THE GERMAN HINTERLAND.
(New Song to an old Tune.)
Where is the German Hinterland?
Wherever on a foreign strand
There lies a handy sea-coast track,
With fertile country at its back,
On which to lay a Teuton hand;
There is the German Hinterland!
Where is the German Hinterland?
Wherever commerce can expand,
Without much danger or expense,
O'er someone's "sphere of influence,"—
That "someone" failing to withstand—
There is the German Hinterland!
A PUZZLE.—The Dunlo case came to an end. Miss BELLE BILTON remains Lady DUNLO—and quite right too. Yet, if she is still the wife of Lord DUNLO, how is it that she is engaged to AUGUSTUS DRURIOLANUS? Yet such is the fact. Is she to be the Belle of the Beauty and the Beast (Pantomime)? If so, her Ladyship will look splendid, as she is a Belle Built 'un.
PROVERBIAL PARLIAMENTARY PHILOSOPHY.—"The course of business never did run smooth."—W.H. SMITH.