At the great Pasteur's passing we must grieve
De tout notre cœur:
May the Good Shepherd's pastures fair receive
Notre Bon Pasteur.
A Cruel Jest.
Householder (to unfamiliar Gas Collector). I don't seem to know your face. Where's the usual man—Jones?
Collector. Laid up in bed.
Householder (bitterly). Of course, with the old complaint—gas-trick fever—eh?
[Exit New Collector, hurriedly.
"One of the 'Upper Ten.'"—"Rev. Herbert Brooke," we read in the Daily News, has been "appointed to the chaplaincy of Les Avants, above Montreaux, Switzerland." Above Montreaux! In such a position the reverend gentleman will be a very high churchman. Likewise ought he to be a very learned one, seeing that he is to be chaplain to Les Savants.