THE NEWEST HUMOUR.
["The atmospheric envelope of the Globe is at present in a baccilophil humour."—Professor Pettenkofer on Microbes, quoted by James Payn.]
Is that the humour o 't, O learned Nym?
Well, these be days of mad and morbid whim,
When would-be wits strain wildly at a joke
As an o'erladen ox against the yoke.
But "a baccilophil humour"!—in the air!
Science does love the unlearned soul to scare,
But what does this thing mean? With fear to fill us?