The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-19 00:00:00

VARIET:EES.

NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.—Some pains-taking observer
has remarked that an Englishman is never happy but when he
ii iniscrue/e; a Scotchman never at home but when he is abroad;
and an Irishman never at peace but when he is fighting. We
wonder what description of man he is who found out these
national characteristics. How would he describe himself
World of Fashion.
COLD Frioal DAMP CLoTHES.—If the clothes which cover the
'licitly are damp, the moisture which they contain has a tendency
to evaporate by the heat communicated to it by the body. 'I he
heat absorbed in the evaporation of the moisture contained in
clothes, must be, in part, supplied by the body, and will have
a tendency to reduce the temperature of the body in an undue
deg,ree, and thereby to produce cold. The effects of violent
labour or exercise is to cause the body to generate heat much
ib.ster than it would do in a state of rest. Hence we see why,
when the clothes have been rendered wet by rain or by per-
spiration, the taking of cold may be avoided, by keeping the
Wily in a state of exercise or labour until the clothes can be
changed, or till they dry on the
inperson; for in this case, the
heat .carried off by the moistureevaporating is amply sup-
plied by the redundant heat generated by labour or exercise.—
Lard/ter on Heat.—Cabinet Cyclopeedia.

nothing does the importance of religion ap-
pear more clearly than in its suitableness to man, in relation to
an unending futurity. Mau cannot wholly die—he must live
for ever; and religion is the necessary discipline for a happy
eternity. To man, as a being capable of thought, and feeling,
and action,' related to God in the present state, and to his fei-
low man, there are many things of importance besides, though
none soimportant as religion. But to man as immortal, red-
gion isi solely important... In this case, it not only casts other
things into the shade, it absolutely annihilates them. To the
man who died-yesterday, it is now a matter of no consideration
whether he was rich or poor; whether he was honoured or de-
spised; whether he was a prince or a beggar; whether be spent
Its days in mirth, or had anxiety and sorrow for his portion; all
these things, except for the influence they may have exerted on
the formation of his religious and moral character, all these are
now to him matters of nu importance; but it is a matter of im-
portance to him still, and will continue to be so for ever, whe-
ther he was or was not really religious; for on that single point
binges the happiness or the misery of eternity.—You may easily
get other subjects on which to employ your thoughts; but none
th,at eu much deserves them as religion. You may easily get
other objects on which to fix your affections: but none that will
reward them like religion. You may make other acquirements,
which will be useful to you in your social capacity; but none so
universally and really useful as religion. ,To be without religion,
is virtually to deny the most honourable fact which can be stated
in reference to human nature; that it is. closely connected with
the divinity. To bewithout religion, is to be "quite unfurnished"
for the awful eternity on which we must soon enter.—Brouw.