The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-01 00:00:00

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A BILIOUS ATTACK.—" Too much bile in my stomach,"
as the teakettle said when hanging over a hot fire.—Ameri-

can paper.

THE EMPRESS ANNE OF RUSSIA.—The Empress Anne
sometimes mingled in her practices so much of oddity that it
was impossible not to be entertained. Once she decreed that
a certain Prince G— should become a hen to punish him
for some trifling misdemeanour ; and for this purpose she
ordered a large basket, stuffed with straw, and hollowed into
a nest, with a quantity of eggs inside, to be placed conspi-
cuously in one of the principal rooms at court. The prince
was condemned, on pain of death, to sit upon this nest, and
render himself to the last degree ridiculous, by imitating the
cackling of a hen.—Mesnoirs of the Princess Daechkaw.
AN IRISH SEARCH FOR CHINA IN AUSTRALIA.—When
Governor Philip first commenced the settlement at Sydney,
many of the convicts were continually deserting into the
woo. At one time forty persons were absent from the
settlement on their way to China. These travellers consisted
principally of Irish convicts, who were convinced that China
was not far distant to the northward, and were always mak-
ing up parties for the purpose of decamping thither. Most of
the wanderers perished of hunger, or were speared, and pro-
bably eaten, by the natives. An anecdote is told of one who,
after traversing the woods, near Sydney, for several weeks,
endeavouring to find his way to China, had not only lost his
way, but, as is often the case when-the traveller is bewildered
in a forest, lost also his senses. As good luck would have it,
Pat, almost finishing, reached what he thought a Chinese
town. Instinct drew him towards one bark hut in particular,
which he cautiously approached, and was most agreeably as-
tonished to find his wife, whom he hailed with joy, exclaim-
ing, " Och, Judy, dear, how did you find your way to China?"
He had wandered back again to Sydney.

SAWN SLATE PAVEMENT.—Experiments have been made
to ascertain the applicability of Slate to other uses than the
covering of houses. The result has been the discovery that
as a material for paving the floors of warehouses, cellars, wash-
houses, barns, &c. where great strength and durablity are re-
quired, it is far superior to any other known material. In
the extensive warehouses of the London docks it has been
used on a large scale. The stones forming several of the old
floors, having become broken and decayed, have been replaced
with slate two inches thick • and one wooden floor, which
otherwise must have been re-laid, has been cased with slate
one inch thick, and the whole have been found to answer very
completely. The trucks used in removing the heaviest
weights are worked with fewer hands.' The slabs being sawn,
and cemented closely together as they are laid down, unite
so closely together, that the molasses, oil, turpentine, or other
commodity which is spilt on the floor, is all saved ; and as
slate is non-absorbent, is so easily cleaned, and dries so soon,
that a floor upon which sugar in a moist condition has been
placed, may be ready for the reception of the most delicate
goods in a few hours. Waggons or carts, containing four or
five tons of goods, pass over truck-ways of two-inch slate
without making the slightest impression. In no one instance
has it been found that a floor made of sawn slate has given
way ; in point of durability, therefore, it may be considered
superior to every other commodity applied to such uses. The
consequences of this discovery have been, that full employ-
ment is found in the quarries which produce the slates, and
that additional employment has been given to the British
shipping engaged in the coasting trade.—Penny Magazine.

- • -
ORANGES AND COFFEE.-Of all the new enjoyments of
which the knowledge is acquired by a visit to the intertropical
regions, those that reach us through a sense which, in the old
world, is productive of as many painful as pleasurable emo-
tions, are in my opinion the most exquisite. Without leaving
Europe, a traveller may learn how delightful it is to take his
early walk in an orange grove during the season when the
trees are in blossom. The garden of the Tuilleries may give
him a faint idea of it, just before the ancient denizens of the
orangerie have been despoiled of their crop of blossoms, that
the distiller may convert them into orange-flower water.
But the fragrance of the Tuilleries is as inferior to that of the
Moorish gardens of the Algazar at Seville, as these last, with
all.tbe care bestowed on them, are excelled by some neglected
orange, grove in Cuba or St. Domingo. Nor is the rich fra-
grance of the orange grove to be compared, for a moment,
with the aromatic odours of a coffee plantation, when its
hundred thousand trees have just thrown oat their unrivalled
display of jessamine-like flowers, reminding you of what you
might have read, in eastern fable, of the perfumes of Araby
the Blest.—Turnbull's Travels in Cuba.

THE HAlR.—Grey hairs, the proverbial attendant upon
age, exemplify the operation of the principle of defective
nourishment and suppressed secretion. Early and vigorous
in their growth, the hairs of the head are generally the first
to show symptoms of decay. Great differences may, how-
ever, be observed in different individuals as to the period
when the hair exhibits change of colour, or falls off ; in some
it grows gray at thirty years of age, or even earlier ; with
others this change does not take place till the less equivocal
indications are manifested. Many causes which affect but
little the general constitution, accelerate the death of the hair ;
more especially the depressing paSsions, corroding anxieties.
and intense thought. Fevers are often destructive to the vi-
tality of the hair, when they do not permanently affect any
other part of the body. There is, however, an essential dif-
ference in the effects of disease and of old age upon the hair,
inasmuch as the former seldom destroys the bulbous capsule,
from which the hair is formed ; and accordingly, a new crop
of hair is often found to spring up, after a certain time, when
the syStem recovers its vigour. But the death of hair from
age is hopeless and irretrievable, for it implies the destruction
of every part of the root as well as the shaft ; and the conse-
quent separation of the hair is attended with the obliteration
• of:the canal which it occupied, and which penetrated the true
skin. The loss of colour in hair begins in'the shaft, which
first becomes grey, then white, and lastly transparent, giving
to it that silvery appearance which is esteemed so venerable
a mark of age. Baldness generally commences over the upper
parts of the temporal and occipital bones, particularly in the
male sex, and thence spreads over the whole upper surface of
the head. The hair on other parts of the body suffers corre-
sponding changes with those of the head, and also falls off
partially by age.—Dr. Roget.

BRUSI, THE CAPITAL OF BORNEO.—The houses extend
on both sides of the river about a mile and a half, in a triple,
and often in a multiple row, so that it is not easy to guess
at their number with a hope of coming near to the truth.
On the south side there. are, perhaps, seven hundred and
fifty buildings, which, by assigning ten individuals to each,
will make the number of persons there to be seven thousand
five hundred. This allowance is not too great for each
building, as it is often divided into several apartments, and
augmented by appendages for the accommodation of as many
families. On the north side there is a row which runs in a
corresponding manner about half a mile to the eastward, to
which I reckon three hundred houses and three thousand in-
habitants. But here there is a large devarication of the
river, which, after a little distance, branches into several
beautiful sources, or ulus as the natives call them. Here
there is a large compitum, filled in various places with houses,
wnerein the people live in dense crowds, and certainly do not
amount to less than five thousond. In the western conti-
nuation of the houses on the north side, we have at least five
thousand more: these several sums, being added together,
give twenty-two thousand five hundred, which is under the
true number. One of the most striking singularities at
Bruni is the floating market, composed of a multitude of
canoes, which ply along the lines of buildings, and from one
side of the river to the other. In most places the buyer
must go to the market • but here the market comes to the
buyer, and he realises al the advantage of choice and com-
petition without stirring a step from his door. The medium
of exchange is usually large pieces of bar iron, without any
stamp or superscription upon them, every man being at liberty
to have a mint under his own roof.
NOVEL MODE OF APPLYING LEECHES.—During the
mania for leeches which prevailed some years ago in France,
a country doctor in Britanny had ordered some to be applied
to one of his- patients, suffering from a sore throat. On
calling to see the effect of his remedy, the first person he met
on entering the house was the peasant's wife. " Well, my
good woman " said the doctor, "how is your husband to-day ?
better, no doubt ?"—" Oh, yes, surely !"- answered the
woman, •` he is as well as ever, and gone to the field."—" I
thought so," continued monsieur le doctor, " the leeches have
cured him! Wonderful effect they have ! you got the leeches
of course? "—" Oh, yes, monsieur le doctor, they did bird a
great k e dealth eomf gaollo,d,,
ctilimeduguhuhferircnod, ,: whyuld, not
how did them
take3.ot all."—ly
them ? "—" Oh, I managed r
nicely, said the wife, looking
. quite contented with herself ; " fOr variety's` sake, .1 boiled
one half,
~abnuodirtemtehAliloesueagehofin,7d, of the other'. ' 'The first he got down
. emadeunti
continued
vsherye,wsaessiecillcibt.7.,sßomulwihioartrhoer
very
yk
sr%elil
would"hdavteerbhthe next
in the doctor's countenance ; " for he
morning, and to-day he is quite well."
the doctor, with a sapient shake of the head,theye have
"rOirt), " said
would do
better
applied cured him that is sufficient; but they
applied externally." The woman replied she
next time; and
no doubt; if ever fate throws a score of so
unfor-
tunate leeches into her power again, she will make a poulti.
ofthent.—TiteD
A Besultory Man. • .
RUNT I. La,PLANn.—A .peasant generally goes
out in search
earehOf his trail,,and, basing found it, moves in a
ring some miles in circumference to make sure of having him
within it. He then gradually contracts his circles till he
comes to the retreat itself of the animal. Weeks are some
times expended in this search; the, peasantry are then sum-
moned to a skall, by the, landsbofoding, or governor of the
province, and. put under:the direction of the jagtmoestare,
or ranger of the district, who rnarslaalls them, and commands
their movements. The. peasants are
,generally formed into
'circles, and come, armed with . whatever weapons , they. can
Procure. Though' onposa singly ton. whole, host, the hear
often spreads havoc. among'his assailants. Every ball that
enters his huge carcase. but adds fire to his fury, and woe to
the individnal.whom his wrath has singled out. It ceases to
be a mere .pastime, and.. nothing but the ,greatest. self-
ppossession can save him from a miserable death. .Whileqit
ernosand, .I saw. a representation Of an, event. that took
place at a skall in the in
neighbourhood, 1831, and which
shows that bear hunting, must be quite equal to tiger hunting
in excitement and peril. The hearAni this occasion was very
'large ; nothing like an American bear. with. which an Indian
can grapple, but an enormous beast,. able. to carry off a pony
under his arm., His temper, probably.„ne,ver very. good, had.
been ruffled by ten shots
shouldts lodged in different parts of bad),;
all present entrenched themselves, and -awaited some despe-
rate effort on his
pa
head
s ilesdpue than epdoi
illy
him,
his give
companions, him not a lucky shot 'through the
torehtlikse .cfuietus. a,
At this moment. a man,
bolderrrushed
aidtlfaronsai cinhg.sbhe faonrdest,haeitild, btehgeabnetlior
wound him with his tremendous claws. The wretched man
Besides
aw
hisena ssd,
ei
wudreno,sauubtnnideeastbdosivaeecnrogtenoetrlel:ontodt
.letting
which with his muscular antagonist • already
gquoieuttlyhis life, whenayo 'g
Nora.
he
hhounafuustheeudrrteod,hainsduanswsrh'siteahn,coef.
lie had no feeling of, there was some difficulty in
the bear without striking the man.
siigtlhit,i I
'schoouorstie,
ng
As he advanced,
the bear roseonit ltioirried lheiwgsltothtr
Niauder seized th
etulriirsnew opponent.;
his victim' dropped
above his head, to bring it its horizontal position on a level
trustinghs gun with
i
to feelingh both
arms
more thanhigh
piece. An immediate death wound
with
dischargedba r'shhea
isd, and, raised
could alone save either from _their. .enemy.. The success
which the brave man, deserved, attended him, and the ball
passed through the brain of the bear, which fell dead on the
rwcuttl man,—Dillon's Winter in: Lapland, Bre.