The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

NEW DEFINITIONS.

SOLITUDE.—The state of a passenger by one of the
" Birkenhead direct" boats.

A MELANCHOLY SITUATION.—The moneytakers at the
Birkenhead slip.

A BAD ACCOUNTANT.—The turnstile at Woodside slipo

FIRE fIAT OLDHAM.—The large mill belonging to
Messrs. Andrew and Co., cotton-spinners, was on fire on
Saturday morning. The loss will not be less than £BOOO
or £30,000.

ROYAL LIVER THEATRE.—Last Thursday the per-
formance was under the patronage of the Hon. Captain
Grimston and his lady, who honoured the theatre with
their presence. The comedy of the " Honey Moon" was
well played. A very laughable interlude followed, called
" Miles's Boy," in which Mr. Pilgrim, as the hero, a
mischievous but good-natured Irishman, keeps the house
in a roar of laughter. He has a good brogue and the best
Irish face we have seen for a long time. The applause at
the fall of the curtain was tremendous. Mr. Pilgrim was
honoured with a call before the curtain. The Middle
Temple," in which Mr. Widdicomb played to great ad-
vantage, and a very good ballet, finished the night's
amusements.
SLEEP.—The Poet Young says, "Sleep is great Nature's
second course—the balm of hurt minds." Johnson says,
"It is the parenthesis of human woe." Sleep being thus
appreciated by mankind, how des' sought we to be that
all should tranquilly enjo weet repose," the general
obstruction to wide • rough an unhealthy action of
the liver or of viscera. A little attention to the
" young disc ," by having recourse to a mild E perient,
often produ es a most salutary effect, and for such purpose
Frampton's Pill of Health stands prominent in public
opinion.
PARRICIDE.—On Monday, the inhabitants were alarmed
by a report that Mr. Oliver Luck, farmer, had been mur-
dered by his daughter Betsey. The only persons in the
room at the time of the occurrence were the unfortunate
deceased and his daughter, aged 35, who lies been an idiot
from her infancy. On the day in question the servant-
girl went into the daughter's bedroom to dress her, when
she refused to get up. In consequence of this the girl
told her master, who immediately went up stairs, and as
soon as he got into the room he began scolding her, when
it is conjectured she pushed him backwards, and in falling
it is supposed his head came into contact with a beam, as
the only mark found upon him was a large contused
wound on the back of the head. He soon died.—Sussex
Express.
'VOICE OF THE TENCH.—In the spring of 1823, I re-
ceived from a friend a brace of tench just taken from the
water. They were deposited by the cook in a dish, and
placed upon a very high shelf in the larder, a room
situate between the dining parlour and cooking kitchen.
On the following midnight, whilst writing in the dining
room, to which I had removed in consequence of the
extinction of the fire in the library, my attention was
suddenly excited by a deep, hollow, protracted groan,
such as might be supposed to proceed from a large animal
in extreme distress. It was twice or thrice repeated ; and
all my efforts to discover the source of the alarming
sound were ineffectual. At length my ear was startled
by a loud splash, succeeded by a groan more deep and
long-continued than those which I had previously heard,
and evidently proceeding from the larder. Inspection of
that room quickly explained the mystery. One of the
fishes had sprung down from the shelf on the stone floor,
and there lay with mouth open, and pectoral and ventral
fins extended, and uttering the sounds by viNfrvii
night labours had been so unexpectedly intpr-1-41
day both fishes were cooked for dinner (art
tenacity of life in the tench, that allp4`tt
had then elapsed since their remove 15,,snAsb
element, both fishes, after having undetkodt"
of scaling and evisceration, sprang vigpirc"
pot of hot water when consigned to it itv,to:
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