The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

VARIETIES

A PUFF AS IS A PUFF.—The New York Courier writes
an account of a new iron safe which was exposed to a heat
that completely destroyed its competitor, and from which
was taken, after the trial, a live rooster and a lump of
stamped butter. The butter was harder than when it was
put in, the stamp remaining perfect, and the rooster came
out alive and well, only suffering from the cold, and al-
most frozen by the coldness of the temperature to which
be had been exposed.—Boston Mail.

COOKING A FOWL IN AUSTRALIA.—After the fire was
made, I ordered Jemmy to give the turkey to the black
fellows to cook, with the understanding that they were
also to partake of it. They very soon managed to cook it
in the following manner : they with their sticks made a
large deep hole in the sand, and into this hole they filer-
wards threw a quantity of short junks of wood, which they
lighted ; after burning this kind of wood in the hole for
the space of an hour, they placed the turkey in the hole,
first bending the legs close to the body ; after this a sheet
of bark was placed over the orifice, and the crevices
stopped with sand. Another large fire was made near the
bark, and kept burning for half an hour, when the bark
was removed and the turkey taken out, beautifully and
delicately cooked. The aroma on first taking out the bird
was delicious. Bushmen are proverbially not very fasti-
dious; but I felt no disinclination to eat the bird, after
being cooked and handled by these blacks, and ordered
Jemmy to take off the feathers. This was a very large
bird, and gave us an excellent slipper as well as breakfast.
—Journal of a Naturalist, in the Melbourne Argus.
THE WARINESS OF DEER.—The deer is the most acute
animal we possess, and adopts the triost sagacious plans
for the preservation of its life. When it lies, satisfied that
the wind will convey to it an intimation of the approach
of its pursuer, it gazes in another direction. If there are
any wild birds, such as curlews or ravens, in its vicinity,it
keeps its eye intently fixed on them, convinced that they
will give it a timely alarm. It selects its cover with the
greatest caution, and invariably chooses an eminence fromwhich it can have a view around. It recognises indivi-
duals, and pertnits the shepherds to approach it. The
stags at Tornapress will suffer the boy to go within twenty
yards of them, but if I attempt to encroach upon them
they are off at once. A poor man who carries peat in a
creel on his back here, may go " cheek-by-jowl" with
them : I put on the pannier the other day, and attempted
to advance, and immediately they sprung away like ante-
lopes. An eminent deer-stalker told me the other day of
a plan one of the keepers adopted to kill a very wary stag.
This animal had been known for years, and occupied part
of a plain, from which it could perceive the smallest ob-
ject at the distance of a mile. The keeper cut a thick
bush, which he carried before him as he crept, and com-
menced stalking at eight o'clock in the morning'; but so
gradually did he move forward, that it was five p.m. be-
fore he stood in triumph with his foot on the breast of the
antlered king. "I never felt so much for an inferior
creature," said this gentleman, " as I did for this deer.
When I came up, it was panting life away, with its large
blue eyes firmly fixed on its slayer. You would have
thought, sir, that it was accusing itself of simplicity in
having been so easily betrayed. Inverness Courier.