The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

VARIETIES

p,ci d° ,
anything for a quiet life,"
yt hi
Xng b a quiet pis the Englishman's
theiesnhmiasn;
CHINESEan MAIM ut
.—The tongue of wot Lir
°Word, and they never suffer it to prow rusty.
ECCLESIASTICALhN DROVER.—" We hear, on very
has
authority," says the Tablet, " that Dr. Ullathorne
"IlAsiv
GRarrivedAin London with the bulls from Rome !"
s.—Revolution—To love ruin. Universal
'ltifroge—Guess a fearful ruin. Radical Reform—Rare
mad frolic. Annual Parliament—l am an unreal plant.
7etegraphs—Great helps. Old England—Golden land.
GOPD REMARK.—The Boston Courier says, " Aaron
Burr died a Christian. according to the Netv York Times.
°(:) much the better for himself. If he had lived a Chris-
tian, how much better it would have been for the world
!" , There is this difference between happiness and wisdom;
he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so;
but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally just the
,'eberse.
tjaE CIRCLE OF HUMANITY.—FeneIon was accustomed
suY,my family better than lf; my coun-
I'Y better than my family ; and mankindmyse better than my
inllatrY : for I am more a Frenchman than a Fenelon ;
more a man than a Frenchman."
der:(ViT`rOSTICATION AT FAULT.—It iS generally
isconsi-
asfaihled i rt
al:acettahiti the appearance of the oak in leaf before the
sign of a dry summer. This has signally
ash, yet 1848 ; the oak leafed nearly six weeks before the
1. the summer has been a remarkable wet one.
riausihitb AIORPETH IN A NEW CHARACTER.—By an 21-
tati.g tYPographical blunder, occasioned by the disar-
'.thlitie.tit of two lines, the Leeds Mercury represented
tor 'light Hon. Lord Morpeth, M.P.," to be Sub-Edi-
-I,clate principal reporter) of the Leeds Mercury."
rlMsatlantic editors are often amusingly personal—
j,,,,ll,slngly to those whom it concerns not. We quote the
lot Mille Journal, e. g. :—" Chapman, of the Indiana-
of zd'.oentinei, says that Mr. Van Buren has ' the mark
good" upon his brow.' Chapman has the mark of a
.„tnanY canes upon his
1141.0100 s IF TRUE.—It is a curious fact that nearly
thibirths in the animal world (at least in England)
111103,Q:ear, are of the male gender. The registrar's return
ata,i'l a majority of men-children, in most districts ; and.
little the cattle, sheep, &c., the farmers say there is
k else but male produce.
vthilleralsr DRAMA.—The church books of Tewkesbury,
hibie,u have been preserved for a considerable period, ex-
ill,Z,,the followin entry :—"A. D. 1571: Paid, for the
Atiirs gear, six sheep skins for Christe's garment."
are +lila an inventory forming part of the same collection
lle,' a words—" Order eight heads of hair for the.apos-
eV ten beards and a face (or visor) for the devil."
'anunt.Esom CONGREGATION.—One Sunday, when
NpoNiaister of Udny entered the kirk, he was no less
lat.,llsed than indignant to find that " daft Jamie Flem-
aka;.ad taken possession of the pulpit. " Come doon,
`litian'' said his reverence. " Come ye up, sir (answered
an, it they're a stiff-neckit and rebellious generation,
A will tack us baith to manage them."
litteer,,WANSEA OPINION.—Two old ladies meeting in the
!aciai; at Swansea, during the meeting of the British As-
Yit,,-43,a there one asked the other the meaning of all the
'to an'iaLl stir, and who were the parties that made
„tr,eaCr,'clw," was the reply, " but I amt old there are a
`laire;lan,Y professors among them." " Professors !" ex-
-8 Ateze, the other ; " I do hate professing !"
IMPORTATION INTO HULL.—AirlIt 1595, we
lid in the household book of the Cliffords, a sum
Zaligh,ea shillings ,They f six cabbages and some Flanders, roots
" at H 1111." were imported from
Virace
t even Queen Catherine, in the reign of Henry
te,aeraVati her salads. Potatoes and turnips were not
s4lizak Y known, even to the gardener, until the reign of
ntr)IcITLE A TEST OF TRUTH ?—it is a much-dis-
ti leestion whether or not ridicule be a test of truth.
the s the
tv,_ question appears rnswered by saying, that if
iinaras,`"a be developed ab intra from the argument—not
•t'eint it tab extra—it is a test. If a wit descries the
414,i'le1411rdity grinning under a moral mask, and exposes
bas tnakAtonfuted the argument ; and if he himself grins
's faces at the mask, he may excite laughter, but
g 11 rtied confutation.—Athenmum.
I.:LA'', HONOUR !—Our amusing contemporary,
tivgattoe, talking of the " Manchester and Salford
*P. With says, " The Earl of Ellesmere honoured the
Bonder if his presence on board the steamer, &c. We
t4ally it hase river was sensible of the honoui ! They
'thia,,,grown so proud since, that it will not bear
to oallader a Duke now. A party of merchants yen.
t,t by there
Saturday, and were only saved from drown-
L'ere being the son of a baronet in the boat.-
1344"
4u 1) v
OF THE HOUSE.—The English term "hus-
Was 'which ,
ano 8 deri lid from the Anglo-Saxon words hus and
!Pet ancient'
signify the " bond of the house ," and
l
14 thus Y spelt " housebond," and continued to be
hoLroduetio'n some editions of the English Bible, after the
famd~thVA Printing. A husband, then, is a house-
tli.; thud of a house—that which engirdles the
Pete
and
~ne union of oneness of love. Wife and chil-
li° 8 and their!'tvanger within the gates,"—all their inte-
nd' •
Aa a PPiness are encircled in the " house-
pictuu ‘tice, the objects of his especial care. What
Le 4.L •
cge! 4 ',us of a husband's duty, and a family's

ICE IN THE HOT ASHES OF MOUNT ETNA.—The main
crater is about five hundred feet deep at this time (so say
the guides); but I think this must be measured down the
slope of the funnel. I could not, however, see to the
bottom, owing to volleys of sulphureous smoke, whirling
up ever and anon, accompanied by a rumbling noise, and
occasionally by a slight vibration of the ground underfoot.
Here I found, amid warm ashes, on the slope of the cra-
ter within, heavy crystals of ice set all at one angle, and
curved like sharks' teeth. I picked up one bit as big as a
walnut, and asked the guide if he could account for its
presence. Far be it from him to give a " rationale" of
anything of the sort; it would derogate from the dignity
of Etna. It reminded me of a chemical experiment
played off by a French savant at one of the late " Seien-
ziati" meetings. He made water freeze in a red hot cup.
The silver of platina being brought to a red heat, a few
drops of water are thrown in, which do not evaporate, but
jump about. Sulphuric acid is now poured in, which in
the act of boiling produces so intense a cold by the dis-
engagement of its latent heat, that the drop of water at
once turns to ice. I opine the chemical process here to
be the same, only on Nature's grand scale. The morning
mists supply the moisture, and within the crater there is
no lack of sulphureous mixture boiling as in a retort ;
hence as hot fumes ascend, the crystals of ice are precipi-
tated. If any one rejects this solution of mine, let them
find a better, remembering that they are to account for
pieces of ice forming on a bed of warm ashes. This princi-
ple of " disengagement of latent heat'T may also help to
account for the severity of the cold felt on Etna, which is
far greater than is due to its elevation.—Francis's Notes
on Italy and Sicily.