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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 480, 19 September 1878, Page 2

" Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little Ions;," says the poet. Mr. Pjk-.- goes rather beyoi.d the poet. In his speech on the Land Tax Bill the other night he said. " What is the definition of the term 'necessaries of life ?' Necessaries of life are grain, roots, and water, and the moment you go beyond these everything you'use is a luxury—a superfluity." Then, of course we must dispense with bell-toppers, warming pans, kid gloves, hair dye, patent nutcrackers, wooden iessj aud a great variety of other "things too numerous to mention. Nay, perhaps evpn Parliaments, M.H-E.'s, and honoraria, are not absolutely necessary to existence. A story is being told of a certain naval officer not remarks We for his abundance ot brains which, if true, does not. speak highly for the discipline on board his particular ship. A good deal of truth, nevertheless, is contained in the reply, and is very hard to be "got over." "You're drunk, sir," the officer is reported to have said to an intoxicated blue-jacket fresh from unlimited absence without leave. "I know I am drunk," returned the "tar; " but I shall get over th«t. As for you," he went on, looking at his commanding officer's cranium pityinaly. "you're a