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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 74, 19 October 1872, Page 2

When a Mujik drinks he docs soon a curious principle ; he does not do so for company's sake, or in order to have a chat over his grog, but simply to get drunk. This is the only possible manner to account for those instances where a really good sober workman is always to be found drunk on his great holiday, say at Easter time. For months and months beforehand such a man will weekly lay by a few copecks in order to have his regular break-out at Easter. A man on entering such a place calculates hi? moan°, and orders accordingly glass after glass as far as his money goes. The contents of these he bolts as quickly as he can ; and, as a rule, only few moments will elapse before his head is on the table. He is allowed to snore for a short time, and according as fresh candidates present themselves for a seat, the insensible brother is helped to the door, and with a good push in the middle of tbe back, launched out into the street, so as not to fall down on the immediate threshold. The lumps of insensible humanity lyincr outside such a shop in the nights of Easter week are a curious spectacle to behold ; and as the wives arrive to find their missing husbands, a good deal of sorting has to take place before the right Ivan is found. Some curious sights are at times to be found in these dens; the people are such a singular mixture of honesty and dishonesty. I have seen a man who, having' paid'beforehand for five glasses of spirit, was knocked over at the fourth, and then actually held up with one arm by the keeper of the place, whilst the glass was held to the? lip 3 of the unconscious customer v wb_ose_. still thirsty gpllet swallowed the contents. —Pictures of Russian Life. Why is an egg underdone like an egg overdone B Because it is hardly done L~