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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7294, 19 August 1898, Page 4

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An auctioneer in the Waikato was considerably startled by the antics performed by his horse the other day. As the animal was ailing, he administered half a pint of whisky, and turned it out into the paddock close to the house. The horse at once made for the office (loot and then; walked clean ' through the ■: window on the opposite "side, damaging -the furniture considerably en route. The French window of the house next attracted his attention, and he had climbed halfway through before he was driven back. He then started for the distant horizan with an ntter disregard for everything in the shape of hedges and barb wire fences which Intervened, and finally wound up in a ditch, a bleeding mass. A friendly bullet gave him a happy release from his sufferings. A veterinarian called in described the trouble as " mad staggers,'-' a disease,though unknown in this'colony, not uncommon in England. According to the Tapanui paper lime will be greatly used by farmers in that district this season. Other Southern dis : tricts are likely to follow suit, and there Is every probability at. present of a small boom in lime this year, Sammy—" Vas money der roob ohf all evil,- fader ?" Isaac Slim—" Yes, Sam ; so you roust try and do all the good,you can in life by getting it away from people." - Jealousy may be defined.as the suspicion of one's own inferiority.. ~. Some folk acquire knowledge for the sake of knowing it, and some for the sake of; telling it... • - Justice is probably, -represented as a woman because it is something a man is always after. Ib is not polite to say of a woman that she talks too .much, but she looks -complimented when you tell her that she is a fine conversationalist. ? Mrs Smith (at upstairs-. window)—" Ie | that you, Mr Smith ?' J ones—N'mum (hie), it's-Mr Jones, 'Scuse me, but I I made a mistake; I was v seeing Smith home, you know, an' left him at my house, an' cum here myself. It's a case of mixing Ithe houses (hie). ; " Did the old man kick when you asked hiiin for his daughter ? " No. I made it a point_to ask_when.he was. up on the stepladder hanging pictures." Love of reading enables a man to . exchange the weary hours, which come to everyone,' for hours of delight. Montesquieu. . .. . Lady : "Have you any postage stamps ?" •Druggist's Clerk (absent mindedly): " No, ma'am ; bub we have something just as good." ' . .