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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2400, 26 November 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

“ Ni;iv' -Mi~MA7i< rri'V.—The doable fl •Hll. A imon i wMuiiw, proposed to a young I .dv -i short time sin -e, hut was re; 1. Hi- !< cling- hi! a severe ir-t «hen a widow ntigiihour sent lii>n the i->!**• ivijii; t-xt t<i preach from : Von ask and receive not, because yju a-k a CiATi.KM.is : “lint I am afraid he wouldn't m ike a ootid wateh dog." Man, with hull terrier : “ Nut a good wateh dog - Why, lor". 1 your "art, it was indy last week that tills very animal held a burglar down by the throat and heat his brains «*ut with his tail. A Nl-.w \ oi;K paper tells “How to get rich " and the iii.st direction is, *• Live up to your eiigigeim iits," We know a man in Holmi who lived up to his engageincut, and now he has a family of seven, a thivadhate suit, ‘Jo cents in his pocket, and nothing in the hank. “That must lie a line stream of trout," said a gentleman to a rustic whom he had observed some hours previously engaged in the occupation of angling. “ Weei, it maun he :T tii.it," was the reply ; “for I have been st Hiding here for three 'oors, an' deii a ami o' them will stir oot o't 1" M vri:nio:>! U. Bvttlkihikk axi» Snriti.kc I K Husband ; “If you only had tile ability to cook as my mother used to do. I should lie happy, dear." Wife; “ And if you only had the ability to make money enough to buy things to Ciijk as my father used to do, I too should he happy, dear." Thi-Jik are two distinctive parts of ail true benevolence—the feeling of sympathy and the practical rendering of the needed help. It is seldom that both of these are simultaneously or harmoniously developed ; one <ir the oilier usually has a decided prepon h /ranee, aud occasionally one will he found almost entirely separated from the other. It is related that a gentleman who was trying a horse in company with a jockey’, noticed, after having driven him a mile or two, that he pulled pretty hard, requiring constant watching aud a steady rein, and the gentleman inquired. “Do you think it is just the horse for a lady to drived' “ Well, air,’ - answered the jockey, “I must say I shouldn't want to marry the woman who could drive that horse."

Ik, rvin:i:i;~ an Knirli-h writer, a* Lord • h.or"e‘H unfit-n has stated. our respite iron further ir-jur-lid building only depends vti the nival p-I;ry of Foreign i‘ iiVft'. we shall u<.t get .1 very long rest. The I: aliau (1 ovc-rnment i-» even now laying down a new ironed id which is to entirely the /.'• /'-„/■- rt at present the most powerful .'hip afloat. The dimensions i'f the n-w ship, which is to be oiled the Nu'/o/m, may Ik- judged from her engine-power, which is t > be fIJ.JsOO hor-.-power. The/'. /We,.' •j • engines :ir.- of I'.l. ittti horse power. What n-sta-k« the -o i 7 Michiuc .V.,. [New V .rk). We have had the mush-iil sewing-niaehme, the melody b- injr stored in the bii-orer. The invention flare I up and q iicklv flickered out in this country, and it was la-t heard of in that most inn-idal, of ail lands, nh-re, it is to be hoped, it will remain. Now we have rau-icial fire engines ; A music-box attachment is run while the engine pumps. Above the roar of the conflagration and the cries of the ail righted populace. the- strains of .-onl-in-pirinir music a-ollsf the courage ~f the tire-fighters and ch-.--.-r th-.-m on in their d inger-ii- duly, ju*t as uianial .'trains inspire soldi-rs to chain’..- U|> to the- Very cannon'a lujulh.