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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2423, 21 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

"The way to sleep," says a scientist, "is to tliink of nothing." Bat this is a mistake. The way to sleep is to think it 13 timo to get up. Ammnrxu to a New Vol-It paper, the Earl of Lhlhousie has confided to a reporter that lie thinks his friend the I)iike of Marlborough has been very much maligned by some of the American people, and that the attacks upau his character in some of the American newspapers were unjust ami uncalled for. Lord Dalhousie, it is said, declared that ivll there is in the charge that the Duke was cruel to his wife was this Upon one occasion the Duke playfully boxed her cars at the breakfast table for playing a joke upon him. His wife was a regular tease, and she put a bad egg in his cup, and the tluko, whort the laugh was turned on him, reached over and good-naturedly cuffed her ears. She was a verv' pretty little woman ; but, bless your soul, Marlborough wouldn't have treated her cruelly for the world.''