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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 17, 27 August 1897, Page 15

The Corpus Christi festival was blcs?ed with magnificent weather thi -i year all (ncr Spain. The reverence and u;ood order that everywhere 1 piwailid. not with«tai dintr that the lines of the procession were more ciiu\ded than in for.i'er jears. .show that the Anarchist out'.i""es la*- 1 jc.u wt iv the acts of isolated people. 'Mli'ks is cr..,'y about etiquette, lie saw in the paper the <>th<r day that in the best circles tho wife ladles out the coup, and lie has consequently given up soup." '• Why ' " "He has no wife. "

'• Well, little chap." said the stranger in the family, picking up one of the children, "what are jou u'oing to be when you're a man.'" " Nuilin'," said the child. "Nothing? Why so?'" asked the Granger. " Because." said the child, '• I'm a little girl."

We have all heaid of woolen legs and cork arms, but the fact has been generally overlooked that the feet of all shop-assistants arc counter-feit.

Mrs Mann meeting her former servant : ''Ah, May. I suppose 3"ou are getting better wages at your new place .'" May : '• No, ma'am I'm working for nothing now : I'm married."

Mr. Henry Fro»vde (Oxford University Pros*) is about to publish for the Ktrypt Exploration Fund what will excitegeneral andwide..prcad inti'ii st. This is nothing le-s than part of a collection of Logia. or Sayings of Christ, reproduced from an odd leaf of a papyrus book found on the ed»eof the Libyan desert by Mr. Bernard P Grenfell, of Queen's College, :md Mr. A. S. Hunt, of Magdalen College, Oxford. There will bo much controversy a? to the antiquity of tho Loji i It is thought that the collection was made at the beginning of the second century, or even earlier, and that the writing of the sentences may date irom the second century. The sayings are detached, without context, and each begins with the words '• Jusus saith." In addition to reproducing the leaf by collotype process, it has been deoidi d to print an edition for a few pence with the help of a tone block, so that the treasure may be brought within the reach of everyone,