The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

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A GREEK VILLAGE.—The village of Moria, straggling
at its commencement, but gradually presenting a more
compact array of rustic habitations, occupies a valley not
to be equalled by any thing that I have seen in Scio, an
island which has a reputation for pre-eminent beauty :
from the tall tree to the plant of Bacchus, that, diffident
of its strength, seeks support from its vigorous neighbour,
every thing grows here with a graceful luxuriance. After
traversing many districts, known to have been once fertile,
but now waste and desolate, under the withering rule of
Islam, the traveller cannot persuade himself that even a
spot like this has not lost some of its charms, and will say,
" How delightful this little valley, still so beautiful, must
have been in Lesbian times !" Yet here I could not dis-
cover any memorial of the Hellenic race, except a large
stone, bearing a relief of a pair of wreaths and an urn.
Over one of the wreaths were the letters Odamos : the
corresponding inscription of the other is defaced ; but no
doubt it was the Doric Abolla.—Literary Gazette.
QUEER CALCULATION.—Some singular genius has
perpetrated the following calculations, which we think
will do :—I have been married 32 years, during which
time I have received from the hands of my wife three
cups of coffee each day, two in the morning and one at
night, making about 35,040 cups of half a pint each, or
nearly 70 barrels of 30 ciallons each, weighing 17,5201b5.,
or nearly nine tons weight.b Yet from that neriod I have
scarcely varied myself in weight from 1601135. It will,
therefore be seen that I have drunk in coffee alone 218
times my own weight. lam not much of a meat eater,
yet I presume I have consumed about eight ounces a
day, which makes 5,8061b5., or about ten oxen. Of flour
I have consumed, in the 32 years, about 50 barrels. For
20 years of this time, up to 1831, I have drunk two wine
glasses of brandy each day, making 900 quarts. The port
wine, madeira, whiskey. punch, &c., I am not able to
count, but they are not large. In champagne I have been
extremely moderate, as I find from my bills that I have
paid for 53 baskets in the last 13 years, which is about
one bottle a week, and this is not all consumed by me.
When we take into the account all the vegetables in ad-
dition, such as potatoes, peas, asparagus, strawberries,
cherries, apples, pears, peaches, raisins, &c., the amount
consumed by an individual is most enormous. Now, my
body has been renewed more than four times in 32 years ;
and taking it for granted that the water, of which I have
drunk much, acts merely as a dilutant, yet, all taken to-
gether, I conclude that I have consumed in 32 years
about the weight of 1,100 of 1601bs. each.—Paris paper.
FRENCH LF.AvE.—The terrible journey of the whole
of the Paris rabble to Rambouillet alarmed every man in
the country who had a home to love, a wife to cherish, or
nner was property to preserve. There were multitudes who had

not forgotten the butcheries enacted during the first revo-
lution, and the character of the Ranabouillet procession
was such as to give great cause for uneasiness and anxiety.
I shall never forget the preparations in Paris for that
march of the mob. Every description of vehicle, both
public and private, was seized by the common people.
No permission was asked, no vested interests were re-
garded ; possession was not merely " nine points of the
law." but the whole of the law, with those who resolved
to repair to Rambouillet, in order to drive from the shores
of France the descendants of St. Louis. I remember I
was amongst the victims, for whilst proceeding across the
Place Louis Seize my cabriolet was surrounded by
twenty armed ruffians, but they politely directed me to
descend. I remonstrated. Ii was as useless to preach
order and peace to the roaring billows. "Il faut descen-
dre." was the only reply that reached me. " Your name ?"
as - (elwiAspector, or chief of the rebels. I replied by
stating it. " Your address, age, and profession, or occu-
pation ?" I was also asked, and my replies were as laconic
as the questionss which were propounded. " Your ca-
briolet and horse shall be returned to you within eight
days," said the chief, and three fellows, each armed with
a gun and a sword, jumped into the vehicle, and left me
disgusted and perplexed. What mattered this to them ?
They struck up the first stanza of the "Marseillaice" as
they rattled off in double quick time up the Avenue de
whilst I tried to hum my old favorite consoler of
" Begone, dull car, !"—Fraser's Magazine.

PRIESSNITZ, THE WATER DOCTOR.—I immediately
started for Grafenberg, and saw the clerk of the estab-
lishment, who said there was but one room, vacated that
very morning, in Priessnitz's own establishment. I im-
mediately engaged it, and found that I had been very for-
tunate in getting it, as some Englishmen, who came here
six weeks ago, are in a room with seven others. The
room I have got is very good ; well furnished but plain.
I supped at the establishment the evening I arrived. I
was introduced to a German gentleman, who told me that
he had been affected just like myself, and that he was per-
fectly cured in three months. He introduced me to
Priessnitz. He is most benevolent looking. He looked
very hard at me, and said he would be with me at seven
in the morning to see me go into my bath. This is his
pulse. lam now going through the full treatment, baths
of all kinds. The douche is a body of water ai thick as
my arm, falling from about twenty feet; it is somthing
like paving stones falling upon you, but it stirs up the cir-
culation briskly. In Priessnitz's own establishment there
is the advantage of a fine large bath, and being close to
the eating hall. There are a great many English here,
who say they have derived the greatest benefit; there is
also an Irish doctor, who says he would not take £5,000
for the benefit he has received in six weeks. There are
some here who think that the living is not good ; but I do
not think so at all. The meat is not, certainly, so good
as in England ; but I scarcely ever saw it better in
Italy. The milk and butter are excellent. There are also
good strawberries for breakfast. There are splendid walks
and fountains throughout the mountains ; the fountains
are all named, and there are finger-posts pointing them
out, so that by taking a glass of water at each, you get a
long walk. The scenery all round is beautiful ; the
mountains not very high, but covered with wood to the
top. The weather is very fine ; but Priessnitz says the
cure goes on better in cold weather. He has become ex-
ceedingly mild in his treatment lately, so that the cure
goes on slower, but, they say, more sure. At present I
cannot give an opinion as to the system ; but it would be
hard to persuade any one, that the people you saw at din-
ner were all diseased in some way or another, did you not
know it from the best authority. The English that have
been here a long time are more enthusiastic about Pries-
snitz than even Captain Claridge. I have even heard it
said that he is inspired; he certainly divines diseases in
a most extraordinary manner. He desires me to eat and
work like a peasant : to be always in the open air ; but to
avoid the sun. After breakfast I saw and chop wood, and
walk a great deal.—Correspondent of the Cork Southern
Reporter.