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  2. Chemical.

    MR, MICHIE went into a chemist’s shop the other day to buy two ounces of carbonate of soda, but be had no sooner taken hold of the packet than there was such an alarming disengagement of carbonic acid, that the shop window was blown out, and the proprietor of the ...

    Article : 150 words
  3. Meliora.

    MR. MELBOURNE PUNCH presents his compliments to the MAYOR OF KILKENNY, and he is glad to find that philanthropy is so prominent a characteristic of the chief magistrate of that ancient borough. At the same time Mr. PUNCH would suggest that the particular ...

    Article : 170 words
  4. Hotham News.

    MESSES. BRODRIBB, CRISP, and LEWIS have frightened the Hotham Council out of their propriety(if they ever had any), by forwarding to that squabbling body a. terrible legal missive about the unhealthy and filthy condition of one of the local thoroughfares. The Council ...

    Article : 94 words
  5. Too Bad.

    DEAR MR. PUNCH—That fellow M’CULLOCH, has been serving us nice trick. For months and months a lot of us had been led to believe that the vacant place in the Cabinet was to be offered to either BERRY, GREEVES, VALE, JONES, HOWARD, [?]myself; and now we ...

    Article : 147 words
  6. Good for a Beginning.

    THE Majorca Independent lately related a piteous narrative of a turkey, which, from weighing thirty pounds, came to weigh only three pounds, in consequence of having fallen down an old shaft, where alimentary sustenance was not abundant. A young gentleman, ...

    Article : 81 words
  7. Space Wanted for a Column.

    A NEW ZEALAND newspaper remarks that the “ Molyneux Mail, of ”Monday, apologises for the non-appearance of its usual leading “article, on the ground of its removal into more extensive premises.”The article must necessarily have been a very Iong one to have ...

    Article : 97 words
  8. Bad News for Landholders.

    THE Supreme Court has decided that owners can be compelled to pay their arrears of rates on vacant lands. This must be gratifying intelligence to many large landowners, who for years past have refused to the rate collector. Many of them now heartily wish that the ...

    Article : 66 words
  9. A. Dark Deed.

    THE Rev. Mr. (well we won’t give his name) has, so Bays a newspaper,, sent a large quantity of cast-off clothing to the Immigrants’ Aid Society. We may reasonably-expect after such a donation, that our poor for some time to come will have the appearance of shabby parsons or ...

    Article : 54 words
  10. A Great Want.

    AN advertisement, in a Melbourne paper of recent date, speaks thus : —“Wanted a young man to make himself useful.” Mr. PUNCH echoes this wish from the very bottom of his warm heart, not only in reference to a single individual, but to the rising generation at large. ...

    Article : 82 words
  11. Startling News.

    THE Western Market is to be let on building leases. A citizen living, opposite says that the future erections will be on the foundations of folly. ...

    Article : 28 words
  12. No Wonder,

    THE little “flare up ” of Kerosene at the last race meeting is not to be wondered at, considering the number of “sparks ”on the course and grand stand. ...

    Article : 33 words
  13. Astounding Recovery.

    THE man who split his sides, on Monday evening, laughing at the oddities, of the Christy Minstrels, has been carefully put together again by one of our leading medical men, and is doing well. He has just cracked a joke on his own account, and rather likes it. ...

    Article : 239 words
  14. Democratic Query.

    IF you resent the hustling of a crowd, are you not interfering with, the freedom of the press? ...

    Article : 21 words
  15. Byrne’s Justice

    SECOND EDITION.—Having to pay his own rates. ...

    Article : 9 words
  16. Uncultivated Con.

    WHY is a rude eldest son like a pirate ? He is a coarse heir. ...

    Article : 17 words
  17. Earning his Bread.

    A YOUNGSTER was lately caught by his fond mamma helping himself to the contents of a fancy biscuit tin. Mamma : I thought TOMMY was at his book. Tommy: Yes, Ma! Reading the mottoes on these biscuits. ...

    Article : 89 words
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