The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

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COMPARISON.—Why is a solar eclipse like a woman
whiPPing her boy ?—Because it is a " hiding of the sun."
VERY NATURAL.—" I hate to hear people talk behind
one's back," as the robber said when the constable called
" Stop thief ! "
Q. What distinguished " knight of the hammer" best
represents a " Ragged School ?"—A. Tatters-all.—Pup-
Pet Show.
Am IRISH ACQUAINTANCE.—An Irish gentleman was
One day speaking to a friend of the dangerous qualities of
a mutual acquaintance—" To say the truth I dont like
him entirely—l really think that he would murdher a
man." " Murdher a man (exclaimed the friend)—why
murdher a bull !"
OARS.—The following are said to be the largest British
'oaks which we have on record :—The Cowthorpe, in
Yorkshire, which measured 48 feet in circumference at a
Yard from the ground ; the Shrewsbury, 44 feet at the
bottom ; the Essex, 36 feet at the bottom, and known by
the name of " Fairlop" ; and the Hatfield, 38 feet cir-
Tumference and 120 feet high.
GREEN CORN PUDDING.—rake of green corn twelve
ears, and grate it; to this add a pint of sweet milk, a
quarter of a pound of fresh butter, four eggs, well beaten :
-pepper and salt, as much as sufficient, stir all well toge-
ther and bake four hours in a butter dish. Some add to
-the ingredients a quarter of a pound of sugar and eat
'Pudding with sauce.
THE CHOLERA.—The following fable may not be in-
°PPortune at the present moment :—One day a traveller
!net the plague going into Cairo, and accosted i t thus—
Por what purpose are you entering Cairo ?" To kdl
4,000 people." Some time after the same traveller met
the plague again, and said, " but you killed 30,000 ?,,
Nay," the plague replied, " I killed but 3,000 ; fear
did the rest."
ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON-'—OnTuesday morning
early, as the Duke of Wellington was
tiding on horseback from Chatsworth to Chesterfield, his
trace was accosted by an old Peninsular veteran of the
name of Jackson, who, in a style which no impostor
action could counterfeit, spun a somewhat long yarn about an
et
Spain at which he had been present, and in the
son half-a-
who neighbourhood of his illustrious commanding officer,
jackrecollected the circumstances referred to and gave
so sovereign. Still the story went on—Jack-
fought another battle over again, where the duke
also commanded. " Give me back the half-sovereign,
my fine old fellow," said the duke. " and there is a whole
One for you." Jackson has hitherto told his stories gra-
tuitously, but he now intends to set some value on his
" Recollections of the Peninsula."—Leicester Journal.
SUAKSPEARE AND CERVANTES.—On the 23d of April,
1616, the gentle spirit of the great Cervantes passed from
earth; a day the more mournfully memorable because it
saw Shakspeare expire too ! It is a singular coincidence
that these kindred spirits, the great high priests of nature,
learned in her lore, initiated in all her mysteries, and the
most rarely gifted of all her sons, together winged their
way to heaven. Thus from the ark, when her mission
was done, and the wide world of waters had subsided,
went forth the gentle dove—like them, to return no more.
But as the dove, to administer to the happiness of Noah's
little world, left with it the green olive-branch,which told
12f the verdant hills and valfies of the reappearing earth.
:
o did Shakspeare and Cervantes leave us, in their works,
evergreen inheritance ;—fields yielding fruit richer
than that of the fabled Hesperides, and flowers tinct withh e
Mr. E. R. Denny's Lecture at the Collegiate
I►astl'u"on, on the Life and Genius of Cervantes.