Miscellaneous Extracts.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 3, 23 August 1843, Page 4

Miscellaneous Extracts.

Laconic Correspondence.—We find the following correspondence in a soathern paper •. —•' Dear Son, —Come home : a rolliug stone gathers no mass.— Lucy Muggins," To which he replied: *' Dear Mamma, —Come to Texas : a sitting hen never gets fat.—John Muggins."—American Paper\ The Bangor (American) Whig says—- " A Yankee in Boston has set up a one horse threshing machine, for the convenience of parents and guardians having unruly boys. He'll lick an urchin like thunder for 4d. Small lickings done for 2 cents only, and the most entire satisfaction warranted."

A Yankee has invented a uew machine for taking the noise out of thunder !

Hard Times.—The editor of the Kentucky Yeoman lately received the following letter through the Post-office, postage not paid:—" Mr. Editor, —Kin you tell me how a feller is to get along these hard times, what's in debt, and who aint got no money, no friends ; and who are too honest to work, and too lazy to steal ? 11 you kin, I will subscribe to your paper provided you give trust." Wit in Humble Life.—A lady anxious to get the sure direction to a par ticular place, asked a cabman her best way, and was answered, *• Why, ma'am I think the best way is to take a cab."

The Decline op Superstition.— ' *' When I was young," said an old Scuttish lady, recently, "folk were unco feared at water-deevils, called waterkelpies ; but noo lVe lived to see theui as dead : and I think, if I were to live anither generation, I might outlive the verra deevil himsel."— Blackwood, Antidote for Arsenic—Dr. Pe reira states, in the last edition of his «' Elements of Materia Medica," that out of thirty-four cases in which the hydrated sesquioxide of iron was given, it proved successful in twenty-nine.

The right way to support a Newspaper.—Much depends upon the supporters of a Newspaper whether it is conducted with spirit or interest; if they are negligent in their payment, the editops ambition is broken down ; he works at a thankless and unprofitable task; he becomes discouraged and careless ; his paper loses its pith and interest, and dies. But, on the contrary, if his subscribers are of the rigKt sort; if they are punctual, liberals-hearted fellows ; always in advance in the subscription list; taking an interest in increasing the number of his subscribers, now and then speaking a good word for his paper, cheering him on his course by smiles of approbation ; with such subscribers as these, 1 would forswear, coinfort, ease, leisure ; every thing that could possibly step between me and the gratification of every laudable desire on their part ; T would know no other pleasure th;<n their satisfaction. How much then can the supporters of a Newspaper do to make it interesting and respectable ; indeed, without concurring efforts on their part, the publishers of a paper will not, cannot, bestow the attention which is necessary to make it what it should be.— Vindicator.

Foreign Commerce.—M. Charles de YVitte has been approved of by the Queen, as Consul in New Zealand for the King of the Belgians,