Show A ilabel switzerland with its mixture of races and tongues is a sort of modern babel a fact which causes much trouble in particular to the military authorities at ballenstadt wallenstadt Wallen stadt the other day at the recruiting station there was a guard composed of five men the chief was a lieutenant who spoke german only the second a sergeant serg who spoke italian only the third a corporal who could french and sli the fourth a private who could speak french and german and the fifth a private who could speak french and italian when the lieutenant had to transmit an order to the sergeant he had to pet the last named man to interpret for him when he wanted to communicate with the corporal he had to requisition the fourth man and so on great delay and con fusion beinar thus occasioned |