The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

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in addition to the returning nightly rest ; that persons
following trades which usually occupy all the seven
days, are generally sickly or short-lived ; and that
clergymen often lose their health by not taking another
day of rest, instead of Sunday, ,on which they labour.
God gave the Sabbath as a rest even to cattle ; and
what farmer sees not the advantage of this, or would
be willing to have his horses worked all the year round
without the Sunday's rest ? Would the labourer in
the field, or the workman in the factory, like to toil
year after year without the Sunday—without a day of
rest after his six day's toil, a day of refreshment before
beginning his round again ? How many a tradesman
who has not enough of religion or of courage boldly
to keep the Sabbath, would, notwithstanding, be thank-
ful for the Sunday rest, if he could prevent others
taking his business out of his hands on that day !
How do politics, study, and business, waste the body
and wear out the mind of such public men, lawyers,
and students, as disregard the Sabbath? The Sabbath-
breaker contradicts the Lord of the Sabbath, and says,
" the Sabbath was not made for man ; it was made for
me ; I cannot keep it, I have no time, no inclination."
How cloth he say, " I am wise ; in vain made he it ;
10, he hath rejected the word of the Lord, and what
wisdom is in him ?" He knows that his business
would not thrive if, in order to follow it without
ceasing, he robbed himself of sleep ; but he is
unable to see that neither will it thrive so well in the
neglect of the Sabbath, as in the observance. The
Sabbath restores the body and freshens the mind ; it
affords weekly that change of employment, scene, and
thoughts, which is so valuable to the health of mind
and body.
REMARKS ABOUT RlNGS.—Albert Pio, Prince of
Caspi, was buried with extraordinary pomp in the
church of the Cordeliers at Paris. He had been
deprived of his principality by the Duke of Ferrara,
became an author, and finally a fanatic. Entering one
day into one of the churches at Madrid, he presented
holy water to a lady who had a very thin hand,
ornamented by a most beautiful and valuable ring.
He exclaimed in a loud voice as she reached the
water, " Madam, I admire the ring more than the
hand." The lady instantly exclaimed, with reference
to the cordon or rope with which he was decorated,
" And, for my part, -I admire the halter more than I
do the ass." He was buried in the habit of a
Cordelier ; and Erasmus made a satire on the cir-
cumstance, entitled the " Seraphic Interment." * * *
Hippocrates, in treating of the decency of dress to be
observed by physicians, enjoins the use of rings. We
have somewhere seen it suggested, that the rings thus
worn by physicians might have contained aromatic
water or preservative essence, in the same way as
their canes were supposed to do ; and hence the action
of putting the heads or tops of the latter to their noses
when consulting in a sick room. * * * Many of our
readers are aware that there are name rings, in which
the first letter,attaching to each jewel employed will
make a loved one's name or a sentiment. In the'
formation of English rings of this kind, the terms
_Regard and Dearest are common. Thus illustrated :
Ruby) E(merald) G(arnet) A(methyst) R(uby).
D(iamond). D(iamond)E(merald) A(methyst) R(uby)
E(merald) S(apphire) T(opaz.) It is believed that
this pretty notion orginated (as many pretty notions
do) with the French. * * * The story of losing rings,
and finding them in fish, is as old as Pliny, and we
shall have to mention Solomon's ring, which, it is said,
was found in one. We have an English statement of
a Mrs. Todd, of Deptford, who, in going in a boat to
Whitstable, endeavoured to prove that no person need
be poor who was willing to be otherwise ; and, being
excited with her argument, she took off her gold ring,
and, throwing it into the sea, said, " It was as ma
impossible for any person to be poor, who had an
inclination to be otherwise, as for her ever to see that
ring again." The second day after this, and when she
had landed, she bought some mackerel, which the
servant commenced to dress for dinner, whereupon
there was found a gold ring in one. The servant ran
to show it to her mistress, and the ring proved to be
that which she had thrown away ! * * * In the year
1765, a codfish was sold, and in its stomach was, a gold
ring. It had remained there so long that the inscrip-
tion was w.orn off, although the scrolls in which it had
been written remained entire. Codfish, like sharks,
swallow anything, whether fresh or salted ;. bits of
wood, red cloth, and even a whole book has been found