_Lady_. "AND WHY DID YOUR LAST MISTRESS----"

_Applicant_ (_loftily_). "EXCUSE ME, MADAM!"

_Lady_. "WELL--ER--YOUR LAST EMPLOYER----"

_Applicant_. "I BEG YOUR PARDON, MADAM!"

_Lady_. "WELL, THEN, YOUR LAST--ER--PRAY WHAT DO YOU CALL THOSE IN
WHOSE SERVICE YOU ARE ENGAGED?"

_Applicant_. "CLIENTS, MADAM." [_Collapse of interrogator_.]]

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OUR MODEST CONTEMPORARIES.

"Had it been intended to make any new pronouncement of
importance the Berlin Government would have taken steps to
circulate the speech by wireless in time for publication in
'The Star' yesterday evening."--_The Star_.

It is possible that Dr. BETHMANN-HOLLWEG was misled by our
contemporary's habit of publishing its "7.0 Edition" at 4.30.

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From an obituary notice:--

"He had studied Eastern religions, and claimed to have been