The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

/I~ 1 06 ' .t\t) v~MBFR 2 0, 1855 SUPP L Pt ) 441 theV Sa yslyseldom or never happens to them r. l• kthe d e li very of the i r letters and news -54,h. r ktk 4tu" IcAL JOlCE.—Lnpertinent Page (late tah°e 11 ,1 e tt hi . 4 .7-room " I say, cookey and Soosan, er4eretil,cious fuss about a flea,---how'd yer like 1 4 18 it 4 e ,:s th a , tl e Black Sea sailors is now ?"—Susan. 11°4 7 1 1%,1 1111 perance?---Page. "Why, master 4 4 04 oeft.;' me Bug and the Nipper (Dnieper) meet - [Sensation, and cries of " Oli Sbs FOB A 310 BEEN BONNET. 01 As (1 %/ et ~of foundation, some fragments of lace, 1 11:4131 )0 ° ' F rench rosebuds to droop o'er the . face; 1 4 11 . lie and feathers, with erape and illusion. kio„ so a L l d derange them in graceful confusion : 4 4, L 'et , ti:ue fairy, out roaming for pleasure, '‘ti c atike slight favour of taking her measure — ',4041t„" and the breadth of her dear little pate — ' 1 )I00 4 ; 11 a miniature frame to create ; L A ° as above, the bright mixture upon it, tl i ; (1 % . ": 11 Possess " such a love of a bonnet . 4 , l !te4 ) A A IZOT - A physician, who resides in the O hd - ' 4 0W 1 , 8 Of . -- Londoll, visited a patient in the th `N b , it j'. Dein. , asked by his patient if he did (''',.,convenient to come so great a distance, Sgt q r ‘u h, no ; not at all ; having a patient in , ee t, I can kill two birds with one stone.' ksticketred too good a shot, the M.D. got his 'ti 4 q 4() trlt . 1) ~ B e 4 4 .,,N THE BENCH.—A Scotch judge, when ,iuee on a man who had been convicted of iN t 'N d unks expressed a hope that the penalty impress on the prisoner's mind the in, () aT hou shalt not covet thy neighbour ' s ass." 4 4 that is thy neighbour's," interposed g 01, cc r the . bench. To the latter the prisoner_ h bit will be time enough to tell me that when ack ‘c t44l'st interview2ll had better make the most of rejoine his lordship " 0.0,, safe to cultivate our acquaintance'' " it is by S tq QUARE THE ClRCLE.—Eureka! exclaims thetLloellei, Spectator last week. The circle is t ,4i i , 4 oC ‘o --" If you take a silver wire twelve Kelp a 7 tOuarter long, the quarter be'ng allowed e ; A4eL!*o ends, you have a circular wire exactly 1 4144 ,144 4 - ' 5 ; and if this wire is made to form the eachof its sides will be equal to nine 0 4 . 1 140 1 . 4 e e k Now if the same wire is allowed to e t t 4 i ele 10 , 11 e circle, it is evident that the area of in be the same as it was in the square. t Bt a Ce ti 4 41 °b e i f a wall be built around a city, and it is e 'we've miles round, the area of that city l a ttat e ktl equal miles. The r efore, the square of any " 1 4 1 , 4 ..g1 to three-f our th s o f th e l en gth of its own te 'l WaB S TRENGTH.--The following interesinterestings4l;ts k ,„ related in a speech, delivered by the 0. °I th' i r s en, at a meeting of the Manchester 1,75 1 *" British and Foreign Bible Society, last top A stl ae was a nobl e an d bl esse d answer o f our t ti t tha li t ( march of a free people, reigning more Oc t 4 a because reigning in the fear of God e RA 'iobl a be d answer she gave to some African Nt4 oent an embassage with costly presents, k l t t N itti lit tt in ret urn to tell him the secret of Eng iph,totie,,ll"s and of England's glory ; and our ic0(11, IN,I I sent him, not th e num ber of her fleet, s' ls er of her armies, not the account of her Il ul e llle rchandise, not the details of her inex °ll ealth i Je w t, ; she did not, like Hezekiah, in an and the ambassadors her diamonds, and Vkirather rich ornaments ; but she sent him N t 1 - b o und copy of the Bible, and said, e -secret of England's greatness !' " ‘4 3 l e g tl/ ' CR A deputation of plain 6 q t . 6 J FE RONOLOGY. li tik ti tk waits upon Lord Palmerston, threaten vt4ll(ldelatt, consequence of the West-end policemen (v ) _ '3' been ordered off kitchen duty. 1870: h:. 18 ; London boarding-house, of a knife that le 4l va.i l l New regulation introduced respect *. 4: 0 (1id,,." Dunmow flitch of bacon. Every Orith"„i t e a to produce a certificate that she has, 10 41s at 7, ( ' least, tried her husband's temper, by 1, 1 '4 1 / 44 1 . 11t ne:a itn " Put to rights," and has also , Q ue ., to cold mutton upon charing days. on ae_u_n is forced t o g i ve u p Buckingham The f as l k ° . ll nt of the barrel-organ nuisance. us receive the attention of the ,EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. government. Bill introduced for the total abolition of the hat called " chimney-pot," with clauses regu lating the distance down the back at which a lady may wear her bonnet. 1900: Grand aquatic fete, given by the Temperance Society in celebration of their triumph in having persuaded a cabman to take the pledge.— Punch's Pocket Book. A GENTLE HINT.—A few weeks a,, , r0 a milk-seller living in the neighbourhood of Grantham, who was noted for vending the article of the purest quality, was awoke at two o'clock in the morning and told that his best cow was choking. Of course he hastily dressed himself, and repaired instanter to the field where the animals were kept, but found them all right. At daybreak, however, on proceeding to the pump as usual, he found that the information was correct, as some wags had inserted a turnip into the spout. BLUNDERS OF FRENCH TRANSLATORS.—The story is well known of the French translator, who came to a passage in which Swift says that the Duke of Marl borough broke an officer, and who, not knowing that the expression meant dismissing a person from the army, rendered the passage by the word roué, by which it was conveyed that Marlborough broke the poor man on the wheel. Another Frenchman gives a not very delicate notion of Cibber's comedy of " Love's Last Shift," by calling it La Derniere Chemise de l' Amour. In like manner, a writer of Congreve's life, missing a letter in the tragedy of the "Mourning Bride," translated it l'Epouse du Matin, " The Bride of Morning." But the most singular mistaking of a book-title is that mentioned by D'lsraeli, who declares that a modern French bibliopole placed Edgeworth's " Essays on Irish Bulls" in a catalogue of works on natural history, as if it had been a treatise on horned cattle. A series of blunders have been committed through a more pardonable ignorance of English idioms. An early French editor of Shakspeare's plays, not approving of his predecessor Le Tourneur's paraphrastical version, boasted of giv ing a more faithful one. As one proof of his capa bilities for the task, he conveyed a most ridiculous notion of the following couplet in the Earl of Northumberland's celebrated speech in Henry IV.:-- "Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so no-begone.. The last words were paraphrased - thus :—ainsi, douleur ! va-t' en, ! which, re-translated into English, signifles—:" So, grief—be off with you !" In one of Sir Walter Scott's novels, that favourite supper-dish, " a Welsh rabbit," is mentioned. The French tran slator renders it literally by the words un lapin du pays de Galles : adding, in note, that the wild rabbits of the Welsh mountains have a peculiarly fine flavour, which makes them to be uncommonly relished throughout Great Britain. WAITING FOB THE DEAD MAN'S SHOES.—During the premiership of the Duke of Portland, a dissolution of parliament and a general election took place. His grace was, of course, zealous in his own cause, and was assisting one of his friends in canvassing a certain borough in the sonth-west of England. As usual on similar occasions, his grace was "hail fellow, well met," with every voter who was still unpledged, and among others, with one who was so charmed with his grace's frankness and cordiality, that he whispered a secret into the duke's ear, to the effect that the tide-waiter was so old and feeble as scarcely to be up to the duties of his office, and that he, the voter, thought it would be a snug berth for himself, and hoped that, as his grace had condescended to solicit him for his poor vote, he would obtain the place for him, This promise Was readily given, but it was better remembered by the re ceiver than by the giver, as promises generally are. It is said that " they go long barefoot who wait for dead men's shoes," but the tide-waiter died at last : for although annuitants are as nearly perennial as mortals can be, "nothing lasts for ever." Away posted the expectant to London, to wait on the Duke of Port land, and demand the performance of the promise. It happened to be the winter season, and in the middle of a deep snow ; it also happened that the King of Spain was sick and dying, and his decease was expected to have considerable influence on European politics. On the night when the west-country place-hunter arrived, the duke was in expectation of despatches from Madrid, and told his gentleman-in-waiting that if any one called, to admit him, even if he (the duke) were gone to bed or asleep. The duke's gentleman of course gave orders to his own gentleman's gentleman, who, in turn, gave iustructions to the porter. Accordingly, about mid night, a man was announced, who stated that he had an important communication to deliver to his grace. The valet at once admitted him, led him quietly up to the duke's chamber, pushed open the door, and desired him to enter. In another minute the elector was at his patron's bedside. His grace, half asleep and half awake, and believing the stranger to be the bearer of tidings from Madrid, inquired, " What news ?" " Please your grace," said the man, " I am come to tell your grace that he is dead, and I come to get his place, which your grace promised me." "To get his place, you blockhead, what do you mean P what place, whose place ?" " Why, the tide-waiter's," says the man, in perfect amazement, for he thought be was on such friendly terms with the duke, that the latter would never forget him or his request. It is said, that after heartily abusing the man for his unreasonable in trusion, the duke's fancy was so agreeably tickled with the ludicrous incident, that he really did let him " step into the dead man's shoes," by making him a tide waiter.—Home Companion. SCIENCE AND ART. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE USE OF CHLOROFORM Several cases in which the administration of chloro form has proved fatal having been published, a medical correspondent of the Morning Post states that the local application of the vapour of chloroform to the paining part will, in a few minutes, give complete relief, without in the slightest degree affecting the general sensibility. Not only may tooth-ache be thus in a few minutes removed, but in the most painful affections, such as neuralgia, tetanus, cancerous, and similar com plaints, complete relief has been obtained after all the usual remedies had failed. It is now no longer neces sary to endanger the patient's life for the purpose of obtaining relief in many of those cases in which chloro form is so beneficial, the local application of the vapour beinc , all that is required. Dr. Hardy, of Dublin, has lately invented an ingenious little apparatus for this purpose, which can be used without danger by patients themselves. SILK AND PAPER FROM THE MULBERRY TREE. —The present researches, both in England and on the continent, for new materials proper for the manu facture of paper, in the hope of obtaining a cheap substitute for linen and cotton rags, which have be come insufficient to meet the immensely increased requirements of paper-makers, have induced Signor Lotteri to turn his attention to this subject, and the result of his endeavours and experiments is, that the bark of the common mulberry tree (Morns Alba et Nigra), hitherto known and used, in its primitive state, only as a combustible, has been found capable of producing a material of a silky substance valuable not only for the reel and loom, but likewise in a still higher degree for the manufacture of paper of the finest description, and moreover (a most important consideration), that it can be prepared for both these purposes by the very simple and economical process of maceration. Thus, we are informed, the biennial pruning of the thirty-six millions of mulberry-trees, which, according to the most accurate statistics, it is calculated are cultivated in Europe and its colonies for the purpose of rearing the silkworm, may be made to yield to commerce, over and above the 200,000,000 of pounds of fuel, for which purpose solely it is used, an immense supply of raw material for paper-making ; and at a moment when the scarcity of rag s, or rather the extraordinary increase of the deman for paper, has rendered it absolutely necessary that a suc cedaneum should be found, the substance now under consideration may be classed with the most adapted for the purpose in question.—We are informed that with the view of bringing the subject to the notice of those it most nearly interests, the secretary of the Malta Society of Arts has forwarded to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts in London a specimen of the result of Signor Lotteri's labours in a series of stages—from the twig of the mulberry-tree to the silky material prepared for the spinner or the paper maker, and we earnestly hope that we may yet have it in our power not only to report its having been favourably received in England, but to inform our readers that Signor Lotteri has met with an honour able acknowledgment of the merit due to his exertions for the advancement, we may truly say, of European industry.—Malta Mail, Oct. 16. A NEW FUEL..." FraxAmENTum."—The following account of the experimental trial of a new kind of 183 / cil,' , t~ f V ; TT Cott 1 0 4ef fr il