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  2. GOSSIP. CURE FOR THE "BLUES."

    I was glad to get back to my rascally donkey. If a man were oppressed and borne down with mental anxiety—if he Were monrning and melancholv, either from the loss of a friend or an undigested ...

    Article : 133 words
  3. MURDER OF MR DARKE RY NATIVES, AND RETURN OF THE PORT LINCOLN EXPEDITION.

    TO-DAY it becomes our melancholy duty to record the death by native violence of a gallant end successful explorer, in the person of the late much lamented Mr Darke. ...

    Article : 1,130 words
  4. CAPTAIN STURT'S EXPEDITION.

    ON the same day which brought bark the survivors of the Western Exploring Expedition official despatches and private letters of a very gratifying kind were received from Capt. Sturt; but the ...

    Article : 1,583 words
  5. A HINT FOR THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.

    A correspondent of the Great Western Advertiser has made the following valuable contribution to the columns of that paper:—I'll tell you a plan tor gaining wealth. ...

    Article : 97 words
  6. A GEOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE.

    A butcher boy in New York says he has often heard of the fore quarters of the globe, but never heard any person say anything about the hind quarters. ...

    Article : 33 words
  7. THE VOWELS.

    Is there a word in the English language that contains all the vowels? There is, unquestionably. Some six-and thirty years ago, a holiday was proposed to the boys at Eton, on discovering the ...

    Article : 58 words
  8. ARRIVALS OF THE WEEK.

    THE barque Mary White which sailed from Liverpool on the 20th May, for Sydney, Melbourne, and Port Adelaide, arrived here from the eastern Colonies on Wednesday last, bringing twenty-one ...

    Article : 460 words
  9. REFRIGERATION.

    An eminent artist lately painted a snow storm so naturally that he caught a had cold by sitting near it with his coat off He is cousin to the man who became hoarse on Christmas-day through meeting a ...

    Article : 48 words
  10. DRAWING EXTRAORDINARY.

    The famous corn-plaster which we have here is performing wonders. Mr Squibs, who lives in Powhatten, lately bought a box for his wife, and happening to put a port of in on the front of his ...

    Article : 119 words
  11. "A WIFE AND NO WIFE."

    A distinguished clergyman of the Universalist denomination, was accused while in Lowell, of "violently dragging his wife from a revival meeting, and compelling her to go home with him." He ...

    Article : 108 words
  12. NORTH WIND.

    A clergyman in Berkshire having asked one of his farmers whether he had not better use the prayer for rain, received in answer, "It is little use to. pray for rain so long as the wind is in the north." ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. WIGHT AND MAIN.

    Lord Charles Somerset was teling a long story about his walking in (he woods at the Cape one dry. when be come suddenly upon a huge shaggy lion "Thinking to frighten him," said the uoble lord, ...

    Article : 67 words
  14. HAWKING NOT SHOOTING.

    A poor man, a hawker, being taken before the magistrate for shooting, was asked why he thought fit to shoot without a licence. He replied that he had paid dearly for a hawking licence, and that be ...

    Article : 80 words
  15. SORRY FARE.

    Entering a forlorn-looking country inn, Charts Matthews accosted a lugubrious waiter, and inquired if he could have a chicken and asparagus, The mysterious serving man shook his head. "Can I ...

    Article : 96 words
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