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

WIT DESERVING THE PALM.—" You must taste of
my Constantia, Captain St. Gervais," said Mr. Francil-
lon ; " I pride myself upon it. It was made the year the
English first took possession of the Cape, which was in
—what year was it, Ada? I never can remember dates."
" Seventeen hundred and ninety-five, papa," answered
in a low tone, " one ought to

the young lady

lm."—Claude ; or, the Double Sacrifice.
A. CHOICE OF PUNISHMENT.—" Withdraw the plea of
one of guilty to the felony," con
ister, to

not gull

turning rounc
term of inter

ye omodhaun
the prisoner.

yer WM
has he t

thread

ing a pinch of snuff and

:hins )"

to jail

' Poor Law Garjit

•y look at

—Dickens'-s

A. week or two ago we stated
in Halifax there existed a

among themselves
grandfather, 1

in the folio,.
andmother, 1 fa

g proportions, viz.:l

sisters

cousins, 5 sons, 6 daughters, 1 sister-hi-law, 1 brother-
law, 3 granddaughters, 1 widow, and 1 widower.
has excited the attention of many
d in order to give those parties
the accuracy of their conclu-

opportunity of testi

e solution furnished by our ci
tine each individual by the

a dau

:—A is a widower, having four sons BCPG and
liter D who has a daughter E. H is a widow,
n-law to A, having two daughters, I and K, and a
. K has a daughter L, and I a daughter J. The
amongst our readers will find that amongst these

son M

13 individuals the 61 relationships above stated exist.
CHANGE FOR A SOVEREIGN.-At Sehauffhausen there

were, as usval, many Englishman, who, also as usual,
had a growl about the moneys and the hotels, " I have
been making myself practically acquainted with the
currency in a way of my own," said Smith, junior.
" How so ?" inquired one of the group of travellers who
. _

explained our hero

Ostend

; and then changed what

I got for it in Prussia; then changed that in the'duchy of
Nassau ; and that arain in the free city of Frankfort ; and
so on repeated the process in Baden and Bavaria—in fact,
in each separate jurisdiction through which we passed.
There it i=," said Smith, as he suited the action to the
word by emptying the contents of his experimental poc-
ket upon the table. The exhibition looked very unpro-

_ .
raising, certainly. The glittering twenty-shilling piece
left at Ostend was now represented by as ugly a collection
of dirty, worn, counterfeit-looking jumble of silver and
copper as ever an IQraelite counted out in the Jews'-lane
at Frankfort. " Count it up," said Smith, the younger.
Very good," said the German, and he began. " Five
francs—ten—" said Smith. " Stop," said the German.

" Swiss francs and French francs are different things—
different values. I will tyll you the worth of this heap."
He went to work to tell them over, and stated the result
in batzen and rappen.___" And how much is that worth in

teen shillings and a penny farthing," replied the German.
" What ?" shrieked Smith. " Fourteen shillings and a
penny farthing English,"repeated the German.—Dickens'
Honsehold Words.

A FLEA-BITTEN SOJOURNER IN GREECE.—After din-
ner I made inquiries of my host what he had in the way
of bed. His answer was specific. There was no bed, no
mattress, no divan ; sheets were unknown things, and
wool he did not recommend. But at last I was told of a