The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-08 00:00:00

DISCHARCIND

23 Cured 22
Relieved and at own request 4
17 1 Attending as Out Patients. 15
1 Irregular

40 I Died.
Remainingin the Hospital.. 72,

Consulting Surgeon, William Gill, Esq.
House Visiters, John Lightbody and R. P. Cartsr, Esqrs.
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson,Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. Wm. Hughes.-House-Surgeon, Mr. Parker

How TO CALCULATE LEASES TOR LIVE.—Add the
ages of the different lives together. Then take the aver.
age years of them ' • which average deduct from the num-
ber eighty ; and whatever the remainder is, divide by two ;
and the result will be the number of years value which
the lease is reckoned to be worth.

A DANGEROUS PET.—During our conversation a young
panther, that we had not at first perceived asleep on a
corner of the divan, advanced slowly and lay down close
by his master, at the same time putting his paw upon one
of us. At this piece of unexpected familiarity we could not
restrain a movement of surprise. The Defterdar, who
seemed to enjoy our embarrassment, gave us a mischiev-
ous glance. " Are you afraid ?" said he. " No," we
replied. " Why, should we be afraid ?" " Fear nothing,"
quoth he, " the animal is tame." Saying these words he
pulled the panther's whiskers, and the brute, by showing
his long sharp teeth, and uttering a discontented growl,
showed how little he relished this conduct. " I am
sorry," proceeded our host, " that I cannot show you the
lion which I brought from Shendy ; but a few days ago I
was making him play with one of my mamlocks, who,
awkwardly treading on the animal's toe, was devoured
before my eyes. I was compelled, for my own safety's
sake, to lodge a couple of pistol-bullets in his head. Poor
animal—it was so very fond of me 1" We requested the
Bey to have the kindness to send away his panther, if he
wished us to prolong our visit, and one of his khawasses
delivered us from its disagreeable company.—Library of
Travel.

A SINGULAR CREST.—Thomas Fitz-Gerald, father of
John, first Earl of Kildare, bore the sobriquet of Nappagh,
Simiacus, or the ape, from the following ludicrous circum-
stance :—When he was an infant of nine months old, his
grandfather and father were both killed in the war waged
by them against M'Carthy, an opposing chief. He was
then being nursed at Thralee, and his attendants, in the
first consternation caused by the news of the disaster,
ran out of the house, leaving the child alone in his cradle.
A large ape or baboon, kept on the premises, with the
natural love of mischief inhereat in that mimic tribe,
taking advantage of the circumstance, took him from his
resting place, and clambered with him to the roof of the
neighbouring abbey, and thence to the top of the steeple.
After having carried his noble charge round the battle-
ments, exhibiting the while various monkey tricks here-
tofore unknown to nursery maids, to the no small con-
sternation and amazement of the spectators, he descended
with careful step, ad terram firnsam, and replaced the
child in the cradle. In consequence of this event, the
earls of Kildare and other noble branches of this ancient

line assumed as a crest, "An ape proper, girt about ti
middle and chained or," and for supporters, two apes.
The addition of the chain is singular.—Th et( riOilliief of
Heraldry.