MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 113, 11 March 1845, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

The GibLs.—They think on Hymen, and can't help sighing. When their lovers forsake them, thev can't help crying. They sit at the window, and can't help spying. Into private matters they can't help prying. To get each a beau they can't help trying. Their tongues, when together, they c**n*t help plying. At the mirror ihey can't help twisting, and turning, and tying. They screw up their corsets, bring on consumption, a »d can't help dying,— American Paper, The Humblk Petition of the Letter II to the Inhabitants of London am> its Environs.—The memorial of your unfortunate petitioner h.mbly sheweth, that, although conspicuous in heraldry, entitled to the first place iu honour, and remaikable in holiness, yet he has been, by many of yon, uio*t injuriously treated ; spoiled in healthy driven trom home, and refused a place, not onlj in your hdusts.but in every hut, house, or hamlet, uithin your control! You iel use your petitioner help, and cut him off also fiom hope, the last resource ot the unfortunate, both here and hereafter. Your petitioner is one moment scorched in an il oven, or the next frozen to death in an B-ice-house; and is tortured from oi»e H to H another. From the highett hill you precipitate h.m lo the vale; you suspend him in the ii-air, and plunge him in the Hoceau. You lehe.e him from hunger only by the tooil whuh the doctors have fori bidden |.,m «vta to approach, such as H oyste«, M-oianaes, Heels. H apples, itec. &c„ while you refuse that which they ttfttettn r>»oper, as hares, haras, hermits, <tc. Your petitioner deeply feels ihese H outrages, and th« H ignotriny, and H-irony, to which he is subject; prays you will lake him from H-exiled and lestore him to himself; discard hirn trom your 11 eyes, and restore him to your hea.ts; and voor petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever feel most grateful. To Preserve Meat in Hot Wea-' THER.— rir»t wine the meat gently and lightly With a clear! cloth, then dust every part with pure oatmeal. It must be wiped wiih a cloth gently every two or three days, and fresh oatmeal dusted upon it. The meal imparts a swaet fl a j *our to the meat. It must be a!i wiped away before the meat is put down eithec u« bulled or roasted* "I