Extracts.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 171, 19 January 1848, Page 3

Extracts.

Hearty Advicb.— Dow, junior, in his sermon of last week, gi es the fallowing very excellent advice to the young ladies of Ins flock :—": — " 'Ihe buxom, brighteyeJ, rosy-cheeked, full-breasted, bouncing lass, who can dam a stocking, mend trousers, make her own frocks, command a regiment of pots and kettles, feed the pigs, chop wood, milk cows, wrestle with the boys, and be a lady withal in" company," is just the sort of girl tor me, and for any worthy man to msrry. But you, ye piling, moping, lolling, screwed-up, wasp-waisted, puity-faced, consumption-mortgnged, music-murdering, novel devouring, daughters of Fashion and Idleness, you are no more lit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after a family of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my dear girls, you want, generally speaking, more liberty and less fashionable restraint; more kitchen and less parlour ; more leg exercise and less sota ; moie pudding and less piano ; more frank, ness and less mock modesty ; more breakfast and less bustle. Loosen yourselves a little ; enjoy more liberty ; and less restraint by fashion ; breath the pure atmosphere of freedom ; and become something as lovely and beautiful as God designed."— Scotch Paper. The Magnet. — John Hockings, " the Birmingham black-smith" one day, at a lecture, when the lecturer was dilating upon the powers of the magnet, defying any one to show or name anything surpassing its powers, he (Mr. Hockingi) accepted the challenge, mcuh to the lecturer's surprise, but he neveithcless invited him on to the platform, when he told the lecturer, that woman was the magnet ef magnets ; for if the loadstone on tho table could attract a piece of iron for a foot or two, there was a young woman who, when he was a young man, used to attract him thirteen MiLes every Sunday to have a chat with her. Horse Racing.— While Kourcliid Pacha governed Central Arabia, a party of English gentlemen who had some thorough-bred English horses, challenged the Bedouins to a race. The challenge was accepted. The Englishmen then required a delay of forty days, to prepare, they &aid, tbeir iiorses. The Arabs, whose coursers were always prepared, coulci not comprehend wh it they meant, and they lau.'hed at the proposed condition, while they assented to it. The forty days expired, and the partits cime to the ground appointed. " How many days shall we run ?" demanded the Bedouim. The English were astoni&hed in their ! turn ; but at length replied, " We shall run for an hour." At this, the sons of the Desert laughed louder than before, and rpfu«ed to engage in so insignificant a contest. " And is it for the course of an hour," they cried, " that you demanded forty days of preparation?" At this moment theie appeared two little fellows, in leather breeches, boots, and red jackets, as thin as laths and pale as famine, leading by the hand tiro moving machines, which with difficulty were lecognised to be hordes, (or they were muffled with cloths from their noses to their hoof 3f and nothing but their eyes to be seen. The curiosity of the Arabs kept their risibility in rheck ; they examined these extraordinary animals from head to foot, and enquired of their owners what these two gieit beasts were intended for ? 11 To run with your horses," was the answer ; " to show you that the horses of Great Britain are tho first in the world." The Bedouins were displeased ; they thought the Englishmen were jesting at their expense. But they could not help asking one question more ; the meagre little fellows in top boots excited all their wonder. "In vthit part of the world," said they " did you pick up such outlandish beings? May we make bold to ask how you name the animals i" To which the Britons, scorning but pitying the ignorance of the Desert, answered, that the animals alluded to were the jockeys, natives of the same country with themselves, kept expressly to riJe the English racer, and submitted to a corresponding course of training. The surprise and contempt of the Arabs was at its height ; they positively refused to oppose either their horses or their men to creatures who were designated Masacara, Riches.— The worldly rich may live for their pleasures, if only they are so managed as to be subservient to the general welfare. Let them cherish science, art, and literature ; let ready and useful knowledge form true judges and trap lovers of art, and soon a view of higher life would circulate through all the grades of society. The inquirers, no longer clouded . by earthly cares, would be enabled to rise unobstructed to the source of Eternal Wisdom, and interpret His laws to mankind. The labour of the industrious classes would in a greater measure tend to furnish with the comforts of life the intellectual capitalists who enliijhten and improve their condition. Idle luxury would disappear in proportion as a grea'er number of real necceisities found gi;a,tjfica,tion.

A Jonathan.— ♦' Mother, don't you wish you had the tree of evil in your gardin ?" " Why, Joe, you sarpint, what do you mean ? " " As moneys the root of all evil, if we had the tree, couldn't we get all the precious stuff ? " " You varmint you're getting too sma^t, entirely ; that's what comes of sending boys to the macademies." A Modern Miracle.— A rope nearly three mile* long, now lies on the verge of the brough of Gateshead, which was, the other day a stone in the bowels of the earth ! Smelled, the stone yielded iron the iron wai converted into wire — the wiie was brought to (he wire-rope manufactory of R. S. Newall and Co., at the Trams, npar Gateshead, and there twisted into a line 4660 yards long 1 It is, we believe, the stoutest rope of ihe kind that was ever made. It weiphs 20 tons 5 cwt.,and will cost the purchasers up wards of £1 134. It is intended for the incline on,Jhe Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway near the latter city. A rope of hemp, of equal strength, would weigh 33£ tons, and cost about .£3OO more. It would also entail greater expense while in operation, owing to its greater weight, and would sooner wear out. Dr. Gutzlaff records a remarkab'e effect of the British invasion of China. The natives expected that their idols would repel the invaders, but seeing them unable to make the least resistance even to save themselves from the hands of an excitrd soldiery, \ener<i{ion gave way to contempt. The idols having proved their worthlessness, the Chinese refused to worship them, and the shrines, and the priests, and deserted.