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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1212, 28 November 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Queen’s Prize.—The love of her people. More Troebi.e in oiri.anii. — Pat (on his r.iad to a funeral) : "Begorra! Oi’ve only foive minutes left, and oi’vc notthclaste oidca where the deceased lives now, bedad The ui 'ine inhabitant of the poar, easthat expresses his approbation of, human kind by huggingisnotavaricous. Dear me, no 1 be only wants and works for is bear living. “Leave off picking,” as the pcriwin" kle«n><lto the pin. “Have a heart I” a* lie butcher said to his customer. “ Am’ not aman arid a brotli-er?” said the> look. Practical Experience. — Rich I'nele: “ Well, Tommy what did you earn at school to-day?” Tommy “Ou some beastly arithmetic.” 11. U.:“Yoh shouldn’t call it beastly No", let’s see what you know. Bum .'hum How many rods make an acre ?” 'tommy (readily) "One.” R. 1.’.: “One? What do you mean, sir What, t here are one hundred and sixty? Oh, golly ' Then they’re not like my schoolmaster's, for I know his one rod made me an aeher o-day.”

The New York Sun says: —“The greatest, or at least the most successful, English general of this day is a teetotaller. il is success, temperance men will attribute to his abstemiousness, which is all the more remarkable in a soldier, or at any rate they will claim that the triumph of the English arms in Egypt Ims been greatly helped by the sobriety of the general in command; end they will havegood remo:ifor the claim. If Sir Garnet Wolseley is a teetotaller he is a wise man. His mind is clear, and he can trust his judgment. How many thousand of lives would have been saved in our war, for instance, if the generals had all been as sober as Wolseley is said to be Wc observe that among Englishmen of education and ability, ami who carry the load of extensive'affairs, the tendency is increasing abstemiousness, and number that even total abstainers are growing pretty numerous. It is a tendency which we commend to the thoughtful attention of our men in public life, our professional .and buincr stnen.