The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

50 1 t. ~e~ '`'NtER 4, 1855.] a poor barber in his shop at Preston, in to ,; but, in a comparatively short time, Per ked upon him as Sir Richard Arkwright. de of lif e may be thus defined :—Court engagement or siege, the Proposal is the Matrimony the victory. And what comes ..ony ? Why, I am sure I don't know, the Te deum (tadium) that comes after are more than recollections. In them the of past events is congealed. They are the as it has been, preserved in immortality. once more recognize, look and touch them P the bridal ornaments with a hand wrinkled xa nder Ilerzen. how does the thermometer stand ?" the wall, dad." " I mean how is the " I guess it's pretty well, dad ; it hasn't lately." " You little rasctl, is it colder P" " Don't know, dad, I'll go out and RECRIIITS.—The Emperor of Russia calls ' ten recruits out of every thousand of his -es. Our House of Commons numbers six and forty-eight. There are, we think, even 14 4 one in the hundred—that is six and a h a lf y4ir the Emperor of R uss i a , w h o —if th ey w ill kt, s arms—at least wear his uniform. Won't 1',, (311 d. to the call of Alexander P—Punch. ~,n , _ iIIq4,7UX f NCES OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AN D CO: 02, o this firm was or i g i nally S now and = R, tt was one of the oldest banking-houses in g„ 1 , A t cond only to Child and Co., who date from At and period of the Commonwealth, Snow and Vt h q on the business of pawnbrokers, under the Ne " Golden Anchor ." The firm, about the V tk , suspended its payments, in common with s ''4``e, London bankers. ‘;i k 4, unuEss TO A JIIRY.—A deceased, upright, k , e aief • t*of o ne of the courts was once t o -jus ice ,: address a southern jury :—" Gentlemen of i t , ' ';I this case the counsel on both sides are K'4 4 , l ° l e ; the witnesses on both sides are incre qe the plaintiff and defendant are both such VI ters that, to me, it is indifferent which way Nour verdiet.—American Paper. 1 li t 'As good almost kill a man as kill a good 0 ,4 113 , a man lives a burden to the earth, but a is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, .\,49 1- id. treasured up on purpose to a life beyond. 4 v itoia. To divert at any time a trouble- N, 3 ' , run to thy books ; they presently fix thee 41 , 4 4 ' 11 d drive the other out of thy . thoughts. k i h i ls receive thee with the same kindness. 1 ,1 t. 1 2. 4 .XT1 AL DREAM.—" Friend Wesley," said 1 the Rev. John Wesley, " I have had a 1 ( . e orning thee. I thought I saw thee sur i°l:,t,ll a large flock of sheep, which thou didst it t lv aB wilat to do with. My first thought after I 't(1 11 e that it was thy flock at Newcastle, and 11(1, 4 qa dst no house of worship for them. I have 4 44 1 note for £lOO, which may help thee to 1 1 „A k 1 )." house." V,h o r .APOLOGY.—A gentleman was , called li: • Nue for words uttered in wine. ' I beer t,. l i 4 41 d „ • l'e h, , he, I did not mean to say what I did , 114 7-1 the misfortune to lose some of my front wleas get out every now and then without 6e ." He was going on when a friend f tl et ,t d g, TH EY ARE.—Walter S co tt says , th a t if read each other's thoughts and feelings, I .: now sit so friendly at the dinner-table e up in horror, and fly from each other in (04 .44 ," said a young man, the other day, " why It Wear your ear-rings ?" " Because, John, I Yet had my ears pierced." " I will bore You then." " I thank you, sir, you have quite enough." governor of Ceylon, thoroughly impregnated S pirit of th e English constitution, empanelled 411 ssulmans on a man being found drowned, r eturned the solemn and significant verdict, • was c ome ." ERE IGNORANCE IS Buss."—(Sprightly little )ing about, /oquitur :) "Oh ! Crikey, ' Ain't I happy ? Here's the dentist coming and Pa has promised me sixpence for that I have pulled out."—Punch. The faculty of genius is the power of L , n fire. As an instance of this, reader, 1` ''' #te c'Ct 50d :Ni t] tile ' et k t e rn 4 s T afte r 411 c1 tea Pru:' Jto la c [ls e u l ie t 1 -q4 „ be ' il tf v ; sof 4 0t ri f or yet t he " )that You Ikt quit ler ti~th-civeri It' or spirit `ruse ef' 0 10n•)ti b e.tir p eg o i t I )1 11 70 '\ b Y! Pil ?g v k t per ), ci o ,t oot , , _ an 1,` 1 ,0011 t th: er c f, 84,'w t b, gib,. a pio 9 Qiie e bi -k lookl „battle cog o ' 4 tid I 1 1,, I ,trimol !" 4 is the v are 00 , 1 Of r 4' 4 c, r, a s i onc e 411 ..`Tch the • ---,llea _, e , h oc ist the hi P" .d lat 'rday leg' , 4 1 eh .!4 R E ? ii 4 4'C' ; °f ter , t , i ,v ed de t t s. 01,‘ and f W A,4llfb SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. pulled him down by the coat-tail, saying, " Don't say one word more. Never was there a more perfect apology. If you add another word you'll spoil it completely." A SOLDIER'S KIT.--The following are the things which a soldier has to pay for out of his " bounty" : One knapsack, complete, 16s. ; one forage cap and number, 2s. 4d. ; one fatigue jacket, Bs. 9d. ; one pair of summer trousers, 7s. 6d. ' • three shirts, at 2s. 2d., 6s. 6d.'; three pair socks, at ls. ld., 3s. 3d. ; two pair of boots, at 95., 18s.; one stock and clasp, ls. ; one pair of mitts, 10d. ; two pair of shoe-brushes, ls. 2d. ; one clothes-brush, 10d. ; one hold-all, Bd. ' • one sponge, sd. ; one tin blacking, 4d. ; o ne p a i r of braces, is. ; one button-stick and brush, 6d. ; one comb, 4d. ; one knife, fork, and spoon, 10d. ; one pair of scissors, Bd. ; two towels, ls. 2d. ; marking necessaries, ls. ; total, £3 13s. ld. PROSPECTIVE CIIRONOLOGY.—A deputation of plain cooks, in 1865, waits upon Lord Palmerston threaten ing a strike in consequence of the West-end policemen having been ordered off kitchen duty.-1867. Disco very in a London boarding-house of a knife that will cut.-1880. The Queen forced to give up Bucking ham Palace on account of the barrel organ nuisance.- 1887. The fashions receive the attention of govern. ment. A bill introduced for the total abolition of the hat called chimney top, with clauses to regulate the distances down the back at which the lady may wear her bonnet.-1900, A the temperance seeietyin c grand e leb r a a t q i u o a n t iocf theire given p b h y of having persuaded a cabma n to take the pledge. EARLY CLOSING.---THE LAD IES ' LEAGUE.---We learn that committees of ladies are about t o be iormed to carry out the principle of early closing ; the ladies pledging themselves, and, if necessary, all that is dear to them, to abstain from all evening shopping. We are delighted to hear this, as we are convinced that the news will be most welcome to thousands of affectionate husbands driven out to their clubs by the evening absence of the best and brightest ornaments of the fireside---the wife. With evening shopping rigorously suppressed, the fond husband will be enabled to take the partner of his bosom to the opera, the theatre, the concert ; places which, if he visits at all, he is now too frequently compelled to visit:alone. The movement on the part of the ladies, if successful, will be a great boon to husbands. It is, besides, a promising beginning. Who knows P In time, if properly provoked, women may give up shopping altogether.---Punch. SCIENCE AND ART. THE BELLS FOR THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.— Messrs. Warner, of Jewin -street, London, are about to cast the bells for the great clock of the Houses of Parliament, The principal bell is to be 9 feet in diameter and to weigh about fourteen tons, and will be the largest bell (they say) ever cast in England. It is calculated that the four quarter bells will weigh about ten tons more. The work is to be done from the directions of our correspondent, Mr. E. B. Denison, Q.C., from whose designs the clock has been made; and the bells are to be subject to the final approval of that gentlemen and the Rev. W. Taylor, F.R.S. and Pro fessor Wheatstone.—The Builder CLEANSING TUBULAR DRAINS.—My practice with tubular drains is as follows :—Flushing pipes are brought up to the surface, at convenient distances from each other, and flushed from a hose, and a cir cular brush is put down the pipe to stir up any sedi ment that may be deposited on the bottom of the pipes. If this is practised periodically, it will. keep the pipes always thoroughly cleansed, and completely obviate the necessity of large tunnels to allow men to travel through them and cleanse by hand. If this system of sweeping the drains and sewers were gene rally carried out, there could be no danger of any nuisance arising from stoppages in pipes. I find that a gutta percha pipe, with a stiff rope drawn through the bore, with a brush fixed on the end, answers the purpose very well : it can be coiled up in 100 feet lengths, and one man can work a 100-feet brush with great ease.—Correspondent of The Builder. A PORTABLE BRIDGE.—After the meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, on the 20th ult., Mr. La vanehy exhibited in the library, a model of an ex panding portable bridge of his invention. The system had been tried at Paris, where a bridge on this princi ple, fixed upon a b oa t i n th e cana l , h ad b een used for permitting the passage of troops ; the boat yielded con- 199 siderably to the weight of the men brought upon it, but the bridge remained stiff, and the commanding officer had reported well of its properties. The principle was that of a number of strips of iron, or wood, pinned together transversely at suchpoints, as that they should form a series of equilateral parallelograms, the ex tension being obtained by the motion upon the con necting pins, somewhat on the principle of what was commonly called " lazy tongs." A bridge of this con struction could be made very light, for any moderate span, and be conveyed upon a boat to be projected to both banks of a stream ; be used for the centre, or any portion of a long floating bridge of boats ; be carried upon a pair of wheels with a regiment, or used for numerous civil purposes, and its construction was stated not to be at all expensive. ARTIC COLD.—Dr. Kane, in his official report to the Secretary of the Navy, says that where he and his party wintered, lat. 78 deg., 44 min., mercury re mained sold for nearly four months ! The range of eleven spirit thermometers, selected as standards, gave temperatures (not yet reduced) of 60 to 75 degs. below zero, and the mean annual temperature was 5 deg. 2 min. Fahrenheit, the lowest ever registered. " This extreme cold," he adds, " combined with 120 days of absence of sun, gave rise to an obscure but fatal form of tetanus (lockjaw). The exertions of Dr. Hayes, the surgeon of the expedition, had readily sub dued the scurvy, but these fearful tendencies to tonic spasm defied our united efforts. This disorder ex tended to our dogs, 57 of which perished, thus com pletely breaking up my sledge organisation. " The second winter," he says, " was one of extreme trial. W e were obliged, as a measure of policy, to live the lives of the Esquimaux, enveloped in walls of moss, burning lamps, and eating the raw meats of the walrus and bear. At one time every member of our party, with the exception of Bonsall and myself, was prostrate with scurvy, unable to leave their bunk. Nothing saved us but a rigorously organised hut, and the aid of dogs, in procuring walrus from the Esqui maux, the nearest settlement of which people was 70 miles distant from our harbour. With these Esqui maux—a race of the highest interest—we formed a valuable alliance, shaiing our resources, and mutually depending upon each other. They were never thoroughly to be trusted, but, by a mixed course of intimidation and kindness." GOTHIC AND ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE.—In a dis course to the Architectural Institute, at its recent opening for the session, Mr. Tite, in allusion to various styles of architecture, said he was of opinion that Gothic architecture was too fashionable in England ; and he sincerely regretted it,—partly, perhaps, be cause of early teaching, and perhaps because his recent visit to Italy had revived his old impressions. Classical architecture appeared to be almost forgotten by Eng lish stude n t s . At one ti me E ng li s h arc hit ec t s h a d been mad for Grecian architecture ; but now the great works of Wren, Palladio, Inigo Jones, and the great architects of Italy, were neglected ; and one gentleman (Mr. Ruskin) admired to the very echo the Ducal Palace at Venice—a feeling which he regretted should exist amongst the architects of England. He thought that architects and architecture were much indebted to Mr. Ruskin, but he regretted that his lot had been cast in Venice ; for of all the ugly types of Gothic architecture to be found on the continent, that of Venice was, in his opinion, the most ugly ; and although he agreed with Mr. Ruskin and Mr. Street that the origin and progress of Gothic architecture might be traced in Venice more successfully than elsewhere, his own opinion was, that the Venetians never attained any eminence whatever in that style of architecture, and that all that could be claimed for it was a certain amount of pictorial picturesqueness. He did not know whether these views were acceptable to the meeting,—but he wished to recall the serious attention of the profession to the beautiful architecture of Italy, and its exceeding fitness to English religious obser vances;—its facility for accommodating large numbers, and enabling them to join conveniently in the services, and to hear the sermon. At the same time he did not undervalue our attainments in regard to mediaeval architecture, of which, especially in regard to decora tion, we had every reason to be proud. JENNY LIND ON VOCAL MUSIC.—The following extracts from a private letter of Jenny Lind to a young lady, have been published in Dwight's Journal of Boston, United States : If I might be permitted to offer a suggestion in regard to Miss