The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

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Of ( 4 , 1 u.,_, 00 e two 113 f ti3e ' hc, ` I aneester.l°, it,/: t`,l4‘ ere pl a P the i, vy had woo it. 0 t ri a nd 104,6 e i' Nl l ' • e • A" / ) 1 4 nt tllll • at, 4,r ,e the el 1/ ' hats for 1 :y .....:li.aro;is: Lithibbiel: i)fs i si i islti l eoil i eh: icleoe: :: ' vise : 0;0 : 1 :c 00 0 .0: 1 14 : ii: .4 ' , v: iillytl‘ i i ly onl y 5 tV;if ait---0 ellt itaffill, et% SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. twenty years ago. She is the mother of three daugh ters, whose father is that sallow ex-officer coming up frompayingthe washerwoman. If he only knew the coup he will make in the next few hours !—Aspen Court. MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.-Mr. Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A., formerly librarian of the Plymouth Public Library, has issued a pamphlet entitled " A Stroll to Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, the home of Flo rence Nightingale." We quote from its pages the subjoined particulars relating to Miss Nightingale's parentage, education, and character : " Florence Nightingale is the 3roungest daughter and one of the co-heiresses of William Edward Nightingale, Esq., son of William Shore, Esq. of Tapton, one of the descendants of the ancient and famous Derbyshire family of Shore (of whom Lord Teignmouth is repre sentative of another branch), and who assumed the name of Nightingale by the Prince Regent's sign manual, in 1815, in accordance with the will of his maternal uncle, Peter Nightingale, whose niece and sole heiress his father had married. Mr. Nightingale, who, beside his ample possessions at Lea Hurst, owns the valuable estate of Embley House, Hampshire, married in 1818, Frances, daughter of William Smith, Esq., M.P. for Norwich, and has two daughters, his co-heiresses. Miss Nightingale, whose name now lives in history, was born in 1820, in the beautiful city of Florence, from whence she takes her charming name. From her earliest years she has had a yearn ing sympathy with the poor, the distressed, and the desolate ; and her best energies, aided by her ample fortune, have been entirely devoted to the alleviation of the sufferings and pains of her fellow-creatures, and to rendering her valuable assistance to the schools, and to the poor families around her home. Added to the highest accomplishments, the perfect acquaintance with most of the ancient and modern languages, the knowledge of the various sciences, and the most refined taste in all matters relating to literature and fine arts, Miss Nightingale possesses a matured judg ment and skill but seldom equalled. It is not our province, in describing our quiet stroll, to attempt to trace out the biography of this truly estimable woman, nor would we wish to do so, for we well know, that to such a warmly sensitive heart as hers, and to such a constituted mind as she happily pos s e sses , an y thi ng which would sound like praise would be einbarrassing, and perhaps painful, but we cannot help just glancing back at some of the features of her course of usefulness which arise in our minds like bright and cheering spots standing out from the dull and selfish mass of the great bulk of human actions, and forming such glorious links between earth with its pains, sufferings, and sorrows, and heaven with its peace and joy and love. From the kindly solicitude which she manifested for the poor, the afflicted, and the needy round her early home, Miss Nightingale visited the schools, reforma tory institutions, and hospitals in London and various parts of this kingdom and on the continent, and four years ago spent some months in one of the large Ger man hospitals, ministering to the wants and comforts of the poor, infirm and lost inmates ; she has travelled through most of the countries of Europe, visiting the hospitals and lazar houses, dispensing good throughout her course, and adding essentially to that store of knowledge which she was garnering up for the use and benefit of mankind : and ably has she given the world the result of some of her experience and observa tions in a well-written work of which she is the au thoress. Returning home, and taking an active interest in the Ragged Training Schools and other similar institutions in London, she was mainly instru mental in raising that admirable Metropolitan Institu tion for sick and destitute ladies, of which she took the active and entire management, devoting her for tune and her energies to its Christian-like objects. Having succeeded in placing the institution on a firm basis, Miss Nightingale removed the scene of her labours to Scutari, where she generously and heroically undertook the arduous and dangerous task of superin tending the immense hospitals for the sick and wounded of our brave troops in the East; and where for the last several months she has been daily and nightly in attendance upon them, tending with th e efficient band of nurses which her experience and judgment has organised, the bedsides of the sick, the wounded, and the dying, and the convalescent, adminis tering to their wants and necessities, comforting and consoling them in their trials and sufferin g , a n d raising their drooping spirits by her tender solicit u de s , and by her spiritual consolations." VARIETIES. THE wise fortify themselves by reason, and fools by despair. PERMANENT rest is not to be expected on the road, but at the end of the journey. GOOD thoughts are as useless as good dreams, if they are suffered to remain thoughts. A CERTAIN degree of self-respect is one of the best securities against moral degradation.—Dr. Davy. NOT to feel misfortunes is not the part of a mortal ; but not to bear them is unbecoming a man.—Cicero. THE meshes of intolerance catch more fish than butterflies ; but the snare of envy attracts equally the mite and mammoth. IF 'tis happiness to be nobly descended, 'tis no less so to have so much merit that nobody inquires whe ther you are so or not.—La Bruyere. PASSIONLESS characters are worthless in good or in evil ; their gentleness is inability to feel anger, their virtue inability to do wrong. ALMOST every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. FORGET not in thy youth to be mindful of thy end ; for though the old man cannot live long, yet the young man may die quickly.—Lord Burleigh. A GREAT mind may change its objects, but it cannot relinquish them ; it must have something to pursue ; variety is its relaxation, and amusement its repose. IT was a saying of a great divine, that he had found more good in "bad" people, and more bad in " good" people, than he ever expected. A BLOW from a frying-pan, though it may not hurt, sullies. A calumny, though known to be such, generally leaves a stain on the reputation. A SUNNY SMlLE.—Sydney Smith said of Lady Murray's mother, who had a most benevolent counte nance, that her smile was so very radiant that it would force a gooseberry-bush into flower. A COOK, famed for her frequent failures in attempt ing hard words, being about to purchase a saucepan, asked for one lined with " emanuel," as " she pre ferred it for cooking." HE who troubles himself more than he needs, grieves also more'than is necessary ; for the same weak ness which makes him anticipate his misery, makes him enlarge it too. A PERSON who had got some little smattering of zoological lore, said one day to a novice, that crocodiles were often seen in tears. " Oh, that's nothing," replied the novice ; " I've often myself seen whales' blubber." WHY THE CHINESE LOVE PORK.—The Chinese are very fond of pork, or anything that causes oiliness in man. A lean man forfeits something in their estima tion ; for they say "he must have foolishness : why has he wanted wisdom to eat more ?" " Why do you not thank God," said Mauser to an Arab, " that since I have been your ruler, you have never been afflicted with the plague ?" " God is too just to send two scourges at once," was the reply ; but it cost the speaker his life. SHERIDA-N was persecuted by an elderly twaddler of the fair sex. He escaped her by maintaining that the weather was too bad to go out, and when she caught him returning from a walk, and accused him of incon sistency, " It cleared up," he said, " enough for one, but not for two." LAWYERS are very critical, as I once heard a young lawyer inquire, upon being informed of an attachment between a young lady and gentleman, whether the gentleman was the lover or the lovee. So an attorney in Dublin wrote a challenge to a gentleman to meet him " in the four acres, be the same more or less." " So, there has been another rupture of Mounl Vociferous !" said Mrs. Partington, as she put down the paper and put on her specs. " The paper tells us all about the burning lather running down the moun tain, but don't tell us how it was set fire to. There are many people full wicked enough to do it ; and per haps it was caused by children playing with matches." HIGH WORDS.—A fashionable lady in Buffalo once said to a friend :—" My new house, now directing,' is to be sublimated ' and splendiferous.' There is to be a Porto Rico' in front, and Pizaro' in the rear — a lemonade' all round it. The water is to come in at the side of the house in an anecdote,' the lawn is to be degraded,' and some large trees are to be' sup planted 'in the critic' in the rear.' " This is the same lady who told Governor Clinton how remark- ably stormy it is apt to be W' the " Penobscot." PROVERBS AT ROME.--If your own, step aside instal cardinal virtues exist because dinals. Never get in the dal after dark ; and if you must in the middle of the road. before you purchase it ; fla virtue, are only discovered Never look at those who wisi a pretty woman never vita cannot see through. SMITH, the author of th' was laid up with gout at the A friend proposed a stroll in exclaimed Smith, " look at I replied his friend, " I wish I but our host is out of the wa:, does that make ?" inquired Si to say," rejoined the friend, the gout ! I thought you had to escape being shown the buy HOUSE IN THE MOON.—"' the Calton-hill Observatory moon, after having got a gl: head to wipe his eyes, and the telescope noiselessly fell pointing to the heavens to The rustic's surprise was u' looked through, and beheld A at a short distance, with the " Edinburgh ale," &c. He claimed, " Edinburgh ale in us, that beats a' !" THE LOVES OF THE SI'M watch the terrible coquetry of say terrible, for it is a peril( gentlemen ; if he misinterpre t if his vanity, or the thong) duces him to imagine that - deeper than coquetry, she does draw up her head and coo/ some mistake," but pounces and slays him on the spot ! - bility, it is wonderful to see h' the gallant gay Lothario paYs NAUTICAL SERMON.--Wh‘ fore the seamen of York, he t apostrophe in his sermon a clear sky, and are m akift smooth sea, before a light lose sight of land. But lowering of the heavens, an' from beneath the western those flashes of lightning ing ! Every seaman to 10 9 rise and dash against the ‘ ,. 5 t5 The tempest rages ! Our 0,7 is on her beam ends ! W 1 1 0 2.;, the unsuspecting tars, row' the deep, as if struck by t' and with united minds and to the MA long NO boat !" aps. A R LOST BY A year 1848, I was staying w •1 0 1 ' who, knowing I was fond °' e , took me to Dowrish li° lls f Clayfleld, built in the time r oa only remaining. It is a P P ed , house. Mrs. Clayfleld sh° vg b p Dowrish family, and a nitr and counters, showing t"eo, by Mr. Dowrish and an : re Stafford Northcote, `v. Mr. Dowrish thinking b e , , an . the manor of Kennerleigao, cotes hold it at th e p rese t: was made to cornraeniora go Queries. , A FA VOURITE stor y wa y Y. 00, verbiage may be pruned a in will art. A hatter setting uiPfor lust 11°1 friends on the inscriptio hats r . 1 son, hatter, makes and sfusfrst f r iev the sign of a hat. 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