The Fremdenblatt *—provided its foreign readers with a joke at Christmas time. It set out in its news columns that a young Engli woman had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for calling Count Zeppelin a gentleman; that, for saying that the German Crown Prince only stole teaspoons and not clocks an old gentleman was sent into penal servitude for seven years; and that @ certain Jimmy Fletcher was given a choice between the gal-Jows and enlisting for expressing the opinion that the Germans were not much worse than the Russians. The "Fremdenblatt" was careful to add that in the last case Mr. Fletcher was under the influence of drink when he made the statement and that this fact alone secured him any choice at all. The reader will say that it is all a jest elaborated
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