"German residents in South-west Africa have forwarded the Administrator a petition for transmission to President Wilson, claiming permission to erect a republic union with the Republic of Germany. The petitioners claim that they not only represent a majority of the white inhabitants, but interpret the views of the wishes of the majority of the majority of the ahmbahmbahmbah natives."
New Zealand Paper.
We should like to know more of this remarkable tribe, which, inter alia, seems to have evolved a new method of proportional representation.
THE RED WINE OF THE COUNTRY
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"Did I iver tell ye," asked ex-Sergeant O'Reilly, filling his pipe from my tobacco-jar, "about the red wine?"
"I remember a story about sparkling Burgundy," I said.
"Och, that wouldn't be it at all. 'Twas another time altogither."
"Well," I said, "tell me about the red wine."