The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

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in all their pride the very noblest of beasts, the 'grim
monarch' of the plain. Imperfect and hurried as this
account is, I trust it may afford you some amusement.
With Cumming; I confess myself better able to
handle the rifle than wield the pen.' "

VARIETIES.

As daylight can be seen through small holes, so do
little things show a person's character.—Drew.

A WOMAN may always judge of the estimation it
which she is held by the conversation which is ad.
dressed to her.

THE WORLD is a hospital—be kind, humble, and
patient •itis a masquerade—be prudent ;itis a battle
field—be bold.

THE MEDIUM TRUE.---Neither he who incessan

hunts after the new, nor who fondly doats on the ow,
is just.---Lavater.
WHY is a man who keeps his eyes shut like an
illiterate school-master ?---Because he keeps his pupils
in darkness.

THE ARMY.—Though a soldier, in time of peace, is
like a chimney in summer, yet what wise man would
pluck down his chimney, because his almanack tells
him 'tis the middle of June.
THEY that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for
certainly man is not of kin to the beast by his body;
and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base
and ignoble creeture.—Bacon.
WHO are the saints of humanity ? Those whom
perpetual habits of goodness and of grandeur have
made nearly unconscious that what they do is good
or grand,—heroes with infantine simplicity.—Lavater.
MODESTY is a thin transparent veil which shows
with superior lustre the graces it would seem to cover,
as the new blown rose is more beautiful when its
leaves are a little folded than when its glories are fully
developed.
" I was not aware that you knew him," said Tom
Smith to an Irish friend the other day. " Knew him !"
exclaimed he, in a tone that comprehended the know-
ledge of more than one lifetime, " I knew him when
his father was a boy!"

IT seems to me a great truth that human things
cannot stand on selfishness, mechanical utilities, econo-
mics, and law courts ; that if there be not a religious
element in the relations of men, such relations are
miserable, and doomed to ruin.—Carlyle.
FlCHTE.—Fichte's popularity was (at one time) so
great, or the interest in metaphysical speculations so
intense, that the booksellers paid him six Louis d'ors
a sheet, while Goethe received only five, at the same
time, for his most admired works.—Life of _Richter.
CRA3IP.—Those who may be subject in the night-
time to that excruciating pain called cramp, will be
doubtless glad to learn that by tying, any kind of
bandage very tight round the leg, immediately above
the knee, this unpleasant sensation will be instanta-
neously removed.

AGREEABLE TRANSFORMATION.—On the abdication
of Bonaparte, in 1814, it was stated in a fashionable
party at Paris, that everything was to be restored to
the same state as in 1788, " Oh, lam delighted to
hear that," exclaimed a lady who had passed the bloom
of youth ; " for then I shall be only eighteen years
of age."
REST upon God's truth and faithfulness for the
making good of all those gracious promises that He
hath made in His Word concerning thy temporal pro-
vision and preservation for the future. There is no
want of power in Him that He should not be as big
as His word : there is no want of love in Him, that
He should not be as good as His word.—Bishop
Sanderson.

RADICALISM.—In one of Hogarth's pictures, there
is a man sitting astride a projecting sign of the Crown,
sawing away at it, and seemingly quite unconscious
that when he succeeded in sawing it down, he would
infallibly come down himself. The great moral painter
intended to symbolise here, those egregious fools who
have not wit enough to-see the danger to themselves
of their own political acts.

JOY.—Laugh on, never mind the censure of cynics.
Joy is one of the greatest panaceas of life. It braces
the nerves, makes the heart dance to pleasant music,