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One Of The Kaiser's Jokes

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Day
3
Month
June
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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There are rnany good anecdotes about the Germán emperor, and it must be owned that they all prove the kaiser to bave no small amount of humor. The following, whioh comes from Herr Ehlers, the traveler, is smarter thau most. The emperor and Ehlers were college chums froni Bonn, and the ernperor never forgot his old college student. At Bonn, on special occasions, the different corps used to drink to one another, and the following set form was always used: The president of the Palatia corps raises his glass, saying, "I have the great honor and pleasure to empty my glass in drinking to the corps of Borussia. " The president of the latter corps tben replies, "The corps thanks and drinks. " On the birth of one of the sons of the emperor Ehlera telegraphed him, "I have the great honor and pleasnr8 to empty my glass in drinking to the youngest Hohenzollern. " Tbe emperor promptly wired back, "The youngest Hoheuzollern

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