Miscellaneous Extracts.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 24, 17 January 1844, Page 4

Miscellaneous Extracts.

The Alphabet of Requisites for A Wife.—A wife should be amiable, atft!c;ionate, affable, accomplished ; beautiful, benign, benevolent ; charming, candid, cheerful, com plaisant, civil, constant ; dutiful, dignified ; eljgarit, easy, entertaining ; faithful, loud, faultless, free , good, graceful, governable ; handsome, harmless, healthy ; intelligent, industrious, ingenious ; just ; kind ; lively, lovely ; modest, mercilul ; neat ; obedient ; pretty ; righteous ; subm ssive ; temperate ; virtuous ; well formed ; and young. When 1 meet with a woman possessed of all these requisites, said an old bachelor, L will marry. iJou't you wish yon may get her 7 Begging Quarter. A French regiment at the battle of Sjjires had orders to give no quarter. A German officer being taken, begged hit life. The frenchman replied, "Sir—you may ask any other favour ; but as lor your hie, it is impossible for me to grant it." The Farthing Wedding.—A man lately got mei'ried at Tong Church, and paid the does in farthings! They were wrapped up in bundles, each bundle containing twenty.-four farthings, and each faithing was wrapped up iu a separate paper. Surely this man who takes so much pains with hit) farthings, will not forget to take care of his wife. 41 I find you are a very profitable concern," as the spirit merchant said to the water butt, " After you Sir." as the Cossack said to the runaway Frenchman. Dean Swift held this doctrine, that there are three places where a man should be allowed to speak without contradictiou, namely, the bench, the pulpit and the drop. It will be scarcely believed that £4OOO sterling is paid on the night of a great ball in the Parisian season, for flowers either used in decorating the apartments, or as bouquets and garlands fjr ladies. The Miser and the Squanderer. —The hoarding miser punishes himself, and the spendthrift punishes the innocent. The boarder thinks so much of the time to come as to forget the present; the squanderer has his thoughts so taken up with the present, as to neglect the future. The first lives as if he was never to die, and the last as if he had but a day to eDj'oy. Both are unprofitable members of society—the one occasioning a stoppage in the circulation, and the other a hemorrhage. The hoarding miser is like a fog, that infeots the air, the the prodigal resembles an outrageous storm, that overturns all in its way. The hoarder passes restless nights, though he has nothing to fear ; the squanderer sleeps sound, and leaves want of repose to his creditors. The hoarding miser is a ridiculous creature, and the prodigal a noxious animal.

An Inn.--What a strange epitome of life the scenes enacted at an inn would furnish ! How dissimilar in rank, in object, in vocation, are those whom every apartment of this human halting place receives in turn! The ca.eworn and the careless—-the miser and the spendthrift. Opulence, with unassuming carriage ; penury, vainly attemptihg to brazen out its wretcheduess. A noble, in title old as the conquest, rests in a chamber to-day, to-morrow it will be tenanted by a bagman, who never heard that such a being as his grandfather had existence. This evening a bridal party occupy the inn. They dream of nought but happiness—theirs is a fancy world —their road of life is oarpetted with roses—they leave next morning. Who, next in succession, fill the same apartment on the morrow ? —a coroner's inquest, to ascertain what caused the suicide of a village beauty, " who loved not wisely but too well."

An Ominous Precaution.—Berlin, June 19.—The directors ot the new railway ot Frankfoit.on-the-Oder have resolved io keep at every station a quantity of bandages and medicines, in order that in case of accident some relief may be given in the first instance. It were to be wished that the diiectors of other railways would follow this example. *

Example.— Example, like the sun, makes no noise, yet moves, aud everywhere leaves the effect of his beams.

The city of Tallahasse, in Florida, had been totally destroyed by fire. Not a single building escaped destruction, the whole being of wood. The loss was estimated at half i million of dollars.