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  2. FACETE.

    The following is a copy of a letter addressed to addressed to the London Telegraph, and which the editor designates "MORE VALIANT THAN LEARNED." Sir.—Please te let porlement now that their wil be a ...

    Article : 266 words
  3. ORIGINAL POETRY.

    To constitute a poet—he Who'd fain a real poet be, Most be original in thought. Dive. roam, or soar, sublimely free. ...

    Article : 417 words
  4. ANRCDOTE ON MACREADY.

    Mr Macready was never very popular with stock actors. He annoyed them exceedingly at rehear. Ball by giving every man his particular place on the stage, so that in the picture presented he should ...

    Article : 228 words
  5. THE NATIONAL SIN.

    "At the recent Book Fair at Leipsic, of the newly published pamphlets on political subjects, Forty-seven were relative to the high price of food and the frightful necessities of the Laboring Classes of all Europe."—Letter in ...

    Article : 1,922 words
  6. BATHER DELIBERATE.

    In a window, belonging to the Steam Bedding Company, in Kingsgate-street, Holborn, is a notice to this effect:—"All boys playing or making a noise against this window will be shot!" ...

    Article : 34 words
  7. INTERESTING FACT!

    Weston-super-Mare, described by the guidebooks as "a delightful watering-place," now contains forty single ladies to every single man. ...

    Article : 24 words
  8. A WHALE STORY.

    Another manner of fishing and catching the whale I cannot omit, used by the Indians in Florida, worthy to be considered, in as much as the barbarous people have found out so great a secret, by the industry and ...

    Article : 279 words
  9. A GOOD REASON.

    "Bill," said Bob, "why is that tree called a weeping willow ?"—" Cause one of the sneaking dratted things grew near our school-house, and supplied the master with the sticks that did all ...

    Article : 41 words
  10. TRIALS FOR TERM-TIME.

    How sweet his to stroll by streams of Demurrer, Where Detenue sighs to the evening breeze ; Where groves of Mandamus are mellowed in colour, And high soar the Costs in Exchequer of Pleas! ...

    Article : 140 words
  11. AN AMERICAN JUDGE.

    The summing-up by a judge on a trial for murder gives us a singular specimen of the dignity of the dignity of the ermine as sustained in South Carolina some half century ago:—A murder had been ...

    Article : 279 words
  12. THE DEAN AND DR. HAMPDEN.

    There was an old Dean in the West country, A cause of offence his Reverence had found; 'T was all about filling a vacant see, Upon what he considered was his own ground. ...

    Article : 530 words
  13. A TEAR.

    Oh! the deep anguish of a tear supprest, When mental sufferings agitate the breast; Oh! the wild transports of a sudden joy, Which e'en the powers of consciousness destroy ...

    Article : 179 words
  14. GOVERNOR.

    [The following editorial article, under the above heading, appeared in the Launceston Examiner of the 31st May, and as it contains a moral which is applicable to every British Colony, we make no further apology for transferring it to our ...

    Article : 574 words
  15. A LOYAL SALUTE.

    [Sweated by witnessing our new Governor's quiet and unpretending ingress to the Government house, on the 2nd inst ] When Adam, ruler of this mundane ball. ...

    Article : 602 words
  16. THE BITER BITTEN.

    "Mister," said a sharp-looking Yankee to an individual walking slowly along Second-street, whose appearance seemed to indicate that he had not long been transplanted from the land of soar krout, "Mister ...

    Article : 525 words
  17. IMPROMPTU.

    Earth's princes pay our fees with mammon's dross—Our body's GAIN, but oft our spirits loss ; God sends us patients—better far than these— The suffering poor; for Heaven pays THEIR FEES. ...

    Article : 45 words
  18. A YANKEE PREACHER ON PREDESTINATION.

    "Let us for argument sake, grant that I, the Rev. Elder Sprightly, am fore-ordained to be drowned in the river at Smith's Ferry, next Thursday morning, at twelve minutes after ten o'clock ...

    Article : 96 words
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