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  2. BREWING AND BEER.

    The Editor of the Family Magazine, in reviewing a work entitled A Practical Treatise on Brewing, by William Black, makes the following remarks:— We have often heard it affirmed that the flavour of ...

    Article : 614 words
  3. FACETLE.

    A Dutchman, in proceeding to a place from whence he heard the cries of distress, discovered one of his neighbours lying under a stone wall, which fell upon him, and fractured his legs "Well, ...

    Article : 109 words
  4. SURPRISING CASE.

    Some time ago a colt, rising two years old, the property of Mr. Mitchell, Changue, parish of Barr, happened, while grazing on a bill, to slip down a brae, almost perpendicularly, about 100 yards in ...

    Article : 259 words
  5. SINGULAR NAMES.

    Mr Ottiwell Wood caused a learned judge to throw down his pen in a fit of surprise, when being called upon to spell his name in the witness-box, he did it thus: "O, double ti, i, double u, e, double , double ...

    Article : 79 words
  6. DANGER OF USING A "DICTIONARY WORD."

    "John," says a master tanner in South Durham, the other day, to one of his men, "bring in some fuel." John walked off revolving in his mind, and returned with a pitchfork! "I don't want that." ...

    Article : 216 words
  7. REMARKABLE INCIDENT.

    Extract from a clergyman's letter, residing in England, to his brother in Glasgow —"I don't know if you remember long, long ago, of me playing at a game, the name of which I forget, a sort of ...

    Article : 317 words
  8. NO RULE WITHOUT AN EXCEPTION.

    To comeliness of countenance the possession of a nasal organ is essential. How beautiful is the face of Nature; and yet we look in vain for her nose! ...

    Article : 33 words
  9. TYPOGRAPHICAL DIFFERENCE.

    In a provincial paper, it states that there is a petition confided to a nobleman against any alteration in the "diseases (diocese) of Bangor and St. Asaph." ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. MAN TRAPS.

    Over the garden fence of a ladies' seminary, in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, there is painted, in large characters, "Man traps set on these premisss." A wag who was pssing, chalked beneath the notice— ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. VERBAL MISTAKES OF FOREIGNERS.

    The Abbe Georgel, having to send a dinner-invitation to Hume from Prince Louis de Rohan, took the opportunity of impressing the historian with his knowledge of the English language in the ...

    Article : 350 words
  12. GO AHEAD! RHEUMATISM AVAUNT!

    A Yankee professor has patented a scientific remedy for rheumatism. He places on a patient's head a hat lined with copper, and on his legs a pair of boots lined with zinc. The boots are filled with ...

    Article : 132 words
  13. EXPERIMENTS FOR DETERMINING THE QUANTITY.

    According to Lieberkuhen, 25 lbs of chyle are brought into the blood from the intestinal canal in one hour; according to Cruikshank, only about 43 lbs.; and, according to Haller, from four to eight ...

    Article : 643 words
  14. TOASTS.

    The following toast was given at the anniversary of the New England Society, at New Orleans— "The Daughters of Louisiana—attracted by their bright eyes, enchained by their sweet smiles, the sons ...

    Article : 100 words
  15. MALT UNNCESSARY FOR BEER.

    In the report of Professor Thomson, of Glasgow, to Government, on the qualities of malt as an alimentative, the following curious revelation is made:— "In the year 1805, I was appointed by the Excise ...

    Article : 188 words
  16. THE POWER OF VERSE.

    We did not think it possible even for a poet to attach sentimental notion to a pair of trowsers. The Americans, however, who are "a-head" in everything, have thus the honour of immortalising in verse ...

    Article : 593 words
  17. NEW JOKE ON AN OLD SUBJECT.

    Two inveterate jokers made a bet that it was impossible to get another joke out of the Trafalgar Fountains. It has been won by a celebrated burlesque writer, who, after two months' unremitting ...

    Article : 68 words
  18. A YANKEE PUFF.

    Christians and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Mormons and Infidels, have all met on one common ground; and, on one subject at least, have become so united, as to give reason to believe that ...

    Article : 114 words
  19. ALE AND BEER.

    From the Journal of Agriculture, the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and other sources, the following historical and physical facts and observations having reference to ...

    Article : 1,882 words
  20. POLITICAL ROGUES.

    The following anecdote of the celebrated Robert Hall will strikingly illustrate several eminent personages in the political world. A gentleman having expressed his surprise that a celebrated ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. KIND YOUR PRONUNCIATION.

    The abuse of Latin in puritanical words leads our author (the Rev. W. Maskell. M.A.) to the following anecdote:—" A clergyman concluded a long speech at a meeting, held four years ago at ...

    Article : 113 words
  22. RAILWAY MOTION AND APOPLEXY.

    There is an ingenious, though rather alarming paper in the Medical Times, in which the writer arrives at the conclusion, that the rapidity of railway motion has a tendency to excite a fit of appoplexy in ...

    Article : 170 words
  23. A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE.

    Two "rum kiddies," passing a house in which some officers were distraining for "church-rates, one remarked to the other, " I say, Jack, that's what the Clargy calls 'supporting the Church,' and ...

    Article : 58 words
  24. MATHEMATICS (MIXED).

    Thereom : A lover is a blockhead.—A lover is one who is in love. (Axiom)—one who is in love is hooked. He who is hooked is caught. To be caught is to be taken. Therefore, since things ...

    Article : 156 words
  25. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Hunterian Museum of the College of Surgeons has been enriched by the addition of Mr. Goadby's [?] of the Minute Anatomy of various subjects of natural history, so much admired by Prince ...

    Article : 48 words
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