The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

THEY have got a great aristocrat in Troy. He won't
even smile, for fear people should think he is getting too
familiar with himself.—American paper.
A HA.THEIL Dcria, YOUHG hulLow was asked if he knew
the history of his ancestors, . He replied he knew nothing,
of his aunt's sisters, except his mother, and she was. dead

WARNING- TO YOUNG LADIES—Do not too soon pro-
nounce your lover a duck, lest you should afterwards dis-
cover him to be a goose.
BYRON'S ACCOUN.I AT A, PARTY WITH SHERIDAN, AND
OTHERIL—" It was first silent, then talky, then argumen-
tative, then disputations,. then; unintelligible, then alto,
gethery, then inarticutate, then drunk."
A Nuw ORLEANS PARER tells of a man who- has.worn
out four pair of boots in two months, all in trying to
collect the money to pay for them! Really these are
" times to try men soles."
CAN sum " 'Dimas" az.—(Shakspere.)—Breathes
there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath
said, I will the Liverpool Standard take,. both for my
and family's sake? If such there be., let him repent, and
have the paper to him sent ; and if hed pass a happy
winter, he in advance should pay the printer!
A TRUTHFUL. OBSERVATION.—Rogers mentioned an
observation of John Hunter, that wherever there was but
one boy with a number of sisters, the, boy was sure to be
effeminate; and John Hunter used to give it as a proof of
Homer's knowledge of human nature, that he makes the
cowardly youth, Dolon, in the night scene, "sole brother
I of five sisters."—Moore's Memoirs..

ORDINARY PEOPLE are so used to be dazzled with
riohes that they pay as much'deference to the understand-
ing of a man of estate as a man of learning, and are very
hardly brought to regard any truth, how important soever
it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there
are several men of five hundred a year who do not believe

it.—Addison.
Ax DETRIORDINA.RT TREE.—A great coniferous tree
has been discovered in California, 300 feet high, on the
elevated slopes of the Sierra Nevada, near the, Stanislaus
and San Antonia rivers, in lat. 38 N., long. 120, 5,000
feet above the level of the sea. From 80 to 90 trees exist,
all within the circuit of one mile—some are solitary, some
are in pairs, and some stand three or four together. A
tree recently felled was 320 feet in length, and 29 feet 2
inches in diameter at five feet from the ground; at 18 feet
from the ground it was 14 feet 0 inches in diameter, and
at 200 feet high it was 6 feet 5 inches in diameter.
Judging from its concentric rings, it is above 3,000 years
old; and one of them, when hollowed, formed a capacious
room, which, on one occasion, admitted 140 children
without inconvenience. It grows not more than two
inches in 20 years, and this proves its age, and that it
must have been in existence when Sampson was slaying
the Philistines, and when the pious /Eneas was carrying
off his father Anchises on his shoulders from the ruins of
Troy.
AN AFRICAN BELLm.—Upon arrival at the age of mar-
riage, which in this precious country takes place about the
thirteenth year, the girl is dressed out with most extraor-
dinary care with rich silks, borrowed in many instances
for the occasion. Her hair is completely covered with
golden ornaments, consisting of doubloons, sovereigns,
figures of serpents, fish, alligators, and crosses. Chains of
gold hang down her bosom, which is left uncovered, and
her tawny skin is exquisitely painted in very delicate lines
of white chalk, giving her the appearance of having on a
tightly fitting vest of the finest lace. Armlets and anklets
of gold encircle her wrists and feet, while the silk robe
extending from the waist to the ankle, is gracefully fitted
over a neat bustle, and compressed by means of a broad
silk girdle around her loins. There is, especially at this
early age, an air of grace, of lively gaiety, and effeminate
softness about the young African girl, which gives to her
movements great beauty and gracefulness, and fills the
mind with such agreeable impressions as we experience
when contemplating a fine picture, a beautiful horse, or
the airy and natural elegance of the young fawn. We see
in her every glance, and in the unpremeditated ease of her
motions, the buoyant elasticity of youth and health, revel-
ling in the glad joypugne.sl of were gamal C2a§tVWXY"'
Brodie Orvikohank.