officiate in a similar capacity at the coming ceremony.

A very satisfactory conclusion. I got Geraldine; Geraldine got her full deserts—me; and if George had the misfortune to sit on the bag in the taxi, what matter? Geraldine had acquiesced; after that who cared what Geraldine's mother did, said, thought or wore?

Small Boy. "Who's that fat man, Dad?"

Dad. "Don't know. He looks like a profiteer."

Small Boy. "Don't you think he must be one of the excess profiteers?"

"Lady Clerk wanted for office work, with an engineering firm, a few miles out of Leeds; also able to cook and serve a luncheon for the principals."—Yorkshire Paper.

If you want a cook nowadays you must employ a little diplomacy.

"During a discussion on over-crowded motor 'buses a member declared that on one occasion 110 persons were found 'clinging like bees' to a car certified to hold 0."—Provincial Paper.

Some of these might have been accommodated in the bonnet.

"In Nepal His Highness shot what is believed to be the record tigress. She was a most magnificent specimen, with a total length of 9 feet 7 inches—her body alone measuring 9 feet 5 inches."—Indian Paper.

The record, of course, consisted in the brevity of her two-inch tail.

From Smith Minor's Scripture-paper:

"Abraham was the man who was very keen to go into the land of Israel but he did not obey the word of the Lord, and the Lord's punishment to him was to forbid him to go into this land. There he sat on the heights of Abraham looking down on this land."

And crying "Wolfe, Wolfe!"

GOLDWIRE AND POPPYSEED.

(A Chinese Poem.)