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THESE fiendish looking cannibals have become a complete nuisance in the city. They enter without ceremony at every open door, and demand food, clothing, and ...
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Original Correspondence.
NUISANCES OF SYDNEY.—NOT SO BAD AS LONDON AFTER ALL! No. 3.
"THE WISDOM OF OUR ANCESTORS.—In respect to Eton, I would mention that the College is provided with sewers, constructed at the time of the foundations being formed; and the ...
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GENTLEMEN,—After reading the above matter of fact, will any man alive, whether "governor" or "governed," have the unfortunate assurance to say, and that he really believes it in his ...
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An Indian paper mentions, as a curious instance of the mutability of human affairs, that the state barge of the late Ameers of Scinde is now employed in carrying cargoes of mud." ...
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Gig Patients.—A celebrated surgeon was called upon by a gentlemen to attend a friend in the country. The gentleman offered to carry him to the place. "By what conveyance?" ...
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Blucher with Buonaparte's Baggage. — After the battle of Waterloo Lord Hill writes to his sister:—"Yesterday I rode with the Duke of Wellington to see Blucher. We found the ...
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"My dog Sirrah was, beyond all comparison, the best dog I ever saw. He was of a surly an unsocial temper; disdaining all flattery, he refused to be caressed; but his attention to my ...
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Upon the death of Anne, the English people who had often wished their kings at "Hanover," in one of those mad freaks so common to nations, now were forced to "go to Hanover" to obtain ...
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