The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-18 00:00:00

- 60" 1~ 1` SEPTtuatit 18, 1855 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN taitt ur 41 any f e or o _ f rates and nations. The importation of so N es a , ei gners, from time to time, placed their lan etha, °Ur disposal; and we chose rather to borrow e l'ertsl e : lis tri. let, and consequently made but few Bo ole „„ r unie and unite several terms together, as ak ong , u ulner of the Germanic tribes. Anglo-Saxon it ig har oj ' y 'Vr l ,, very simple and original form, and d ior scientific purposes. For example, word o `"' better for us to go to the Greek for the S4 otl e l 4 ', than to try to make a term out of utat eur e sour maker!' would, perhaps, be the st r attie e r s h si " . we Could construct ; but then, who would - et ",,static e b av e oxygen? The Germans designate this ti t '„ or the epithet sauerste, literally " sour of ex/ % 4 1 , 1 ' matter ;" but we have an impression its 11 04 i n is a better name. The Saxon portion si ' a dialect of German in a good deal of of th h er ,Felicityl ; but being a tongue formed in su c h e Peopl e tot fully understood by a large part 14 11 ' blaby 0 ,1 1 0 use it. It is an importation, and as_ littl c e, he terms are unsuitable to our land cokee t hrough of our countrymen has travelled a h e 8 1 10/ 4 "enilally, Sweden, or Norway, he l _ set e ,a better Englishman than he was when 111(411'4' beca use ar e er t on he has been to the birth-place of w er aet ne• Such words as berg, burgh, dtc., e fori4tieard but seen in the scenery where they op tkx thIND Is o f th e u PDe r tr l c thE.—The most celebrated part wh ie ,e seeder Mississippi, as well for the beauty is attach to as for the romantic Indian legends rir " 4 '4 p c) . I nanY of the most striking objects in e l', ep in fi rer) , is properly an expansion of the d Per -I '4e i ol e ging four or five miles in width, an teeePtible, rgth• The current however is barely foriV la te 1„„ 1104 the right, lofty calcareous cliffs ab The L a Pe They are generally pyramidal in ofth, ° • lit 35 0 fe e t • r • a ag, e cliff at the entrance of the lake pr o - ls , the Maid lll. height • and a remarkable instance Jecti m , • risni fro Into l an Rock " is a lofty promontory 80 c a n e i n it t o upon the north-east side, and . fl'om a e( ' beeatiß e elevation of about 400 feet. It is Virr„ Lae topof • Indian damsel precipitated herself 4etra - --fo r ti ,, It, like any civilised young lady. txlBt sentim en t Was her name—was incited to this af t if, ja th e f orm which it has been supposed only ei ) , - , 1 ,. R e -11 ', of a temporary insanity in refined th e -r 4bl e b r y 8 ,'.::!r5" is • considered, therefore, very whit r4 latiti o inclians, • who have handed down es. 8h ale ; but it is common enough among in ter °lll lltet:, wa s in love with rather a fast young they hunter t o obtainth no means of his own, and no Btiftre, a nything, and of w h om the parents reify lith eli tucl not approve as a match, more partieu ioe4 th:ll,utexceptionable " partie " offered him estai,,,tae, lod ge " a pe of a warrior with a very good very n lett well garnishedwith scalps, and an ti ohn t feet_ generally which no young lvoman_o i f . for',1101„"g* would have dreamt of refusing. W g o :he p e , e s v i e,r, seems to have been badly brought up, him far s led in her obstinacy. She certainly did hiTatittoreaositt: flirt a little with the warrior, and chose Lo t la than was quite correct, if she did not lke e h is sh "'lig, as her partner at scalp - dances ; !liePeitg, ue,,assured her lover was only for the sake of 'fli v . r . be a „' . ,a,PPearances in society : her heart could (' w,:kner' s , & C ., whole r'.claite absurd of Winona to put the &c. At last her mamma said 41, 1 t e „ o ,„, to ,'S frok - nnvenience, and prevent he h r er ti, s ,"eing settled in life through 3 c l) a u p n r g ic e e r , 14 . 7, a ,ter: a ' 111 „ f;' . of the monl e y h t h h a a d t I h m ee d n b t e e e k n e l n av t i o sh g e e d hust . e b es ' t `l_th trouble I:t m .,ll?d a society on her w account ; so she read her abj e Curtain-lecture to that effect, and that bl oe 7410, 4 , 1 flividual took the opportunity of inform h-;elar One day, when they went to get some oa r b , k at 4 sed as a pigment, upon the shores of Lake rlor she must marry forthwith the obnoxious evia . 0 gem v Inona looked submissive, but she was Eoie 4 3 a determined little vixen at bottom, for she mqat i - a 37 up the cliff, from the top of which she te Pro a 6l eh le i cl, her parents and some of her relations, in s pite 41. and even disrespectful terms, and then in k i, o ,t , their appeals " to return and all would be for hiFn, f!he precipitated herself headlong among them. for she Bald that the young gentleman for whose sake 4 , thus terminated her existence appeared ,Tet, onsolate at the time ; but this doub t f utterly , eoL..4ough no very distinct traces of him have been dis- Ye red i he is supposed to have found Consolation in 1~~ the orthodox way, and to have married an heiress.— Blackwood's Magazine. A DELICATE DOMESTIC GRIEVANCE.--A. B. is a married lady ; age not given. Has been married five years. Her husband has been in the habit, during that time, of giving dinner parties, to strengthen, as he says, his professional connexions. Doesn't believe, for her part, that they ever did any good, and thinks balls much more likely. (Here the witness began to wander, and was brought back with difficulty to the matter of investigation.) During the whole of her married life has been compelled to carve at table in consequence of Mr. B.'s deplorable ignorance. Is in delicate health, and is advised by her medical attend ant to breakfast in her own apartment ; but is com pelled to descend every morning to protect the sym metery' of the ham from his all-maiming hands. Mr. B. is considered a well-informed man, but cannot carve a fowl. Took what they call honours, she be lieves, at college, but don't know the difference between a mayonnaise and a marinade. Is of opinion that the government ought to do something in the matter, and is certain that the evil is of wide growth. C. D. is a young gentleman, aged twenty-four. Goes to dinner-parties sometimes, but oftener to balls. Can carve, of course. Has done so frequently. Don't mean to say he •is a good carver. (This witness gave his evidence with considerable hesitation.) Can carve fowls at supper. Of course he can ; he's sure he can ; has done so hundreds of times. Admits that they had been previously cut up and tied together with white satin ribbon. Well, then, carved them in fact by un tying a ribbon. Has offered at a dinner party to re lieve the hostess of a partridge. Hasn't done so often. On her declining, upon the plea of not wishing to trouble him, has not repeated the offer. Doesn't think he was bound to have done so. Can help pota toes, of course, but admits doubts about asparagus. Would use a spoon for both purposes. Thinks carving a bore, and ought always to be done at a sideboard. (Here the witness became so restless, that any further examination was found impracticable.) In order to remedy the deplorable state of social ignorance evinced by these and other equally distressing cases, it is proposed that a carver's college, supported by donations and annual subscriptions, be founded in a central situation, and select classes for the instruction of adult pupils.—Dickens's Household Words. TOWN AND COUNTRY BnED.—Constantly, by poets and romance writers, do we find the " pale student" referred to as the type of perfection ; in reality he is an exceedingly poor creature, weak in body and diseased in mind, and dares not venture to " swagger with a Barbary hen." Send him to the country, and instead of betaking himself to manly athletic exercises, he keeps poling about ditches for weeds, which he digni fies with a name as long as your arm, or hunts the pools on the sea shore, for infinitessimally minute molucs, or knocks dqwn and impales butterflies on pins, or is guilty of the atrocious meanness of abstracting eggs from the nests of the singing birds during the absence of the mothers. He writes verses too, and never in the whole course of your existence did you see such pitiful stuff. There is not in them, from begin ning to end, a single manly, brave, or spirited idea. They consist of what he calls reflections on his moods of mind ; and as you read you are filled with amaze ment that any human being can be at once so silly, conceited, and depraved. Not so the youth whose energies, physical and mental, have been developed by early athletic exercises. At the university he works like a tiger, with the more success and the greater power of work, because the body and brain are healthy, and he has no affections of the nerves. Down he goes, when vacation arrives, to the hall or grange, with me rited honours ; and, a week after, you may see him following the hounds in all the glory of pink, or stork ing the red deer up the mountain corrie, or waist deep in the rushing river, with a twenty-pound salmon on his line. Such are the sports which have made the British gentleman what he is, and we should regard their abandonment as little short of a national mis fortune.---Blackwood's Magazine. DUELLING AMONG FEMALES.-- - As the -Helen of Homer was the chief cause of the Trojan war, and of consequenceresponsible for the duels between itsheroes ; as the Roman maids and matrons went in throngs to witness the fights of the gladiators ; as the women of Greece were competitors for the prize in the Olympic games; as the Turkish ladies crowded upon the ram- BARD 109 parts of Regal to witness the combats between Smith and their own champions; as the wives and daughters of Denmark were once compelled by custom personally to revenge their wrongs, and fight, according to prescribed rules, those of the other sex who assailed their honour; as the high-born dames and maidens of all Europe, in the ages of chivalry, instigated and honoured the tournament and the joust, so have the women of France, and England, and America given countenance to the modern duel. In. the time of Henry the Fourth of France, relates Lord Herbert, the English ambassador, the ladies of the French court,- at a mask under the auspices of the Queen, invited the attentions of a duellist who had slain eight or nine adversaries, and each one of them, anxious to enjoy his society, would not allow any lady to engross more than a certain share of his time— And in the reign of another Bour bon, we are told of countesses contending with pistols for the possession of a courtier whose amours and affairs of honour were so numerous as to excite our astonishment. In England, Elizabeth created Mary, the high-toned wife of Sir Hugh Cholmondely, a knight, and she was known throughout the realm as the "Bold Lady of Cheshire." The queen herself possessed a most chivalrous spirit. When the negociations for a matrimonial alliance between her and the Archduke Charles were finally broken off by his marriage to a princess of Austria, the imperial daughter of Henry is said to have exclaimed that, "So great an insult had been offered to her, that, if she was a man instead of a woman, she would have defied him to single combat!" —Sabine's Notes on Duels and Dielling. A MAN-EATING HORSE.—I was driving in a buggy one morning through one of the finest streets of Lucknow. A friend accompanied me ; and we were proceeding from the vicinity of the Goomty to one of the king's palaces. The deserted condition of the streets as we advanced surprised us. There was no inhabitant to be seen for a considerable distance, and where one was visible, he or she was hurriedly de parting from the broad line of road on which I drove. " Some execution," we whispered to each other ; " some fresh example, nothing more." At length, in the middle of the road, we came upon a trampled bloody mass, bearing still some resemblance to a human figure. We stopped the buggy to inspect it. It was the corpse of a poor native female, but terribly disfigured. The body was bruised and lacerated in all directions, and the scanty drapery torn from the form. Apparently she was quite dead, but we did not delay. On we went ; still no sign of inhabitants ; the houses everywhere closed ; breathless terror reigning on all sides. It was not long before we came upon the figure of a youth,. similarly mangled and destroyed, lying also in the road—more towards the side, how ever. On the top of an adjoining house we saw one of the King's trooper's standing, looking intently up the road along which we were advancing. " What is the matter ?" I asked. " The man-eater is loose," was the reply ; " wallah ! but he has turned again. Look out for your safety, sahibs ; he is wild to-day." I had heard of a savage horse belonging to one of the King's troopers that went by this name, " Admee kana wallah," the man-eater, because he had been the destruction of many men. " He's coming," shouted the trooper from the house-top ; " take care ! take care !" Far along the road in front of us we could see the wild brute—a large bay white horse he was, as we afterwards found—shaking a child whom he had seized, as he held it in his mouth; shaking it savagely, but evidently coming towards us. In another mo ment he had seen the vehicle, threw the child upon the road, dead, no doubt, and rushed forward with savage fury to attack us. There was still a consider able space to be passed by him ; but not a moment was lost. We turned rapidly round, our horse, almost un manageable from terror, flying over the ground ; and away we went in a mad gallop down towards an en closure with iron gates that we had passed a short time before. The man-eater pursued with hearty good will. We could hear his iron hoofs clattering over the road as he advanced. We gained the en closure—turned into it—my companion leaped from the buggy and shut the gate. The whole was the action of a moment. It fortunately shut with a heavy bolt into a socket, and just as the fall of the bolt se cured our safety, the man-eater came tramping up. His head was covered with blood ; his jaws steaming with recent slaughter ; his cheeks horrid with coagu lated gouts that had most probably spirted from hi,s OA,