Laravel从集合中取出第一个结果

Question

I have the following method in a controller

public function artikel(){
        $breadcrumb = array(
            'Home' => URL::to('/'),
            'Artikel' => ''
        );

        $this->layout->title = "Egoji";
        $artikels = Posting::orderBy("created_at","desc")->where("postings.tipe","=","artikel")->paginate(5);

        $this->layout->content = View::make("frontend.artikel.index",array("artikels"=>$artikels, 'breadcrumb'=>$breadcrumb))->render();

}

in the view frontend.artikel.index i am trying to takeout first artikel using $artikels->shift(). i get the first artikel, but it doesnt remove from the collection, it still there when i loop the rest.