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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The man, says one of the early Greek philosophers, who is not content with little is content with nothing. I.v the American Horse of Representatives one day Mr Springer was finishing an argument, and ended by saying, “I am right—l know lam ; and I would rather he right than be President/’ He stood near Mr S. S. Cox. who looked across at him mischievously, and said as he ended, “Don’t worry about that, Springer—you’ll never be either.”

Pat's Detente. —A soldier of a Cavalry regiment during the Crimean war was brought up for stealing his comrade’s liquor-ration. He was an Irishman, and his defence was unique : “ I’d be sorry indade, sur, to be called a thief. I put the liquor in the same bottle, and mine was at the bottom, and shine I was obliged to drink bis to get at my own. Oeh, sur, it's nieself that’d scorn to be a tbief” Too late hours in bed present an index to character, and those who indulge in this slothful habit of wasting the most beautiful and inspiring part of the day clearlydenionstrate their own tendency to self-indulgence. It betokens a feeble, inert mind lacking that superior vigour of will which enables the possessor to accomplish whatever his reason ordains,