The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-31 00:00:00

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CASH. helps along coartino• amazingly. Astonio,ring what
balls and suppers, bracelets, " loim of a bonnet," suburban
rides and picnics, will do towards expanding the feminine
heart, and getting into the father's house.
LIE MOST COMMON SI7RNAMES.—The following is the
number of births, deaths, and marriages in a single year in
England and Wales, of those families bearing the most com-
mon surnames : •
Births. Deaths. Marriages. Births. Deaths. Marriages.
Smith 5,588.. 4,044 .. 3,005 Cooper .. 1,103.. 950 .. 640
Taylor 2,647..2,275 .. 1,518 Clark .. 1,096.. 952 ..• 635
Wright 1,398..1,142 .. 729 Baker .. 1,033.. 839 .. 513
Walker 1,374..1,070 .. 754 Cook .. 910.. 742 .. 483
I Turner 1,227...1,011 .. 680 Parker .. 824.. 661 .. 471

INCONSISTENCY OF MAN.—I have known several persons of
great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed
by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distin-
guished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces.
I have known men of valour cowards to their wives, I have
known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three
ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts
of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.
MISS OR MisTnEss.—The indiscriminate use of " Miss" and
" Mrs." to unmarried ladies is often very perplexing. The
"Mrs." was not always accompanied by the Christian name
for unmarried ladies, and the custom lasted at least as late as
the reign, of George 11. Pope in his letters (about 1719) men-
tions " Mrs. Lepel" and "Mrs.;Bellenden," maids of honour. The
examples are innumerable, but the latest instance remembered
is the Duchetsof Queensberry addressing Pattyßlountin 1766
as ",Mrs.l3lount ;" though, no doubt, Patty was, by that time,
entitled to what is called brevet rank.

PATRIOTTB3I AT A Loss.—A Yankee gentleman, conveying
a British, gentleman around- to view the different objects of
attraction • in the city of Boston, brought him to Bunker•hill;
They stood looking at the splendid shaft, when the Yankee
said,'" This,is • the place where Warren fell." "Ah !" replied
the Englishnian, evidently not posted up in local historical
matters, "did it hurt him much?" The native looked at him
with the expression of fourteen fourth of Julys in his counte-
nance. "'Hurt him !" exclaimed he, "He was killed, sir !''
" Ah, he was, eh ?" said the stranger, still eyeing the monu-
ment, and computing its height in his own mind, layer by
layer " we11,,1 should think he would have been, to fall so
far."

,COUNT CA.YLUS, the celebrated French antiquary, spent
much time in engraving the plates which illustrate his valu-
able works. Whn his friends asked him why he worked so
hard at such an almost mechanical operation, he replied, "Je
grave pour ne pas me pendre"—" I engrave lest I should
hang myself." When Napoleon was slowly withering away"
from disease and ennui together, on the rock of St. Helena, it
was told him that one of his old friends, an ex-colonel of his
Italian army, was dead. " What disease killed him ?" asked
Napoleon. " That of having nothing to do," it was answered.
" 110ugh,'1 sighed Napoleon, "even had he been an Em-
yeror."
LIE MORAL INFLUENCE OF ONIONS.—A Paris corres-
pondent of the Journal of Commerce suggests that the low
condition of morals among the French is attributable to the
national fondness for, and use of onions. This vegetable con-
tains, more than any other, an amount of sulphur and phos-
phorus. The writer contends that a people moving in an
• atmosphere of sulphur, an atmosphere in which the great
Father of Evil is supposed to be most at home, cannot be as
susceptible Of moral impressions as others. Just think of the
morals of the community rising and falling with the price of
onions, and the milder and higher graces of humanity growing
out of a short 'crop of these infernal bulbs. Imagine the mis-
take of a steak with onions! Think of sipping sin with soup!
Think of these things, Cape Codites and Weathersfield onion
caters I—Model American Courier (a Philadelphian news-
paper.)
GOD has so ordered the world that those things which we
desire should come to us by pain, labour, and degrees. We
grow slowly,,we learn slowly. All nature is based upon the
same principle. There is a regular course to be gone through,
of seed, and shoot, and blade, and stalk, and ear, and ripening.
In our dealings with nature we are obliged to follow this law.
The husbandman bath long patience, nourishing the ground,
clearing it, 'sowing, tending, reaping, thrashing, all in their
seasons. There is a wholesome slowness which brings out
perseverance, nourishes industry, makes us feel that we are not
creators, but simply servants, working by the permission and
help of the great Lord of all things. It is a law of our being,
that we must work out by time and care every result which
is worthy our desire and search.—Speculation, by Rev. E. W.
Heygate.
MUPFS.—Muffs are human donkeys; they are laden with
shawls and great coats at picnics, when the sun shines very hot ;
and when the weather lowers and showers come, they have to
give up shawls, and even their own great coats, to people they
don't care a fig about. I have no doubt, that if asses' skin
became scarce, people would excoriate us, and use it to write
their memoranda upon. We are the pariahs of the world,
have to bear all, and get nothing. Look at the frequency of
interruption at meals, by sisters who want one to sacrifice the
greatest gratification a muff knows—eating—to run after
opera tickets, and knicknacks, which I am not to enjoy! Now
am of sufficient importance to escort them in a walk or a
•ride, when I am already tired to death ; -but when the lover
comes, the muff is discarded, cast into a back seat, like an old
coat over a banister ; loses pleasure, dignity, all; and in
return for his self-denial, has his infirmity thrown in his
teeth, Tom ! what a muff you are !"—say they all. Verily.
our species of humanity is but a kind of plank, fit only t.
carry people to and fro, to rebound lightly the more it
danced upon ; ready to hand for cuts and serapes, and subiTt
to be 'perpe.tnalli chiselled I—Fromllome Thoughts,