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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 37, 13 September 1890, Page 6

A Mcsicai. Problem. A colonel of the French army who had a great eye for neatness, but not much of an ear for music, took occasion one day to compliment his bandmaster on the appearance of his’men. ‘ Their uniforms are neat,’said the colonel, ‘and their instruments are nicely polished and kept in order, but there is one improvement that I must insist upon.' ‘What is it, colonel?’ ‘Yon must train your men when they perform to lift their lingers all at exactly the same time and at regular intervals on their instruments, so—one, two ! one, two !’ A lecture from an Indian chief was an impassioned effort to tell something of Indian peculiarities. Among other things he said, ‘ Indian great smoker ! Smoking great help to laziness !’