The test of most great things is whether they will bear laughter. Here are some amusing paragraph taken from home papers, which only increase our admiration for that high and splendid thing, the war spirit, The first. shows—conclusively that a man may be a Me-Andrew without being a Scot. It is from an account in the "Pall Mall Gazette" of a visit to the captured Kronprinzessin Cecilie at the East India Dock and runs as follow:
After making the round of the ship our chief engineer found in the cabin assigned him a blotting-pad with a fare. well message. an none of the German jeer you might expect, but a pencilled appeal in broken English to clean the "twice weekly,' to feed the pidzons' on the riper deck," and to "oe!" the piston-rods regularly for the very good reason that paking is cast-iron and will be resting.' Tt seems that the Ober-Ingenieur who wrote this note superintended the building of the ship in the Stettin yards, and when he leave of her at Falmouth, they say he. sobbed "like a woman bereft of a ko
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