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

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."