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  2. THEATRICAL QUACKERY OF MISS CHESTER.

    On the quackery of her system of doing tragedy, a most whimsical and generally accredited anecdote is on record. While Miss Chester was at York, one evening, having to ...

    Article : 764 words
  3. FACETIÆ.

    " Will you keep an eye on my horse, my lad. while I step in and get a drink ?" "Yes Sir." [Stranger goes in; gets his drink; comes out and finds his horse missing.] " Where is my ...

    Article : 86 words
  4. DISTRESS AMONG THE ALPHABET.

    The following advertisement appeared in the limes of Thursday:— " C. and I. are very unhappy. B. D. is most anxiously requested to write to them as soon as possible." ...

    Article : 36 words
  5. A COMPLIMENT.

    D'Orsay, in remarking on a beauty speck on the cheek of Lady Southampton, compared it to a gem on a rose-leaf. " The compliment is far-fetched? observed her ladyship. " How ...

    Article : 47 words
  6. EMIGRATION.

    A Dentist and family left their happy homes last week to settle in one of the back shops in the interior of the Exeter 'Change Arcade. The scene at parting was heart-reading. ...

    Article : 33 words
  7. THE AMERICAN QUEENS.

    In this country we own no sovereigns except the ladies (God bless them!), and every man ought to have one of them. What's more, if a man has one of these sovereigns any length ...

    Article : 48 words
  8. A MAN GROWN BY GUANO AND ELECTRICITY.

    The New Haven Courier tells the following capital story:— A citizen of this place, while recently on a tour in the State of New York, was induced to make one of the audience of an ...

    Article : 529 words
  9. A SEASON FOR TRAVELLING.

    Boyle tells us of a great traveller, who being rallied upon his rambling humour, answered, that he would cease travelling as soon as he could find a country where power and credit ...

    Article : 65 words
  10. THE SONG OF THE SHIP.

    The following poetical jue d'esprit was written on board the Jane Frances on her voyage from London to Van Diemen's Land:— On a hen-coop near to the wheel. ...

    Article : 569 words
  11. A MANAGER'S PUN.

    A new comedy on its third representation being thinly attended, the author observed :— " That it was owing to the war.' " Oh, no," said the manager, " I fear it is owing to the ...

    Article : 41 words
  12. THEATRICALS BY DAYLIGHT.

    A theatre is constructing at Leghorn, (he cupola of which is composed of glass : by this means representations by daylight will be attainable. ...

    Article : 29 words
  13. TRAGEDY AND COMEDY.

    A critic once observed that the principal difference between a comedy and tragedy was, that the former generally concluded in a church, and the latter in a churchyard. ...

    Article : 608 words
  14. THE ACTRESS AND METHODIST.

    A theatrical lady, well known to the public as an authoress, was induced, when out of an engagement, among other works, to write a sermon, and the circumstance being of a novel ...

    Article : 348 words
  15. MONSTER NEWSPAPERS.

    Newspapers also have been seized with the monster infection, and spread it far and wide. We are sure they will not long remain contented with being the size merely of a counter. ...

    Article : 114 words
  16. AUDACIOUS IMOUDENCE!

    An accredited correspondent informs us, that at a recent dejuner, a modest, bat not very retiring gentleman connected with the press, whose name was , was asked whether he ...

    Article : 131 words
  17. ACTORS AND ACTRESSES.

    It is pretended by blind detractors, that the lives of actors and actresses are consequently and necessarily immoral. Actors are not supposed to be exempt from the frailties of their ...

    Article : 858 words
  18. A NEW IDEA.

    A modern writer, describing a husky singer, says, "he sings as if he had got his foot into his throat, and had trod upon his voice." ...

    Article : 29 words
  19. PRESENT STATE OF THE DRAMA.

    A foreigner was wondering the other day how English theatres are kept open, without either drama or actors. To him, who regarded acting as an art, and the drama as the highest ...

    Article : 568 words
  20. WHAT FUTURE GEOLOGISTS WILL DISCOVER.

    When future geologists shall set to work on the surface of the earth—shaving its face as it were with the keen razor of science—they will find beneath a stratum of iron rails, a layer of ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. PARADISE REGAINED.

    The Gospel Banner (American paper) says that a schooner, built a short time since at Eden, Hancock county, Maine, is called Tits Garden. Of course she is the floating Garden ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. ADVICE GRATIS.

    Never tread on the tail of a cat, or tell a woman she is not handsome, unless you are fond of music.—American paper, ...

    Article : 26 words
  23. BAIT FOR A CROCODILE.

    It is not long since (said the katsheff) that a man from Berber settled here, and was. well known to all of us. One morning he led his horse to the Nile to water, and fastened the ...

    Article : 196 words
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