The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-27 00:00:00

with flat stomachs, with rags of red uni dirty blue worn at the seams, and, above all, swords, caricaturing the blades of Damas the east ! the' east !—what have you done degenerate sons of Mahomet !—Magnards' VARIETIES. roofs do not keep out sleepless nights. - says, " Anger begins with folly and repentance." PosT-BoY.—Cadmas was the first post letters from Phcenicia to Greece. `DES of LIFF.—We often speak of being we might as well speak of anchoring in the Atlantic Ocean. is worshipped in all climates, without a and by all classes without a single , tton. 1:1 and steady pursuit of some particu has justly been regarded as one of the sources of happiness.—Malthus. ,c l nce remarked that " carelessness was ,than a half-way house between accident ExCIISE.—A father being applied to for is son's absence from school, the school the following intelligent reply Aterin." _ _ _ as are rarely much annoyed by the 11 lgar people, because they have a power such persons as objects of amusement, altogether. most people a reluctance and unwilling )tten. We observe, even among the td they are to have an inscription over told that he had a fair opportunity of of a bitter enemy, " I wish not to said he, " but there are things I wish 'om him—not his honour, his wealth, or ill-will." have strange names for their settle kto ohn Davis, when travelling in " the lap , 4 lad in the wilderness, and asked him boy, is it to Frying Pan ?" The boy r be in the Pan •hrt-Le.ws.—An American doctor, when 7 Buffalo patient was going on, replied 'itution was gone, and his case was hope "W does he live at all," he was asked, " if be gone ?" " Oh," he replied, "he is bye-laws 1" AMBASSI.DORS.--" Keep a good table the women," was Napoleon's summary Above all know zeal," was the axiom " Listen and look." said a third epig but tell and show nothing." "here are but three ways for a man to of the censure of the world,—to des .n, the like, or to endeavour to live so as ie first of these is usually pretended, the impossible, the universal practice is L Was not made for man," says the poet, Ate r rwoven with our very nature ; it is the 14 it ourselves that makes us feel so keenly 9f it in others ; there are a thousand ways manifested, and most of them without 0 13 . STYLE.—" Ours is a noble language, la nguage ; I can tolerate a Germanism for but. he who uses a Latin or French L l. ° a pure old English word does as well, hung, drawn, and quartered, for high dust his mother tongue." sc hoolmaster, who usually heard his pupils through " Watts' Scripture History," and asked them such questions as suggested to his mind, one day desired a young tell him who Jesse was ? when the boy " The flower of Durnblane, sir." 11r. Pitt was petitioned on one occasion to -`% interest of one of his supporters, he im lt oared whst he could do for the applicant. 10 2 g '8 simple r eques t was th a t the premier n °t; g 4 3n when, they met in public. Was di., P4y e d ;. !ens and a true knowledge of the thi e s iequest ? 1 ~„, ' ' TtliBER 2. ii i l. 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( -ch. throw , I . '' asked iets to h* l , i t t l s tell 11 1 lele i t 1 1 ,, tgied, " i ~,,, 1 ,, ~ A , ; k t1 ,..-1:. Pi! ' 4 il "‘kk\i' l „ .. % inter o f Pet lii -qc kli i rc , ee ..ld N, -' .0131,L0w L s g i r I ROI; lli le rs 1 , d ri ed . -"-4Y \ R 27, 1855.1 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A NIGGER LIEBIG.—" I say, Sambo, does ye know what makes the corn grow so fast, when you put the manure on it ?" " No, I don't, hardly." " Now, I'll just tell ye. When the corn begins to smell the ma nnre, it don't like the 'fumery, so it hurries out of the ground, and sits up as high as possible, so as not to breaff the bad air." THE VALUE OF A GOOD EXCUSE .—A young gentle man having broken his appointment with Dr. Frank lin, waited on him the following day, and made a very handsome apology for his absence. He was proceed ing, when the doctor stopped him with, "My good boy, say no more—you have said too much already; for the man who is so good at making an excuse, is seldom good at anything else." WHAT is GENIUS ?—" Genius," said Buffon, " is patience ;" or, as another French writer has explained his thought, "La patience cherche, et le Genie trouve :' and there is little doubt that to the co-opera tion of these two powers all the, brightest inventions of this world are owing ;, that patience must first explore the depths where the pearl lies hid, before genius boldly dives and brings it up full into light AMERICAN DELICACY.—A little girl at school read thus :—" The widow lived on a small limbacy left her by a relative."—" What did you call that word ?" asked the teacher ; " the word is legacy, not limbacy." " But, Miss Johnson," said the little girl, "Pa says I must say limb, not leg."---American paper. [The Americans think it vulgar, if not indecent, to use the word " leg," and in some houses the legs of the tables are breeched. a a . IRISH WIT.—WHAT TO DO IN A FIRE. — A face tious Scotch friend, who had his lodgings in Balaklava, was aroused by the violent ringing of bells, and general confusion throughout the harbour at the de mise of the old and the inauguration of the new year. Forgetting the occasion, he sallied forth into the dark cold streets, thinking that there must be a fire some where. Soon convinced of his mistake, but ready and anxious as ever (the wicked fellow !) for a bit of fun, he carelessly said to an Erinite whom he found stand ing on guard, " Well, sentinel, if a fire should break out here, what should you consider it to be your duty to do first P" " Indade, Sir, I should think it my first duty to warm myself," was the off-hand and witty reply. INFLUENCE OF NEGRO MELODIES.---It would seem almost absurd to say it, considering the use that has been made of them, that we have allies in the Ethiopian songs ; those songs that constitute our national music, and without which we have no national music. They are heart songs, and the finest feelings of human nature are expressed in them. " Lucy Neal," " Old Kentucky Home," and " Uncle Ned," can make the sad as well as merry, and can call forth a tear as well as a smile. They awaken the sympathies for the slave in which anti-slavery principles take root, grow, and flourish. In addition to authors, poets, and scholars at home, the moral sense of the civilised world is with us. England, France, and Germany, the three great lights of modern civilisation, are with us, and every American traveller learns to regret the existence of slavery in his country.---Frederick Douglas. ENGLAND'S STRENGTH.—The following interesting anecdote was related in a speech, delivered by the Rev. J. B. Owen, at a meeting of the Manchester branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, last week :—lt was a noble and blessed answer of our Queen —the monarch of a free people, reigning more by love than law, because reigning in the fear of God—it was a noble answer she gave to some African prince who sent an embassage with costly presents, and asked her in return to tell him the secret of England's greatness and of England's glory ; and our beloved Queen sent him, not the number of her fleet, not the number of her armies, not the account of her boundless mer chandise, not the details of her inexhaustible wealth ; she did not, like Hezekiah, in an evil hour, show the ambassadors her diamonds, and her jewels, and her rich ornaments ; but she sent him a beautifully - bound • copy of the Bible, and said, "There is the secret, of England's greatness." SCIENCE AND ART. ARTISTIC METAL-WORK AT ST. SOPHIA'S, CONSTAN TINOPLE, AND IN ROMAN CHURCHES, IN ANCIENT Trams.---The conversion of Constantine the Great (said Mr. Skidmore, in a paper read lately at the Architectural Museum) opened a vast field to the de- 191 velopment of greater richness in the decoration of Christian churches. The fact of the removal of the seat of empire by him to Constantinople in the fourth century, joined to the vastness and beauty of his pre sents to the church, g ave an impetus of the strongest kind to works in metal and other adornments of an ec clesiastical character. The chalices of that period, which were large, with two handles, were frequently used, not only for the purposes of administration, but were hung in numbers near the altar. The same emperor gave to the churches he founded at Rome forty chalices of solid gold, each weighing llb. and fifty of 21bs. each, and twenty of 201bs. each. At another period we find Charlemagne presenting one of solid gold, weighing the enormous quantity of 521bs. Again, still later, appear accounts of a circle of ten great chalices, with forty others arranged between the columns of the altar, weighing altogether 2671b5. Time, and the subsequent refusal of the cup to the laity, have left few of these relics of the customs of the early church and the piety and liberality of these emperors. Patens of early periods were correspond ingly costly,---sometimes of solid gold, at others com posed of metals of various qualities enriched with gems and precious stones, they present in the descriptions ideas of costliness utterly exceeding the expenditure on these vessels in the present day. On the removal of the seat of empire by Constantine to Byzantium,. Roman metal-work had engrafted on to it the peculi arities of Greek workmanship, and it is from this period we may date the rise of Christian art. In the wars by the Mahomedans upon the Eastern Christians, many of these works came to the use of Westen Europe. The early Mahomedan conquerors, limited to the most hardy life by the then existing rules of their faith, sold to the Jews whoflocked there vasttreasures, which beinc , purchased at a value set upon them by the children a the desert, afforded them at once a profitable specula tion, and spread through the Western Church num berless models of Byzantine art. At Santa Sophia, at Constantinople, rich mosaics and colour, and gold were to be found : vessels in gold, perhaps unprecedented in quantity and richness, 6,000 candlesticks, and seven crosses of gold, each 2001bs. in weight ; also twenty four copies of the Evangilists, with bindings of the same material, each weighing 2001bs. and set with ex quisite enamels, and covered with delicate filigree. These, and such as these, became at once the type for Moors, Persians, Russians, and Italians, while there is reason to believe the Oriental goldsmiths who continue this peculiar kind of workmanship to the present day, originally derived their knowledge from the court of Justinian and the works• at Santa Sophia.—The Builder. APPLICATION OF COLD TO SPRAINS.—Many different opinions have been entertained as to whether recent sprains should be treated by warm or cold application. Mr. Cook, of Guy's Hospital, entertains as the result of his large experience, a strong preference for cold. He states that the consequence of a sprain may be very much limited, both in duration and severity, by the early and efficient employment of cold. It should either be done by iced water ' or by irrigation. Mr." Cook is accustomed to quote, by way of illustration of powerful cold, the certainty with which the applica tion of ice will induce the absorption of effused blood in an ordinary ecchymosis, a power which, in certain cases of " black eye," may be turned to good account. —Medical Times. SHIP-BUILDING.—A paragraph relative to tubular spars for ships in your journal for October, recals a suggestion I made about two years ago to a nautical friend, which was of course pooh-poohed down with a gentle rebuke for a landsman's presuminc , to think anything nautical capable of improvement. I proposed to construct lower masts of large ships, and especially steamers, of hollow iron cylindrical tubes, the topmasts either of timber or iron, to slide within them, and being fitted at the heel with a cupped leather, like the ram of a hydraulic press, the topmast could be raised by hydraulic pressure, applied by means of a small force-pump between decks—the mast, when raised, being fidded, and the water 'allowed to run Out. By employing a lever fid, which could be withdrawn with out taking off the weight of the upper mast, it might be struck at once, the air contained in the hollow mast regulating its descent to any required speed by means of valves or cocks below.—Correspondent of the Builder. ANCIENT ENAMELS. —Byzantine or Cloisome enamel (says Mr. Skidmore) was made after the following