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  2. CLUBS AND BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

    This is the title given to the sermon recently delivered at St. Mary Church, Birkenhead, by the Brand Chaplain of the Province, on the occasion of the - Masonic Festival, and now published by ...

    Article : 675 words
  3. RECORDS OF ROGUERY.

    A novel description of fraud has been successfully executed upon one of the most eminent and extensive stockbrokers in the city. The house in question received a letter, purporting to come from a firm in ...

    Article : 161 words
  4. THE BEE.

    Mr Rogers, in his elegant poem, supposes the bee to be conducted to the hive by retracing the scents of the various flowers which it had visited. Hark!the be winds her small but fullen horn. ...

    Article : 363 words
  5. POLISH HONEY.

    Poland is, perhaps, the greatest honey producing country in Europe. In the provinces of Podolia, Ukraine, and Volhynia, in particular, the cultivation jf the honev bee has Ions- formed an object of ...

    Article : 164 words
  6. SHOPLIFTING IN PARIS.

    In 1835, a young man of gentlemanly appearance and good education was tried by the Court of Assizes of Paris, for robbing an English baronet, with whom he had become acquainted. It was discovered that ...

    Article : 453 words
  7. AN OLD DODGE.

    The following fraud was perpetrated at Kingston Fair, lately:—A dealer, named Goddard, who had just sold a drove of sheep, went into a public house for some refreshment, and he was speedily joined by ...

    Article : 312 words
  8. SUPERSTITION RESPECTING BEES.

    Some years since a gentleman at a dinner happened to mention that he was surprised on the death of a relative by his servant inquiring " Whether his master would inform the ...

    Article : 1,172 words
  9. IMMENSE NATURAL BEEHIVE.

    In a cavern on the right bank or the Colorado, about even miles from Austin, there is an immense hive of wild bees. In a warm day a dark stream of bees may be constantly seen winding out from the ...

    Article : 205 words
  10. TRIUMPHS OF ELECTRICITY.

    There has been some excitement in New York, at the discovery of mal-practices with the magnetic telegraph, on the arrivals of the Liverpool steamers tit Boston. It is declared very positively that ...

    Article : 100 words
  11. A NOVEL BERHIVE.

    Some time since a swarm ol" bees alighted on the head of one of the ornamental lions in front of Viscount O'Neill's residence, Shane's Castle. They proceeded down his throat, and are at present strong ...

    Article : 51 words
  12. AN OLD TRICK REVIVED.

    A female has been lately in the habit of calling at gentlemen's houses with a packet of common edging, which she tells the servant has been ordered by her mistress, and that there is half-a-crown to pay; the ...

    Article : 94 words
  13. MONEY-RETURNING TELEGRAPH.

    A lady inadvertently left her purse, containing £30, on the counter at the Witham station of the Eastern Counties Railway. It remained unobserved by the station clerk, until both the train ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. CURIOUS.

    One night last December,in a house in High-street, Paisley, a peat that had been in the premises some months was, as usual in many houses, laid at the side of the fire to dry; next morning, when part of the ...

    Article : 220 words
  15. SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT ON MASONRY.

    The future Attorney General had been for many months called to the Bar when we again met. This was early in 1826. He then spoke calmly, but feelingly, of the professional jealousy which existed ...

    Article : 380 words
  16. A CLEVER KNAVE.

    The North British advertiser tells a story of a family which lived on its wits upwards of a quarter of a century (a feat which many families perform from generation to generation). At one time the ...

    Article : 217 words
  17. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

    Among the very many and almost daily instances of the sterling utility of this most wonderful invention of our inventive age, the following little incident may be named, as, although the affair may ...

    Article : 160 words
  18. KEEP BEES

    A French bishop being about to make bis annual visitation, sent word to a certain curate, whose ecclesiastical benefice was extremely trifling, that he meant to dine with him, at the same time requesting ...

    Article : 387 words
  19. A SMUGGLER'S DEVICE.

    At Liverpool, lately, a woman, who had come over a passenger on board of an American vessel, was detected in smuggling a parcel of tobacco, made up to resemble loaves of bread :-A quantity ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN THE UNITED STATES.

    A correspondent of Galignais Messenger has furnished to that paper some particulars illustrating the extent to which the electrical system has been car. ried in the United States, and the working ...

    Article : 156 words
  21. PRIENDLT BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

    We extract the following from a speech delivered by the Rev. R. L. Carpenter, at the Annual Meeting and Tea-party of the Bridgewater Friendly Society, held at the public rooms, June 1st ...

    Article : 268 words
  22. SERIOUS EMBEZZLEMENT.

    An old man, named Sidney Wroe, whose head had drown grey in the service of his employer, has brought before the borough magistrates, Salford, lately, charged with having committed a series of ...

    Article : 454 words
  23. EXCHANGE OF COMPLIMENTS BY ELECTRICITY.

    When the Mayor of Newcastle, J. Archbold, Esq., was entertaining his friends in the Assembly Rooms, on a recent occasion, "The Health - of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City or York" was ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. PRODUCTION OF HONEY IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The Rev. W. .C. Cotton, of New Zealand, who has written many useful letters on the management of bees in that colony, has commenced to teach the natives the practical details of management, and with ...

    Article : 187 words
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