THE BALKAN WAR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2122, 13 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE BALKAN WAR.

King Milan wns» a terrible man, Built on tho l.ite^t Slavonic plan, Aud over the bolder he rode aud ran. Ho savagely said : " I'll take off the head Of the smart Aleck yonder aud bring him in dead, Aud paint all the towns of Bulgaria red." Prince Aleck arose and put on his clothes, And filed his eye-teeth and painted his nose, And fired a bi? list of hard words at his fues. The battle began, and the Servian clan .Rolled up like a leaf the Bulgarian van. "Oh, this is a picnic !" cried King Milan. Prince Aleck was wary, aud not a bit scary ; He blocked up tho road with a dictionary, And made the fierce Servian's plans miscarry. Then all in the row were mixed up anyhow, They've got the Bulgarian bulge on us now 1" And Milan at a council of war said: "I vow." They fit and they fout, with slaughter and rout, And left the outsiders to wonder and doubt What one and the other were fighting about. When, spite of their grit, thoy both had to quit And take an account of tbe fight that was fit, It happened that neither was bettered a bit. — New York World.

Had Demobthenes had the good fortune to be living in the nineteenth orntury of the Christian era, there would be no need for the irksome ta-k of speaking with pebbles in his mouth in order to cure hiin>elf from stammering Tbe gi eat orator mi.urht then have adopted a far easier method of t-teadying the tongue by reading aloud the Indian French journal which has its being under the name of "Le Pr gres," aud in the columns of which the following paragraph appeared : — £t Tho manifestations and proclamations published by tha Cbanemoiigavehyoudamodeliartondamandalaveleaja Committee are thomaolves a proof of it,"