The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

Hope.—You will scarcely find a man in all the ranges
of our creation whose bosom bounds not at the mentio:
whom it most cheats and deludes—whisperings of health
to hope. What is hope but the solace and stay of tehtLi_
_slYn
to the sick Man, and of better days to the dejected the
and whose fairy name of which young imaginations pour forth all the.
poetry of their souls, whose syllables float like aerial!
music into the ear of frozen and paralyzed old age ? l,
the long catalogue of human griefs, there is scarce on.e eo
..1
so crushing a pressure, that hope loses its elasticity, 12
coming unable to soar and bring down fresh and fair
leaves from some far off domain, which itself creates.--
Rev. H. Melvill.
the presence of
muammonia in b simly add ing
AMMONIA IN RAlN.—Any.—Any one may satisfy him a
little
self of
sulphuric or riatic acid to arain quantity p of rain-water. and
by evaporating this nearly to dryness in a clean porcelain
basin. The ammonia remains in the residue, in corabin
' tion wiih the acid employed, and may be detected either
by the addition of a little chloride of platinum, or more
simply by a little powdered lime, which separates the am'
t
monia, and thus renders sensible its peculiar Pnag_ells,
smell. The sensation perceived on moistening the bauv
with rain-water, so different from that produced by pnr!
distilled water, and to which the term " softness" is
garly :applied, is also due to the carbonate of ammonia
contained in the former.—Liehig's Organic ChyntistrY'
MEDICAL FEES IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTITIOr",
—There is the following entry in the household bookkor
Henry II :—" To Master William de Bromtoft, 8
physician, for his attendance on Sir Piers de Gavestotii
during his illness at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, two
An enormous salary was paid to the phYs'elan v°l3)°
attended Queen Isabella (the She-Wolf of France /
during her confinement at Rising Castle. In the Foe
iera
to
is a deed securing " one hundred pounds per annum,
Master Pontis de Courtrone. late physician to King
Edward 11., and now to the queen-mother Isabelle:
The bailiffs of Norwich are enjoined to pay him firty
pounds at Easter and Michaelmas, as long as he lives, for,
his great services to the queen-mother. The document
is dated 1334. According to tha value of money in that
day, the salary specified above was one of such extraor
dinary magnitude that it must doubtless have been given
as a reward for very remarkable services.—Lives of Pe'
VENTILATION OF DWELLING-HOUSES. A
Queens of England. pounds.
corre-,
spondent of The Builder, writing on this subject, saf,ll::
—I have adopted with success, a simple plan, viz., have:
at the top of each window outside, a double blind, wltl'
rebate about three-quarters of an inch distant i e
n th
frame filled with fine perforated zinc plate, the finer
guage inside, and the window-sash regulated by
with holes at distances, so that it can be let down to eni
degree of opening, allowing the air to pass through nail".
berless small apertures ; the inner guage being kept vrarns
by the heat of the room, causes a degree of warmth to be
imparted to the fresh air, and therefore no inconveniell
arises. We know that in a tropical climate, the continue
heat would be intolerable if it were not for a constant
breeze blowing, so that in the finest weather the wind eh'
solutely whistles through the blinds on the windward side,
of the houses, and it is this incessant change of air the‘
makes it durable and even pleasant, but even then it it,
not advisable to sit or stand in the draught.—The Builder,
ODDITIES OF GREAT MEN.—The greatest men are fre-
quently affected by the most trivial circumstances, which
have no opparent connexion with the effects they produce.
An old gentleman felt secure against the cramp when he
placed his shoes, on going to bed, so that the right shoe
was on the left of the left shoe, and the toe of the right
next to the heel of the left. If he did not bring the right
shoe round the other side in that way he was liable to the
cramp. Dr. Johnson used always, in coming up Bolt
a bolt
Court, to put one foot upon each stone of the pave-
ment; if he failed, he felt certain that the day would be
unlucky. Buffon, the celebrated naturalist, never wrote
but in full dress. Dr. Routh, of Oxford, studied in full
canonicals. An eminent living writer can never compose
without his slippers on, A great German scholar writea
with his braces off. A celebrated preacher of the last cen-
tury could never make a sermon with his garters on.
Reiseg, the German critic, wrote his Commentar!es on
Sophocles with a pot of porter by his side. Schlegel lee,:
tured at the age of seventy-two, extempore in Latin, wit'
his snuff-box constantly in his hand ; without it he could
not get on.—Monthly Journal.
STREETS OF MEXICO.—The opera is now over, but the,
difficulty is to reach home, as, while we were engaged
with the Borghese, or Coccia, the rain came down in tor
rents, and the streets were overflowed. During the rainy
season this is no unfrequent occurrence; and as Mexico
is a flat, and there is scarcely any drainage from it, the
water, after a certain time, rises above the sewers, and
the whole city is underlaid some 20 or 30 inches. In the
first place you have leperos, called cargadores, who, for
Is. or 25., will carry you on their backs; but as these said
leperos are not over delicate in their persons, contact with
them is far from being convenient or desirable. In vain
you pick your steps through such parts of the flagging as
he water has not reached—in vain you try by by-pats

to find a snure sortie—at every corner of the street Lug
flood is standing stagnant, and you have to choose be-
tween waiting several hours until it subsides, or of boldly
plunging into the dirty pool, and walking a quarter or
half a mile knee-deep in mud and filth. The rain is 811
the while coming down in torrents, and the more you
hesitate as to wetting the lower extremities, the Wore
bed in the upper story.—Correspondent of

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