[MT at Vienna Reichsrath session] | 03 Dec. 1897
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.), 03 Dec. 1897. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045081/1897-12-03/ed-1/seq-2/>
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| Mark Twain meinte vor einiger Zeit, es gäbe keinen neuen Witz unter der Sonne. Aber da war er noch nicht aus dem östreichischen [sic] Reichsrath an die Luft befördert worden, wie ihm das am letzten Samstag passirte. Der Witz ist entschieden neu. | Mark Twain said some time ago that there was not a single new joke under the sun. But at that time he hadn't yet been removed from the Austrian Reichsrath, as happened to him last Saturday. This joke is decidedly new. |