AN AWKWARD ORDER.
A delightful story is being told in Paris concerning a well-known public man who recently was -presented by a Soudanese potentate -with the Lobaksi-Tapo Order of Merit. The recipient, anxious to display the decoration at the earliest opportunity, applied at once toi-be Ministry for permission to wear it. While readily granting the permission, the Minister inquired, with the ghoet of a smile, "Do you know what the Order is like?" "Certainly," replied the delighted applicant; "it is a beautiful gold riag, and hanging from it a small retTl enamel pipe of peace. I should like to wear it. , ' "Of course you may wear it. but according to law, you have to wear it ne it is worn by the natives in Africa."'" "And how might that be?" "Why, with the ring through the nose." The new knight of the Labaksi-Tapo Order has not been heard l of since.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11461, 20 December 1902, Page 7
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AN AWKWARD ORDER.
Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11461, 20 December 1902, Page 7
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