The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
TO CARTERS AND OTHERS.

THE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they are ready to treat
with parties who are disposed to provide them with CARTS,
HORSES, and DRIVERS to be employed in Carting away the
Sweepings from the Dock Quays, and with HORSES and
DRIVERS to be employed in watering the Dock Quays, for a
period of one year.
Persons making Tenders are requested to ,state the number
of Carts, Horses, and Drivers they can f rnish, and the price
per whole day, and per half day, at • i they will undertake
to supply Carts, and good able orses, with active, sober
Drivers, above 20 and not e than 45 years of age. The
Drivers will have to assist i oadmg and unloading the Carts.
Tenders to be made, in inF or exclusive of the Sweepings
to be the property of e parties tendering.
Printed forms o ender, and any further information, may
be obtained on plication at the Office of the Dock Secretary,
where Tenders must be delivered on or before WEDNESDAY,
the 22nd of September next, addressed to the " Chairman of
the Subcommittee for the Department of Harbour Masters,
&c.,,, and marked "Tender for Carting and Watering."
By order, . . DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock Office, Revenue Butldtngs, 13th September, 1847.

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SPOTS ON THE SUN.—Four large spots on the surface
of the sun are distinctly visible to the naked eye, and will
continue to be so for a few days. Their telescopic appear-
ance is unusually striking.
JENNY LIND.—As to Jenny Lind, as a singer, she
stands as high as any artist of our time ; but as yet you
do not know her in her full greatness. Speak to her about
her art, and you will wonder at the expansion of her mind,
and you will see her countenance beaming with inspiration.
Converse with her of God and of the holiness of religion,
and you will see tears in those innocent eyes. She is
great as an artist, but she is still greater in her pure
human existence.—Frederika Bremer.

DERIVATION OF WOMAN.—We read, in Genesis ii—
" This now is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh ; she
shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man."
The Hebrew word for man is, ish, and for woman, ishah.
The word ish means being or existence, and is doubtless
the origin of the Latin esse, to be, and for our English
verb, is. Ish, therefore, means the being. The addition
of the ah, making ish, ishah, is merely the feminine ter-
mination, intimating that ishah, or woman, is a female
being, of the same species, rank, and dignity as a man.
REMEDIES AGAINST MOTHS.—It is an old custom with
some housewifes to throw into their drawers every year a
number of fir cones, under the idea that their strong resi-
nous smell might keep away the moth. Now, as the
odour of these cones is due to turpentine, it occurred to
Reaumur to try the effect of this volatile liquid. He rub-
bed one side of a piece of cloth with turpentine. and put
some grubs on the other ; the next morning they were all
dead, and, strange to say, had voluntarily abandoned their
sheaths. On smearing some paper slightly with the oil,
and putting this into a bottle with some grubs, the weak-
est were immediately killed ; the most vigorous struggled
violently for two or three hours, quitted their sheaths,
and died in convulsions. It was soon abundantly evident
that the vapour of oil of spirits of turpentine acts as a
terrible poison to the grubs. Perhaps it may b 6 said that
even this remedy is worse than the disease ; but, as
Reaumur justly observes, we keep away from a newly-
painted room, or leave off for a few days a coat, from
which stains have been removed by turpentine. Why,
therefore, can we not once a year keep away for a day or
two from rooms that have been fumigated with turpen-
tine ? It is, however, surprising how small a quantity of
turpentine is required. A small piece of paper or linen
ust moistened therewith, and put into the wardrobe or
drawers for a single day, two or three times a year, is a
sufficient preservative against moths. A sknazil quantity of
turpentine dissolved in a little spirits of wine (the vapour
of which is so fatal to the moth) will entirely rempve the
Ofensive odour, and yet be sufficient preservative.