SCRAPIANA.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 1, Issue 37, 27 May 1843, Page 4

SCRAPIANA.

Trust him with little, who, without proofs, trusts you with every thing—or when he has proved you, with nothing. The \yho!e of the inmates of the Fleet Pr&on have been removed to the Queen’s Bench.

Dr. Channing, the truly great American writer, died in October.

Sir John Cross, judge of the Court of Review, died suddenly on the sth of November. Hone, the well-known author of the “Every Day Book,’' died on the 6th. Sergeant Sparkle is also deceased. George 111. and Horne Tooke.— “Do vou ever play cards ?” enquired George HI. of Horne Tooke. “Please your Majesty,” was the reply (a reply, however, not likely to be pleasing to majesty), “ I am so little acquainted with the court cards, as not to know a kiny from a knave.”

We agree with a contemporary,says the “Boston Transcript,” that there is the sweetness of phi 1 sophv, the beauty of fact, and the jvst’ue of justice, in, around, and about, the foLowing brief remarks .' - “ In criticising a book, you are at liberty to criu ise every page. In criticising a ne vgpaper, you must look to i's genera : tone and character. An author may w.ite only when the spirit moves him ; but an editor must write whether the spirit moves him or not.”

The Musical Snuff Box.— A gentleman wiio had a s uff box that played “ Drops of Brandy,” and “ The glasses spark’e on the board,” went to dine with a friend a few miles out of town on Sunday, taking his box in his pocket. He accompanied the fami y to the parish church, and, by some accidental pressure, he, about the middle of the service, touched the spring of the box, which struck up “ Drops cf Brandy,” most merrily. Every eye and ear were directed towards the spot, to-the great dismay cf the gentleman, who endeavoured to stop the box, but in doing so lie had caused it to change the tune, on which lie hastened out of the church, the box rattdng away while he marched along the a sie.

Isaac Factotum, Bather, Surgeon, Paresh Clark, B ack-smyth, Man-mid-wiif, anil Druggester, Marbrook lane, bags leave to inform the Public, that he shaves for a penne, eus hare for tow pence, and oyid and powdered into the bargin ; yung ladys genteely edicaetd; lamps lited and toe neles cut by the year or quarter. Yung Gentlemen also taut their grammer Lang wage in the netest manner ; and grate kear taken of their moral and spellin, with other good yowzich. Abso Saline singin and hoarse Shewin by the rail naker. Like wice makes and mend aH sorts of Butes and Shoos, teches the Ho boy and Jews arp, cuts corns, bleeds and blisters, on the loest terms ; glisters and purgis at a penne a pceee. Cow tillior.s and other dances taut at hoam and abrode. Aliso deles holesale and retale in Perfumyry in all its branchis. Sell al sorts of Stationery wear, together with Biaekin Bawls, Red Herrins, Ginger bred and Koles, skrubbin Brusl es, Treycle, Mouse Traps, Mops, : nd other ssveatmetes. Likewice Karri,ts, Tatos, Tripe, Sassages, and otier garden stuff. Godfathers' Cau be, Taffy’s Elvxer, Any side and Licl: a iisli Powders, Pottato Drops Distracted, Satan Sperits of Winde, and other Fizic things. N. B. He teches Joggerefy, Ast*ol-

lagy, and Astronnomy, and them there outlandish kind of things. A Bawl on Wednesdays and Fridays, all performed by me, ISAAC FAC-TOTUM.

A Hint to Mothers. — No mother can have the confidence of her children who does not, in their nursery and school days, enter into all their pursuits and amusements —who does not listen to theii commnnications with lively interest, sympathising with their sorrows, and making their joys her own. She need not then fear that the nurse or the governess will supplant hei in the affections of her children ; she too will be careful not to quench that confidence by the inopportune lecture or sharp rebuke. A maiden lady, suspecting her female servant was regaling her beau upon th cold mutton of the larder, called B tty, and enquired whether she did not hear someone speaking with her down stairs. “ Oh no, Ma’am,” replied the wench, “ it was only me singing a psalm.” “ You may amuse yourself, Betty,” replied the ancient maiden, “ with psalms ; but let’s have r.o hims, Betty; I have a great objection to hirns. Betty curtsied, withdrew, and took the hint.

Talk, indeed, of your pantomime and gaudy shows ; your processions, and in siallations, and coronations! Give me, for a beautiful sight, a neat and smart woman, heating her oven, and setting in her bread ! And if the bustle does make the sign of labour glisten on her brow, where is the man that would not kiss that off", rather than lick the plaster from the cheek of a duchess?— Cohbett.

Satire is never relished by women. It is wholly masculine, and the counterpart to it in the female character is scandal. Their tender sensibilities cannot endure the idea of attacking whole sets of people at once, so they mercifully select particular examples, such as their next neighbour or best friend, against whom to direct their eloquence. “ Change for a crown,” as Henry the Eighth said when he cut off the head of his first wife and married the second.

Honesty. —Calling on the printer—subscribing for his paper—and paying for a year in advance. He that makes his son worthy of esteem by giving him a liberal education, has a far better title to bis obedience and duty, than he that gives him a large estate without it.— Socrates.