IF Mr, RIDGWAY were to tumble off the trapeze, would he be proud of his descent? ...
Article : 18 wordsEMERALD HILL wanted protection to native industry, so it ousted ANDERSON and elected CRESWICK. Emerald Hill has just received an organ for its church, and finds, to its disgust, that it has to pay £110 duty upon the instrument. In this organic difficulty Emerald ...
Article : 144 wordsAT this period of continuous dry weather, too much care can hardly be taken to prevent accident by fire. We have heard of a young lady whose face was lit up with a smile, but, happily, she was put out immediately after. ...
Article : 43 wordsTHE Tarrangower Times states that a man who was recently sentenced to a month's imprisonment has been graciously pardoned by the Government, but that, unfortunately for the prisoner, the remission of his sentence did not reach him until a week after he had served ...
Article : 138 wordsGENIUS vivifies whatever it touches,—the sculptors marble, the painter’ canvas, the !- poet's and composer's page, and the musician’s instruinent. And thus CESARE CUTOLO breathes life into inanimate ivory and unsentient wire, and makes them throb with passion and ...
Article : 438 wordsIs there any probability, Mrs. SNARL, of breakfast being ready before the afternoon ? If the young lady to whom you pay thirty pounds a year, in consideration of her nominally fulfilling the duties of parlormaid, objects to lay breakfast before dinner-time, perhaps it would ...
Article : 673 wordsCONSTABLE JOHN BROWN has had forty shillings awarded him out of the Police Reward Fund, for saving a boy's life and restoring him to consciousness. Now don't you think, messieurs the authorities— whoever you maybe that had the apportionment of the forty shillings— ...
Article : 106 wordsTHE Argus of Monday quotes from the Geelong Advertiser, which gives an account of “a remarkable surgical operation” lately performed at the hosnital in that remarkable town. The Advertiser says “ the operation was performed with complete success,” only, as ...
Article : 120 wordsMICHIE says that the Theatre Royal, Ballaarat, after having had a course of teetotalism, and having, as is not uncommonly the case, had quite enough of comfortless cold water, is appropriately enough going back to the dram—(ah). ...
Article : 41 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Melbourne Punch (Vic. : 1855 - 1900), Thu 9 Feb 1865, Page 3
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: