PAPERSPAST

Pure Motives, of Course.

A Broken Hill parson (this does not refer to .the Rev. Joseph, who is far from being a "broken" Hill) went into a bookseller's shop the other day and bought up the whole stock of Zola's novels. The local paper says :

" As the clergyman surveyed the empty shelves which the volumes had previously occupied, it is reported that the personification of satisfaction •was depicted on his countenance."

It omits to say what expression was on the holy man's countenance when he read the naughty novels ; but it says that he took care to burn the lot, and thus prevented the hardy miners from enjoying a treat. Not many parsonß are so patriotic.

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