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  2. FACETIAE.

    A short time ago a maiden lady was in the habit of sending to a certain post-office to purchase a shilling's worth of Queen's heads. At last she wrote a polite note to the postmaster, requesting ...

    Article : 71 words
  3. MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Prospectuses have lately been distributed in Madrid, wherein it is stated that several doctors and dicentates in medicine and surgery have formed a society, called the "Medical Union," the members ...

    Article : 75 words
  4. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

    An interesting public meeting of the Total Abstinence Society was held in Mr. Berjew's School-room, North Adelaide, on Friday evening, the 9th February. Previous to the meeting a number of the members and ...

    Article : 1,153 words
  5. A "GREAT FACT" FOR HENWIVES.

    A cute Yankee has invented a nest, in the bottom of which there is a kind of trap-door, through which the egg, when laid, immediately drops; and the hen, looking round and perceiving none, lays ...

    Article : 50 words
  6. THE RURAL GRUMBLER.

    Zee here what comes o' your Vree Trade In cattle voreigneerin! Them Garman sheep there, I'm afraid, Wan't pay me fur the shearin. ...

    Article : 155 words
  7. AEROPATHY.

    After homeopathy and hydropathy, we have now aeropathy—a new piece of charlatanism, by which Dr. Chaponnier introduces all therapeutical agents into the system, through the respiratory organs ...

    Article : 58 words
  8. HINTS TO NEWSROOM MONOPOLISTS.

    In a country newsroom the following notice is written over the chimney:— "Gentlemen learning to spell are requested to use yesterday's paper." ...

    Article : 30 words
  9. PADDY AND HIS COUNTRY.

    Western orators have said a great many smart things, but it was a home-sick Irishman who said — "Sir, I was born at a very early period of life.; and if ever I live to the day of my death, my soul ...

    Article : 55 words
  10. NEW REMEDY FOR ASIATIC CHOLERA.

    A communication has been made by Mr. Guthrie to the Royal Medico-Botanical Society, in reference to a new mode of treating Asiatic cholera. Hitherto this formidable disease has resisted nearly all the ...

    Article : 164 words
  11. "HELP, HELP."

    When Dick Aims first crossed into York State., from the Canada side, he took lodgings at an inn in, Canandaigua. A waiting-maid sat at the table with them, and Dick spoke of her as the servant to the ...

    Article : 192 words
  12. USEFUL HINT ABOUT CHOLERA.

    A writer in a weekly medical journal, who saw much of the cholera in 1832 and 1834, suggests a very simple, and, as he asserts, a very valuable prevention against the suscentibility of the disease ...

    Article : 267 words
  13. REVENUE EXTRAORDINARY.

    A wag having had a dispute with a man who kept a sausage shop, and owing him a grudge, ran into his shop one day as he was serving several good customers, with an immense dead cat, which ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. ANOTHER CURE FOR THE TOOTHACHE.

    Smoke, in a clay pipe, common carraway seeds, with a little tobacco, in order to assist in keeping them burning. The smoke will cause the tongue to feel rather warm, but it will speedily and effectually ...

    Article : 52 words
  15. ANCIENT DRAMA.

    The church books of Tewksbury, which have been preserved for a considerable period, exhibit the following entry:— "A.D. 1751: Paid, for the players gear, six sheep skins for Christe's garments." And ...

    Article : 69 words
  16. CORSETS.

    When I was down in our good town, A month ago or more, I saw a very curious thing, Which I'd never seen before. ...

    Article : 249 words
  17. ISOPATHY.

    A new opathy called Isopathy has been started in Germany. According to this system, when a person is afflicted in any particular part, say the liver, or the lungs, he is dieted on the liver or lungs of animals ...

    Article : 48 words
  18. HOW TO CREATE A VACANCY IN A CROWD.

    An American lately bet a considerable sum that he would gain access to an overcrowded public room, which several of his friends had endeavoured to enter in vain. Having approached the entrance of the door ...

    Article : 325 words
  19. THE COLD WATER CUBE EFFECTUAL WITH CATTLE.

    A few weeks ago I had a one year old stot attacked with that not less common than fatal disease among cattle known here by the name of Quarter-ill or Blackleg. When all hopes were given up, and the animal ...

    Article : 165 words
  20. MESMERIC TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.

    Mr. William Reynoldson, a professional mesmeriser, it Cheltenam, has issued the following address to mothers resident in that town :— TO THE MOTHERS OF CHELTENHAM. ...

    Article : 356 words
  21. MESMERISM.

    The last quarterly number of The Zoist contains an account by William Penn, of Sherborne-street, Cheltenham, of a Mesmeric cure of a severe affection of the heart. The patient states, that about two years ...

    Article : 293 words
  22. DANGER OF PARLIAMENTARY QUOTATION.

    The following anecdote is a literal fact:—In one of his speeches in the House of Commons, the Minister, to illustrate a point, quoted from Hamlet, "There's something rotten in the state of ...

    Article : 98 words
  23. EXCLUSIVE ATTENTION TO ONE SUBJECT.

    A curious instance of the effect of an exclusive attention to one subject appears in the reply of the Abbe D'Angeau. The study of the grammar was his favourite pursuit. One day a person was ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. A CONTENTED DRUGGIST.

    A druggist was aroused by the ringing of his night-bell. He arose, went down stairs, and bad to serve a customer with a dose of salts. His wife grumbled—"What profit do you get out of that ...

    Article : 97 words
  25. SEEING DOUBLE.

    "Twins, by the powers!" cried the horror-struck Irishman, as the nurse approached, bearing a new pledge of affection from bis fruitful helpmate. "Twins, hinny;" cried nurse;" faith, Murdoch, and ...

    Article : 48 words
  26. DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A MAN.

    In August last, when the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards were stationed at Nottingham barracks, two of the privates quarrelled, and one bit the other in the finger. The wound festered, and ...

    Article : 83 words
  27. LOCAL APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM.

    The Cornwall Gazette gives an account of an interesting experiment made at the Royal Cornwall In-firmary, in which instead of the inhalation of choloro-form by the patient. this powerful sedative was applied ...

    Article : 303 words
  28. CONUMDRUMS.

    Why was Hamlet so courageous in addressing his father's ghost?—Because he was not particular to a shade. "Why is a poor decrepid old man like music ?"— ...

    Article : 294 words
  29. FRANCE IN A STATE OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.

    Happening the other day to pick up the Comic Almanack for 1841, our eye fell upon a jeu d'esprit so apropos of recent and passing events in France, that we are induced to reprint it:— ...

    Article : 250 words
  30. HUMAN LIFE ESTIMATED BY PULSATION.

    An ingenious author asserts that a man's life may be estimated by the number at pulsations he has strength to perform. Thus, allowing seventy years for the common age of man, and sixty ...

    Article : 108 words
  31. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Medical Times states that the Sultan has ordered a quarter cask of chloroform for the use of the ladies of his harem ! The average number of cells in the human lungs ...

    Article : 189 words
  32. SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF CHOLERA IN CIRCASSIA.

    At the meeting of the Medico-Botanical Society, Mr. Guthrie read letters which had been received from Prince Woronzow, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces, in Circassia, and from Dr. ...

    Article : 327 words
  33. LEARNING FRENCH.

    When Brummell was obliged, by want of money and debt, and all that, to retire to France, he knew no French; and having obtained a grammar for the purpose of study, his friend Scrope Davies was ...

    Article : 112 words
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