WHAT, INDEED!

"Look here, Doctor, my Son wants me to send him to College, and he spells it Colidge. Why haven't you taught him better?"

"Ah—I'm afraid that mere Spelling is not taught in our Curriculum!"

"Then what on earth is taught in your Curriculum?"

[The Doctor suddenly remembers that the Sixth Form
are waiting for his Lecture on Sophocles.

On a Cross Bench.—The Union of Hearts does not seem to have spread as far as Limerick, if the meetings of the Limerick Rural Sanitary Board are any test. One member expressed an opinion that the Conservative Government would do as much for the labourers as the Whig Government had done.

Mr. M'Mahon.—We'll give them a chance.

Mr. M'Inerney.—We have got very little out of the Liberal Government.

Mr. Moran.—Bad is the best of them.

The discussion then ended.