The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-11 00:00:00

DECEMBER 11, 1855.] SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. answer. Multiply 464 by 5, and the answer wiil be 2,320 ; divide the same number by two, and you have 232, and as there is no remainder, you add a cipher. Now, take 357, and multiply by 5, the answer is 1,785. On dividing this by two, there is 178 and a remainder ; you therefore place a 5 at the end of the line, and the result is again 1,785. THE following observation on the habit which ladies have of kissing one another is from the new novel en titled " Lost Love?' " There is not the slightest need to kiss at all, but they do it, and in a wooden, mechani cal way, as the people on the old Chinese porcelain might, without the slightest unction, and with the tips of their lips, thinking, perhaps, the while, of the trimming of a gown, or the arranging of a party." AMERICAN ACTING.—On the evening when the news of the fall of Sebastopol reached Richmond, Virginia, J. H. Taylor was playing Hamlet ; and in, the last scene, when he exclaimed— "Oh ! I die, Horatio : The potent poison quite o'ercomes my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England—" a spectator cried out, " Die away, old hoss ; Sebastopol is taken !"—New York Herald. (I(3 r men will infallibly become better, and he that will as certainly become worse ; for virtue, vice, T ' i nle, are th ree thi ngs th a t never stand still. . 4 ERE is no nobility like that of a great heart ; for 'ever stoops to artifice, nor is wanting in good Where they are seasonable.—Gracian. `4•XiTy.—ln a vain man the smallest spark may . e the greatest flame, because the lightest mate usually take fire the soonest. WISDOM.—He that is taught to live upon "'es more to hi s f a th er ' s w i s d om th an h e th a t a Feat deal left him does to his father's care. 'TE ON THE PART OF A DOMESTIC.—Master : eme to-morrow at six ! I'm going out of Will you have the kindness to ring the bell sir ?” l l end of learning is to know God, and out of i tl "'ledge to love him, arid to imitate him, as we I ti g i onearest by possessing our soul of true virtue. D tet ". - ---Never hesitate about doing a good thing. ease it will be all right in the end, whether the k i ia , n larrying an amiable girl, giving a sovereign to 4 th e mart', a dinner to a poor family, or—an order bl paper. le t , i lll4l `r . had a horse which he called Graphy. I N Z 1 (1. name," said Oxberry. " Not at all," ''''Qp4 Tom ; " when I bought him it was Buy-a -'44 ,y, When I mount him, it's Top-o-Graphy, and 1, Want him to go it's Gee-ho-Graphy. 4 4 , 4 1141 's the best retort upon a lie is to out with it, , 4 did, when a courtier. told him that he had " eels in Sicily five feet long. " That," replied •li tt/1 ' ' t eeror, " is no wonder, for there they are so long 'I. e fishermen use them for ropes." A I p ) ,T,tIOUGHTS OF A CONTEMPLATED POLICEMAN. 1 IZQeRCe may put on a bold front, but the falseness % 1 3 - apparent. The strings of the " Dickey " 'gyp out ! Long preparation raises expectation ; 4 114 a gentleman takes out his purse, a beggar i‘,,,3' expects something handsome. NZl=co is more odious than the practice of those e } i ' ' kla who with fine looks and promises, make lticl o „ 1) efor services they never mean to perform. ",' something wherein I can serve you, says a 1 6 ,7 1 1i0n ; and then upon the discovery he lays ,44,'' A to some other purpose.—L'.Estrange. rki: 4l, RONEY BEE.—A lady last week sent to every ` () x for the poor a cheque for £5O. The donor known as " Lady C. B." But what a honey-B ! N ! ,, t i; best possible Honey-B ! for does not the B. 'tine sweets of charity when most wanted—in a `'d winter P May the best of flowers never fail r 13 !—P une7. 41, t 4(1 0 % -I,O DGING-HOUSE CAT.—The thieving propen til'e the lodging-house cat are well known. How I, lt cat contrive to open our cheffonier P How is i4 s a fter emptying our spirit bottles the cat never ' ? in toxicated ? What does the cat do with our : kti o , These, and a score of other questions, require l'l to , - ,'" -- Comic Times. N i ,', 4 ll LY HAMPERED—SeveraI wine-merchants '4l'r complaining that hampers forwarded by Ira Y railway are minus a bottle on arriving at , 4estination; surely the originators of conviviality I llot have railway officials unmindful of one of mo st prominent of social injunctions—namely, tharself, and pass the bottle. th e tRs, says Bishop Heber, are the true emblems i r , . best and sweetest creature enjoyments in the ~", being moderately and cautiously used and ',ect, they may for a longtime yield sweetness to po ssessor of them ; but, if once the affections Ai `, () , 0 greedily upo n th em , a n d squeeze th em t oo N t hey quickly wither in our hands. ANnLy ADVICE TO BASHFUL YOUNG- MEN.— k g a morning walk, be sure to take the wall of i 4 ea whats oever , excep t po li cemen an d coa l-h eavers. qleye n i ng party, be careful not to take the wall q , ! if you d o , your b ashfulness will probably give Vness, not only to your manners, but to your WQnd you will remain ther e f or th e whole of the 44 2 , ul , LAR ARITHMETICAL PA,4, -- .—Any number of , 811 1tiqu wish to multiply by 5 will give the same oi l iL. Wile t)1 1 00 h_ cled by two, a much quicker operation; but t 4 th 'emember to annex a cipher to the answer em s a e te is no remainder, and when there is a et, whatever it may be, annex a 5 to the SCIENCE AND ART. REAL CEUENT. — What a sad state we poor moderns are reduced to in architecture. This morning, one of the cement vases on a neighbouring house came to pieces, and fell into the street in lumps several pounds weight. If any person had been beneath, the conse quences might have been as fatal as the round shot or shell at Sebastopol. There are several more vases up in the same place. It is to be hoped they will not come down in a similar manner. There are also vases in Belgrave and other squares. Cement ! real cement ! But joking apart this cement work is the bane of us weak and flashy moderns. Cement fronts, cement columns, cement balustrades, cement cornices, and cement vases ; the latter ready at any moment to fall and break our heads. Pray take warning, gentlemen. If we must have cement, life and limb at least ought to be safe. A jury would give heavy damages against the builder or owner of such cement abortions.—The Builder. CEMENT FOR WOOD AND METAL.—The following cement (says Mr. Wentworth L. Scott, of the College of Chemistry,) will unite porcelain, glf - and, as I have lately found, iron and other meta,,, most effectually. Two parts by weight of Portianu cement, and the same amount of clean " silver sand," both sifted very finely, must be intimately mixed with one quart of glass dust. This compound may be made in quantity, and preserved for any length of time in air-tight vessels. When required for use, it should be worked up with a little of the clear serum of blood (or white of egg, diluted with two-thirds of its bulk of water), with every fluid ounce of which have been previously incorporated twelve to fourteen drops of white vinegar. It is better first to moisten the sur faces it is intended to unite, with this albuminous menstruum, and then apply the cement, kneaded into a thick paste with the same, than at once to employ the latter, made of a much thinner consistency. Whenever possible, the points of contact should be made to dovetail into each other in some way, to ensure a perfect junction; and where the surfaces must be plain, they might be roughened with consi derable advantage. A good deal of cement should be used, and every crack filled up, the superfluity being squeezed out by strong pressure,.continued for forty eight hours. In about four or five days the junction will bear hot or cold water and vibration with impu nity.—The Builder. LAVA GAS-BURNERS.—The corrosion or rusting and choking up of metallic gas-burners is an old grievance, of which there has long seemed but little chance of getting rid, unless, indeed, by the use of some such unrusting metal as platinum or gold,—the sulphur in ordinary gas rendering even the less costly silver ineligible, though otherwise incorrodible. Some one, however, appears to have at length hit upon, and realised, the at least feasible idea of substituting a stony, incombustible substance, which had already not only passed through the fire, but had lived, as it were, in, and been nourished and matured by, the fire itself, as may be said of lava, above all other stony matter. The gas-fitters and others are accordingly now, it seems, in course of being supplied , with burners of this description, made of a close-grained and firm 207 lava, which admits of being turned, polished, and bored, to the requisite fish-tail, batswing, Aro r' mnd, or other form, and either fitted with brass sockets, or simply shaped in the material itself, for mere insertion into the extremity of the branch-pipe or pendant. They are only of recent introduction, but have now been tested in the City, we are told, by nearly half a year's constant use, without being either cleaned or touched, yet continuing, all that time, to yield the same full, clean, and well-shaped flame as at first, so as to be still equal to new, and, in fact, it is said, rather im proved than otherwise by the action of the heat. Should the idea thus prove to be as practically useful as it certainly is feasible, metallic burners may at length be dispensed with.--- The Builder. METHOD OF PRESERVING FLOWERS.— Fill an earthen, copper,or wooden vessel half full of sifted sand, and then fill it up to the brim with clear spring water, stirring the sand well with a stick so as to detach the earthy particles. When the sand has thoroughly settled itself pour off the turbid water, and continue to wash the sand till all the water that runs on its sur face remains perfectly clear and transparent. The sand being thus perfectly cleansed, expose it to the heat of the sun a sufficient length of time to exhale entirely its humidity. For every different kind of flower you wish to preserve prepare an earthen or tin vessel of a proper size. Make choice of the finest, most perfect, and driest flowers of their respective kinds, and be careful to leave the stalks of a good length. Place them with one hand as lightly as possible, upright in the vessel, about two inches below the rim, taking care that they neither touch the sides of the vessel nor each other. Then, with the other hand, pour on them the purified sand till the stalk is quite covered. This being done, slightly cover the flower itself, separating the leaves a little the one from the other. The tulip requires a further operation. The triangular top which rises from the centre of the cup must be cut off, by which means the leaves of the flower will adhere better to the stalk. When the vessel is filled with flowers leave it for a month or two exposed to the rays of the sun, and the flowers when taken out, though dry, will be very little inferior in beauty to new-blown flowers, but will have lost their seent.—Lady's Newspaper. THE METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL OF NOTBE DAME, PARIS.—The first stone of the Notre Dame of to-day was laid in 1163, in place of a more ancient church ; but it was more than fifty years after that, namely, -newhere about 1215, that the west front, as we now see it, 'was commenced. About the, year 1223, it had been carried up as high as the underside of the gallery which connects the two towers. About 1257, the front of the south transept was rebuilt to accord with the western portion, and the two topmost storeys of the towers belong also to that period. The erection of the side chapels occupied the remainder of the century. A more majestic specimen of the architecture of the thirteenth century than this west front is not to be found. It is at once severely grand and deli ca t e ly beautiful. In mass it is overwhelming, in detail charming a grand monument, and a marvellous story-book in stone ! The building was much muti lated at the beginning of the eighteenth century by those who desired to improve it, and more so under Souffiot, the well-known architect, in 1771, Who even destroyed some of the extraordinary sculptures in the central, doorway of the front. In 1793, the time of trouble, the destruction of all the effigies of kings was ordered, and was only prevented by the readiness of one lover of the arts in the fanatical band, who declared that the astronomer Dupuis had discovered the plane tary system in one of the doorways of the church : and so forthwith Dupuis was added to the administration of public works, in order that he might preserve the monuments worthy to be left for posterity : and thus the statues that remained were saved. The doorways contain an immense amount of curious sculpture, dis posed in six concentric receding orders around the openings, and in the space between the horizontal doorhead or transom and the outline of the arch. The wooden doors are covered with very elaborate wrought ironwork. The Abbe Sauval, in his " Antiquities of Paris," says this ironwork was executed by Biscornette, a famous smith of the sixteenth century. " The iron of the doors," says Sauval, " has been admirably bent (roule') by Biscornette. The sculpture, the birds, and the ornaments, are marvellous : they are made of wrought iron, the invention of Biscornette, which died with him. He- melted (Condoit) the iron with an ), 110 Ph i 6 the