The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-17 00:00:00

lEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN.

of bedding, displaying stout legs, blue worsted stockings, and
hob-nailed shoes. Sallow Yankees, with straw hats, swallow-
tailed coats, and pumps, carried their little all in their pockets ;
and having: nothing to lose, and everything to gain in the
western world to which they were bound, whittled, smoked, or
chewed cheerfully. Hard-featured, bronzed miners, having
spent their earnings in the bowling saloons at the Sault, were
returning to the bowels of the earth gloomily. There were
tourists in various costumes, doing the agreeable to the ladies ;
and hardy pioneers of the oods, in flannel shirts, and trousers
supported by leathern belts, and well supplied with bowies,
were telling tough yarns, and astonishing the weak minds of
the emigrants, who represented half the countries of Europe.
—Blackwood's Magazine.
FOLK LORE.—DEVONSIIIRE SUPERSTITIONS.—Days of the
week;— "Born on a Sunday, a gentleman ;
Monday, fair in face ;
Tuesday, full of grace ;
Wednesday, sour and glum ;
Thursday, welcome home ;
Friday, free in giving ;
Saturday,work hard for your living."
Tuesday and Wednesday are lucky days. Thursday has one
lucky hour—namely, the hour before the sun rises. Friday is
unlucky. It is very unlucky to turn a feather-bed on a Sun-
day; my housemaid says she would not turn my bed on a
Sunday on any account.
" To sneeze on a Monday hastens anger ;
Tuesday, kiss a stranger ;
Wednesday,
Thursday,
Friday, give a gift ;
Saturday, receive a gift ;
Sunday, before you break your fast,
You'll see your true love before a week's past."
My informant cannot recollect the consequences of sneezing
on Wednesday and Thursday.
" Sneeze on Sunday morning fasting,
You'll enjoy your own true love to everlasting."
If you sneeze on a Saturday night after the candle is lighted,
you will next see a stranger you never saw before.—A new
moon seen over the right shoulder is lucky, over the left
shoulder unlucky, and straight before prognosticates good luck
to the end of the moon.—Hair and nails should always be cut
during the waning of the moon.—Whatever you think of
when you see a star shooting you are sure to have.—When
you first see the new moon in the new year take your stocking
off from one foot and run to the next stile ; when you get
there, between the great toe and the next, you will find a hair,
which will be the colour of your lover's.—When•you first see
the new moon after' midsummei, go, to a stile, turn your back
to it, and say—
" All hail, new moon, all hail to thee !
I prithee, good moon, reveal to me
This night who shall my true love be :
Who he is, and what he wears,
And what he does, all months and years."

ESSENCE OF "PUNCH."

A SHORT CUT TO METAPHYSICS.
What is Matter ?—Never mind.

What is Mind ?—No matter.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—We are requested to state,
that there is no truth in the report, that Mr. Gladstone has
been appointed editor of the Invalide Russe.
QUERY BY AN INSANE POLITICO-ECONOMIST.—IS the
Vessel of the State victualled with the provisions of Acts of
Parliament.

A MORE THAN PROBABLE TURN.—You may depend upon
it, there is something on the move, when our dear mother-in-
law makes her appearance in the house about July or August;
and sure enough the move is generally with her poor suffering
daughter and ailing children in the direction of the seaside. .
"HAPPY LAND" (FOR DEBTORS).—An insolvent contributor,
after reading the recent reports of successes in the Sea of Azoff,
says that, unlike Horace, be both wonders at and envies the
allied fleet, for the more straits it gets into, the brighter are
its prospects.
A SHIP THAT OUGHT TO BE PITT UNDER A GLASS SHADE.
—We see, and we never should have believed it unless we had
seen it, that there is a transport of the name of the Earl of
Aberdeen. The discovery fairly took us by surprise, as we
did not know that in the English mind the name of ABERDEEN
had ever given rise before to a single transport.
PEACE AND WAR, BY LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—We under-
stand that it is the intention of Lord John Russell's con-
stituents to solicit him to sit, for a double portrait of Peace
and War, to Sir Edwin Landseer. The noble lord, in imita-
tion of the picture of Death and the Lady, will be duly
divided. One half of him will appear in the uniform of a
British Life Guardsman, and the other in the simple buttonless
dress of an olive-bearing friend. Joseph Sturge himself has
offered the loan of his drab and beaver.
INFALLIBLE CURE FOR A. SHORT SIGHT.—The sudden ac-
quisition of a large fortune is the best cure. It has been
known to cure persons of short-sightedness in a minute, upon
whom all other experiments had failed. It will bring a person
(a poor relation, for instance) prominently forward, making
him, and his merits even, eminently conspicuous, whereas both
had previously been for years quite invisible to the naked eye.
It extends one's views wonderfully ; and, strengthened with
an aid of such wonderful power, the eye will carry to any dis-
tance, and has actually been known before now to bring home
a rich uncle all the way from India.