Items of Interest.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 504, 17 January 1906, Page 7

Items of Interest.

WE may have many acquaintances, but we oan have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.—Dr, Johnson.

The world is full of hopeless failures that oould have been successes had they devoted to real work one-half the energy devoted to oomplaining. (

Things should not be done by halved. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. Every day is a little life, a nd our whole life is but a day repeated.

Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it oonsists in having and getting and in being served by others. It oonsists in giving and serving others.

Pass on. Do not dwell too much upon your failures. Do not look baok too much. Life will not bear this retrospection, and indulgence in vain regret is not a fitting luxury for those who have their fortune to make.

To be unemployed is indeed miserable. To find nothing to do, to be of no use to any of our fellowroreatures, is to be oast out from the ever-working Divine soheme of labour and fruition, ambition and aooomplishm6nt,—Marie Corelli.

Sleep— The certain knot of peace : The baiting-plaoe of wit, the balm of woe; The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low. —Sir Philip Sidney,

Tho importance of reading, not slight stuff to get thiough the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company, and people are generally quite keen enough, or too keen, about doing that, yes they will not do it in the simplest and most innocent mannar by reading,—Matthew Arnold.

Imaginary troubles are so rauoh worse than real ones t We should save ourselves a great deal of needless suffering if we would live more in the present and less in the future. Said an old man: ' I've had an awful lot of trouble in this world, and half of it never happened.' It is amazing how much of our expeoted trouble vanishes when the time oomes for looking it squarely in the face. The interest oharges on borrowed trouble is high, too.

If you and I—just you and I—• Should laugh instead of worry : If we should grow - just you and I Kinder and sweeter hearted, Perhaps in some near by-and-bye A good time might get started : Then what a happy world 'twould be For you and me—for you and me I Speak gently I 'tis a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well: The good, the joy, thajjttmay bring, Eternity shall tell. —G. W. Langford.