Narietis.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Narietis.

Faithful Attendants. —Shadows. A Knavish Trick.—Talking with the Jack. When has a man four hands ? When he doubles his fists. Thkrk is no man who is not better or worse to-day by means of what he thought, designed, or did yesterday. It was Dr. Johnson who said that "the outside of a horse is the best thing for the inside of a man." What is my opinion of misfortune? Tt is a man without an umbrella on a rainy day. Tho quarrelsome man not only poisons the happiness of his family and friends, but also his own. He generates antagonism, ill-feeling, and dislike wherever he vents his spleen, and these react on him to his misery. When to this is added the internal irritation of his own feelings, it is certain that he is himself the greatest sufferer from his own pugnacity. The other morning a farmer's waggon which was rattling down Michigan Grand Avenue to the market struck a coloured man and sent him sprawling into the mud Mild water. Several people rushed to pick him up, and one of them inquired if he was much hurt. " Only in my feelin's sah. De pusson who knocks me down an' won't stop to beg my p.'irdon am no gem'lan, an' he tries my feelin's." A MRitiJßii of the London Library lately wanted to borrow Mr Rider Haggard's last work, "She," but it was out of hand; in due- course, however, he. received an official post-card iiiumathig that the desirod volume might he obtained upon application. The innocent document ran thus: "'She' has come in, and will be kept for you until the Sth insr,. included;" but his wifp road the pusl.-cord first, and there was very nearly a row in ihe house. John Taylor, in iiis reiirnisceuces, tells that he was much in tin; haiiit of visiting tho green-room of iJuiy-irute. Theatre, ill order to cultivate an acquaintanceship with L'ii-d Byron. "He always," said Taylor, "receives me with great, kindness, and particularly one night when I had returned from a public dinner and met him in the green-room. I had by no means drunk much wine, yet as i seemed to him to bo soniHwbut heated, and appeared to bo thirsty, lie handed a tumbler of water, as he said, to dilute me." " Wiu.i.ur," said an old man to his son, " didn't 1 hear you say you was goin' to subscribe for tiiat new paper ter-day?" "Yes, I.thought 1 would." ''Don't do it, Bill, don't do it. I see the editor has begun ter blow about his rapidly growin' circ'lation and splendid advertisin' patronage, and I guess you'd better hold on. I've nl'ays noticed that when a new paper gets up a bigger circ'lation in three weeks than an old one has in thirteen years that it is just 'bout ready to bust up so hard that it'll make the earth shake."