Miscellaneous Extracts.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 16, 22 November 1843, Page 4

Miscellaneous Extracts.

Advice to Married Ladies.— With a wife her husband’s faults should be ! A woman forgets what is due to herself when she condescends to that refuge of weakness—a female confidante ! A woman’s bosom should be the tomb ©f her husbands failings, and jiis character far more valuable in her estimation than his life. If this be not tbe case, slit pollutes her marriage wow.— Mrs. S. C. Hall . , Touching if True.—A respectable •hop-keeper iu Boston, on being apprised of the •udden death of bis wife, was so much effected, and the intensity of his grief was «uch, that he deliberately walked up the chimney for the purpose of giving vent to bis feelings ! Tickle Her !—A lawyer now deemed, a celebrated wag. was pleading before a Scotch judge, with whom be was npou the most intimate terms, and happening to have a client, • female by the name of Tickle, defendant in an action, be commenced his speech in the following humorous strain :— •* Tickle, my client, the defendant , my lord.” The auditors arausc.d with the Qddity of the speech, were almost driven into hysterics by the judge reply iny, •** tick la her yourself Harry ; you aie as able to do it as 1 am.’* Retort.— Whsn Lord Byron was cut by the great, on account of his quarrel with his wife, be stood leaning on a marble slab at tbe entrauce of a room, while groups of duchesses and countesses poured out. One little pert red-haired girl stood a few paces behind the rest, and as she passed him said, with a nod, “ah J you should have married me, and this would’t have happened to yon," v. Ruling Passion.— There is a touching tale of a musician, on tlie Verge of death, who rose from his bed to finish a tune a wayward boy had passed over. The musician finished the musical phrase, and instantly expired. There is another interesting instance on record. Be the celebrated German composer, was the- most absent man imaginable the following is a remarkable l instance :—His wife had just expired iu his arms, •ad Benda was in an agony of grief, Suddenly, as if struck by an inspiration, he rushed to a piano, and drew from it a series of tbe most mournful odnlatious; but soon interested, in spite of himself, in the succession of chords he played, and carried away by his imagination into the realms of fanoy, he forgot so completely the sobject of his inspiration, that a servant having come to ask him if he would send the customary letters defaire parf^—“ »sk my wife !” answered Benda, without stirring. Dissolution.—lt is advertised in a Belfast paper, that “ The partnership which has been tarried on, in the county of Antrim, between the undersigned Hugh Halliday, Hannah, and the late Robert Hollidav, merchants, has been this day dirsplved by tnpluql cbnsent.

A gentleman engaged in taking the census of Louisville iuforms tbe editor of tbe Kentuckian that he came across a man who is fifty five years old ; he had been married three rimes ; by his first wife he bad eleven, by bis second wife be -ad ten, and twelve by his last wife, making thirty-three children, and his wife is bow in a moat interesting state. Twenty three of his children are boys, and ten girls ; nineteen boys and six girls are living. He married in his eighteenth year, and remained,in a state of widow - hood three years. Descent of the Infant Princess trow the Norman Conqueror*— rTlte following is tire lineal descent of the infant Princess from ■William the Conqueror:—Anno Domini 1066, William the First, 1100. Henry the First ; Matilda Empress of Germany, 1164. VlHenry tbe Second, 11 y0. John, I*l6. Henry tbe third, 1272. Edward the First, 1307. <« Edward the Second, 13*7. Edward the Third; Lionel Duke of Clarence; Philippa Countess of March; Itoger Earl of March-: Ann Countess of Cambridge,: Richard Duke of York, 1461. Edward the Fourth; Elizabeth. Queen ot Henry the Seventh 5; Margaret. Queen of Janies the Fourth of Scotlaud ; James O e Fifth of Sc Hand ; Mary Queen of Scots. James the First; Elizabeth Qll en of Bohemia; .Sophia Electress of Hanover, 1714. Get*., the First, 1727. George the Second ; Frederick Prince of Wales.. 1760. George tke Third ,; 1 Edward Duke of Kcut, 1837- Her Majesty the Queen. Th e *• Black North.”— The Peace-, able, industrious, and loyal character of the North U< Ireland, maybe ascertained from tbe fact of there bring brtt one Regiment iu the whole Pro--1 Tine* of Ulster.— Sort hern Times, June 9 th, J 843,