The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

To what colour does a flogging change a boy's com-
plexion ?—lt makes him yell-O.

Paris is lighted every afternoon by 13,221 lamps of
which 5,894 are supplied with gas, and 7,321 with oil.

A. REFRACTORY BUTT.—In a dispute between Sir W.
Lewes and Wilkes, the former said—" I'll be your butt
no longer." " With all my heart," said Wilkes, " I
never liked an empty one."
If you wish to hear all the evil in people's character,
wait until they get married. If 3611 are desirous of learn-
ing all, and more than all their good qualities, have pa-
tience until they be dead.
ANCIENT NAME FOR TAYLOR.—Snyde, inTthe ancient
Saxon language, signified to cut; snydee, a cutter, being
our ancient name for a taylor, till we took the name
tailleur from the French.

King Louis Phillippe, being born on the 6th of October,
1773, has now entered his 71st year. His Majesty is
the first of his race who has reached so advanced an age.
On Friday week there was a grand fete at St. Cloud on
the occasion of that anniversary.
GOLD NOT A POISON.—M. Le Grand, from frequent
experience of its effects in the treatment of disease by the
employment of large doses of the salts of gold arrives at
the conclusion that the received opinion that they are
poisonous is altogether erroneous, and that it is quite as
safe a remedy as iron.

GARRICK'S COTEMPORARY.—There is only one person
now living who performed on the same stage with Garrick
—Byrne, the celebrated harlequin in his time, and father
of Oscar Byrne. He is now in his eighty-second year,
walks as uprightly as in his best days, and is in possession
of all his faculties.—Dramalic and Musical Review.

A PRETTY QUESTION.—" Why don't you get mar-
ried?" said a young lady the other day to a rather elderly
bachelor friend. " I have bean trying for the last ten
years, to find some one who woad be silly enough to have
me" was the reply. " I guess you havn't been up our
way" was the insinuating rejoinder.
. Watercresses will grow just as well on a damp shaded
border in the kitchen garden, as along the brook side, and
will be ten times safer for use from such a place than in
the natural way, where they are always more or less sown
over with the eggs of insects, and other creatures frequent-
ing pools and running streams. Now is the best time to
plant slips of them.
DRESS OF O'CONNELL.—The following is a sketch by
the Times reporter of Mr. O'Connell's appearance at the
dinner after the great meeting at Mullaghmast :—" Mr.
O'Connell looked something like the Great Mogul, with
his curious national cap' of purple and blue velvet and
gold embroidery on his head, grey coat, aldermanic gold
chain, and purple velvet gown with fur trimmings."
THE JESUIT COLLEGES.—This society was established
by Ignatius Loyola, in 1536; they were expelled from
France in 1594 ; from England in 1604 ; from Venice in
1606 ; from Paraguay in 1753 ; again from France in 1764 ;
from Portugal in 1759, having made an attempt to assns.
sinate the king ; from Bohemia and Denmark in 1766
from Spain, Genoa, and Venice, in 1767 ; from Naples,
Malta, and Parma, in 1768. The society was suppressed
by the Pope, August 25, 1773; their establishment was
closed in Spain, and property confiscated, in 1836, exactly
three centuries after the first establishment of the order.

If any one has a horror of icicles, and would never
have the mild temperature of the air interrupted by the
presence of a boar-frost, let him migrate with the climate
Let him spend the month of January in Portugal ; Feb-
ruary in Madeira ; March in Spain ; April in Sicily ;
May in Lapland ; June in Italy ; July in Switzerland ;
August in France ; September in England ; October
among the forests of America ; November in Crete and
December in the islands of the Cape de Verd. By this
rotarory motion, he may enjoy a delicious temperature,
and revel in honeysuckles and roses all the year round.

PEACE FOR WALES AND JUSTICE FOR
IRELAND.

From day to day astounding tales
Arrive from Ireland and from Wales,
Portending future slaughters.
How shall we silence these great guns ?
Compel O'Connell and his sons
To ?red Rebecca and her daughters!