A correspondent of the Times, gives the following strange account of a new system of fraud introduced by railway speculation ; it is called the "stagging" system; and the first ...
Article : 1,166 wordsBrown —I think, Mr Green, I have heard you say that you know nothing of the advantages of what is called the Bill System Green—lndeed, I do not; but I should be ...
Article : 1,087 wordsThe Dispatch speaks of a vocalist who sings so high in some of his embellishments that it is necessary to let go his suspenders before he can get down again. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe railway lists preclaim the face, Deposits paid this more; At who have each must sign the act. All who have come must [?] ...
Article : 190 wordsAn Englishman and a Welshman disputing in whose country was the best living, the Welshman said, "There is such noble housekeeping in Wales, that I have known about a dozen cooks employed at one wedding dinner." ...
Article : 67 wordsOur own little snug suburban railway, comprising the great trunk-line front Warwicksquare to Wormwood-scrubs, with projected branches to the Addison road and Lord ...
Article : 341 wordsAs many as 17,000 newspapers have been found in the General Post-office with their covers burst. The reason, of the newspapers bursting is accounted for by the fact that they contain so many railway bubbles.— Punch. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Adelaide Observer contains the announcement of a periodical to be called "The Adelaide Gazette Extraordinary, or South Australian Toddy (not being quite equal to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Stag is a railway ruminaut, and belongs to a common herd that may be seen loitering about the neighbourhood of the Stock Exchange. The Railway Stag has his head full ...
Article : 146 wordsAn Indian being at an Englishman's table at Surat, expressed his surprise, by loud acclamation, on seeing a vast quantity of froth, ooze out of a bottle of porter as soon as the cork was drawn. Being asked what surprised ...
Article : 76 wordsWhen Charles the Second chartered the Royal Society, it is narrated of him that he was disposed to give the philosophers a Royal, but at the same time a wholesome lecture. ...
Article : 192 wordsYea, all the men and women merely jobbers They have their brokers and their share aeouats, And one man in his time tries many lines The end being total ruin. First, the greenborn, ...
Article : 219 wordsWe understand the electric telegraph will shortly be applied to several domestic purposes. The experiment will first be tried at one of the lame houses at the Albert Gate. Hyde ...
Article : 491 wordsAfter Dionysius was deposed and taken to Corinth, he kept a school. Many persons visited him, and, with others, one, when he came into the tyrant's presence, onened his ...
Article : 80 wordsThe system of stagging, in connection with railway shares, of which we have of late heard so much, is no longer confined topersens of the masculine gender. Many ladies are deeply ...
Article : 254 wordsAn old bachelor expressed his affections in the following rhapsody:— I admire, I love, I adore woman—lovely woman—she is the beauty of the world, the angel of man, and the climax ...
Article : 60 wordsA French gentleman was one day caressing a dog, when an English friend remarked that he seemed very fond of it. " Ya-a-a-s," answered Monsieur, " I am, for dis dog, he brings ...
Article : 76 words"The maiden wept: and I said, 'Why weepest thou, maiden?' She answered not, neither did she speak, but sobbed exceedingly; and I a again said. 'Maiden, why weepest thou ? ...
Article : 64 wordsAmong the new Companies io which the preseut mania for speculation has given rise, the following seems promising, on account of its extreme novelty. That the merits of the ...
Article : 43 wordsA bookbinder, named Walker, has had a waggon made with a body shaped and painted to imitate a large red morocco book, on the back of which in large letters is gilded ...
Article : 77 wordsThe capital will consist of two hundred thousand spoons, and the Company has been already PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Sat 4 Apr 1846, Page 4
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