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Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7032, 8 June 1891, Page 4

The Bible is not read in the Cincinnati schools now. It was the custom, according to a rule, previous to 1869, to open the schools daily with the reading of the Scriptures, " without note or comment." . The theatrical, anecdote is generally such a dull affair that it is with pleasure I print the following, which is just now going the round. It arose out of the curiosity of the Queen at the recent performance of" The Gondoliers" at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty, who followed her copy of Mr Gilbert's libretto closely, observed that certain additions were made to the text ,by the leading performers. Mr Carte was summoned to tho elbow oi royalty, and the Queen gr&ciously .inquired of him the meaning of the "'■■: interpolations. "These, your Majesty," said Mr Oarte, " are what we call "gags."" " Gags," replied the Queen. " I thought {gags' were things that were put by authority into people's mouths." "These 'gags,' your Majesty," answered the manager, "are things that people put into their own mouths without authority." OADBUBT'S UOOOA. "A perfect Food.'—HeaZtft. Acoobmng to a Guleutta paper, the Viceroy of India is in the habit of gping out now and then in disguise in Calcutta for the purpose, of sounding the feeling of the natives on many vexed questions of the day, as well as to ascertain, the state of contentment or [otherwise which prevails amongst them under, the; British regime. ; A vernacular paper gives dates and places to prove that this is really the case. Lord Landsdowne is not the first ruler pf Hdi&i'^q^h:ajr imitated the; great ,HarqunrairKasc^id'in : jbhis respect. Lord WilliamSentinck was also given to perainbulating; the streets of Cal?