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  2. PRISON DISCIPLINE.

    Prison discipline, like the criminal law, is a matter of universal interest; and what Blackstone, borrowing from Poster, has said of the latter, is equally true, perhaps more strikingly true of the former; "no rank or elevation in life, no uprightness of ...

    Article : 1,794 words
  3. PLAIN WRITING.

    The following hints from the pen of a very celebrated writes (being no less a personage than William Cobbett) may prove of use to a great many people, including even the contributors to Newspapers, whose illegible writing often occasions many errors ...

    Article : 437 words
  4. AN EARTHQUAKE.

    I went in the evening (says Captain Hall in his journal, written on the coast of Peru, Chili, &c.) to visit a family in the Almendral, or great suburb of Valparaiso. The ladies were ranged, as usual along the wall, in a compact line, with their ...

    Article : 401 words
  5. SOUTH AMERICAN METHOD OF CATCHING

    The instrument, used in phasing cattle is culled in English Lasso, from the Spanish Lazo, which signifies slip-knot of noose, and the operation of using it is called Lassoing. It consists of a rope made of strips of untanned hide, varying in length from ...

    Article : 481 words
  6. RELIGIOUS CUSTOM.

    There is a custom is Seville, which is characteristic of the ancient piety of the place. At sunrise a large soft-toned bell is tolled from the tower of the cathedral three times, summoning all the inhabitants wherever they are, or however occupied, to devote a ...

    Article : 220 words
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    The futile labours of the Commissioners at Parramatta ceased on Thursday last, after a wearisome and unproductive investigation of fourteen days. We hope that Lord Bathurst in future will be more ...

    Article : 3,004 words
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