The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-16 00:00:00

241 h April, 1843

VARIETIES

A learned attorney of New Orleans has taken for his mni.L.,
the Latin words mum cuiyue, which he thus renders in Eng-

lisp ,—" Sue'em quick."
nalthe word minster, in Saxon, minstre, from the Latin mo-
as
wemuns, we apply. generally, to our collegiate churches,
When we say, York minster, or Ripon minster ; yet. these
very far from having any of

churches are, at present,
the nature of monasteries.

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RAPPER SNUFF.—The best known cn
tribe of snuffs is Rappee, deriving its name from the Frern.,.
wrnerdeeepe', signifying rasped, which doubtless was its original
d of manufacture. It is to be procured either brown or
black, plain, or scented, and is in most cases the foundation
of what are termed fancy snuffs. Black rappee is made of
plain Virginian tobacco.
ORANGE WINE.—A Spanish) ournal states that, in con-
sequence of the abundance of the growth of oranges of an
excellent quality in the south of Spain, and the difficulty of
disposing of them for exportation at a good
the growers convert them into wine, which is said to be of
price, several of
a delicious quality, and resembling much in said the wine
of Madeira. The juice is pressed, and left to ferment, in the
same way as that of the grape, after which it is put into casks,
without the admixture of either alcohol or water.
SETERITY.—A remarkable story ia recorded of Zalenens,
the law-giver of the Locrians, who was distinguished for his
rigorous execution of the law against adultery. His own
son, having been guilty, he determined to deprive him of his
sight, and long continued unmoved from his purpose by the
earnest and reiterated entreaties of the peo Considering
the crime, however, as one that ought not plebe forgiven, he
submitted to the painful operation of losing one of his own
after which time,
inorder to redeem one of his son's eyes ;
t is said, the crime of adultery Sheridanunknown in that State.
k JOINT CoNcensr.—When was in distress in
-`.. one of his- resources was, writing for the fugitive
r. in which he was materially assisted by
and many years after his entrance into the sphere
of politics he was heard to say' tha mach ad stuck to the law,
he believed he shoulu have done as as his friend Tom
Erskine :but (contined he) " I had no time for such studi.es.
Mrs. Sheridan and myself were often obliged to keep writing
for our daily leg or shoulder of mutton, otherwise we should
have had no dinner." One of his friends to whom he con,-,
fessed this, replied, " Then I perceive it was ajoint concern.
WOMAN. PARAMOUNT I-sr THE Housz•—ln the laws of
King Canute, '. - -- occurs, which P
a curious passage roves that
the wife, even among the lower classes, was considered as
having an exclusive right to her domestic stores. "If any
man bring a stolen thing to his cot, and he be detected, it is
just that the owner should have what he went after. h Andb
sinless it be brought under his wife's key-lockers, let er i e
clear; for it is her duly to keep the boardof them, name y,
ber store-room, her chest, and her cup• If it be brought
under any of these, then she is guilty ; but no wife mall."for-
bid her husband, that he may put into his cot what he
WATERING PLANTS--IR a most necessary operation,tbhutt
very little nnderstood. Most young gardeners conceive, a
the water for their plants cannot be too fresh and cold ; and
many a pail of water that has stood in the sun
iisi thrown
many
awry, in order to bring one fresh from the " anibros a f .
A greater mistake could not be made. Rain water is nbest
of all ; and dirty and stagnant water, and of a high teinp7-
tuore—anything is better than cold spring vvater. Mr.•L u-
d n recommends pump water to be exposed in open tuhs
before it is used, and to be stirred about to impregnate it
with air ; perhaps the addition of liquid manure, or any other
extraneous matter, would be useful. Those who have
found how little service their continual watering has done to
their plants in a dry summer, would do well to attend to
these simple rules.—Quarterly Review.
THE Suecgssog or THE APOSTLES.— Blessed be God
that many are those amongst us whom the Lord accounts
faithful. We know how great is the influence of such a
Pastor, and how generously it is acknowledged when he walks
among his charge, not as an unapproachable mystic, but as
one of like infirmities with his flock, not as too learned to
soli-
stoop to the dulness of the ignorant, nor too austere to share
in the poor man's joy—the friend of the oppressed, the soli-
tary, and the mourner ; the companion of the lambs of the
fold, ,and the comforter of the aged the ad-
in their pilgrimage.
Many are the kindly offices which he undertakes,—
mission of children to schools the little loan to the needy,
clothing for the naked. inte cession the rigid creditor,
r with
advice in perplexity, instruction in ignorance, sYroP3thY in
!sickness, and consolation in the house where death has made
its abode. In short, as it is the constant employment, so it
is the delightful privilege, of the faithful minister of Christ,
in humble imitation of his divine master, to preach the
Gospel to the poor, and to go " about doing good. "----Rev.
Dr. Drew.
CoPtunP°"tan Cousur.—l myself knew a Polish refugee—a
'andeneski—who, however, strange
wardst turned to say, after-
where
bi out to have been born in the county of Galway,
he lived until a mature age, and whence he acornp-
nßihediaehiass
farstaer, the dignified situations as valet, up the
rankfort : on his return, Passing
London, the 8
success of a countryman, who, giving through
out asa Polish. nobleman, and married a rich cheesemiZsVfs
the daughter, induced Patrick O'Sullivan (the O'Sullivans' by
way, are not Galwegian—O'Fla h t would be more
likely) " to try his luck in the matrimonial lottery," and
having picked up a smattering of German on the Rhin, he
His dreadfulconcluded it would he quite as well as Polish.
brogue
be passed off for a Polish accent, and interlarded his
discourse pretty plentifully with the little German he
knew
bet he not unfrequently drew upon his imagination for the
invention of words and phrases not to be found in
any dic-
tionary at all. He described a Revolution of the Poles from
imagination, showed a cut upon his forehead, inflicted by
hookem-suivey at some Irish faght as the thrust of a
Cossack lance, and, in fact, worked his' way into the good
graces of an ironmonger's daughter. She was sentimentally
inclined, and one evening asked., himNiu some questions about
the castle craig of Drachenfels • shsterlhzewsecdhaoungseten gable
ind of an ould house that ever ye set
said he. I heard hiin—bnrst out and this led to his
detection.—The Steam Packet, No. 2. laughing,
MicTosr.—Satan's address to the sun, in thea,courthdbook
of Paradise Lost, is deservNlly one of the most
sages in that poem. There the arch fiend, broken loose fproasm-
hell, emerging from chaos, and, for the first time, beholding
the new-created light of another world, is thereby `y
y--
reminded of the high estate from which he had been cast down
by „pride and worse ambition." In the opening of Milton's
tragedy of Samson Agonistes, Samson is brought out of the
dungeon, and laid down upon a sunny bank, to enjoy the
warmth of the day, and the freshness of the breeze. By the
way, he speaks first to his attendant and then to himself, of
his departed glory, his ignominious bondage, and his lament-
able blindness. Satan and Samson thus present two most
striking spectacles of angel and man, fallen by transg,ression
from the loftiest eminence which either could occupy, the one
in heaven, the other on earth. The contrast is awful and

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