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Temuka Leader, Issue 1734, 8 May 1888, Page 3

It is the silent watches of the night that render alarm clocks necessary. Lord Houghton once said that eooial happiness consisted in being asked everywhere and going nowhere. Probably one of the most trying times in a man's life is when be introduces his tiecond wife, uineteen yoars old, to his eldest daughter, who is past twenty. " I wouldn't marry the best -nan livieg,'' she said, and she kept her. vow from the first; but she did not live to be an old maid, she married one of the worst. The boy who, when asked to what trade he would wish to be brought up, replied, " I will be a trustee, because ever since papa has been a trustee we have had pudding «>very day," was a wise child in his generation. "Go away!" said Muggins: "you can't stuff siph nonsence into me. Sim fitt in Kit b»eti! Bnh ! No man as lives btands more nor ftao/eet in hi) boots, and no use 'alking 'bout it. Might as well tell me he had six heads in bis hat." There was a heated discussion in an 'hotel the other night. "I tell you, sir," said one of the disputants, " there is no law made but what the people can change." " Yes, there is," said a new comer ; " there is one law that no man, no people, chaDge —"A mether-in-law." A geDtleman huntiog for land in Dakota came »cross a boarde<l-np claim-shanty with half-a-dozeo b-sids -cross the door, upon which were the following touching inscrip'ioa ;—"i'our m les from a nay- '■ ber. Sixty miles from a poatotjs. Twenty? five miles from a ralerouri. A- hundre.l and atey from timber. 250 feet from water, Gpd plees our home, We hive gone'/past tp spend the Winter with my [■ms ifo'h folks,"