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  2. GOSSIP. RAISING THE WIND

    During the bustle which prevailed at Alnwick fair, Northumberland, lately, a fellow had the courage to try the temper of the multitude by a new stratagem for raising the wind. His show-board was inscribed with the following ...

    Article : 308 words
  3. A PROMPT ANSWER

    At the Maynooth Quarter Sessions there were five applications for publicans' licenses, but they were all refused. One man urged that there would be a great want of a drink shop for the labourers on the railway; the Duke ...

    Article : 60 words
  4. A CONTRIBUTION TO CHEMICAL SCIENCE

    M. M. Henry and Devergie profess to have detected lead and copper in man. That there is lead, and in large quantity, in the composition of many men, he would indeed be a leaden man who denied; but beggars affirm that ...

    Article : 63 words
  5. UNAPPRECIATED KINDNESS

    "Would you like to have a het crock in your bed this cauld night, mem?" said a good-natured chambermaid of our town to an English lady who had just arrived in Scotland for the-first time. "A what?" said the lady. ...

    Article : 294 words
  6. THE BLANK LOVE LETTER.

    Speed, paper, to the youth I love, And, without language, tell him all; Unstained, my purity, ah prove! Close scal'd—my truth to him recall! ...

    Article : 107 words
  7. THE SURPLICE QUESTION.

    A very pretty public stir Is making down at Exeter, About the surplice fashion: And many bitter words and rude, ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. AN IRISH ANSWER

    When an Irish clergyman was asked by the poorlaw commissioners what amount of rent the cottagers paid, he replied:—"From one to two pounds they will promise to pay; ...

    Article : 63 words
  9. STEAMBOAT WIT

    Travelling lately on the North River, (U. S.) a friend overheard two ladies in an adjoining ante-room, who kept incessantly calling upon the steward. "Steward." called one in a smothered voice, as of intense suffering, ...

    Article : 149 words
  10. THE IMPUDENCE OF STEAM.

    Over the billows and over the brine, Over the water to Palestine! Am I awake, or do I dream? Over the Ocean to Syria by Steam! ...

    Article : 253 words
  11. AMERICAN COMMERCIAL ELOQUENCE

    A remarkably rich specimen of the commercial eloquence and "florid style" used by our Transatlantic brethren, is to be met with in recent New York papers, in the form of an advertisement, recommending the ...

    Article : 114 words
  12. TO REMOVE "FUR" FROM A TEA-KETTLE

    An elderly lady in Derby Peak, who was much annoyed at the accumulation of calcareous deposit commonly known as "fur" in her kettle, was recommended by a neighbour to place the tea-kettle outside the house, ...

    Article : 132 words
  13. TERTH

    Are included in the list of small articles to be freed from duty by Sir R. Peel's proposed measure. Three hundred articles and cud Peel's tariff will release from duty; ...

    Article : 127 words
  14. BRITANNIA TO HIBERNIA ON HER USELESS MEMBERS

    If I had a Member wot would'nt work, D'ye think I'd s[?]er him at borne to lurk? I'd give it him well,and cry "Don't shrink!" And "Now then, lazy!" ...

    Article : 277 words
  15. DIGNIFIED DIPLOMATIC LANGUAGE

    Mr Porter, the United States Consul at Guadalovipe, in Tobasco, in a letter lately laid before Congress, says, in reference to a Mr Patterson, that "be stands so high in the estimation of the respectable portion of the ...

    Article : 56 words
  16. MACBETH AND MESMERISM

    It is chiefly by the thumbs that the fluid escapes from the mesmeriser, and is communicated to the mesmerised; a fast which induces us to believe that mesmerism was one of the black arts practised by the witches in ...

    Article : 76 words
  17. HONESTY

    An old gentleman applied to an Insurance Office to purchase an annuity of £300 payable at the expiration of the Income-tax. The office most honourably declined the purchase, on the ground that their table of averages ...

    Article : 51 words
  18. AN OPINION ABOUT MARRIAGE

    A wicked bachelor said once, that, no matter whom you married, you would find afterwards you had married a different person. ...

    Article : 26 words
  19. JUDY, TIM, AND THE WARM PLASTER

    When the poor Irish feel want and hunger they invariably complain of an impression upon the heart. Judy complained to the dispensary physician of a great impression upon her heart, for which the doctor gave her a fine ...

    Article : 130 words
  20. AN IDEA ABOUT THE ELECTRICAL TELEGRAPH

    The magnetic telegraph has been described as a thing with wire nerves, strung with lightning. ...

    Article : 22 words
  21. A SHAVE

    The following anecdote, illustrative of the craft and shrewdness of that class of men employed in public works and usually called "navigators," many of whom we have had lately among us, may be depended upon for fact;— ...

    Article : 318 words
  22. STEAM

    Talk about your northern steam-boats, said a Mississippi fireman the other day, "you haint had a biler hurst for five years.. Don't require no spunk to navigate them waters, any fool can do it; but it takes a maty ...

    Article : 73 words
  23. INDEPENDENCE

    A wife, joining her husband in a conveyance of real estate, was asked by the Judge, who examined her in private, according to the Act of Assembly, whether she acted without compulsion on the part of her husband. She ...

    Article : 56 words
  24. NAVIETE

    At one of the late "receptions" at the Chateau of the Tuileries an unusually large number of "American citizens" was presented. With his usual tact and affability, the King managed to speak with and captivate every one ...

    Article : 75 words
  25. COMICAL MISUNDERSTANDING

    A coloured man lately went to an American Post-office, and, putting his nose close up to the deliverybox, asked if there were any letters for him. "What name?" asked the clerk. Sambo cried, "Louder!" The ...

    Article : 201 words
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