SOMEBODY who must have more money than he or she knows very well what to do with has inserted the following advertisements in Tuesday’s Argus:—“Wanted, from 10 till 4 daily, LADY for School. Good pianist. Salary, £26 per annum. Apply T. T., office of this ...
Article : 202 wordsIN the distribution of the reward due to those who have put an end to Mr. Bushranger MORGAN’S highly successful career, a very censurable neglect appears to have been shown to that valiant official, Dr. DOBBYN, Coroner of Wangaratta, who, in the most intrepid ...
Article : 175 wordsTHE Maryborough Advertiser speaks ecstatically of a hay-pressing machine, and commends the inventor for designing an apparatus different from those generally in use. A young lady of our acquaintance that she could point out a pressing machine which differs not at ...
Article : 169 wordsMY wife got violently inebriated. She beat me over the head with a broomstick, smashed the furniture, broke all the crockery, and damaged the entire wardrobe of the establishment. I sought redress of the authorities, who granted it in the usual way, and the ...
Article : 77 wordsA BACHELOR friend of ours, struck with the highly appropriate nature of the prizes awarded to the successful babies, as, for example, doll to a pair of male twins, and a knickerbocker suit to a young lady-baby, intends presenting, on the next occasion, the following ...
Article : 116 wordsRUSTIC.—Can a raw countryman be ever well dressed? COMMERCIAL.—Are not cooked accounts often over done? TEMPERANCE.—Should a teetotaller own a horse groggy on[?]his fore legs? ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsTHE best “cutting” and “filling” take place at the “Café de Paris.” The most unsatisfactory “contractor ” is the man that strikes off the “ extras ” from an account. It is often “ hard ” to “ tender ” for a tough job. ...
Article : 129 wordsBEN HALL reads the account of his arrest at Wangaratta. He has doubled the police so long that at last they think they have captured baa double. ...
Article : 33 wordsSIR CHARLES DARLING has declined to be present at the Echuca railway festivities. He thinks that sixteen hours travelling in one day is more than should be expected even of a Governor. ...
Article : 34 wordsWANTED, some one of ordinary capacity to write out the advertisements for the Railway department; and also some gifted individual to explain the real meaning of those recently published in reference to excursion trains. ...
Article : 38 wordsTHERE is a retired publican in the House, who is noted for his halfand-half measures. ...
Article : 20 wordsA MR. PRICE speaks of his wife as his better half.—Does he mean that the lady is only half-PRICE ? ...
Article : 24 wordsWHEN is Mr. PUNCH most sagacious ?—When he has his “wits” about him. ...
Article : 15 wordsWHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT.—If so, how about the left hand. THE HEIGHT OF LASSITUDE.—A “tired” wheel. “ WHEEL AWA,” as the Scotsman said when he took the linchpin out. ...
Article : 71 wordsSOME miscreants belonging to the Philharmonic Society have been making use of Mr. BARRY SULLIVAN’S name. It is stated that they put his name to a hill, and that lie has given them a check for so doing. We deeply sympathise-with; the injured gentleman. ...
Article : 46 wordsA SAILOR with a bad cold is often a ho(a)rse marine. NOT A PLEASANT BEDROOM.—The Chamber of Horrors. TO BE FOUND EVEN IN A COMMON SCHOOL,—A “drawing room.” ...
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Melbourne Punch (Vic. : 1855 - 1900), Thu 20 Apr 1865, Page 6
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