnership between the singer and his . Maker .in the government -of the x universe. The rest is but an application to the circumstances of each particular one. Deres JPranoe dot swaggers all around, Sho's au,agespieldt— she's no aggoutidt ; To much,,ve diaks, she don'd amouhdt— Meinself — und Gott ! 1 She will not dare to fight again ; But, if she should, I'll show her blain Dot Elsass und (in Freneh^Lorraine Are meiri, by Gott ! r Th*.naailecl .fist .that.hoXd.BJfchi8 t .pen ; ol^ ir»n dipped in blood seems Irak io ,g^ip - the harder when it comes to our turn : — Deie's gran'ma dinks she's nichtschmall bier, , Mit Boers and dings she- interfere ; She learn nons owns dis hemisphere I But Me— und Gott ! She dinks, dot fiau, som« ships she's got, Und soldiers nsit der scarlet coat. Ach! Ye could knock them — pouf! — like dot ! * Meinself - und Gott ! In another stanssa he declares roundly . i that h« and his Associate " care nicht ;for ten thousand Czars," as, indeed, he ' h.as already, shown by one of his appointments to the Peace Conference. It is needless to remark that this new Dual Alliance tends to make (the other * one superfluous. The terms in which it is announced leave no doubt as to which is the predominant partner.

Eggs are said to become unwholesome when kept in refrigerators. -A fungus forms in them which is easily deteoted by the use of ihe microscope, although t it is not noticeable to the taste. This fungus ' constitutes a danger, and people of deli,cate constitution ought to be particularly* careful that they eat fresh, and not ° pieseived>eggs. Mrs Waggles : "My husband and I ' nevtr quanel." Mrs Waggles : " How: , tame and uninteresting your life nsust bfeK. A London specialist says ,the most expensive diug is called pnysostigminc, an ounce of which would cost nearly £200,000. It is prepaied from the Calabar bean, and is used in diseases of the eye* Every year 600,000 'umbiellas are said to be lost in Pans. Acording to the statistics, one pei son in .eveij four' loses kis umbrella. The police say that laaies are much more careful with their things -than [ m.en, for the number of paiasols taken to i the lost property office annually ia only about 100. The Vicar : " I suppose you've a lafge - family to support, Mis ©empsey ?" Mrs Demgsey : " 1 have, sir ; and if th»y ;Aidti't all earn their own living ,1, "co'ul^ut manage, it.