The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-22 00:00:00

ideas of wit, pleasa

iirth, and merriment,
trace the interfused relations
in our wondrously compounded

union of mind and b
We have a few ob,

rvations to press upon our tourist

friends, in referenc

6U. Thirst ; as, ,rn the ignorance of many about
the real danger ,n,lueing disease, and even death
itself, by too sudd,_, cooling of the heated system, we
desire to make ourself clearly understood on this impor-
tant subject. First, in order to convince any wilful or
heedless reader, if theic be such, who may peruse these
page 4, (and for none more than fur them are these
" hints " written,) that the subject has been one of
earnest, cautious entreaty from the lips of experience
• we shall open our own

and en

zhtened retLction

remarks by quoting those of other people, qualified to
express that opinion from actual experience, even
Col. Shaw says, as referring to a

more than ourselves

grave matter whc•rein the temptation to transgress is
never stronger, because a gratification is associated
with an urgent and imperative necessity,—" To prevent
thirst in h, t weather, nothing is better thin to take a
great quantity of fresh butter with your breakfast.
Avoid drinking as you would poison; in shoat, drink as
little as possible of anything, and do not give way to
the first sensation of thirst. I should strongly recom-
mend startir g at daybreak, having previously taken
breakfast." An old hand at walking remarks—" Be
not always tempted by the crystal fountains you may
meet with, being yourself warm. Should your thirst be
overwhelming, take a mouthful; keep it for some se-
conds in the mouth, so as to warm it a little before
swallowing. Never take irps except in brandy or other
spirit, and then only being quite cool yourself." We
shall use the liberty of completing the quotation, though
it passes on to correlative points; because we have no
especial head ill clr which to reduce them precisely.
Our contirental friend M. M. goes on to urge —" Drink
not anything cold, being hot. Pull not off your clothes
when In perspiration, neither sit in draughts of air nor
upon moist turf or moss ; but rather, if you must take
liquid, make use of a drop of real eve de viP (brandy) or
other spirit, because, when the whole body is exces-
sively heated, any cold beverage suddenly gulped down
of gratifying thirst too rapidly

in the ea

pidly cools
down the blood, and c:it cks dangerously the circulation !
See that the food You take be fresh, and not greasy"
,1(1). I shall be excused in present-

loitionat quotation in reference to the
s (Tidied to the skin in alloying thirst,
the narrative of the gallant officer
:—" The heat was dreadful, and the
lie ropes cf the different wells. I had

xperience, that to thirsty

Ives momentary relief, but

he bottom of one of the hills, by which
tt:ck the convent of Bostillo, I halted
inz,king the men wet themselves from
rds." Satisfied of the correctness of
have introduced in the frontispiece
Id be carried out for a moment or two
; plan an objection has been pointed out,
tr of danger from plunging the legs in

Mc Legends of Killarney" abound with humour
and wit., and very likely our readers will feel tempted,
from this specimen, to hunt up therein more racy latin
verses, by the celebrated Abbot of " Sweet Innisfallen."
A glass of beer, tile, or porter during dinner, along with
a couple or three glasses of wine after, where the party
prefers to take anything stronger than Adam's ale, will
be amply sufficient in reason ; or the wine may be ren-
dered, according to the dictate of either custom or in-
validedness, into its equivalent tumbler of spirit and
water. For the safe conduct of the person, and purposes
of health, as well as from the dictates of good morals, we
shall not mind the jeer or laugh which many accustomed
to excess in revelling:4 and wine may choose to assail our
next quotation, which we shall make in favour of tem-
perance, from an old-fashioned writer of as-ured high
I
e relief, though not at first name :

" Drink not the third glass:—which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within, thee; but. before.
May'st rule it as thou list :—and pour the shame,
Which it would pour on thee. upon the fl or.
It is most just to throw that on the ground
Which would throw me there if I keep the round.

Be nut a heast in courtesy ; but stay,
Stay at the third cup. or fmego the iri^ce,
Wine above all things ootli God's stamp deface."

Father Matthew's modern cold alternative is the direct
result of Father Cuddy's old fashioned merriment carried to
excess, because " extremes meet !"

If you have fixed to turn out again into the air, whe-
ther in cold or warm weather, (though, generally, our
observations refer to summer time,) we advise you to use
cold water, and not hot, to dilute your spirits or wine,
as the hot spirituous potation renders you more obnoxious
to catching cold, on the subsidence of the glow which the
heat produces. Our recomtnendati-n may be disre-
garded by many, but those who follow it will find them-
selves the best off. Along- with cold water, and in great
moderation, as to the dose of spirits, we believe that such
as a singe glass of brandy and water is innocent of many
counts of the indictment foraged up by the teetotal ad-
vocatt s !

Our rea?ers will perceive that our plan is to avoid
sanctioning either extremes, of stimulating drinks, or ab-
sti,,ence unmitigated in its rigorous exaction i and the
following will serve to rectify any mistaken views travel-
lers may take of the temperance moderation; or of our
own recommendations thereof.

" Nor are the denunciations," writes a first-rate me-
dical man and physiologist of the present day,• " some-

SELECTIONS.

THE DEATH STRUGGLE

(From" A Fight in the Dark," in Ainsworth's Maga-
zine.)
During his [the victor's] convalescence, inquiries were
frequently made of him as to the mode in which the fight
was managed; and he accordingly gave the following cu-
rious account, as nearly as the writer can remember:—
" When the door %las closed," said he, " we were sur-
rounded by the most profound darkness. It seemed for
some moments to confound the senses, and be close to
my eyes. During the three minutes allowed before the
battle might begin, my principal aim was to get away
from my antagonist into another part of the room, with-
out his knowledge, and to stand there by the wall until,
perhaps, he should make some movement, by the sound
of which I could be directed in my attack. The crowd
outside was as still as death. I held my breath, and
treading so lightly that I could not hear my own footfalls,
I stole away towards that side of the room on which I
entered. Whether he had calculated that I should natu-
rally do so, and had therefore taken the same direction,
nobody can now tell ; hut no sooner had I stood still to
listen for him, than 1 found he was somewhere about me
—I could hear his breathing. With the greatest caution
and silence, I hastened to another part, expecting every
moment either that he would run against me, or I against
him. And in this kind of manteuvring, sometimes to get
away, and sometimes to approach, if I fancied, though
why I know not, that an advantage might be gained, the
greatest part of the silent half hour you speak of was
spent.

• " At length, having safely reached the opposite side,
stood still, resolved not to move again until he either ap-
proached, having perhaps found me out, or by some means
or other 1 could discover his position in the room. Hav-
ing now got beyond his reach, I felt that to be motionless
on my part was the wisest step, and calculated that his
passion and fury would soon lead him on to the exhibition
of less caution. Nothing of the kind occurred, and yet
the first ball discharged was mine. A mouse could have
been heard to stir; but we were perfectly lost to each
other.

" Eventually, whether my eyes had become more ac-
commodated to the blackness, or from whatever cause,
but true enough it is, I perceived a pair of eyes on the
other side nearly opposite me. They shone like those of
a hyena in the night. I fired instantly, and rushed for-
ward. The flash shewed me the colonel crouched down
against the wall, and must equally have directed him to
me. He fired as he advanced, but missed. We were
almost close together. The empty pistols were thrown
down, and the knives used. He rushed on with great
ferocity, and tried to grapple with me, but I slipped out
of his arms ; and for an instant, being quite separated,
both stood still, listening for the place of the other. I
think he must have heard me, for he fired a second ti►re
with such effect as you all have seen. Nothing hut his
knife now remained ; I had knife and pistol. We were
so close together, that he was upon me almost as soon as
his pistol-hill. The latter staggered me a little at the
moment, but I met him with the knife, and from that
time we never separated again. My otject was to keep
him from closing upon me, until I could he as certain as
darkness would permit of using my last ball to advantage.
In consequence of that, 1 retreated in various ways, both
still fiditing. sometimes on the open floor, and sometimes
knocking ourselves with violence against the wall.
" I was growing faint. I found my strength failing.
and then I fired my second pistol. The light instantane-
ously made, sheaved both men redder than the Indian in
the field of battle. 1 heard that he staggered. and rushed
with all my strength upon him. Ile still fought ali tle,
hilt suddenly dropped before me, and more than that 1
do not kpow."