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  2. Exceedingly Likely.

    THE Surgical Staff of the Melbourne Hospital have been greatly surprised of late at the many cases of dislocation of the jaw that have admitted into that institution. The explanation consists in the that the present Government fill up no office within three months ...

    Article : 92 words
  3. Not if lie is Aware of It.

    A MR. CHARLES YOUNG is a candidate for Dalhousie. The popular comedian of that name very naturally feels himself annoyed that some people have supposed he had so far consented to compromise his respectability as to go into the Assembly. We assure Mr. YOUNG, of ...

    Article : 106 words
  4. Educational.

    LADY DON’S Boarding-school in the Haymarket, is equally a favorite with parents and children. References allowed to Mr. MELBOURNE PUNCH ...

    Article : 20 words
  5. Tenders Wanted.

    1. BY THE PROPRIETORS OF THE “ARGUS,”—For the immediate supply of a new motto over the leader, the public being heartily sick of the one so long in use, and which nobody either understands believes. ...

    Article : 106 words
  6. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

    THE VOLUNTEER BEAST.—“May I have the pleasure once more ? THE INVOLUNTARY BEAUTY.—“ Yes, if you will have the kindness first to take off your spurs, and give me a moment to get my dress pinned up.” ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  7. A Con for a Constable.

    What is the difference between a foul chimney and a fowl house ? The first is rigidly looked after by the police, who. summons you if few sparks escape ; while the latter is beyond their jurisdiction, and is suffered to be rifled whenever unscrupulous people require ...

    Article : 50 words
  8. Notice to Subscribers.

    THE following should have appeared yesterday in our out-of-the-way and over-the-way contemporary:— “It being impossible altogether to improve the public taste, the proprietors of this journal have condescended to devote a considerable ...

    Article : 131 words
  9. Cruel!

    DEAR PUNCH,—The new regulations of the Metropolitan Artillery Corps contain a clause to the effect that no man under five feet seven shall be considered eligible for admission. My exact height, sir—as certified by a respectable height-and-weight-man—-is just five ...

    Article : 140 words
  10. Sabbatarian Shutters.

    IN the classical and “arcadian“” region known as Little Bourke-street, the following announcement is stuck on a small store :—" This shop closes on Sundays." This self-acting place of business deserves the patronage of Dr. CAIRNS, being an evidence of the success of a first ...

    Article : 88 words
  11. Brutal Remark.

    A DISAGREEABLE fellow says, that women, pigs, and sovereigns are never to be -trusted until you “ring” them. ...

    Article : 22 words
  12. An Arundel “Bull.”

    SIR—“My name is oftener in your columns than I wish it to be ; but if put there, it is not in consequence of any wish of mine.“—Signed, nevertheless, ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 96 words
  14. Modern Marvels.

    MR. WINTLE, the Governor of the Melbourne Gaol, has worked a miracle, according to the Herald ; for, in a recent description of that institution, we read that, among eighty female prisoners “almost universal silence prevailed.” A remarkably ill-tempered bachelor ...

    Article : 101 words
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