PAPERSPAST

THE KAISER'S JOKE.

During German manoeuvres recently a company of dragoons was told off to represent a convoy of waggons. The Kaiser, riding over the field of battle, and seeing a dragoon lying, on the ground, said to him:

"Well, what are you lying, down there for?" "I am representing a waggon, your Majesty," replied the soldier. "Are you?" said the Kaiser. "Well, get up and go and join the others!" "That is impossibly your Majesty," said the soldier, "because I have lost one of my wheels."

The Emperor burst out laughing-, and, giving the man two shillings, observed, "Here's something for you to get the other wheels oiled with."

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